April 9
“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.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, SCOTUS, Serena Mayeri March 27
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.”
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Kate Shaw, SCOTUS March 25
Adam Liptak has covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for 16 years.
article archive, Homepage Hero, Institutional Highlights, SCOTUS March 20
Prof. Serena Mayeri writes, “History can counsel against past errors and justify affirmative approaches to protecting rights and combating inequality.”
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Faculty, Featured, Legal History, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Serena Mayeri March 11
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.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Kate Shaw, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS February 5
In an amicus, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt argues that the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision that keeps Trump off the presidential ballot.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Featured, Kermit Roosevelt, SCOTUS October 3
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.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Faculty, Featured, Jasmine E Harris, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Transformative Faculty September 8
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.”
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, inclusion, LGBTQ, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington Wolff July 11
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Michael Knoll, Penn Program on Regulation, PPR, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS July 6
Prof. Cary Coglianese says “the only sure-fire way to deliver comparably massive student loan debt relief will be to secure approval of Congress.”
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Cary Coglianese, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, SCOTUS June 30
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.”
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Cary Coglianese, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, SCOTUS June 30
“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.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, inclusion, LGBTQ, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington Wolff June 22
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the upcoming SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis “threatens to be a blockbuster.”
article archive, Civil Rights, Conlaw, faculty perspectives, Faculty, inclusion, LGBTQ, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington Wolff June 8
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.
article archive, CTIC, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, IP & Technology Law, Jennifer E. Rothman, SCOTUS June 8
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.
Alumni, article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, inclusion, Public Interest, RacialJustice, SCOTUS June 6
“The Speech Clause of the First Amendment has never been a license for businesses to discriminate in the commercial marketplace,” writes Prof. Tobias Wolff.
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, inclusion, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion, Tobias Barrington Wolff May 24
Practice Prof. Cynthia Dahl writes that the Andy Warhol SCOTUS decision “has wider implications for other art forms, like music and adaptions of literary works.”
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A look back at some of the top news stories at Penn Carey Law in 2022.
Alumni, article archive, Cara McClellan GEd'12, Faculty, Featured, Institutional Highlights, SCOTUS, Students December 16
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.
article archive, Faculty, Featured, Homepage Hero, Institutional Highlights, Penn, SCOTUS December 5
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the First Amendment “affords no sanctuary for discriminatory conduct in the public marketplace.”
article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Faculty, Featured, LGBTQ, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion, Tobias Barrington Wolff, Transformative Faculty October 31
“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.
article archive, Christopher S. Yoo, Courts & the Judicial System, CTIC, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, IP & Technology Law, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS October 25
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.
Alumni, article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Faculty, Featured, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion October 20
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.
ARC Clinic, article archive, Cara McClellan GEd'12, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Experiential Learning, Faculty, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion October 17
“As Black students in law school, we’re concerned that SCOTUS could dismantle affirmative action at a time when students of color remain at significant disadvantage,” write
BLSA Advocacy Co-Chairs Devontae Torriente L’24 and Ty Parks L’24 for
The Philadelphia Inquirer. article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion, Student Journals & Organizations, Students July 18
In
The Regulatory Review,
Prof. Allison Hoffman, analyzes the major health-related decisions of the Supreme Court’s last term.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, faculty perspectives, Faculty, facultyscholarship, Featured, Health Law, Penn Program on Regulation, Regulatory Review, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS July 13
“[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.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Environmental Law, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Shelley Welton July 11
“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.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Faculty, PPR, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington Wolff July 11
Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how states are responding to the Supreme Court’s decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Cary Coglianese, Environmental Law, Featured, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS July 1
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.”
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, Environmental Law, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Shelley Welton June 30
The Quattrone Center’s
John Hollway shares his insights on the Court’s decision on sentencing reductions under the First Step Act.
article archive, Criminal Justice, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, John F. Hollway, QCimpact, Quattrone, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS June 30
Penn Carey Law faculty respond to the Court’s recent decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, Cary Coglianese, Environmental Law, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, PPR, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS June 23
“The Supreme Court has limited U.S.-style discovery for international arbitration — but not entirely,” said Assistant Prof. of Law
Yanbai Andrea Wang.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, International, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Yanbai Andrea Wang June 6
“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.
Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, Courts & the Judicial System, Faculty, Featured, Health Law, SCOTUS May 19
The Regulatory Review recently featured two student pieces concerning the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion rights.
Alumni, article archive, Conlaw, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Courts & the Judicial System, Featured, Health Law, Penn Program on Regulation, Regulatory Review, SCOTUS, Students, Women's Rights May 3
Profs.
Roosevelt and
Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.
article archive, Conlaw, Dorothy E. Roberts, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Kermit Roosevelt, Pro Bono Student Groups, RacialJustice, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Serena Mayeri, Students, Tobias Barrington Wolff, Women's Rights May 3
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.”
article archive, Conlaw, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Kermit Roosevelt, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Women's Rights April 22
Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court spoke about implicit and structural bias during the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.
article archive, Civil Rights, Conlaw, dean ruger, diversity, Ethics, Events, Featured, inclusion, SCOTUS, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion, Social, Theodore Ruger April 8
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.
article archive, dean ruger, diversity, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Government, inclusion, inclusionfacultyvoices, inclusionstudentvoices, Journal of Con Law, Journals, Law Review, Lisa Fairfax, SCOTUS, Social, Students, Theodore Ruger, Women's Rights, women March 21
Fairfax and Brown Jackson have been friends since rooming together at Harvard, both undergrad and in law school.
article archive, diversity, Faculty, Featured, Government, inclusion, judicial, Legislative, Lisa Fairfax, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Theodore Ruger, Transformative Faculty March 14
Following clerkship positions in the Eleventh and Third Circuits, Cass will clerk for the Supreme Court Justice during the 2024-2025 term.
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Makhija is frequently called upon as an expert on issues of voting rights, immigration, and Pennsylvania.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Government, SCOTUS, Social February 25
President Joe Biden has selected the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as his nominee to the Supreme Court.
inclusion, SCOTUS, Theodore Ruger January 27
Ruger and deLisle praise Justice Breyer’s brilliance and broad approach to reaching legal decisions.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Jacques deLisle, News, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Theodore Ruger January 18
Coglianese predicts the Court will continue to “be suspicious of grand exercises of regulatory authority by federal agencies.”
Administrative Law, article archive, Cary Coglianese, coronavirus, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Penn Program on Regulation, Regulation, Regulatory Review, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS January 14
Feldman is an expert in comparative public health law, particularly in the context of regulations surrounding COVID-19 and other urgent policy issues.
Administrative & Regulatory Law, article archive, coronavirus, Eric A. Feldman, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Government, Health Law, Regulation, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS January 13
“This Supreme Court has begun to narrow the scope of agency authority, including with today’s decision on the OSHA rule.”
Administrative Law, Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, coronavirus, Employment law, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Government, Health Law, Regulation, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS December 13
Prof. Roosevelt also advocates for term limits for Supreme Court Justices, with staggered eighteen-year terms.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, facultyscholarship, Kermit Roosevelt, Media, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, supreme court December 10
Hoffman specializes in contract law, Klick in law and economics, and Roosevelt in constitutional law and conflict of laws.
article archive, Conlaw, contracts, David Hoffman, Faculty, Featured, Jonathan Klick, Kermit Roosevelt, Law and Economics, Law School, SCOTUS November 24
At issue in the case is how extra Medicare payments to hospitals for treating low-income patients are calculated.
Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Health Law, Regulation, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS November 23
The case centers on the Chevron doctrine, which provides that courts should defer to an administrative agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
Administrative Law, Allison K. Hoffman, article archive, Cary Coglianese, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Government, Penn Program on Regulation, Regulation, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS November 10
The Texas abortion law SB8 “has already had devastating short- and long-term consequences,” said Mayeri.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS, Serena Mayeri, Women's Rights August 31
The joint statement expresses the law deans’ commitment to “take immediate and meaningful action to combat this crisis.”
Alumni, article archive, Civil Rights, coronavirus, dean ruger, Faculty, inclusion, Law School, Public Service, SCOTUS, Social, Theodore Ruger July 30
Greene is currently clerking for Senior Fellow, the Honorable Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Alumni, article archive, Careers, Featured, judicial, Research and Scholarship, SCOTUS July 1
In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge alleging that two Arizona provisions disproportionately burdened minority voters.
article archive, inclusionalumnivoices, SCOTUS, Social June 24
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.
article archive, Conlaw, faculty perspectives, Faculty, inclusionfacultyvoices, SCOTUS, Social June 23
Ben-Porath calls it “a good day when [the Court] sides with a student’s right to freely express her views, her feelings, and her criticism of the rules of the community of which she forms a part.”
article archive, Conlaw, ILP, SCOTUS June 17
Prof. Wolff pushes back on early characterizations of the Supreme Court decision as a narrow ruling.
article archive, Conlaw, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Local, SCOTUS June 17
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.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Health Law, SCOTUS, Social June 2
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.
article archive, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Immigration, SCOTUS April 13
In a recent article, Prof. Morse explores internal and external challenges to culpability.
article archive, Criminal Law, Faculty, facultyscholarship, SCOTUS December 1
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will join UN Women in honoring the global legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on December 10, International Human Rights Day.
article archive, inclusion, International, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, SCOTUS June 25
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.
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