Following clerkship positions in the Eleventh and Third Circuits, Cass will clerk for the Supreme Court Justice during the 2024-2025 term.
A look back at the top stories from the Law School this past year.
Prof. Roosevelt also advocates for term limits for Supreme Court Justices, with staggered eighteen-year terms.
In an amicus brief in Trump v. Vance, Professor of Law Claire Finkelstein argues that Article II of the Constitution does not provide the president with absolute immunity.
The amicus brief addresses the question of whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense. The authors argue that some form of insanity defense is required by the Constitution.
Professor Coglianese comments on one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions authored by former Justice John Paul Stevens, who died earlier this week.
The #MeToo movement has made significant progress exposing the prevalence of sexual violence in today’s society, while also helping to dispel myths that prevent victims from speaking out against their abusers. The movement has gained more power than ever over the past year, holding once untouchable men, such as Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Matt Lauer, accountable for their actions. #MeToo has also dismembered myths surrounding sexual assault and harassment, including the idea that such violence is unpreventable because “boys will be boys,” or that a woman is “asking for it” if she dresses or acts a certain way. However, even with such significant progress, the treatment of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh show the steps that still must be taken before the country takes sexual violence seriously.
Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.
Ellis is one of 21 lawyers in the office who represent the U.S. government in front of the Supreme Court
On January 17, 2018, Penn Law adjunct professor James A. Feldman argued Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro in front of the Supreme Court of the United States to determine whether service advisors in car dealerships are entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In a wide-ranging discussion Feb. 12 that covered the #MeToo movement, her judicial decisions, and her hopes for the next generation of advocates, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shared her reflections on 25 years as a member of the Supreme Court during Penne Law’s Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture.
On October 4, a panel of professors at Penn Law discussed six possible patent law cases for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming term.
A group of 46 alumni of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic has submitted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Professor Stephanos Bibas’ nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
“The question,” Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains, “is whether our constitutional system—designed by people who didn’t foresee the party system—can continue to function in an era of severe political polarization.”
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, Penn Law faculty members weigh in on the potential effects of a Trump presidency on issues ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court to immigration to technology policy.
On September 26, Penn Law hosted a talk with Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent, about her career covering the U.S. Supreme Court. The talk was moderated by Paul Haaga L’74, who served as NPR’s Acting President and CEO from September 2013 to July 2014.
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 students in the Supreme Court Clinic are working to help a group of auto workers secure the overtime they’re entitled to in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro.
Penn Law’s Stephanos Bibas, director of the Supreme Court Clinic, talks about clinic’s work.
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.
Recent Penn Law graduate Parker Rider-Longmaid L’13 has been selected as a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Professor Stephanos Bibas argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Bank of America v. Caulkett, a case represented by the Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic.
Penn Law asked several of its faculty members to look ahead and predict some of the key legal issues that will be discussed and debated in the upcoming year.
Ilana Eisenstein L’04 is one of a small group of attorneys who conduct government litigation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as part of the Office of the Solicitor General.