April 28
Law School faculty regularly coordinate
Continuing Judicial Education programming to help Pennsylvania judges stay abreast of cutting-edge legal issues.
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Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.
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Vidyarthi’s paper, co-authored by Rachel Hulvey, a PhD candidate at Penn, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“Hidden Hazards” is based on a review of state and federal claims of prosecutorial misconduct between 2000 and 2016.
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Student leaders from across the globe joined delivered remarks on the vital status of women’s rights activism today.
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Sandman’s illustrious legal career has been defined by leadership positions across a myriad of sectors.
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In the past year alone, nearly two million papers have been downloaded from the Law School’s Legal Scholarship Repository.
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A joint community stakeholder group generated 69 recommendations for tactical and environmental improvements to the Madison Police Department.
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Hellgren’s research also delves into the Alford plea, which allows defendants to maintain their innocence while accepting a plea deal.
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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.
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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.
article archive, Faculty, Government, Research, Social, Students March 8
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.
article archive, Faculty, facultyscholarship, Research February 9
Genevieve Tung is an important part of the Biddle Law Library team that is revamping legal research education.
article archive, Library, Research, Staff November 16
Professor of Law Shyamkrishna Balganesh contends that courts should allow technical experts to testify in software copyright cases.
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Professor Maggie Blackhawk has announced that the Congressional Petitions Database has been released for public use.
article archive, Faculty, Government, inclusion, Research October 6
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.
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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.”
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Professor Abrams’ research suggests that criminal activity has dropped substantially, dramatically, and broadly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
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Need to add some images to a document or presentation? Use Google’s image search filters to find content that you can reuse.
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Qualtrics has introduced a new feature that provides an automated summary to gauge the overall effectiveness and impact of your surveys.
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