Pursue Your Passion & Experience Law School at Penn Carey Law
July 2024 (Program Dates TBA)| Location: On Campus in Philadelphia, PA
Program Fee: TBA (Residential) | TBA (Commuter)
The Penn Carey Law Pre-College Academy is a rigorous academic program that gives high school students from around the world the opportunity to experience law school at a world-class university. This three-week intensive academy provides you with a well-rounded introduction to the American legal system and how law is practiced in the United States.
The third week of this program exposes students to various timely and specialized fields of law, such as business & entrepreneurship law, environmental law, human rights & immigration law, and technology, privacy, & intellectual property law.*
*These topics are a representation of possible focus areas. Specific topics to be confirmed closer to the program start date.
Why You Should Attend
Law School Experience at an Ivy League Institution
This one-of-a-kind opportunity allows high school students to experience an accelerated version of the first-year law school curriculum at an Ivy League university.
Access to Renowned Faculty & Thought Leaders
Drawing on the scholarship of one of the nation’s top law schools, you will learn from standing Penn Carey Law faculty and legal practitioners on cutting-edge legal issues that are shaping the United States today.
Opportunity to Pursue Your Own Interests
In addition to providing a well-rounded introduction to the American legal system, the Pre-College Academy allows you to be exposed to a range of specialized areas of law, such as business, environmental, human rights, and technology law.
Build a Strong Foundation for Future Success
The Pre-College Academy is designed to help you develop and fine-tune the communication, analytical, logical reasoning, and leadership skills essential for future academic and professional success.
2023 Academic Leadership
Academic Director
Ted Oxholm, L’13, is the Academic Director of Penn Carey Law’s 2023 Pre-College Academy. He currently serves as a history and social sciences high school teacher at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, where he also served as associate general counsel. Before his teaching career, Oxholm clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and litigated civil rights, constitutional, and commercial cases in Manhattan. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and also holds degrees in religious studies from Yale University and in high school social studies education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Associate Academic Director
Carl Rosin has served as the Associate Academic Director of Penn Carey Law’s Pre-College Academy since 2014. He currently teaches English, Philosophy, and other electives at Radnor High School. Rosin graduated from Harvard College in 1988, and later received his M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Named the National High School Philosophy Teacher of the Year for 2014, he has also served on the National Humanities Center’s Teacher Advisory Committee for 2018-19.
2023 Participating Faculty and Presenters
Students will have the unique opportunity to engage with and attend sessions taught by full-tenured standing faculty members, including:*
Professor Dorothy Roberts
George A. Weiss Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area: Criminal Law
Professor Regina Austin
William A. Schnader Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area:
Torts, Restitution Law
Professor Tobias Wolff
Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law; Deputy Dean for Equity & Inclusion University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area:
Constitutional Law
Professor Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area:
Contract Law
Felicia Lin
Dean of Students and former Senior Lecture of Legal Practice Skills, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area:
Legal Practice and Trial Skills
John Hollway
Lecture in Law and Executive Director of the Quattrone Center, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Program Focus Area:
Errors in Criminal Justice (Criminal Law)
*2023 Faculty and presenters subject to change.
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