June 27, 2022
Equal Justice Works Fellow Marissa Schwartz L’22 will advocate for survivors of domestic violence in Philadelphia.
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During the 2021-2022 academic year, student and alumni applicants obtained 102 total clerkships – the highest number of clerkships ever attained in Law School history.
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The American Constitution Society selected Sabrina Minhas L’22 and Jess Zalph L’23 to participate in their prestigious leadership program.
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Dana Dyer L’22 has authored a trailblazing report shining a light on how AI contributes to racial bias in hiring processes for Black educators.
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Annie Blackman L’22, Co-Chair of If/When/How, a student pro bono project dedicated to lawyering for reproductive justice, reacts to the leaked SCOTUS opinion.
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Law School faculty regularly coordinate Continuing Judicial Education programming to help Pennsylvania judges stay abreast of cutting-edge legal issues.
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Cara McClellan GEd’12 will lead the Law School’s newest clinic, focusing on civil rights and racial justice equity.
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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.
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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.
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Valerie Baron L’12, LPS’13 works alongside communities most affected by the agriculture industry, helping to protect and preserve their rights.
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Ho recently co-wrote an article published in the Yale Law Journal on “how administrative law erased antidiscrimination.”
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On the Access Board, Nadolsky is eager to contribute to conversations about disability accessibility to technology.
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Chen’s research focuses on the regulatory barriers that prevent Asian and Latinx communities from participating equally in the American political process.
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Makhija is frequently called upon as an expert on issues of voting rights, immigration, and Pennsylvania.
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From pathbreaking coursework to pro bono advocacy, students at the Law School engage meaningfully in the fight to advance women’s rights, both locally and around the world.
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As a Co-COO at Burford Capital, Perla believes that finance can – and will – play a vital role in diversifying leadership in the legal profession.
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For Solbraekke, the interdisciplinary philanthropy program offers a chance to test and flex her leadership skills.
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Feinstein’s lecture is the second of five Race and Regulation Series lectures scheduled this spring.
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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 Penn Law Alumni Society recognize alumni’s outstanding contributions to the legal profession, their communities, and beyond.
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A collection of resources and events that honor Dr. King, celebrate the advances in our nation’s civil rights, and examine the work still to be done.
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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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Early support for the First Generation Professionals Scholarship initiative includes two endowment contributions from Frank Ghali L’00 and Rory Babich L’89.
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The awards recognize alumni who have demonstrated a passionate commitment to public service throughout their career.
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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.
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Jesse McGleughlin L’20 is the recipient of Toll Public Interest Fellowship and works at the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Alumni, article archive, Clinics, Fellowships, Human Rights, PI Fellowships, Pro Bono Student Groups, Social, TPIC December 13, 2021
Matier knows that success is the product of a steady work ethic, clear concentration, and self-driven motivation.
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Jones is a Catalyst Fellow at the Environmental Defense Center.
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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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Kyle was a Catalyst Fellow with the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) and has transitioned to a position as Staff Attorney.
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Dr. Jill A. Fisher of the Center for Bioethics at UNC-Chapel Hill will speak on how social inequalities are exacerbated during the U.S. drug approval process.
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Schlueter grew up on a small, family-run dairy farm in northeastern Iowa and is considering a career in international arbitration and dispute settlement.
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Rodriguez is also pursuing a dual degree in Bioethics with the goal of making healthcare more equitable and accessible for immigrant and refugee populations.
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The course is taught by Abolitionist Law Center leaders, Executive Director Robert Saleem Holbrook and Legal Director Bret Grote.
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Ross is a Lecturer in Law at the Law School and Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
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Prof. Roberts will draw from her forthcoming book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
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The Penn Law Veterans Alumni Association (PLVAA) will provide a touchpoint for law students who are veterans as well as their loved ones.
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For Ryan Baldwin L’22, WG’22 praises the collegiality at the University, particularly among veterans, as contributing significantly to his positive Law School Experience.
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The Law School offers a tight-knit and supportive community for veterans who choose to continue their public service by entering the legal field.
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The First Generation Professionals Fellowship was established through a generous donation from David Silk L’88.
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In the voting rights sphere, the Law School offers several public interest law and pro bono opportunities as well as thematic, timely courses and a voting rights fellowship.
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This year’s Public Interest Week events will explore the complex roles that lawyers play as society’s economic inequities continue to deepen.
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The lecture by Professor Guy-Uriel Charles of Harvard Law is part of Public Interest Week, the Race and Regulation Lecture Series, and the “Advancing Racial Justice” colloquium.
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Upon confirmation, Sohn will become the third Democrat Commissioner on the current FCC and the first openly LGBTQ+ Commissioner in FCC history.
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Professor Jessica Trounstine of the University of California, Merced will explore how cities’ regulatory authority over land use has resulted in inequities.
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The award is given annually by Philadelphia VIP, the City’s leading pro bono organization.
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This year, the majority of the incoming class of 2024 participated in Pro Bono Orientation Day, embodying Penn Law’s commitment to and enthusiasm for public interest service.
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The series is organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Law School’s Office of Equity & Inclusion as part of the “Achieving Racial Justice” colloquium launched last year.
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The Honorable Stella Tsai L’88, Tsiwen Law ’84, Tanya Xu L’16, and Adam Tsao L’17 are among the Law School alums helping to obliterate the so-called “Bamboo Ceiling.”
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The joint statement expresses the law deans’ commitment to “take immediate and meaningful action to combat this crisis.”
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Tsiwen Law L’84 has been an Asian American civil rights activist for decades, dating to the anti-Vietnam War movement in the late 1960s.
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Zhang’s own experience of attempting to obtain lactation accommodations to take the bar exam helped inspire her career path.
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In May 2021, DiVasto was announced as one of 77 law school graduates selected to serve as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the 2021 Fellowship class.
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For Rekha Nair L’12, standing alongside a person as they navigate the American immigration system offers something powerful: unity in a world of separation.
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The fellows’ work will be supported by several organizations including Equal Justice Works; Independence Foundation; Langer, Grogan, and Diver Foundation in Social Justice; Skadden Foundation; Toll Foundation; and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
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The work of Hugh Fitzgibbon LLM’21 and Meri Baghdasaryan LLM’21 is supported by the Law School’s LLM Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship.
article archive, Featured, Fellowships, Human Rights, LLM, PI Fellowships, Social, Tertiary features August 3, 2021
Jarron McAllister L’20 is a Penn Catalyst Fellow at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ).
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Charlotte Raty L’23 is interning at Bayou City Waterkeeper (BCWK) in Houston, Texas.
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Upon graduation, eighteen 2021 graduates will pursue important and diverse public interest work with the support of prestigious fellowship funding.
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Haley Pritchard L’20 is a Langer, Grogan, & Diver Legal Fellow with the Pennsylvania ACLU.
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Hewitt continues the Law School’s historic connection to the Lawyers’ Committee that dates back to the organization’s founding in 1963 under President John F. Kennedy.
Alumni, article archive, Civil Rights Profiles, Civil Rights, Featured, Social, Tertiary features July 1, 2021
In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge alleging that two Arizona provisions disproportionately burdened minority voters.
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Dahl comments on the SCOTUS ruling, Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, which limits the patent-law doctrine known as “assignor estoppel” baring inventors who sell patent rights from later claiming they’re invalid as a defense to infringement claims.
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Prof. Coglianese: The Supreme Court today stepped in to reverse the lower court, giving EPA more latitude to exempt even more refineries from renewable fuel requirements.
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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.
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Prof. Coglianese expounds upon his analysis of the decision in “A Trojan Horse from the Court’s Conservatives?” in The Regulatory Review.
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Mira Baylson L’08 built a strong foundation of pro bono service during her time at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she worked on prisoner education and reproductive rights student pro bono projects.
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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.
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Raymond Magsaysay L’22 explores the multifaceted problem of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) being largely left out of recent conversations about overhauling the criminal justice system to address racial injustice.
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Ezekiel Edwards L’02 worked as an investigator for people facing the death penalty before coming to the Law School.
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The selection committee wrote that they wanted to recognize Grishow-Schade for their “critical engagement, leadership, and impact on initiatives related to gender identity across the University.”
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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 May 11, 2021
Girmay Zahilay L’14, Aaron Jordan L’16, Max Weiss C’11 L’16 are three recent Law School graduates committed to public service.
Alumni, article archive, Government, Public Service, Social January 17, 2021
On Monday, January 18, our nation commemorates the life and legacy of civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His vision of compassion and equality as a moral imperative still remains at the heart of today’s ongoing movements for racial justice, labor rights, economic equality, and fair housing—the same battles Dr. King fought 50 years ago. As legal educators and professionals, MLK Day reaffirms our commitment to service, justice, and equity.
article archive, Civil Rights, diversity, inclusion, Social January 6, 2021
Trevor Kirby L’23 and Virinchi Sindhwani L’23 have been named as the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s second class of First Generation Professionals (FGP) Fellows.
article archive, Center on Professionalism, Fellowships, Social, Students December 8, 2020
Christina Swarns L’93 has dedicated her career to criminal justice reform and now heads the Innocence Project, which advocates for the wrongly convicted.
Alumni, article archive, Criminal Justice, Social November 30, 2020
Erik Nickels L’21 has been awarded a prestigious Skadden Fellowship and will work with Mental Health Advocacy Services in Los Angeles.
article archive, Fellowships, PI Fellowships, Social, Students November 24, 2020
“Spanish for Law” is designed to help Spanish-speaking students become confident using Spanish legal terminology.
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