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Law School faculty regularly coordinate Continuing Judicial Education programming to help Pennsylvania judges stay abreast of cutting-edge legal issues.
Cara McClellan GEd’12 will lead the Law School’s newest clinic, focusing on civil rights and racial justice equity.
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.
Vidyarthi’s paper, co-authored by Rachel Hulvey, a PhD candidate at Penn, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
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.
The work is part of a longer report entitled “A Place at the Table,” written by students in Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s “Women, Law, and Leadership” class.
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.
A look back at the top stories from the Law School this past year.
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.
“Hidden Hazards” is based on a review of state and federal claims of prosecutorial misconduct between 2000 and 2016.
Student leaders from across the globe joined delivered remarks on the vital status of women’s rights activism today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Genevieve Tung is an important part of the Biddle Law Library team that is revamping legal research education.
Professor of Law Shyamkrishna Balganesh contends that courts should allow technical experts to testify in software copyright cases.
Professor Maggie Blackhawk has announced that the Congressional Petitions Database has been released for public use.
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.”
Professor Abrams’ research suggests that criminal activity has dropped substantially, dramatically, and broadly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Six Penn Law students present research findings at New York Bar Association on access to justice in The Gambia
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Prof. Jill Fisch argues against treating board-adopted corporate governance bylaws like contract terms
Research team reveals cryptocurrency market is more centralized than previously known, publicized
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.
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.
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.
A paper by former Sharswood Fellow Craig Konnoth has received the annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum. The award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at federal agencies, and at data protection authorities around the world.
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.
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 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.”
Delaware Corporation Law Resource Center is now available online
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 professor Stephen J. Morse and 11 other experts on addiction have filed an amici curiae brief in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case, Commonwealth v. Julie Eldred.
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.
Professor Baker explains the process involved in an ALI Restatement.
University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Christopher Yoo and co-author Timothy Pfenninger released the first comprehensive study of the financial viability of America’s municipal fiber networks — “Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Financial Performance.”
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.
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School will expand upon its work producing innovative new research that improves American criminal justice policy with the support of up to $2.2 million over four years from the Charles Koch Foundation.
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.
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.
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.
More than 50 LLM students from Penn Law played a critical role in research by Wharton School professor Mauro Guillén that was part of a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) report issued in October.
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.
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.
On September 17, Penn Law’s Legal Scholarship Repository surpassed two million downloads. Maintained by the Biddle Law Library, the repository contains digital copies of all of the Law School’s student journals for their entire run, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, which dates back to 1852.
Two new studies from the Quattrone Center find that defendants subject to pretrial detention are more likely to be convicted and less likely to receive favorable plea terms than similarly situated defendants who make bail, and those who experienced pretrial detention committed more crimes after their release than similarly situated individuals who made bail.
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.
RegBlog, a daily online publication produced by Penn Law students, has published a 16-part series of series of essays entitled, “Rooting Out Regulatory Capture” that features commentary by leading scholars and some of the nation’s foremost public leaders.
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 professor Tom Baker serves as Reporter for the upcoming American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance.
Penn Law’s CTIC Fellows, Bryan Choi and Camilla Hrdy, will be taking full-time academic positions next year. Choi has taken a joint appointment at the College of Law and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University; Hrdy will be an assistant professor at the University of Akron Law School.
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.
In the 2015-2016 Global Research Seminar “Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,” U.S. and German students paired up to write original research papers comparing specific corporate governance issues in the United States and Germany.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese issued his final report of the Penn Program on Regulation’s Best-in-Class Regulator Initiative, an effort commissioned by the Alberta Energy Regulator to define regulatory excellence and offer recommendations to regulators around the world about how they can improve and measure their regulatory performance.
Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese and the Penn Program on Regulation have been awarded $160,000 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the study of codes and standards in legal education and public policy.
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.
A new article co-authored by Penn Law Professor and Dean-designate Theodore Ruger, Jennifer Prah Ruger of Penn, and George Annas of Boston University finds that while the U.S. Constitution does not expressly guarantee a right to health care, in the past 50 years Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have incrementally crafted an array of health care rights, though the expansion of these rights has properly resulted from legislative and government rulemaking, not judicial fiat.
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.
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.
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.
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, a research center at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published the report, “A Systems Approach to Errors in Criminal Justice,” which explores ways in which a systems approach to criminal justice may be employed as an alternative to a case-by case litigation model of reform.
Professor Bill Burke-White examines shifts in global power and how they translate in the international legal system.
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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.
Qualtrics has introduced a new feature that provides an automated summary to gauge the overall effectiveness and impact of your surveys.
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.
A paper by Penn Law doctoral candidate Michal Gilad maintains that women in devout religious communities are especially vulnerable to domestic violence.
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.
Five distinguished faculty members from around the world will visit Penn Law in the coming academic year to offer short, specialized courses, as part of a unique program designed to enrich the Law School’s curriculum with global perspectives.
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.
A law review article written by Penn Law tax policy expert Chris W. Sanchirico has helped persuade a U.S. Circuit Court to rule for the first time that a private equity fund should be held responsible for pension fund payments owed by a company it had purchased, which then went bankrupt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dorothy Roberts discusses her interdisciplinary research exploring the relationship between race and science.
The conference brings together leading authorities in the law, technology, and ethics to address the threat of cyberwarfare.
Penn Law’s Professor Coglianese talks to the School’s Office of Communications for a video feature about his latest book, Regulatory Breakdown? The Crisis Of Confidence In U.S. Regulation.
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.
Shen Weiwei, who graduated in May with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will travel to the University of Oxford this month to participate in an international conference on Chinese Media Legislation and Regulation.