The Critical Role of History After Dobbs 

March 20, 2024

Prof. Serena Mayeri writes, “History can counsel against past errors and justify affirmative approaches to protecting rights and combating inequality.”

Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Research and Scholarship 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt: ‘Haley Is Offering a Confederate View of the Constitution That Cost Us Over Half a Million Lives’ 

February 5, 2024

 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt Discusses the Impact of Today’s Highly Politicized Supreme Court 

January 21, 2024

 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt Explains the Origins of the Electoral College and Its Bias 

January 10, 2024

 

Karen Tani Participated in the Brennan Center’s “Supreme Fact-Check” Event 

November 13, 2023

Along with leading legal historians Laura Edwards and Kate Masur, she discussed “how the Supreme Court gets U.S. history wrong.” 

 

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Awarded an Early Career Fellowship to Penn Ph.D. Candidate Kimberly G. White 

November 13, 2023

 

The American Society for Legal History Awarded the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize to Penn JD/PhD Graduate Justin Simard 

November 13, 2023

Justin Simard (Assistant Professor, MSU College of Law) was awarded the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize for the Citing Slavery Project by the ASLH. 

 

The American Society for Legal History Named Sarah Barringer Gordon an Honorary Fellow, the Highest Honor That the Society Confers. 

November 13, 2023

 

‘Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi’ 

July 13, 2023

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.

Research and Scholarship 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt Explains That Many Americans Misunderstand July 4 

June 19, 2023

 

Professors Bill Ewald and Sophia Lee Receive Teaching Awards for the 2022-2023 Academic Year 

May 15, 2023

Chosen by the LLM Class of 2023, Professor Bill Ewald received the LLM Award for Teaching Excellence. Additionally, Professor Sophia Lee received the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence, chosen by the JD Class of 2023. 

 

Sarah Gronningsater Receives Yet Another Teaching Award 

April 20, 2023

Sarah Gronningsater receives the Friars Senior Society Faculty Award for 2023.

 

Kimberly White Announced as a Winner of the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award 

April 17, 2023

The IEHS announced Penn Ph.D. student, Kimberly White, as a Winner of the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award. 

 

Karen Tani Delivers Annual Ray Ginger Lecture at Brandeis University 

April 17, 2023

The History Department at Brandeis University is hosting Karen Tani to deliver the Annual Ray Ginger Lecture titled “Costed Out: Disabled Citizens and American Governance in the Late Twentieth Century.” 

 

Sarah Gronningsater Receives the 2023 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching

April 17, 2023

Sarah Gronningsater has received the 2023 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor. 

 

Prof. William Ewald Offers Perspective on New Book About ‘Forgotten’ Founder James Wilson 

April 3, 2023

 

Hardeep Dhillon’s Commentary in The Caravan 

March 23, 2023

Hardeep Dhillon published a commentary in The Caravan on the relationship of race, caste, and U.S. law.

 

The Law and History Review Published Hardeep Dhillon Article 

March 23, 2023

The Law and History Review Publishes Hardeep Dhillon’s Article “The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law”: 

 

Serena Mayeri Delivered the Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law 

March 23, 2023

Professor Serena Mayeri delivered the Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law, “Marital Supremacy and Reproductive (In)justice,” as part of our Racial Justice Speaker Series.

 

The University of Pennsylvania Published Illusions of Progress by Brent Cebul 

March 23, 2023

The University of Pennsylvania Press published Brent Cebul’s book Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century

 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt’s Insights Featured in Annenberg Classroom’s New Documentary, ‘Juneteenth’ 

March 6, 2023

 

Columnist Explores Prof. Kermit Roosevelt’s ‘The Nation That Never Was’ Vis à Vis Ron DeSantis’ ‘War on Public Education’ 

March 2, 2023

 

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt’s Explanation of the Historical Concept of Pardons Informs Op-Ed About Robin Farris Case 

February 6, 2023

 

Prof. Bill Burke-White Reflects on What Would Have Been the 100th Anniversary of the USSR 

December 23, 2022

 
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