Prof. Serena Mayeri writes, “History can counsel against past errors and justify affirmative approaches to protecting rights and combating inequality.”
Along with leading legal historians Laura Edwards and Kate Masur, she discussed “how the Supreme Court gets U.S. history wrong.”
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.
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.
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 the Friars Senior Society Faculty Award for 2023.
The IEHS announced Penn Ph.D. student, Kimberly White, as a Winner of the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award.
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 has received the 2023 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor.
Hardeep Dhillon published a commentary in The Caravan on the relationship of race, caste, and U.S. law.
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”:
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 Press published Brent Cebul’s book Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century