“All of this is at stake in Trump’s ultimate lie: his claim to be a champion of democracy rather than the architect of its demise,” writes Prof. Serena Mayeri.
Dean Sophia Z. Lee discusses her scholarship in administrative law and shares her advice with law students and future scholars.
percentage of students from underrepresented groups at Harvard were expected to drop by 50% without race-conscious admissions
Prof. Kate Shaw writes, “Woven throughout [two cases before the Supreme Court] are arguments that gesture toward the view that a fetus is a person.”
In her Penn Program on Regulation lecture, PCAOB Board Member Kara Stein reminded students that they are “part of the upcoming revolution in regulation.”
Prof. Serena Mayeri writes, “History can counsel against past errors and justify affirmative approaches to protecting rights and combating inequality.”
Prof. Catherine Struve receives the 2024 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
“Criminal law earns its moral authority by publicly committing itself to doing justice above all else,” said Prof. Paul H. Robinson.
At The Regulatory Review, Prof. Allison K. Hoffman discusses the role of state ballot initiatives, federal law, and private equity in the U.S. health care system.
At The New York Times, Prof. Kate Shaw argues that the Court should reject Trump’s immunity argument quickly to allow a criminal trial to proceed before the presidential election in the fall.
Hayley Fitzgerald-Smith L’24 and Dorothy Ayitey LLM’24 share their reflections on Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ remarks at the 87th session of the CEDAW.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis encourages UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2024 anti-poverty policymakers to “give women’s leadership and decision-making a fresh look.”
At The Regulatory Review, Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 discusses the role of human psychology in legal and regulatory systems.
At The Hill, Transnational Legal Clinic Director Sarah Paoletti urges representatives to “take a long, hard look at the ways our immigration and deportation systems are failing people who are in harm’s way.”
CTIC Academic Director Justin (Gus) Hurwitz discusses what the Court’s ruling could mean for the future of social media.
Adjunct Prof. Brent Landau, Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Center, teaches Professional Responsibility at the Law School.
Prof. Cary Coglianese writes, “Analyzing and improving compliance is the key to strengthening regulators’ performance.”
Lex Brugger L’24 and Wendy Li L’24 placed second in the inaugural competition styled after the NCAA basketball tournament.
Prof. Herb Hovenkamp argues that small businesses and trade associations have historically had more influence over antitrust policy, often lobbying for less competition and higher prices.
“Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives show state referenda can expand health care access—but they have their limits,” write Prof. Allison K. Hoffman and Katie Cohen L’24, MBE’24.
CTIC Research Fellow Giovanna Massarotto argues that computer science can help regulators monitor markets and identify algorithmic collusion.
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman will testify on possible federal laws to address AI and how the proposed “No AI FRAUD Act” would make things worse.
Daniel Wodak has been awarded the 2023 Marc Sanders Foundation’s Political Philosophy Prize for his paper, “One Person, One Vote.”
Prof. Paul H. Robinson writes that “the evidence suggests that there are not red codes and blue codes — and more importantly, there never will be.”
Internationally known scholar Prof. Jill E. Fisch has joined the distinguished ranks of European Corporate Governance Institute Fellows.
Regulators should factor in the dynamic nature of machine learning when proposing AI regulations, writes Prof. Cary Coglianese.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis will also help guide draft language on gender apartheid on General Recommendation 40 of the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) treaty.
A pathbreaking Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.
Dean Sophia Lee and Prof. Jasmine Harris join more than two dozen University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School colleagues as ALI members.
A look back at this year’s top news stories at Penn Carey Law.
Although cities will need $5.4 trillion annually through 2030 to combat climate change, they are currently receiving just 1% of those funds, writes Prof. Bill Burke-White.
“If we take gender justice out of the criminal justice system, we are left with a system that only serves the criminal,” writes Rangita de Silva de Alwis.
In an interview with Environmental Innovations Initiative, Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how artificial intelligence intersects with climate and environmental regulations.
Two distinguished faculty members have retired from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School: Sarah Barringer Gordon and Doug Frenkel W’68, L’72.
“At the heart of the gender equality project,” writes Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership Rangita de Silva de Alwis, “is the full and equal right to education of women and girls.”
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Prof. Sandy Mayson writes that court absenteeism by police officers, witnesses, and private attorneys has serious consequences.
The Gittis Legal Clinics welcomed two new clinical faculty and a full-time social worker, expanding our clinics’ cross-disciplinary capacity.
Students reach across disciplinary boundaries to reimagine our legal institutions in Penn Carey Law’s future-looking course, “Innovation in Practice.”
Kate Shaw, who specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, and legislation, will join the Law School faculty in January 2024.
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman shares her insight on Vidal v. Elster, a trademark case recently argued before the Supreme Court.
In the “Psychology of Legal Decision-Making” seminar, students learn about substantive areas of legal scholarship and also practice essential skills for understanding—and even developing—new empirical research.
The Penn Program on Regulation convened scholars and senior leadership from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to explore cutting-edge financial regulatory issues.
Prof. David Hoffman and a team of Penn Carey Law students created a pathbreaking model lease for Philadelphia that is fair, legal, and free.
This Penn Carey Law course empowers a new generation of engineers to recognize and examine critically the ethical, moral, and legal quandaries.
In a comment published in the Journal of Constitutional Law, Sarah Reeves L’23 analyzes how Pennsylvania courts apply the appellate waiver doctrine, arguing that its excessive use constricts litigants’ right to appeal.
In Prof. Lisa M. Fairfax’s trailblazing course, students unpack the history of the ESG movement—and prepare to chart its future.
Prof. Cary Coglianese, an expert in administrative and regulatory law, has been elected to the National Academy of Public Administration.
In a new study, Prof. Cary Coglianese and co-author demonstrate the power of businesses to exert substantial influence over agency rulemaking.
Osagie Imasogie LLM’85 has been named to the inaugural President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
The Regulatory Analysis and Decision-Making executive education program equips professionals in the public and private sectors with a “modern regulator’s toolbox.”
In an article published in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, Melany Amarikwa L’24 explores the harms perpetuated by TikTok’s unique use of recommendation algorithms.
In an amicus brief, Prof. Jasmine E. Harris and other leading disability law scholars explain why civil rights testers are essential to the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“Hand your republic over to the enemies of democracy, and it could take a hundred years to get it back,” writes Prof. Kermit Roosevelt at the Los Angeles Times.
Prof. Christopher S. Yoo and Bethany Lee L’22 advocate FDA regulatory action to better address cybersecurity risks of medical devices such as pacemakers.
In “Generative Interpretation,” Prof. David Hoffman shows how large language models (LLMs) provide a better method of contract interpretation, with some caveats.
Prof. Cary Coglianese proposes statutory revisions aimed at increasing online accessibility of federal agencies’ legal materials.
At “This Is Small Business,” Practice Prof. Cynthia Dahl offers her insights and shares resources to help you protect your intellectual property.
Prof. Claire O. Finkelstein explores the Georgia district court decision denying Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadow’s request to move his case to federal court.
In “Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias,” students propose solutions to address intersectional bias in generative AI.
The Penn Program on Regulation launches a series of monthly workshops exploring the connections between artificial intelligence and climate change.
The Law School welcomes experts in voting rights, law and technology, constitutional law, legal ethics, and more.
Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how regulators can sharpen their skills and produce better regulatory outcomes.
At The Regulatory Review, CTIC Senior Fellow Justin (Gus) Hurwitz examines the FTC’s recent proposed changes to its premerger notification forms, arguing they are unlikely to survive judicial review.
Prof. Tobias Wolff: “We can and should interrogate the values and the approach to community that people exhibit when they ask to have their personal religious beliefs elevated into special legal privileges at the expense of others in public institutions.”
Rangita de Silva de Alwis leads “Policy Lab on Conflict,” which convenes international policymakers to examine recent conflicts and propose policy imperatives from an intersectional, post-colonial perspective.
In a new article, Prof. Leo Katz explains why “there is simply no reasonable alternative” to an extremely manipulable legal system.
In The Journal, Prof. Shelley Welton argues for addressing “luxury emissions” to ignite a larger cultural shift against excessive carbon emissions.
Profs. Jasmine Harris and Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11 discuss their article, “Disability on the Docket” with the Center for Public Integrity.
A tribute to Prof. Emeritus Michael L. Wachter and his remarkable 50-year career at Penn.
Penn Carey Law welcomes Asst. Prof. Michael Morse C’13, an expert on voting rights and election law, to the faculty.
At The Regulatory Review, Prof. Shelley Welton examines opportunities to strengthen the OMB’s revised guidance on regulatory analysis.
Prof. Cary Coglianese argues that a recent federal appellate decision “could turn out to hold the key to accountability in an era of increasingly digitized government.”
Prof. Seth Kreimer is the recipient of the 2023 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award, honoring his decades of work promoting equal access to justice.
Criminal fines and fees disproportionately affect poor individuals and people in vulnerable groups, write Prof. Jean Galbraith and students.
“It’s no coincidence that the cities we most associate with violence also have long and documented histories of police abuse,” writes Quattrone Center Journalism Fellow Radley Balko.
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman continues to warn that “the right of publicity may pose a significant legal roadblock for developers of AI.”
Profs. Jasmine Harris and Karen Tani L’07, PhD’11 have published a pathbreaking paper that highlights the disability through-line in the Supreme Court’s recent cases.
Leading lawyers and scholars examine the Supreme Court’s major regulatory decisions from its recent term.
In this Q&A, Prof. Bill Burke-White discussed the findings of a White & Case report on the future of globalization, for which he served as senior editor and advisor.
At Aeon, Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 writes that the fear of being duped can become “a true phobia.”
At The Regulatory Review, Cara McClellan GEd’12 explains what’s left and what’s next for racial diversity in college admissions after the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision.
Prof. Serena Mayeri discusses a new book about Judge Calabresi at the Legal History Blog, co-managed by Prof. Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11.
At The Regulatory Review, Prof. Michael S. Knoll shares his insights on a recent Supreme Court decision that is “about much more than porkchops.”
Asst. Prof. of Law Michael Morse C’13 told Penn Today that the Moore v. Harper ruling is “a mixed bag.”
Prof. Cary Coglianese says “the only sure-fire way to deliver comparably massive student loan debt relief will be to secure approval of Congress.”
Quattrone Center Executive Director John F. Hollway C’92, MAPP’18 explains how SERs can improve the criminal justice system.
Sophia Z. Lee begins her term as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, leading Penn Carey Law toward a new era.
Without answers on what constitutes a “major question,” says Prof. Cary Coglianese, “the Court’s continued invocation of the major questions doctrine cannot help but continue to appear to many observers as essentially a judicial power grab.”
“It remains to be seen how far this radical new doctrine will reach,” said Prof. Tobias Wolff on the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative.
Roberts revisits her scholarship on the fraught history of Black motherhood in America and discusses its modern-day relevance.
Prof. Tobias Wolff opines that the Supreme Court’s decision in Mallory “may have major implications.”
As Dean Ted Ruger concludes his term and returns to the faculty, The Journal reflects on his forward-looking leadership and impact.
Prof. Cary Coglianese and Practice Prof. of Law Sarah Paoletti respond to the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Texas.
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the upcoming SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis “threatens to be a blockbuster.”
A NASEM committee chaired by Prof. Cary Coglianese has released a report offering recommendations to the Coast Guard and Congress for meeting emerging challenges facing the maritime sector.
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt discusses the history and significance of Juneteenth in a new documentary and in an interview at Penn Today.
Alumni, students, and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Care Law School discuss how the JD/MBE (Bioethics) joint degree advances a range of careers sitting at the intersection of law and medicine.
Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership Rangita de Silva de Alwis examines the challenges and potential solutions to expand the “Women, Peace, and Security” agenda.
In the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, future intellectual property lawyers hone their skills while helping clients grow ideas that change the world.
“We cannot turn our backs on Central American immigrants at the border,” writes Adj. Prof. Fernando Chang-Muy.
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman discusses the Supreme Court’s narrow ruling in the Jack Daniel’s case and its implications for both that case and trademark law generally.
Deuel Ross L’09 successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Alabama’s congressional map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Prof. Cary Coglianese writes, “The same digital tools that drive innovations in the private sector can—and in some cases must—be deployed to improve regulators’ ability to oversee markets.”
“The Speech Clause of the First Amendment has never been a license for businesses to discriminate in the commercial marketplace,” writes Prof. Tobias Wolff.
The Quattrone Center and the City of San Francisco have released a report recommending policies and procedures to reduce domestic violence-related fatalities.
Prof. Lisa Fairfax has been appointed to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Board of Governors.
The Law Alumni Society (LAS)’s annual awards honor exemplary and inspirational members of the Penn Carey Law community.
“As other zombies, Brown Shoe should be put back in its coffin,” writes Prof. Herb Hovenkamp at ProMarket.
Held in partnership with the U.S. Army War College, the ISCNE is designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the highest strategic level.
Articles by Profs. Jill E. Fisch (left) and Elizabeth Pollman are among Corporate Practice Commentator’s Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2022.
The esteemed American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, has elected Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts to join its prestigious membership.
“Mother’s Day is a celebration that inspires its purported honorees to reflect on the very nature of a consolation prize,” writes Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 at Slate.
Penn Carey Law recognized six faculty members with teaching awards for the 2022-2023 academic year.
From a Whitney Houston biopic to premiering at Sundance, Penn Carey Law students and alumni successfully navigate legal careers in the ever-changing entertainment industry.
“The fear of playing the sucker can make it harder to read your own moral compass,” writes Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 at The Pennsylvania Gazette.
“The fight for the E.R.A… . should serve as a reminder that constitutional amendment is possible,” writes Visiting Prof. Kate Shaw at The New York Times.
Prof. Jill E. Fisch analyzes institutional investor efforts to promote corporate diversity and, in particular, the rationale for these efforts.
Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses the Biden administration’s recent actions concerning the federal government’s use of artificial intelligence.
The expert panel convened at the 2023 Master in Law Annual Lecture explored patent disputes over CRISPR technology.
After spending a semester studying women’s international human rights, Penn Carey Law students visited the UN Headquarters in New York.
At ACC Docket, Practice Prof. Cynthia Dahl discussed the process of getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to the public with Khalil Mitchell, Senior Counsel at Moderna.
At Slate, Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, explores how incarcerated individuals have contributed to the conversation on reducing incarceration and crime.
Prof. Jennifer Rothman recently penned a piece at Slate exploring the “growing threat to the next Brooke Shields of the world.”
The Penn Carey Law community recently gathered to honor Dean Ted Ruger for his eight years of service as dean.
The Quattrone Center has released of the final set of recommendations from a Sentinel Event Review (SER) of incidents during protests following the murder of George Floyd.
Prof. Cary Coglianese and Amanda Shanor, Asst. Prof. at Wharton, offer insight into the recent settlement in the Fox News defamation case.
CTIC Academic Fellow Giovanna Massarotto outlines the possible routes of cryptocurrency’s future.
Civil Practice Clinic students “learn what it means to be a lawyer with profound obligations to clients, the profession, the courts, and our national promise of justice for all,” said Director Lou Rulli.
At The New York Times, Visiting Prof. Kate Shaw argues that the Biden Administration should challenge the recent abortion pill decision.
At Slate, Prof. Tess-Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 discusses when hush money payments cross a legal line.
Penn Carey Law’s thought leadership in the ESG sphere uniquely prepares our students to enter this rapidly evolving field of business law.
At Bloomberg Law, Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses President Biden’s executive order that aims to modernize and strengthen the federal regulatory system.
Sophia Z. Lee has been named the new dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Prof. Claire Finkelstein discusses how this case is a test of America’s institutions, the rule of law, and the world’s oldest democracy.
“[G]reater overall access masks the realities and stakes of air travel for people with disabilities,” writes Prof. Jasmine Harris at The Regulatory Review.
The Regulatory Analysis and Decision-Making executive education program attracts professionals working in the public and private sectors across the world.
The Future of the Profession Initiative’s Jim Sandman L’76 recently discussed strategies to close the civil justice gap.
Norman M. Powell of Young Conway succeeds Larry Hamermesh as Executive Director of the Institute for Law & Economics.
In The Nation that Never Was, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt provides an alternate understanding of American identity.
Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 discusses her new book, Fool Proof, in this short video.
Prof. Shelley Welton’s paper outlining innovative strategies for strengthening grid reliability while accelerating the nation’s transition to a lower-carbon energy system has been award ASU’s Morrison Prize.
At Slate, Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 explores how the fear of playing the sucker shows up in rhetoric surrounding student loan forgiveness.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Penn Carey Law is proud to highlight dedicated advocates working tirelessly in the crucial fight for gender justice around the world.
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt discusses his book, The Nation That Never Was, with Robin Lindley at George Washington University’s History News Network.
At the Los Angeles Times, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt argues that March 2 is the true birthday of Modern America.
Penn Carey Law’s BLSA honors Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander’s legacy by exploring critical legal issues pertinent to the Black community and working toward progressive legal advocacy.
Prof. Anita L. Allen’s article on privacy, race, equity, and online data-protection reform has been awarded a 2023 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.
The Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic was recently launched with a symposium centered on the crucial, ongoing work toward a more equitable society.
Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 wishes readers a “Happy Valentine’s Day, suckers,” with “utter affection” at The Washington Post.
In honor of Black History Month, explore some of the myriad examples of Black excellence in leadership, scholarship, advocacy, and activism across Penn Carey Law.
For students in last fall’s Criminal Defense Clinic, learning the law went hand-in-hand with successfully defending the constitutional rights of two separate clients.
“[F]eeling cheated,” writes Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 at TIME, “is so aversive that people will go way out of their way to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
ARC Justice Clinic Director Cara McClellan GEd’12 discusses how affirmative action benefits institutions in this Q&A with Penn Today.
Prof. Jean Galbraith’s article, “The Runaway Presidential Power Over Diplomacy” has been awarded the Mike Lewis Prize.
On February 3, the ARC Justice Clinic will launch with a day of events geared toward the continued fight for racial and social justice.
This past semester, Quattrone Center Fellow Anjelica Hendricks engaged students in the study of how policing intersects with race, gender, ability, and other intertwined socio-economic identities.
“[A] focus on best practices to avoid undue coercion and false confessions would go a long way to improve the quality of justice in Pennsylvania,” writes the Quattrone Center’s Marissa Bluestine.
“The Federal Trade Commission should develop a nuanced approach to employee noncompete agreements,” writes Prof. Herb Hovenkamp.
Presidential Prof. Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08 explores the civil rights’ implications of pervasive race, gender, and sex discrimination in bars, nightclubs, and restaurants.
Penn Carey Law’s interdisciplinary faculty cultivates an enriching atmosphere for emerging legal academics.
A look back at some of the top news stories at Penn Carey Law in 2022.
An in-depth profile of Prof. Anita L. Allen recently appeared in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
In this Q&A, University President Liz Magill discusses her legal and leadership experience — including one of her favorite memories from clerking for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In a new report, students study the intersection between arts, culture, and gender-based stereotypes to better understand trends in law and policy worldwide.
David Rudovsky and Kathleen M. Brown advocate the continuation of the commutation process and reform legislation providing for life with parole.
“[I]t is an ideal time to begin to invest in policies that can foster a more secure, less complicated, and more equitable post-pandemic horizon of health insurance,” writes Prof. Allison K. Hoffman.
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the First Amendment “affords no sanctuary for discriminatory conduct in the public marketplace.”
Assistant Prof. Yanbai Andrea Wang analyzes the U.S. governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a recently published article.
Prof. Shelley Welton has co-authored a new casebook that encourages using the tools of NPU law to help address some of the most pressing problems of our time.
The American Lawyer has honored Jim Sandman L’76 with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
Prof. Bill Burke-White proposes a “green investment treaty” to close the climate funding gap.
“ASFA dealt a devastating blow to Black families,” and the time to repeal the Clinton-Era law is now, writes Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts.
Penn Carey Law facilitates ample opportunity for cross-disciplinary exploration, positioning our students to gain critical insight on the most cutting-edge areas of contemporary law.
Prof. Michael Knoll explores the potential ramifications of National Pork Producers Council v. Ross in The Regulatory Review.
“The Supreme Court’s resolution of the Gonzalez case will likely represent the most consequential update for Section 230 in the foreseeable future,” writes Prof. Christopher S. Yoo in the Los Angeles Times.
On two separate podcasts, Lecturer in Law Deuel Ross L’09 shared his insights on his recent appearance before the Supreme Court defending the Voting Rights Act.
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has released recommendations based on a Sentinel Event Review of the Seattle PD’s response to protests in 2020.
The PA Immigration Resource Center has honored the Transnational Legal Clinic with its annual Light of Liberty Award. Pictured: Tamara Shehadeh-Cope (PIRC) with Sarah Paoletti and Liz Bradley.
In this Q&A, Cara McClellan GEd’12 of the Law School’s Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic explains what’s at stake in the Supreme Court case over Harvard’s affirmative action policy.
Practice Prof. Sarah Paoletti spoke with Penn Today about what the recent 5th Circuit decision means for DACA beneficiaries and their family members.
Prof. Claire Finkelstein has co-authored a report that includes recommendations for closing Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay Prison and restoring the rule of law to the law of war.
Prof. Anita L. Allen is a recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2022 Bioethics Founders’ Award.
A paper co-authored by Prof. Elizabeth Pollman has been awarded the European Corporate Governance Institute’s 2022 Gottlieb Prize for the Best Paper in the ECGI Law Working Paper Series.
In celebration of Constitution Day, we are highlighting Penn Carey Law’s recent insights, analysis, and observations on today’s most pressing constitutional issues.
A federal appellate court recently cited Visiting Assistant Practice Prof. Liz Bradley’s research on demeanor evidence in asylum cases.
At The Hill, Prof. Christopher S. Yoo urges Congress to not allow “the heat of the ‘techlash’ moment” to guide antitrust reform decisions.
Emeritus Professor Michael L. Wachter was a renowned business law scholar and visionary builder of the Institute for Law & Economics.
This New York Magazine feature on Prof. Dorothy Roberts asks why more people didn’t listen when she wrote about the criminalization of pregnancy 25 years ago.
Prof. Paul Heaton discussed the Quattrone Center’s study on bail reform in Harris County, Texas with the Texas Standard.
At The Guardian, Prof. Dorothy Roberts explains why the reproductive justice movement must be more collective and go beyond abortion rights.
Penn Carey Law is proud to welcome four new additions to our esteemed faculty.
Prof. of Practice Lou Rulli recently led an educational session for over 300 Pennsylvania judges, which included a discussion of strategies to better ensure equitable treatment of self-represented litigants.
At Taiwan Insight, Prof. Jacques deLisle writes that Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was “more symptom than cause of the trouble in U.S.-China relations.”
The Institute for Law & Philosophy’s Sigal Ben-Porath discusses the connection between book bans and free speech at Penn Today.
Jim Sandman L’76 urges California legislators to amend a bill that would “prohibit reforms that are essential to allow people to exercise their civil rights.”
Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis was elected to serve as an independent expert on the UN Committee tasked with implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt and Lecturer in Law Jason Abel L’03 discuss what the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Moore v. Harper could mean for our democracy.
At Penn Today, Prof. Dorothy Roberts discussed what the Dobbs decision means for abortion rights across the U.S.
Prof. Tom Baker recently discussed the breadth of insurance policy coverage with WCCO News Talk 830.
Prof. Sally Gordon has secured a Klein Family Social Justice Grant for her project, Free State Slavery and Bound Labor: Pennsylvania.
Bloomberg CityLab recently ran a feature on Prof. David Hoffman’s latest study on how travel time to court affects evictions in Philadelphia.
Senior Fellow David Rudovsky recently spoke to KYW News Radio about the Supreme Court’s decision in Vega v. Tekoh.
Prof. David A. Skeel discusses the recent backlash against the bankruptcy system — including against judge shopping, the Texas Two-Step and third-party releases — and what can be done.
The unveiling of the design of a new mural honoring the life and legacy of the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. was held on Friday, July 15.
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts recently spoke with Apple News in Conversation about why the child welfare system should be abolished.
The Access to Justice Tech Fellows Program mobilizes law students across the country to generate pathbreaking ways to increase access to justice for the most vulnerable communities.
In The Regulatory Review, Prof. Allison Hoffman, analyzes the major health-related decisions of the Supreme Court’s last term.
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains judicial activism in a historical sense, and how justices today interpret the Constitution and federal and state policies.
The University of Pennsylvania Law Review has renamed its annual essay competition to honor Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts.
“[T[here is no escaping the conclusion that the opinion is dangerous on two fronts: for the climate and for administrative capacity more broadly,” writes Prof. Shelley Welton of the Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA.
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt recently discussed the Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. with KYW.
“The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overruling Roe v. Wade is a tectonic shift in the constitutional landscape,” writes Prof. Tobias Wolff.
Prof. Jill E. Fisch recently submitted a Comment Letter to the SEC regarding its authority to pursue climate-related disclosures.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis was elected to the UN CEDAW Committee for the term 2023-2026.
Two Penn Carey Law graduates reflect on how their experience in the Civil Practice Clinic has enhanced their private sector careers.
“The U.S. must act more decisively to build on Europe’s engagement and ensure Kazakhstan does not drift closer to China or back to Russia,” writes Prof. William Burke-White.
Prof. Jacques deLisle discusses where Hong Kong stands now at 25 years under Chinese control, and what the future might hold.
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt argues that we should celebrate the birth of the U.S. on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address to celebrate the ideal of equality for all.
In a concurring opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, Justice Gorsuch cited work published in The Regulatory Review and by Prof. Cary Coglianese.
Prof. Shelley Welton calls the decision “bad for climate change and bad for people in the administration who are working creatively on solutions to the big, important problems that are facing the nation.”
The Quattrone Center’s John Hollway shares his insights on the Court’s decision on sentencing reductions under the First Step Act.
Penn Carey Law faculty respond to the Court’s recent decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.
The Honorable Leo E. Strine Jr. L’88 has submitted a letter to the SEC arguing that the agency should require climate-related disclosures to investors.
“The Supreme Court has limited U.S.-style discovery for international arbitration — but not entirely,” said Assistant Prof. of Law Yanbai Andrea Wang.
Prof. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95 expounds upon her research and scholarship on the problems associated with crediting time served.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Prof. Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11 shares her insights on the landmark bill from a historical perspective.
On the anniversary of the landmark bill, Prof. Jasmine Harris shares five things to know about how Title IX and disability intersect.
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts is the featured guest of the first episode of Community Legal Services of Philadelphia’s new podcast, “How Is That Legal?”
Prof. Coglianese and Prof. Hoffman share their perspectives on the recent Supreme Court decision.
Practice Prof. of Law Sarah Paoletti says the recent decisions will have a “devastating impact on non-citizens and their family members.”
Prof. Anita L. Allen has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
Prof. David Hoffman’s new study links tenant evictions with long courthouse commute times.
Bankruptcy expert Prof. David A. Skeel offers his perspective on the Court’s decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald.
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts advocates the abolition of the child welfare system.
“This case will leave many families … unable to meet their loved ones’ substantial care needs,” said Prof. Allison Hoffman of the Court’s recent decision.
Prof. Jasmine Harris discusses the new disability of Long COVID in the context of employment law.
Students and faculty work across a diverse range of fields, forging the way forward in an increasingly interdisciplinary legal world.
The International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise is designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the highest strategic level.
The Environmental Law Project (ELP) is dedicated to environmental law and policy, fighting climate change, and advancing environmental justice
Articles by Profs. Fisch (left) and Pollman are among Corporate Practice Commentator’s Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2021.
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty have received teaching awards for the 2021–22 academic year.
The Law School has named Laura Dolbow and Ayodeji Perrin L’13 as Sharswood Fellows.
Prof. Coglianese is the Chair of a new National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee evaluating the statutory missions and authorities of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Prof. Skeel chaired the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, known locally as “la Junta.”
Jessica Feierman L’00, Deuel Ross L’09, and Kristen Dama L’07 were recently honored at the Toll Public Interest Center’s Alumni Impact Awards dinner.
Prof. Roberts recently spoke to The Pennsylvania Gazette about her new book, Torn Apart.
Interim University President Pritchett gave high praise to The Regulatory Review’s board and staff at the publication’s annual dinner.
Profs. Roosevelt and Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.
Of the leaked document, Prof. Wolff said that Justice Alito “has crafted an opinion that disregards the lives of women and girls altogether.”
Referencing gay rights decisions, Prof. Roosevelt cautions, “If there are five justices who endorse this draft, it’s unlikely that they will stop with Roe.”
At ProMarket, Prof. Hovenkamp writes about a recently unearthed memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration.
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Law School faculty regularly coordinate Continuing Judicial Education programming to help Pennsylvania judges stay abreast of cutting-edge legal issues.
Jill Fisch and Sarah Pierce were recently honored with 2022 Provost’s Teaching Awards.
Cara McClellan GEd’12 will lead the Law School’s newest clinic, focusing on civil rights and racial justice equity.
Veda Handa LLM’22 shares her reflections on the Spring 2022 “Policy Lab on AI and Implicit Bias” with Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis.
“The United States should replace its current family surveillance system with one that improves children’s welfare,” writes Prof. Roberts at The Regulatory Review.
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.
“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof. Roberts in The Washington Post.
In the Stanford Computational Antitrust Journal, Prof. Coglianese and Alicia Lai L’21 explore machine-learning algorithms’ potential role in antitrust regulation.
The Bar Council of the Maldives visited the Law School to assist its efforts in regulating legal education and the legal profession in the Republic of Maldives.
One of Quattrone Fellow Taeho Kim’s recent projects studied the effects of body cameras on law enforcement outcomes.
Prof. Coglianese moderated a discussion with Duke Law’s Lawrence Baxter on cryptocurrencies and their far-reaching environmental impacts.
Penn Carey Law reacts to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States as the country’s first Black woman justice.
Mother Jones recently published an excerpt of Prof. Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
A Penn Carey Law team of 2Ls placed second at the Maryland Carey Law’s Health Law Regulatory & Compliance Competition.
“Doctrines that enhance executive branch secrecy ultimately damage national security if they interfere with the ability of other federal branches to hold the executive branch to account,” writes Finkelstein.
“Home inspections . . may lead to intensive monitoring that lasts for years, forced separation of children, and, at the extreme, the permanent termination of parental rights,” writes Roberts.
Wolff is the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Equity and Inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, and is the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
Sprenger wrote about the redefined scope of the Clean Water Act while Rohde’s essay addresses congressional action concerning suicide risks among LGBTQ+ youth.
Hermes and Alejandra intend to bring what they learn at the Law School back to their home country.
Director Chopra previously served as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission.
Morse’s persuasive essay is in response to Responsible Brains, a book authored by William Hirstein, Katrina L. Sifferd, and Tyler K. Fagan of Elmhurst College.
Fairfax and Brown Jackson have been friends since rooming together at Harvard, both undergrad and in law school.
Ferzan explains self-defense laws and its elements, including the use of deadly vs. nondeadly force, when use of force is reasonable, and provocateurs and initial aggressors.
In this pathbreaking course, students immerse themselves in strategy and storytelling to change the world.
The panel included the Law School’s William Burke-White and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Philip Nichols of Wharton, and native Ukrainian Victoria Kaplan LLM’15.
“Russia’s claim that such volunteers may be prosecuted as war criminals simply by virtue of joining the fight is an even grosser distortion of the law of war.”
Coglianese and Lai caution that existing processes can sometimes be “far more problematic than their digital counterparts.”
Skeel focuses his research and scholarship on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics.
The White & Case International Rounds will begin in late March.
Makhija is frequently called upon as an expert on issues of voting rights, immigration, and Pennsylvania.
Hammer teaches an upper-level JD course on financial regulation at the Law School.
“The U.S. ban on Russian oil and gas imports will not be truly effective unless Europe participates.”
From pathbreaking coursework to pro bono advocacy, students at the Law School engage meaningfully in the fight to advance women’s rights, both locally and around the world.
LaShawn R. Jefferson, Executive Director of Perry World House (left) joined Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Associate Dean of International Affairs of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, in a conversation on global women’s rights.
“[I]mmunity from criminal prosecution for a sitting President would undermine all other forms of accountability …”
“Precisely because of the flagrancy of Putin’s violation, the world has emerged united behind the United Nations Charter,” writes Burke-White.
“Abbott’s deployment of the child welfare system will punish parents for affirming their children’s gender identities, not protect children,” writes Roberts.
“How can we credibly criticize Putin for committing war crimes in Europe at the same time that we distort the law to cover up our own illegal conduct?” Finkelstein wrote.
“The opportunity for abuse — and for undercutting the rights of victims and other creditors — is obvious,” wrote Skeel.
The recently published report “Hidden Hazards” analyzes the varied allegations and findings of prosecutorial misconduct in state and federal courts throughout Pennsylvania.
Hollway and Miller will discuss prosecutorial misconduct during one of the symposium’s panels.
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students have an amalgam of academic and experiential opportunities to prepare them for careers fighting for immigration and refugee justice.
Finkelstein is a renowned expert in national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.
The award recognizes Prof. Allen’s “immeasurable contributions to the field” of privacy law, said Dean Ruger.
Pritchett will serve as Penn’s Interim President until Liz Magill takes the helm July 1.
For Solbraekke, the interdisciplinary philanthropy program offers a chance to test and flex her leadership skills.
Dr. Tedros will speak about the World Health Assembly’s efforts to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.
ELC students gain valuable hands-on legal practice while supporting organic economic growth in local neighborhoods.
Finkelstein delineates three areas of military law and policy that President Biden should address to “begin to set the country on a path to restoring integrity to U.S. detention policy.”
Vidyarthi’s paper, co-authored by Rachel Hulvey, a PhD candidate at Penn, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
In “International Law and Pandemics,” students explored the role of international health law in the context of COVID-19.
Access to a plain language, easy-to-understand guide with legally valid terms would bring much-needed stability and fairness to the start of the rental process for both sides.
Fernandez Lynch joins Profs. Anita Allen and Dorothy Roberts as Law School faculty who are also Hasting Center Fellows.
Finkelstein is an expert in national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.
The 2022 GIHR will be held in late May through early June, and applications are now being accepted through April 29.
Prof. Allen’s lecture will be the first of five Race and Regulation lectures to be held throughout the spring.
Roosevelt maintains that King’s focus on Reconstruction should guide us forward.
Coglianese predicts the Court will continue to “be suspicious of grand exercises of regulatory authority by federal agencies.”
Feldman is an expert in comparative public health law, particularly in the context of regulations surrounding COVID-19 and other urgent policy issues.
“This Supreme Court has begun to narrow the scope of agency authority, including with today’s decision on the OSHA rule.”
The Law School remembers and honors the legacy of Lani Guinier, who taught here from 1988 and 1998 and passed away on Friday, January 7, 2022.
In an opinion piece at The Hill, Prof. Roosevelt urges Americans to “remember how we first started on the path of liberty and equality.”
“The Power of Penn Law” campaign is the Law School’s most successful fundraising and engagement effort to date.
The amendment to the Act, proposed by Congressman Raskin, was closely based on Finkelstein’s proposal, co-authored by Richard Painter.
“The prospect of automating a vast swath of governmental decisions … promises more than just a path toward more efficient delivery of government services. It can provide, at the same time, an important opportunity to lead toward a more empathetic government,” writes Coglianese.
A look back at the top stories from the Law School this past year.
Trained actors assist law students to practice their legal representation skills before jumping into real-world work.
Knoll, who is also Co-Director of the Center for Tax Law and Policy, focuses his work at the intersection of business and law.
The Quattrone Center’s “Hidden Hazards” is a review of Pennsylvania prosecutorial misconduct claims that reveals a lack of transparency and accountability throughout the criminal justice system.
Lin sought an LLM degree from Penn in order to better understand and compare legal systems around the world.
Prof. Allen served as President of the APA’s Eastern Division in 2018-19 – the organization’s first Black woman president.
Prof. Roosevelt also advocates for term limits for Supreme Court Justices, with staggered eighteen-year terms.
Hoffman specializes in contract law, Klick in law and economics, and Roosevelt in constitutional law and conflict of laws.
Student leaders from across the globe joined delivered remarks on the vital status of women’s rights activism today.
Coglianese explores the vital role of human capital in the regulation of technology.
The in-person ceremony with the option of remote attendance will be held on Friday, December 10, 2021.
Sandman’s illustrious legal career has been defined by leadership positions across a myriad of sectors.
In the past year alone, nearly two million papers have been downloaded from the Law School’s Legal Scholarship Repository.
De Silva de Alwis explains why there has been an increase in marriages of underage girls in Afghanistan and what could be done to improve girls’ lives.
Dahl notes that most recording artists in a similar position as Swift regarding copyrights – “and maybe it’s time for that to change.”
Blair discussed Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which works with “challenging stereotypes holding women entrepreneurs back from success and equality.”
At issue in the case is how extra Medicare payments to hospitals for treating low-income patients are calculated.
The case centers on the Chevron doctrine, which provides that courts should defer to an administrative agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
Allen is an internationally renowned expert on privacy and data protection law and prolific scholar.
Williams is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Lecturer in Law at the Law School.
“But it does raise a much broader question for what the law should be. We have to think about how individuals provoke fights,” said Ferzan.
Roberts maintains that the U.S. child welfare system is designed to police Black families, not to protect children, and must be replaced with a new vision of family support and child safety.
Hammer discussed cryptocurrency’s role in various industries, while Massarotto explored the issue of regulation.
The course is taught by Abolitionist Law Center leaders, Executive Director Robert Saleem Holbrook and Legal Director Bret Grote.
A joint community stakeholder group generated 69 recommendations for tactical and environmental improvements to the Madison Police Department.
Hellgren’s research also delves into the Alford plea, which allows defendants to maintain their innocence while accepting a plea deal.
Ross is a Lecturer in Law at the Law School and Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
As part of the clinic, Alex DeLaney GR’19, L’22 helped support the University’s technology licensing process.
Prof. Roberts will draw from her forthcoming book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
The Texas abortion law SB8 “has already had devastating short- and long-term consequences,” said Mayeri.
“I think providing choice, rather than pulling choice away, helps to incentivize people towards decisions that positively impact public health,” said Feldman.
In the voting rights sphere, the Law School offers several public interest law and pro bono opportunities as well as thematic, timely courses and a voting rights fellowship.
The Agreement’s structural limitations and increasing populism could inhibit the successful implementation of international climate mitigation strategies, observes Prof. Coglianese.
Massarotto, along with Prof. Yoo, will discuss competition issues associated with the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and predictive analytics in business decisions during Penn Law Antitrust Association’s annual seminar.
Shelley Welton’s faculty appointment is at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she will hold an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School.
The 2021 Global Institute for Human Rights - Build Back Better focused on generating novel approaches to address human rights challenges during a global pandemic.
Farid is the immediate former Member of Afghanistan Parliament and is a visiting researcher at the Law School this academic year.
A Thing With Feathers is a work of original literary fiction that explores the nature of the highest love humans are capable of attaining: “soulmate love.”
Adjunct Prof. Chang-Muy explores the past, present, and future of DACA in this Q&A.
The research delves into the role data play in digital platforms’ business strategies and their antitrust implications.
The award is given annually by Philadelphia VIP, the City’s leading pro bono organization.
Testimony provided by University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Lecturer in Law Matthew Fishbein, whose “White Collar Crimes” course Zikry had taken, proved critical in the Court’s reasoning.
People who wish to enter the United States as refugees must prove a “well-founded fear of persecution, based on five grounds: race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion.”
Using Philadelphia as a microcosm, “Criminal Justice Reform and the Progressive Prosecution Movement” will analyze the emerging trend of progressive prosecutors’ offices and discuss how their strategies fit into a larger movement for criminal justice reform.
The series is organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Law School’s Office of Equity & Inclusion as part of the “Achieving Racial Justice” colloquium launched last year.
“[A] criminal justice system that regularly deviates from empirical desert loses moral credibility and thereby loses crime-control effectiveness,” write Robinson and Holcomb.
In addition to founding the Law School, Wilson was a member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, framer of the U.S. Constitution, and one of the original U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Law School faculty share their insights into how 9/11 has impacted the law, particularly in their areas of expertise:
The joint statement expresses the law deans’ commitment to “take immediate and meaningful action to combat this crisis.”
Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law Gideon Parchomovsky and Muhammad Sarahne SJD’20 will lead the course, which includes a research trip to Israel over Spring Break.
Lisa Fairfax, Jasmine Harris, Sandra Mayson, and Jennifer Rothman join the standing faculty, and three practitioners, including two Law School alums, join the Legal Practice Skills faculty.
The Regulatory Review is publishing a series of six essays analyzing HIPAA, including the lead essay written by Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Anita L. Allen.
The model codes address “gender-based harassment in the virtual world of work.”
The tribute book celebrates Prof. Hovenkamp’s life and work through contributions by peers, colleagues, and former students.
Four distinguished faculty members have retired from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year: Professors Regina Austin, Stephen B. Burbank, Charles W. Mooney Jr, and Stephen R. Perry.
Fernando Chang-Muy, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, comments on SCOTUS the decision in Johnson v. Guzman Chavez. Supreme Court held that 6-3 that deported immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally and claim they fear torture at home must remain in custody while their cases are processed.
Dahl comments on the SCOTUS ruling, Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, which limits the patent-law doctrine known as “assignor estoppel” baring inventors who sell patent rights from later claiming they’re invalid as a defense to infringement claims.
Professor Sarah Paoletti comments on Supreme Court ruling that deported immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally and meet the definition of a refugee, or because they face torture in their home country must remain in custody while their cases are processed.
Prof. Coglianese: The Supreme Court today stepped in to reverse the lower court, giving EPA more latitude to exempt even more refineries from renewable fuel requirements.
Prof. Wolff stated that while the decision is “good,” the opinion doesn’t offer much guidance for the future of the First Amendment in schools.
Prof. Coglianese expounds upon his analysis of the decision in “A Trojan Horse from the Court’s Conservatives?” in The Regulatory Review.
Professor Yoo comments on the multilayered challenges in closing the broadband coverage gap
Prof. Wolff pushes back on early characterizations of the Supreme Court decision as a narrow ruling.
Health law expert Prof. Allison Hoffman observes that this decision is consistent with others in recent years where the Supreme Court has narrowed the ability of aggrieved parties to bring suit.
Adjunct Prof. Chang-Muy discusses the impact of the recent decision in the consolidated immigration cases of Garland v. Dai and Garland v. Alcaraz-Enriquez.
In “Criminal Law’s Core Principles,” Robinson writes that focusing only on the current criminal justice theory leads to a “blank slate” conception of lawmaking, which is “dangerously misguided.”
Prof. Coglianese offers an in-depth analysis of soft law governance of environmental quality, concluding that while it holds much appeal, decision makers should also be aware of its limitations.
Prof. Hoffman presented her paper “A Public Option for Health Care Plans” at “The Promise of Health Reform and a Public Option in a Biden Administration” virtual conference organized by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and United States of Care.
Provost Wendell E. Pritchett GR’97, Erica V. Rodarte Costa L’22 and Reinvestment Fund’s Ira J. Goldstein and Emily S. Dowdall GCP’09, emphasize that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provision of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an obligation that attaches to all federal agencies.
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have received teaching awards for the 2020–21 academic year. Maggie Blackhawk is awarded the Harvey Levin Memorial teaching award; Elizabeth Pollman is awarded the LLM teaching award; R. Polk Wagner is awarded the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course; Jill E. Fisch is awarded the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching; Xun Zeng GL’03 L’07 is awarded the Adjunct Teaching Award; and Cynthia Dahl receives the Experiential Teaching Award.
Through the Toll Public Interest Center, Law School students work with Troutman Pepper’s Pepper Center for Public Service on pro bono immigration cases.
The ISCNE is designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the highest strategic level.
Prof. Pollman’s “Private Company Lies” was selected by her peers as among the best corporate and securities articles published in legal journals in 2020.
In a new paper, Prof. Coglianese explores whether U.S. administrative law can accommodate a future in which most government functions are automated.
In a recent article, Prof. Morse explores internal and external challenges to culpability.
The court’s significant ruling cited “The Downstream Consequences of Pretrial Detention,” co-authored by Paul Heaton, Sandy Mayson, and Megan Stevenson.
Prof. Feldman shares his insight into the likelihood of mandatory vaccines for employment and what that could look like in practice.
In “Private Company Lies,” published in the Georgetown Law Journal, Professor of Law Elizabeth Pollman argues that the time has come to examine and address securities fraud in private companies.
With more women entering the legal field than ever, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is strengthening its efforts to encourage and support gender equity.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, partnering with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, will host a unique, two-day international strategic crisis and negotiation exercise from March 25-27.
The event brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights to engage in a robust conversation about the roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement.
Assistant Professor of Law Natasha Sarin is taking a public service leave to join the Biden Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ class on International Women’s Human Rights celebrated International Women’s Day with Justice Rosalie Abella of the Canadian Supreme Court; Martha Minow, the former dean of Harvard Law School and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University; and Clara Spera, a fellow at the ACLU’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s granddaughter.
Prof. David Hoffman has uncovered that illegal, unenforceable terms in residential leases have increased sharply in recent years and that geography and race play a role in such terms.
Prof. Tom Baker’s COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker includes over 1,500 cases and is regularly cited in court opinions and major publications.
Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis will be affiliated with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) as a Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow on Gender Equity 2021-2022.
During “A Conversation with Stacey Abrams,” the Georgia politician sat down with Ben Jealous to discuss topics from gerrymandering to romance novels in a lively virtual discussion.
The Legal History Consortium, jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Penn’s Graduate History Department, was formed to promote interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and education in law and history.
United States Senator and former Law School professor Elizabeth Warren honors Professor Stephen Burbank.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, together with Harvard Law, celebrates the legacy of the late Deborah Rhode with the nomination for the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.
Penn faculty analyze the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prof. Coglianese recently shared his insight and analysis on conservation and environmental protection under the Biden administration.
Dana Dyer L’22 and Magali Duque L’22 have published “Black Women Future Leaders,” a report developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s “Women, Law, and Leadership” course at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Prof. David A. Skeel recently published “Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy” in theYale Law Journal.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School mourns the death of Emeritus Professor David Shakow.
Dean Ted Ruger welcomes back students, faculty, and staff to the 2021 Spring semester at the Law School.
In “Illuminating Regulatory Guidance,” Prof. Coglianese offers practical guidance on how to enhance public access to administrative agency guidance documents.
Prof. Roosevelt shares the historical background of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as well as his analysis of the House Democrats’ use of the provision in an impeachment article against President Trump.
Prof. Fisch proposes a more defined and enforceable purpose statement for publicly traded public benefit corporations in “The ‘Value’ of a Public Benefit Corporation.”
Professor Herbert Hovenkamp advocates for a better defined principle of consumer welfare so antitrust law can be more effective.
As part of the meeting for the 73rd Plenary Session, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent federal agency charged with recommending improvements to administrative process and procedure, directly references the work of two University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty members in its recommendations concerning Protected Materials in Public Rulemaking Dockets and Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence.
The Communications team at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School spoke with antitrust expert Professor Herbert Hovenkamp about the recently filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook.
Professor Christopher Yoo helped lead and draft “Education for the most marginalised post-COVID-19: Guidance for governments in the uses of digital technologies in education.”
In his book review, Prof. Morse uses Susan Vinocour’s book Nobody’s Child as a vehicle to explore various criminal law and justice system issues that intersect with mental health and social welfare.
Health care law expert Professor Allison Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the United States in this Oxford Handbook chapter.
Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu has been elected to the Law and Society’s 2023 Board of Trustees as Class Representative.
Professor Maggie Blackhawk has announced that the Congressional Petitions Database has been released for public use.
In a new article, Prof. Coglianese compiles the first comprehensive empirical effort to track the last 50 years of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking and court decisions involving the agency.
Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp argues for a properly defined consumer welfare principle so that antitrust law can fulfill its statutory purpose.
Professor Allison Hoffman’s new paper advocates for “a combination of funding, regulation, and a new strategy that fully supports a range of institutional and noninstitutional care.”
Lecturer in Law Michael Murphy argues that an attorney’s “Duty to Google” should be codified in a rule of professional conduct that better defines the duty of factual investigation.
Practice Professor of Law Cynthia Laury Dahl examines the Act’s effects on the patent-centric industry of university technology transfer offices (TTOs) in her recently released paper, “Did the America Invents Act Change University Technology Transfer?”
Both faculty and students at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have been adapting to an ever-evolving learning environment thanks to COVID-19.
In a recently released paper, James G. Dinan University Professor Herbert Hovenkamp delves into some of the most pressing antitrust issues concerning large digital platforms.
In his recently released paper, “Law as Scapegoat,” Professor Cary Coglianese argues that some populist leaders frame laws and regulations as “the other” in an effort to expand their followings.
With her pathbreaking paper, Prof. Fisch “offers the first broad-based analysis of shareholder agreements, detailing the scope of issues to which they are addressed and identifying the challenges that they pose for corporate governance.”
Empirical evidence from Professor Cary Coglianese’s study challenges the widespread perception of the U.S. regulatory system as inflexible and burdensome.
Professor Abrams’ research suggests that criminal activity has dropped substantially, dramatically, and broadly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jim Sandman L’76 recently joined the Law School faculty as a Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Consultant to the Future of the Profession Initiative (“FPI”).
Through the leadership of Prof. Christopher Yoo, Penn joins Public Interest Technology University Network
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu has been named one of this year’s 10 New America National Fellows.
For this academic year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School has added three standing professors and welcomes six additional distinguished teachers, lawyers, and leaders who will enhance our academic program and educate and mentor our students.
Professor Allison Hoffman’s essay, “Medicalization of Civil Rights Could Disappoint” responds to former Sharswood Fellow Craig Konnoth’s recent piece, “Medicalization and the New Civil Rights.”
Three distinguished faculty members will retire from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year: Professors William Wilson Bratton, Howard F. Chang, and Michael L. Wachter.
Transnational Legal Clinic students represent clients from around the world attempting to obtain asylum and victims of human trafficking and other crimes hoping to secure immigration visas.
Professor Paul Robinson was previously an ALI member from 1990-95.
Chris Sanchirico comments on Apple’s legal victory against European antitrust regulators as a European court overruled a 2016 decision that ordered the company to pay $14.9 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland.
Meet four law professors who have joint appointments in the University’s School of Arts and Sciences, emphasizing the Law School’s cross-disciplinary focus.
The research of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law Professor law professor David Hoffman and University of Virginia law professor Cathy Hwang suggests renegotiation may be in order rather than strictly following the letter of the contract.
David Abrams, Professor of Law, Business Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, has amassed a trove of valuable empirical data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on crime in the United States.
On Thursday, the court released its opinion in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam. The justices held that, in this case, restrictions on the ability of asylum seekers to obtain review under a federal habeas statute did not violate the suspension or due process clauses.
Law School faculty react to the SCOTUS decision that a landmark civil rights law does protect gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination.
Professor Wolff commissioned a quilt featuring the faces of his students, a unified work of art composed of many discrete and independent parts, like their dispersed but resilient class.
Prof. Abrams offers four commonsense ways to reform America’s police
Quattrone Center Fellow Bocar Abdoulaye Ba’s research aims to address why police complaints aren’t taken seriously
“AI in Adjudication and Administration” by Professor Cary Coglianese and Lavi M. Ben Dor L’20 is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Law Review.
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have received teaching awards for the 2019–20 academic year.
John F. Hollway designed and leads “Thriving in the Law,” which covers subjects such as cultivating well-being, curbing burn-out and stress, and more.
Professors Anita L. Allen, Jacque deLisle, Tess Wilkinson Ryan, and Claire Finkelstein hold joint appointments in the Law School and Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Sanchirico’s paper aims to demystify the influential but oracular Judd model – both Judd’s original findings and Straub & Werning’s important recent revision.
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science Christopher Yoo explains why increased internet connectivity globally is more important than ever.
Thirteen of Professor Jill E. Fisch’s articles have appeared on the publication’s list, while three of Professor Elizabeth Pollman’s pieces have been recognized over the years.
Howard Lesnick, a beloved professor who redefined what it means to be a lawyer and built the foundation for the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s nationally recognized public service program, passed away on Sunday, April 19th. He was 88.
Meet four law professors who have joint appointments in the University’s Wharton School of Business, emphasizing the Law School’s cross-disciplinary focus.
Health care law expert University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Allison K. Hoffman and third-year law and master of bioethics student Simone Hussussian explain the major provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), focusing on the health care provisions.
In the midst of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon offers commentary on the legal history of epidemics in the United States from 1890 to the present.
In an amicus brief in Trump v. Vance, Professor of Law Claire Finkelstein argues that Article II of the Constitution does not provide the president with absolute immunity.
JD candidates at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will be able to earn a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies by completing approved courses and a year-long Proseminar
Professor Reed Shuldiner provides a clear overview of what Notice 2020-18 means for U.S. taxpayers.
Professor Allison Hoffman, health care law and policy expert, shares her observations on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
In her current research, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics Beth Simmons delves into the practical problems of international border management in today’s globalized world, particularly as they relate to governance, human mobility, and economic interdependence.
Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff and Attorney Amy Maldonado L’98, supported by the research of Adam Garnick L’21, convinced a Third Circuit panel that immigrant detainees have a right to challenge the government’s authority to send them to Mexico as they await the outcome of deportation proceedings.
With Professor Christopher S. Yoo as one of its External Experts, the Broadband Commission Working Group will also serve as an advisory group to GIGA, UNICEF and ITU’s global school connectivity initiative.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s commitment to cross-disciplinary study shines brightly in the impressive number of faculty members who hold joint appointments.
Self-Reporting contributes to human rights improvements, find professors Beth Simmons and Cosette Creamer, who offer recommendations to improve UN Human Rights Treaty Body System
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School professor and public international law expert Jean Galbraith has been elected to the American Law Institute.
In “Our Administered Constitution: Administrative Constitutionalism from the Founding to the Present,” in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Lee offers a corrective to the arguments of legal scholars and jurists who seek to rein in the powers of the modern administrative state.
The rules on public access to the courts also reflected the progressive politics of the era
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Maggie Blackhawk has won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation article prize for “Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State,” published in the Yale Law Journal.
What’s coming on the legal front in 2020? Penn Law professors tell us what to expect.
Charles Ramsey named Distinguished Policy Fellow, will teach Policing in the 21st Century
The ACLU report, “More Law, Less Justice,” cites several publications by criminal law expert Professor Paul H. Robinson
Alumni Gregory B. David L’04, Clare Putnam Pozoz L’07, Jennifer Arbittier Williams C’92 L’95 and former Lecturer Alison Kehner discuss leadership in the EDPA.
Prof. Roberts is the second Black woman to pen the Foreword of the esteemed law journal.
Professor Anita L. Allen was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, participated in a symposium about her work, and delivered a lecture at The Hague.
“Rejoining Treaties,” forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, addresses an underexplored question of separation of powers and international law that has become increasingly urgent in the current polarized political climate.
Penn Law professor and regulatory law expert Cary Coglianese has been elected to the American Law Institute.
Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu recently sat down with Penn Law’s Communications staff to talk about his arrival at the school, his current projects, and more.
In “Health Care’s Market Bureaucracy,” forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review, Hoffman closely examines the economic theories underlying market-based health care policies, the empirical evidence demonstrating how such policies have failed in practice, and the regulatory infrastructure that has grown in an attempt to mitigate those failures.
The amicus brief addresses the question of whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense. The authors argue that some form of insanity defense is required by the Constitution.
“Censorial copyright claims” are used where the creators of personal and often unpublished works use copyright law to sue those who publish and distribute those materials without permission.
For this academic year, Penn Law has added three members to the faculty. The new hires are in addition to the six professors brought on between 2016 and 2018.
The article, “Startup Governance,” forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, provides an in-depth analysis of the governance challenges for venture-backed startups throughout the companies’ life cycles.
On September 24, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment investigation into President Trump, Penn Law faculty share their perspectives.
“The Sixth Amendment Façade: The Racial Evolution of the Right to Counsel,” forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, marshals “archival documents, primary sources, oral histories, case law, and secondary literature” to trace the history of indigent defense and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel from the early twentieth century to the present.
“Making Consumer Finance Work,” in the Columbia Law Review, details her findings about the successes and failures of reforms aimed at debit and credit cards and overdraft fees, and offers crucial insights to guide policymakers in future regulatory efforts.
Tom Baker, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Allison Hoffman, and Paul Heaton have each been awarded grants in support of their vital research, scholarship and other work within the academic community.
Professor Coglianese comments on one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions authored by former Justice John Paul Stevens, who died earlier this week.
Galbraith clerked for Justice Stevens after graduating from law school.
Nagda is Director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and an adjunct lecturer-in-law in Penn Law’s Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic.
In Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that a question on citizenship could not be added to the 2020 census on the basis of the government’s proffered reasoning.
In Iancu v. Brunetti, the Court held that the Lanham Act’s restriction on “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks violates the Constitution.
In Flowers v. Mississippi, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to overturn the conviction and death sentence in the sixth murder trial of Curtis Flowers, finding that the prosecutor had engaged in misconduct by discriminating against black people in jury selection.
The Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law, directed byLaw Professor Regina Austin, has produced a new documentary that exposes the discriminatory impact of a provision of the VCAP law that denies assistance to victims who contribute, or are suspected of contributing, to their own death or injury.
In his two-part article “The TCJA and the Questionable Incentive to Incorporate,” published in Tax Notes, Knoll “questions the claim that there will be a mass conversion of passthrough entities into C corporations” as a result of the tax reform law.
In the decision, the Court upheld part of a state law that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, but declined to reinstate a different part of the same law that banned abortions sought on the basis of fetal sex or disability.
Sanchirico evaluates the tax code provision along with newly proposed regulations, and finds that although the BEAT “is apparently targeted at earnings stripping,” he argues, “it does not appear to be clearly grounded in a coherent view of what earnings stripping is.”
Fatal Invention explores the resurgence of race as a biological category in science, medicine, and biotechnology, and the implications for health inequities and social policy.
The article, “The Dynamic Impact of Periodic Review on Women’s Rights,” appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and challenges the conventional wisdom that the process of self-reporting on compliance with human rights treaties serves no useful purpose.
Saks was the inaugural speaker for Penn Law’s Fund for the Study of Behavioral Health Law and Policy, in collaboration with Penn Law’s Center on Professionalism and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care.
Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies is an expert on Chinese law and politics, and China’s engagement with the international order.
“We cannot truly understand how to achieve good governance unless we look at all of our collective failures – including colonialism – alongside slavery,” said Blackhawk.
Penn Law once again dominated the Corporate Practice Commentator’s annual list of the top ten list articles on corporate and securities law, as the only law school with three faculty members represented and two articles featured.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world.
A new book, co-edited by Prof. Claire Finklestein and Michael Skerker titled Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority is currently being featured at the Penn Bookstore
The Law School’s robust joint degree programs allow students to take advantage of the many top-ranked graduate and professional schools within the University of Pennsylvania, from the renowned Wharton School of Business to the excellent graduate programs in History, Philosophy, Engineering, and more.
The FPRI’s mission is to produce the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on important foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States.
Robinson, an expert in criminal law and criminal code reform, has previously worked with several Muslim-majority countries to write criminal codes based upon principles of Shari’a.
The Rutgers-Newark commencement ceremony will take place on May 22 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
In the article, “Relational Contracts of Adhesion,” Hoffman proceeds through a series of case studies based upon interviews with lawyers at Tumblr, Kickstarter, Etsy, Airbnb, and Bumble.
The mission of the National Academy’s CLAJ is to “improve governmental decision making and public policy, and promote the understanding and dissemination of research in matters involving law and justice.”
Recently, the prospect of the United States withdrawing from various international commitments has been the subject of significant news coverage.
The Committee aims to consider whether the inspection program is effectively meeting its regulatory mission, and it will look to practices by other regulators from around the world that BSEE might employ to supplement and improve the program.
Hoffman is a frequently-cited expert on health care law and policy.
On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 British lawmakers voted to reject the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Professor William Burke-White offers his reaction to the results and examines possible next steps.
The award honors a law school staff or faculty member for their work in advancing the ethic of pro bono service through program design or management, or through their own personal service.
Throughout the year, Penn Law professors have won awards, seen their work cited in major judicial decisions, and shared their insights with fellow scholars worldwide.
Penn Law’s Quattrone Center, along with the Baltimore’s City State’s Attorney’s Office, Police Department, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City, and the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic, have released a root cause analysis report on the case of Malcolm J. Bryant, who was convicted of murder in 1999 and exonerated in 2016 after DNA tests proved his innocence.
In his new role, Kosuri will assume responsibility for the oversight and development of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies.
On December 5th, a panel of antitrust law experts spoke on several trending topics in recent antitrust legislation, including the case of Ohio v. American Express.
Leading scholars and practitioners comment on a recent book that argues for a simpler, more streamlined legal system.
The dinner recognized students involved in the Initiative and honored Allen Model L’80, chair of the Leo Model Foundation, for his generosity and support.
The documentary was the result of a joint effort between the Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law (“Docs&theLaw”), of which Professor Austin is the director, Lifers, Inc. at Graterford State Correctional Institution, and the Pennsylvania Prison Society.
The conference will feature presentations by scholars from universities throughout Europe and participation by professors from China, Poland, and South Korea.
A group of legal scholars submitted an amicus curae brief arguing that a sitting president is not immune from suit for actions taken in his unofficial capacity.
The November 14 event was sponsored by the Penn Law Veterans Club as part of the Law School’s Veterans Week programming.
The event, “Addressing Challenges in the 21st Century Through Diplomacy,” was open to the public and offered as part of the full-day Leadership Institute for Diplomacy and the Law.
The study, “The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes,” to be published in the Harvard Law Review, examined over half a million cases in the Bronx over a 10-year period involving poor criminal defendants who received court-appointed lawyers.
Panelists Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Professor of Law at Penn and Co-Director of CTIC, Corinne Militello L’07, Counsel at Ballard Spahr, and Peter Decherney, Penn Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and English, considered the DMCA from their personal experiences with copyright law.
On November 1, Penn Law hosted a panel on vaping and its effects on health, society, and the environment as a part of Penn’s Center for Neuroscience and Society talk series.
Penn Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice is a national research and policy hub created to increase the fairness and accuracy of the criminal justice system by preventing errors.
This year, the Law School has continued to expand its full-time faculty and has also brought on several new academic fellows.
Gordon will accept the award on October 19 during the 2018 WHA Conference in San Antonio.
McKinley’s work offers scholars, policymakers, and the courts an opportunity to rethink the position of the administrative state within our constitutional framework.
Penn Law faculty react to the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court
The article, “The Empty Idea of ‘Equality of Creditors,” was published in a recent issue of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
The wide-ranging discussion, part of this year’s Public Interest Week programming, featured leading First Amendment lawyers and thinkers.
Roberts argues that stereotypes and politics operating within the prison and foster care systems make it almost impossible for incarcerated black mothers to maintain legal ties to their children
Prof. Jill Fisch argues against treating board-adopted corporate governance bylaws like contract terms
Prof. Natasha Sarin joins the Penn Law and Wharton faculty
On August 30 Prof. Burbank, System Arbitrator of the NFL, issued a statement concerning his ruling on the NFL’s request for summary judgment against former San Francisco 49’ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Penn Law faculty react to implication of President Trump in federal crime amid Cohen plea and Manafort conviction
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice now accepting proposals to fund original research projects that will generate new knowledge that can improve the U.S. criminal justice system. The program is open to all Penn faculty.
The presentation intended to illuminate the long-term implications of taxing, spending, and redistribution policies within advanced economies
Research team reveals cryptocurrency market is more centralized than previously known, publicized
Prof. Stephen Morse discusses recent case that had potentially far-reaching implications for the criminal justice system
Penn Law faculty react to Trump nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
Prof. Yoo, who clerked forJustice Anthony Kennedy, remarks on the Supreme Court Justice’s announcement of retiring
Penn Law’s Sophia Lee comments on SCOTUS ruling that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining.
Penn Law is committed to retaining transformative thinkers and scholars
Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.
Corporate Gift from Reed Smith Funds Growing, Unique Collaboration
CTIC highlights ten years of law and tech at Penn Law
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Penn Law professor Stephen J. Morse has contributed a chapter to a comprehensive report titled Reforming Criminal Justice. Morse’s chapter, “Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice,” examines the wide-reaching interactions between mental health and the criminal justice system.
Sozi Tulante will teach an upper-level course on prosecutorial ethics and will work to evaluate the Law School’s student externship opportunities.
Scholarship by three Penn Law faculty members, Cary Coglianese, Jonah Gelbach, and Jonathan Klick has been featured in a recent government recommendation by the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Penn Law professor Jill Fisch was named the winner of a 2018 section award for excellence in legal education from the Association of American Law Schools.
Hazard, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, died on January 11, 2018, at the age of 88.
New research by Penn Law professor Catherine Struve examines how the procedure for inmate appeals has evolved over the past half century and how the use of technology could change those procedures in the future.
Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese contributed the Foreword to this year’s administrative law issue of the George Washington Law Review. He argues that critics of Chevron deference misunderstand the doctrine.
With the advent of automated financial products, consumers can get quotes for a mortgage, find a health insurance plan, or get help planning their financial future. But with these tasks now able to be conducted by computer programs, new research co-authored by Penn Law’s Tom Baker investigates how regulators should handle these new technologies.
The United States Senate confirmed Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
This year, Penn Law welcoming Maggie McKinley to the Law School faculty. McKinley (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) teaches in the areas of constitutional law, federal Indian law, and legislation. In this video feature, she discusses her research on petitioning and legislation, and talks about the Constitutional Law course that she’ll teach in the spring.
Penn Law Professor Dorothy Roberts was one of 80 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine on October 16, joining Penn Law colleague Anita L. Allen who was elected last year.
Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese contributed extensively to a newly released report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled “Designing Safety Regulations for High-Hazard Industries.”
The rise of private enforcement led to a counterrevolution aimed at curtailing it, and that counterrevolution is the focus of a new book by Penn Law professor Stephen B. Burbank and his co-author, Sean Farhang.
The new Penn Law Global Affairs magazine creates a platform for ideas and action for a rapidly changing global order through the prism of Penn Law.
Penn Law has added four new members to the full-time faculty at the Law School, as well as a number of new academic fellows.
On September 20, a panel of constitutional law professors convened at Penn Law to discuss four cases from the Supreme Court of the United States’ upcoming term.
In a recently published article in the Northwestern Law Review titled “Democratizing Criminal Law as an Abolitionist Project,” Penn Law professor Dorothy Roberts sets out an alternative vision of criminal justice.
Herb Hovenkamp, a renowned scholar of antitrust law and legal history, sat down with Penn Law’s Office of Communications to discuss his research and teaching this upcoming academic year.
Penn Law faculty comment on President Trump’s ban on transgender individuals in the U.S. military
Professor Bill Burke-White has acquired a deep well of knowledge about global affairs the hard way: he’s set foot in much of the world and studied the most difficult challenges as a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Burke-White, a scholar in the areas of international criminal and international economic law, is drawing on his expertise and experience as the Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director of Perry World House.
Kermit Roosevelt, a Professor of Law at Penn Law and scholar of the Constitution, says that meeting between the Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. could possibly have fun afoul of campaign finance laws.
A group of 46 alumni of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic has submitted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Professor Stephanos Bibas’ nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Details on Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology and director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, will be nominated by President Trump to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professor Baker explains the process involved in an ALI Restatement.
Cary Coglianese spoke with the Law School’s Office of Communications about President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, a carbon reduction agreement signed onto by more than 190 countries.
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received teaching awards for the 2016–17 academic year.
The Law School’s Sarah Barringer Gordon has been appointed the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress for the fall semester of 2017. While at the center, she will continue her research on her book project “Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776–1876.”
Penn Law professor Mitchell Berman has been named a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University for the 2017–2018 academic year.
Public law scholar Maggie McKinley, whose research examines legislative procedure and the representation and participation of minorities in the lawmaking process, will join the Penn Law faculty this July.
Penn Law professor Beth Simmons, an expert on international relations and human rights, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. She was one of 32 new members elected by the society’s membership this April.
Health care law and policy expert Allison K. Hoffman will join the Law School’s faculty in July. Hoffman comes to the Law School from the UCLA School of Law, where she taught courses on health insurance and reform, health law and policy, and torts.
In response to a lawsuit filed by two civil rights groups, and in the wake of a recent study by researchers at Penn Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice analyzing the consequences of pretrial detention, a federal judge in Houston has ordered Harris County to begin releasing inmates arrested for misdemeanor offenses who cannot afford to pay bail.
A new study co-authored by Penn Law professor Stephen J. Morse and a number of other researchers from neuroscience, law, and philosophy, led by neuroscientist Read Montague and law professor Gideon Yaffe, shows that brain imaging data can be used, with high accuracy, to predict a participant’s mental state.
Transnational Legal Clinic lecturer in law Ayodele Gansallo has been working hard to assist those affected by the recent Trump travel ban. Click the link to read more on Philly.com
On February 16, the federal oversight board created in response to the Puerto Rico debt crisis held a forum for the Penn Law community to discuss the board’s fiscal plan for the territory, the restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debt, and the financial future of Puerto Rico.
In recognition of her extensive work on race and justice, Penn Law professor Dorothy Roberts has been named the recipient of the Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture Award from Columbia University.
In a new article, Chris William Sanchirico argues that the claims House Republicans have made about their tax reform blueprint are subject to significant caveats as to their effectiveness.
On January 31, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Penn Law faculty members respond to Judge Gorsuch’s nomination.
Penn Law professor Jonah Gelbach and David Marcus of the University of Arizona combined legal research with quantitative analysis to produce a comprehensive set of recommendations on social security disability litigation in the federal courts.
Penn Law professor Shyamkrishna Balganesh was one of 58 lawyers, judges, and law professors recently elected to the American Law Institute.
David A. Hoffman, an expert in contracts, law and psychology, and empirical legal studies, and most recently Temple University’s Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law, has joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s faculty.
The White House recently released a report highlighting the administration’s accomplishments in open government and transparency. Among these accomplishments were recommendations developed by the Administrative Conference of the United States based on research conducted by Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese.
Penn Law convened a panel with John C. Coffee, Jr., a professor at Columbia Law School, and Penn Law professors Jonah Gelbach and Tobias Wolff to present work on the topic of cross-cutting issues that span across class action lawsuits and their alternatives.
In an opinion piece by Dorothy Roberts and Jeffrey Vagle, the authors argue that President-Elect Trump’s law and order platform is culturally-coded as well as anti-democratic.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, Penn Law faculty members weigh in on the potential effects of a Trump presidency on issues ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court to immigration to technology policy.
In Kuren v. Luzern County, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that public defender clients have the right to sue counties that do not provide adequate funding to their public defender offices. David Rudovsky explains the repercussions for public defender offices throughout Pennsylvania.
In recognition of her outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service in the fields of health, medicine, and public health, Penn Law professor Anita Allen was one of 79 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
New research by Penn Law’s Deepa Das Acevedo proposes a plan that would establish a universally available, federally administered, portable 401(k) plan and annuity purchase that would alleviate some of the retirement challenges faced by workers.
Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, Penn Law professors Christopher Yoo and Jonathan Klick, and Wharton professor Joseph Harrington are joining with scholars from China and Europe to launch a three-year study comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the United States.
The University of Pennsylvania celebrated the grand opening of Perry World House with two days of events featuring leading scholars and policymakers in the field of global affairs.
Newly appointed as he eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Beth Simmons discusses her upcoming plans at Penn, the intersection of law and political science, and her latest research on international borders.
The Law School and its centers and institutes added new faculty, fellows, and staff members this academic year.
Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon explains how corporate law held a critical place in African Americans’ spiritual life in early America.
In a historical account of the changes wrought by Gideon, Penn Law’s Sara Mayeux shows that the decision’s legacy remains inextricable from the challenges in indigent defense that still remain to this day.
Beth Simmons, a world-renowned authority on international relations and human rights has been appointed the eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor.
Dean Ruger comments on the divided Supreme Court over Obama’s Immigration plan.
Penn Law faculty members comment to the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affirmative Action program at the University of Texas.
Penn Law faculty members comment on the Supreme Court ruling in the Texas’ abortion law in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
Community Legal Services honored the litigation team in Peake v. Commonwealth, which included Penn Law professor Seth Kreimer, as well as Penn Law alumni Sharon M. Dietrich L’85 and Jamie Gullen L’12.
Penn Law and History Department professor Sarah Barringer Gordon’s essay “The African Supplement: Religion, Race, and Corporate Law in Early National America” has been awarded the Lester J. Cappon Prize, which honors the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in the previous year.
Penn Law spoke with Professor William Burke-White about Brexit and its global implications.
Penn Law professor Tom Baker serves as Reporter for the upcoming American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance.
Five members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received teaching awards for the 2015–16 academic year.
The work of four Penn Law faculty members was featured on this year’s Corporate Practice Commentator’s list of the ten best corporate and securities articles.
Professor Michael S. Knoll and his co-author Ruth Mason of the University of Virginia School of Law argue why the Philadelphia wage tax is unconstitutional in the latest issue of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online.
Penn Law professor Serena Mayeri was appointed to the prestigious Distinguished Lectureship Program by the Organization of American Historians.
Professor Eric Feldman’s Global Research Seminar, “Disasters and the Law,” took Penn Law students to the Fukushima disaster site in Japan to conduct research on the legal issues surrounding disaster relief and recovery.
Penn Law professors Cary Coglianese and Dorothy Roberts were among the winners of the Fels Policy Research Initiative’s inaugural collaborative research grants, which recognize faculty who work across disciplinary boundaries on complex problems.
A new report on civil forfeiture released by the Center for American Progress highlights work done by Professor Louis S. Rulli and the Law School’s Civil Practice Clinic.
In an article titled “For Third Enrollment Period, Marketplaces Expand Decision Support Tools To Assist Consumers” in the April issue of Health Affairs, Tom Baker and a group of co-authors from Penn examined the ways consumers could make choices in the most recent open enrollment period for the health insurance Marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act.
Penn Law faculty members respond to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
In a new article titled “Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family,” Penn Law professor Serena Mayeri explores the history of marital supremacy — the legal privileging of marriage — by tracing the outcomes of “illegitimacy” cases through the 1960s and 1970s.
Penn Law’s Dorothy Roberts has been named to Harvard Law’s Women Inspiring Change list for 2016.
Anita L. Allen has been chosen by Penn’s College of Liberal & Professional Studies (LPS) to be the guest speaker at the LPS 2016 graduation ceremony.
Dorothy Roberts has been selected to receive the Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award at the North American Forum on Family Planning in November 2016.
The Law School’s Dorothy Roberts is one of two University of Pennsylvania professors who coauthored a perspective piece in the journal Science that calls for an end to the use of genetic concepts of race in biological research.
The University of Pennsylvania and edX are offering a free online course on intellectual property law and policy taught by IP and patent law expert R. Polk Wagner.
Penn Law’s David Skeel discusses the financial crisis and Puerto Rico and the island’s need for access to bankruptcy.
Douglas Frenkel L’72 traveled around the world speaking about the American system of alternative dispute resolution and the work he has done in Penn Law’s clinics.
Mayor-elect Jim Kenney has selected lecturer Sozi Pedro Tulante as Philadelphia’s next City Solicitor.
A. Leo Levin L’42, a graduate of the Law School and longtime member of the Penn Law faculty, has died.
Professor Paul H. Robinson spoke about the legal structures necessary to interdict foreign terrorist fighters, the impact of the Paris attacks on security policy in Europe, and the balance between security and civil liberties.
Penn Law’s Bioethics Society hosted a panel with professors Tom Baker and Allison Hoffman to discuss the realities versus the expectations of the Affordable Care Act.
Professor Louis Rulli, Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies at Penn Law, testified in front of the Pennsylvania State Senate’s Judiciary Committee on the practice of civil forfeiture.
A new book chapter by Penn Law professor Eric Feldman and his student Chelsea Fish L’16 argues that in the critical area of disaster management transnational efforts have lagged far behind other fields.
A new article by the Detkin Clinic’s Cynthia Dahl describes how to teach students to communicate across fields by pairing engineers with lawyers in a patent drafting simulation.
In a new essay, Penn Law professor Jean Galbraith explains how unratified human rights treaties have had an important effect on U.S. law.
In a new article, Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic director Praveen Kosuri describes what makes the best business lawyers and how law schools can better prepare their students for careers in transactional law.
The Penn Program on Regulation released more than twenty research papers and reports produced under the auspices of their Best-in-Class Regulator Initiative, which offers essential guidance to regulators around the world about how to improve their performance.
Professor Michael S. Knoll was awarded the Aptíssimi Prize from ESADE Law School in Barcelona, Spain, in recognition of academic achievement.
Wendell Pritchett reflects on his year as interim dean of Penn Law, his return to Penn after serving as chancellor at Rutgers-Camden, and his future projects.
Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law respond to the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality.
Award-winning economist Paul Heaton of the RAND Corporation has been appointed as the Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.
This academic year, six members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received teaching awards.
Professor Cary Coglianese has received a $500,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to empirically investigate the linkages between business lobbying, government regulation, and economic inequality.
Penn Law professor Kermit Roosevelt and New York Times best-selling author Kimberly McCreight L’98 each recently released novels.
As part of the Global Thought Leader series, Penn Law professor Charles Mooney spoke on his experience in international law reform as a delegate for the Cape Town Convention and his recent work with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is a recipient of Penn’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Sarah Barringer Gordon is one of three law professors in the country to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious midcareer award for exceptional scholars and artists.
Sophia Z. Lee, a legal historian and Professor of Law and History at Penn Law, talks about her new book, The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right.
Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff has written an amicus brief on behalf of Conflict of Law scholars in advance of the Supreme Court arguments on marriage equality.
Professor Dorothy E. Roberts has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her study of interracial marriage and racial inequality in Chicago from 1937 to 1967.
Case in Point podcast pairs top legal scholars with newsmakers and other experts to bring knowledge, expertise to bear on problems of law, policy, business, and culture.
Louis S. Rullihas been named the recipient of Villanova University’s 2015 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics. The award honors the contributions of a professional or academic in the field of professional ethics.
Theodore Ruger has been named dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, effective July 1.
Professor Emeritus Frank Goodman discusses about his long and varied career during which he drafted Groucho Marx’s will, argued cases in the Warren Court, and was tear-gassed in Berkeley.
Penn Law’s Dorothy E. Roberts has been named the recipient of the American Psychiatric Foundation’s 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award, which honors a black citizen who has pioneered in an area which has significantly benefited the quality of life for black people.
Penn Law faculty members commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a panel examining the historic law.
Penn Law asked several of its faculty members to look ahead and predict some of the key legal issues that will be discussed and debated in the upcoming year.
The Public Service Program is, today, one of the Law School’s glories, and Howard Lesnick was the inspiration and force behind its creation.
Visual legal advocacy and scholarship (PVAS) are being taught and produced in law schools around the country today and the PVAS Working Group intends to support their expansion.
As part of a series of new publications for The American Law Institute, Penn Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt will serve as Reporter for Restatement of the Law Third, Conflict of Laws.
In this video feature, Lecturer David Kessler L’97 highlights how the nature of civil discovery has changed with computers and e-mail dominating business and personal life.
In conjunction with Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Penn Law launched the Friedrich Kübler Scholarship for students who have received, or will be receiving, their first state’s examination grade following their studies in law at Goethe. Successful recipients of this scholarship will have demonstrated a high level of academic achievement and/or professional experience in law.
The late Harry Reicher, Adjunct Professor at Penn Law, made extensive use of visual material in teaching Holocaust Studies in the Law. His talk at the Shoah Foundation explains how and why.
Harry Reicher, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and one of Australia’s leading international law and taxation experts, died on October 27. He was 66.
New faculty member Mitchell Berman talks about constitutional interpretation, how the NFL’s instant replay system illustrates important tenants of legal theory, and his impressions of Penn Law and Philadelphia.
Penn Law Professor Stephen J. Morse has received the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, which recognizes the teaching impact of leading scholars in the fields of medicine, law, and psychology.
On October 6, Penn Law hosted a panel discussion as part of the “Anatomy of a Public Interest Lawsuit” series on the use of civil forfeiture in Philadelphia and the development of the class action lawsuit, Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia, challenging it.
Four acclaimed intellectuals from around the world will teach short, highly focused courses at Penn Law as part of the Bok Visiting International Professors program.
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What does the Constitution mean to you? The Penn Law community chimed in on Constitution Day with #WeThePPL videos!
A forthcoming article in the Nevada Law Journal, “Federal Court Rulemaking and Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach,” by Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang illustrates how, over the last 50 years, changes in the Civil Rules Advisory Committee, whose members are appointed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, have been associated with shifting the balance against plaintiffs seeking to enforce rights in civil litigation.
Marking a major milestone in legal education and emblematic of the service ethic at the core of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, this academic year Penn Law will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of its public interest program, featuring a year-long series of lectures, workshops, conferences focusing on the power and impacts of public service lawyering.
New study by Prof. Paoletti details abuses suffered by Nepal’s migrant workers in Mideast, shows justice elusive for low-wage workers abroad.
Wendell Pritchett on returning to Penn, and the future of legal and higher education.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has hired five new faculty to begin in the 2014-15 academic year, adding expertise in key areas including Constitutional law, criminal law, education law and policy, foreign relations law, and urban law.
Professor Yoo released a study that finds Europe lags behind the United States in high-speed broadband deployment, investment, and usage. The analysis also looks at the data disparities in the context of the different regulatory approaches in the U.S. and in Europe, finding that the EU’s telephone-era, public utility treatment of broadband has resulted in stagnation.
Anita Allen, the Vice Provost for Faculty at Penn and the Law School’s Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, will receive the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s (EPIC) Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. June 2.
Penn Law celebrated the exceptional excellence and years of dedication of the Law School’s faculty and staff at the annual Longevity Awards. The longstanding commitment of employees at the Law School speaks to the collaborative and collegial environment fostered throughout every level at the School.
Graduates and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have played an instrumental role in the landmark federal court ruling declaring Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Does your computer feel cluttered? Here are some quick tips on how to find and remove old files and applications in both Windows and Mac OS X.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a client represented by Penn Law Professor Stephanos Bibas and students from the Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic. In a 6-3 decision that has wide implications for the entertainment industry, the Court held May 19 that the heir to the screenplay author for the film Raging Bull is able to pursue claims against MGM Studios that two lower courts had thrown out.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has named four recipients of teaching awards for the 2013-14 academic year. They are: Tom Baker (A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course); Michael Wachter (Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching); Kedric Payne L’01 (Adjunct Teaching Award); and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence).
The Maldives has enacted a comprehensive penal code drafted by Prof. Paul Robinson and his students; it is the first in the world to incorporate the major tenets and principles of Islamic law.
Two new features will be available in Canvas at the end of this month: Draft State and a new layout for Conversations. Here is a sneak peek so you can familiarize yourself before the switch.
Once again Penn Law faculty have dominated the Corporate Practice Commentator’s annual poll of “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles,” with three articles written or co-authored by four University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty members.
Professor Bill Burke-White examines shifts in global power and how they translate in the international legal system.
In this video feature, voices from across the Penn Law community discuss how the distinctive emphasis on cross-disciplinary education at Penn Law embraces a University-wide ideal of integrating knowledge.
Low battery warning? Learn how to charge your battery faster when you need your phone the most.
Penn Law faculty member David Rudovsky will receive the Clifford Scott Green Bill of Rights Award.
Many of corporate America’s biggest governance battles are fought over surprisingly small stakes, according to new research by leading corporate law experts at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and NYU Law School.
Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows XP next week on April 8th, 2014. What does that mean if you are still using Windows XP?
A recent article by Penn Law Professor Cary Coglianese has been selected as one of “the year’s best academic articles that present legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems.”
Penn Law students studying comparative Internet law are meeting face-to-face this semester with policymakers, regulators and telecommunications executives in Washington, DC, Germany and Brussels.
There is no way to tell whether America’s largest multinational companies are in fact American-owned, according to new research from Penn Law’s Chris Sanchirico.
An article written by Penn Law Professor Douglas N. Frenkel L’72 has been selected as the outstanding scholarly article of 2013 by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Prof. Christopher Yoo shares his take on the Verizon v. the Federal Communications Commission, an important decision concerning net neutrality.
Wendell E. Pritchett, Chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden and a former University of Pennsylvania Law School professor, will return to the Penn faculty as a Presidential Term Professor.
There are a few different tools available for class communications in Canvas. This tip will distinguish between Announcements, Class Mailing List, and Conversations.
A new book exploring the connection between government regulation and jobs, edited by members of the Penn Law faculty, will be the subject of panel discussions at the Wharton School, George Washington University, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government over the next three months.
Prof. Stephanos Bibas will appear before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue a copyright case involving Raging Bull, the Oscar-winning Martin Scorcese film.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence, Penn Law Professor Stephen J. Morse has been selected to receive the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association.
Penn Law Professor David A. Skeel, Jr., explains why a federal judge’s ruling that the pensions of Detroit workers can be adjusted may be upheld, if, as seems likely, the case makes its way to the U.S. Supreme Court this term or next.
Important court decisions, revelations about NSA spying, and high-profile trials were among the legal events that captured headlines in 2013. Here, Penn Law faculty to weigh in on the year’s top legal developments.
Sharswood Fellow Matiangai Sirleaf reflects on the passing and legacy of Nelson Mandela.
The two-day event explored some of the most important issues in civil procedure and federal rulemaking. Opening remarks were made Friday afternoon by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D –RI). The keynote by Harold Koh, the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale and former Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department, took place on Saturday.
The Law Review hosts the symposium, “The Federal Rules at 75,” Nov. 15-16
In testimony before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee today, Penn Law Professor Cary Coglianese urged lawmakers to be skeptical of claims that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has abandoned regulation of auto safety and shifted instead to issuing individual recalls on defective automobiles.
Friedrich K. Kubler, emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a preeminent German scholar in the fields of communications, First Amendment, and corporate law, has passed away after a long illness. He was 81.
In October Penn Law will formally launch the innovative Visiting Jurist Program, designed to promote closer ties between eminent members of the judiciary and law students. The inaugural Penn Law Visiting Jurist will be Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Appropriately designed health insurance exchanges could save consumers and taxpayers $9 billion annually under Obamacare, according to new research by Penn Law professor Tom Baker.
At a time when debates over technology policy are as significant as they are complex, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) are launching an innovative joint degree program whose goal is to graduate lawyers and engineers able to address issues at the intersection of law and technology.
Drawing on an array of perspectives, a new Penn Law Center confronts the ultimate wartime question: How can we combat terrorism without suffering ethical casualties?
Douglas Frenkel L’72, Penn Law’s Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law, is the indirect inspiration for a program in conflict studies and resolution at one of Mexico’s leading universities, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).
Graduates and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School played an instrumental role in a lawsuit filed today in federal District Court in Harrisburg seeking to overturn Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage.
In a recent policy brief, Penn Law Professor William Burke-White forecasts the direction of U.S. foreign policy for the remainder of the Obama administration.
Jill E. Fisch, the Perry Golkin Professor of Law, has received a mark of high academic distinction from the European Corporate Governance Institute.
The Court’s majority is surely correct that the forms, and extent, of outright electoral discrimination based on race have changed and lessened in the past half century, but the phenomenon persists
Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court this week determined issues ranging from voting rights and affirmative action to same-sex marriage. What follows are responses to the Supreme Court debate by Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law.
Supreme Court equality decisions tend to move gradually towards recognizing the moral consensus of the American people.
By shifting the case back to the lower courts, the Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas has encouraged the constitutional debate on affirmative action to continue among a broader set of institutions around the country.
Penn Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic three-for-three with wins this term before nation’s highest court.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has received a $15 million gift to establish the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, a national research and policy hub created to catalyze long-term structural improvements to the US criminal justice system.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has named four recipients of teaching awards for the 2012-13 academic year.
Penn Law’s business and corporate law faculty have dominated the 19th annual poll of the Top Ten Corporate and Securities Articles of 2012.
Professors Sarah Paoletti and Tobias Barrington Wolff received the Law School’s 2013 Beacon Award for their contributions to pro bono and public interest service, at a ceremony that also recognized more than 100 student leaders and over 50 community partners.
Students working with Penn Law Prof. Tom Baker are helping assess how well health exchanges work under Obamacare.
As part of the $100 million brain-mapping initiative announced by President Obama on Tuesday, the White House has asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to assist with the BRAIN initiative.
Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law respond to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on the volatile issue of same-sex marriage.
In a video feature, Prof. Christopher Yoo discusses his work and research in technology policy.
Family and friends of the late Bernard Wolfman C’46, L’48, a former Dean of Penn Law, have established The Bernard Wolfman Civil Discourse Project in his memory.
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule by June on a sentencing-guidelines case argued by Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic.
Penn Law and the Wharton School launch first-of-its-kind management program for law students
Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Anthony J. Scirica joins the Penn Law faculty on July 1.
In a forthcoming law review article, Penn Law Professor William Bratton identifies a common thread in financial scandals dating from Michael Milken’s junk-bond transactions during the 1980s through the collapse of mortgage-backed securities in the recent financial crisis.
Law School Professors William Burke-White and R. Polk Wagner are among eight faculty members from across the University who have been named 2013 Penn Fellows.
Whether the issue is the legality of drone strikes, impending Supreme Court decisions about affirmative action and same-sex marriage, the anniversary of the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainright, the impact of documentary filmmaking on the pursuit of justice, or key regulatory decisions by administrative agencies, here developments to watch for in the year ahead.
Former congressman, author Mickey Edwards appointed National Constitution Center-Penn Law visiting scholar for 2013
Penn Law, Wharton, and other expert authors consider the unthinkable: default, restructuring, or a wholesale reassessment of the U.S. Treasury securities’ place in the world.
Catherine C. Carr L’79, a Penn Law lecturer and Executive Director of Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, has received the Andrew Hamilton Award. Marisa Gold L’13 was also honored by the Public Interest Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
A study by University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Jonathan Klick argues that the growth of mobile phone technology in the 1990s contributed to a historic drop in crime rates.
Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan speaks with Penn Law about her scholarship, teaching, and how ordinary people think about their legal obligations.
New scholarship by Prof. Shyam Balganesh offers a comprehensive overview of copyright trolling’s history and legal basis, and a prescription for curbing its abuses.
Cynthia Dahl, Practice Associate Professor of Law and the inaugural director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, talks about the interdisciplinary opportunities of the Clinic and what makes this clinic unique.
The re-election of President Barack Obama on Tuesday elicited a broad spectrum of commentary from faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A round-up of their insights into how the election was conducted and what it means for health reform, economic recovery, immigration, women’s rights and a host of other issues vital to the country’s future follows.
With politicians on both sides of the aisle promising to improve U.S. “competitiveness,” it’s important to clearly define what the term means.
Penn Law Professor Jacques deLisleand visiting scholar Professor Lin Yan of Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School discussed an Oct. 24 Law School symposium on the evolution and importance of administrative law in China.
Joshua M. Koppel L’12 has won the annual James William Moore Federal Practice Award for the second consecutive year.
Dorothy Roberts discusses her interdisciplinary research exploring the relationship between race and science.
Arlen Specter C’51, the longest-serving United States Senator in Pennsylvania’s history and a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, died Sunday, October 14. He was 82.
An issue for the justices to decide is whether to follow or overrule recent precedent, according to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Theodore Ruger.
Professor Dorothy Roberts explores methods across disciplines to understand the intersection of different systems of inequality.
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professors Kermit Roosevelt and Seth Kreimer Tuesday praised a Commonwealth Court judge’s decision to block implementation of Pennsylvania’s controversial Voter ID law.
In a time of significant change for the legal academy and the profession, Penn Law has completed a record-breaking capital campaign, enabling the Law School to proactively transform its academic program to prepare students for success in a rapidly evolving legal landscape, supporting the expansion of world-class faculty, programs, and financial support - while maintaining a small class size.
Cooperation between Penn Law and the National Law School in Bangalore serves to further engagement with legal academics and practitioners in India, while expanding the Law School’s global connections.
Professor Tobias B. Wolffis interviewed about his role in finalizing the Democratic party’s platform ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina in September.
Led by California, a handful of states are bleeding red ink while others wrestle with persistent deficits. Professor David A. Skeel suggests states follow corporate practice and declare bankruptcy. But first Congress has to pass a new chapter in bankruptcy law, which is exactly what he is calling on legislators to do.
Penn Law Professor Theodore Ruger has written an amicus brief in a highly anticipated affirmative action case that gives college basketball coaches a voice on the highest Court in the land.
Eleanor Roy Barrett L’05, a summa cum laude graduate of Penn Law, has been appointed Associate Dean for Legal Writing and Communications,
Taking a fresh approach to long-standing problem in the study of crime, University of Pennsylvania Law School professor David S. Abrams and colleagues have demonstrated conclusively for the first time that racial bias affects judicial sentencing decisions.
In the most in-depth look at the subject of federal judicial retirements ever undertaken, a new study co-authored by Penn Law Professor Stephen B. Burbank warns that current compensation policies and perceptions of congressional neglect may prompt a growing number of federal judges to leave the bench upon reaching retirement age.
Even as more specific information comes to light, what we learn about the motives of Colorado shooting suspect James E. Holmes is unlikely to help avert the next mass shooting, according to Penn Law Professor Stephen J. Morse, leading expert on criminal and mental health law.
For four decades University of Pennsylvania Law School professor David Rudovsky has kept his feet planted squarely in two professional worlds, and in recent weeks he has been recognized for his accomplishments in each of them.
In the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act decision, we asked Constitutional and health law and policy experts at the University of Pennsylvania Law School to share their insights about what the decision portends for the scope of federal power to meet economic and social problems and the future of the nation’s health care system.
Should extreme poverty and social deprivation be considered an excuse for crime and allowed to be used as a criminal defense? A new paper, “Severe Environmental Deprivation (aka RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense,” by Stephen Morse, a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor and forensic psychologist, says the answer is an emphatic “no.”
Douglas Frenkel L’72, Penn Law’s Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law, is the co-author of The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text, the second edition of which was released June 11.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has named four recipients of teaching awards for the 2011-12 academic year.
In a new paper, “Network Neutrality and the Need for a Technological Turn in Internet Scholarship,” Yoo calls for those engaged in debates over Internet regulation to develop a better grasp of the network’s underlying architecture and technology.
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Professor of History, has been appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
After Japan’s tsunami and Fukushima nuclear catastrophe last year, Feldman’s research and teaching have focused increasingly on law and disasters.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School’s graduation ceremony was held at the Academy of Music on Monday, May 14, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered the Law School’s commencement address.
The Hon. Louis Pollak, who served as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1975 to 1978 before being appointed to the federal bench, died Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia after a long battle with heart disease. He was 89.
Professor Tobias Wolff will travel to Washington on Monday, May 7, to meet with White House officials about the vacancy crisis in America’s federal courts, including six vacancies and two “emergency” vacancies in Pennsylvania.
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Louis S. Rulli has been honored with the Law School’s 2012 Beacon Award, which recognizes a faculty member’s contribution to pro bono and public interest service.
Two articles co-authored by Penn Law’s Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law Edward B. Rock L’83 appear on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s latest annual list of “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles.”
In honor of the release of “Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in and Asymmetrical World,” the University of Pennsylvania Law School will host a book celebration on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. in Silverman 245, Levy Conference Room.
Innovative new seminar, “China and International Human Rights,” draws together Law School students, other Penn students, and members of the wider University community.
Qualtrics is a powerful online survey tool that can be used for both business and academic research. We’re excited to bring this service to the whole Penn Law community. While we’re still working out all the details, you can choose to be one of our “beta testers” and try it out today.Visit the Qualtrics Guide for instructions and links to helpful resources. Please drop us an email at itshelp@law.upenn.edu and let us know what you think!
We’re especially excited about one new feature of Exchange 2010 that will be coming in the next few weeks. We will be enabling online archiving to keep email accounts from getting too large to handle. Large email accounts cause Outlook to slow down, take longer to search, and crash more often. Online archiving will automatically move emails older than two years into an online archive that is available whenever you are connected to the Internet through Outlook for Windows and Outlook Web App.Visit the Exchange 2010 Upgrade page to stay up to date on everything you need to know.
We’ve been hard at work setting up our Exchange 2010 server. This includes a new version of webmail called Outlook Web App. We think you’ll love having many of your favorite Outlook features available online when using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.Visit the Outlook Web App Guide for an early preview of the new interface. You can even get started on a Lynda course today.
Keep an eye on privacy this Data Privacy Day. The number one step in keeping your information safe and secure is by educating yourself. Visit What are You Doing About Privacy? or visit www.upenn.edu/privacy for the facts. Review Google’s new privacy policy. Review the types of Penn data you should always keep safe and private.
We have a great new training resource for our full-time staff and faculty called Lynda. Lynda is an extensive online video library that covers many subjects relevant to our work. If you want to give it a try, visit the Lynda Guide for more information.
Looking for a way to brighten up your desk? Well we know exactly what you need! A limited-edition (and exclusive to Penn Law!) mousepad. With details on how to contact every part of ITS, you’ll never be on your own. If you don’t have one yet or your current mouse pad has gathered a few too many coffee stains, send us an email at itshelp@law.upenn.edu and we’ll bring one down.