As featured in The Journal, this Jacob Lawrence print portrays Harriet Tubman leading enslaved African Americans to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was the first Black female judge in South Africa.

Bowen was a bestselling biographer and author who wrote several highly-regarded books about key figures and episodes in the history of Anglo-American law.

Otto Rosa and Carmine’s Way (1996)

Mitchell joined the faculty of the Law School at Penn in 1873 as dean of what was then called the Law Department and Chair of Law of Real Estate, Conveyancing and Equity Jurisprudence.

Known to his students as “Mr. Civil Rights,” Frey helped found the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1955.

In 2000, Judge Carolyn Engel Temin FA’55, L’58 received the Anne X. Alpern Award by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession.

Prominent Philadelphia attorney George Washington Biddle is the founder of Biddle Law Library.

The Law School’s statue of President Abraham Lincoln was sculpted by Civil War veteran George Bissell.

The Law School’s annual moot court competition is named in honor of Edwin R. Keedy.

The Sharswood Fellowship was created in 2007 to encourage scholars committed to entering a career in legal academia.

The Honorable Norma Shapiro L’51 was appointed to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1978, becoming the first female judge in the Third Circuit.

In addition to founding the Law School, James 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.

Judge Higginbotham was a self-described “survivor of segregation” who become one of the country’s most prominent Black judges.

Judge Sloviter was the first woman to serve on the Third Circuit as well as its first woman Chief Judge.

“I certainly see her as an inspiration and a role model,” said Dorothy E. Roberts, the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

Alexander founded the first Black law firm in Philadelphia and was a prominent civil rights leader.

Hsieh-chai was a supernatural goat-like creature endowed with a single horn and the ability to discern the guilt or innocence of those accused of crimes in ancient China.

Kilgore was the Law School’s first woman graduate, the first woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.

In February 2021, the Law School announced three full-tuition scholarships to honor the legacy of Alexander.

Segal was the first Jewish president of the ABA and a champion of civil rights.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is named in recognition of the W. P. Carey Foundation’s historic donation of $125 million, the largest gift ever to a law school.

Silverman’s $15 million dollar gift to the Law School supported the renovation of Silverman Hall and endowed the Silverman-Rodin Scholarship and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law chair.