Recent Events
March 7
Conference on Racial Equity in Corporate Governance
Navigating Change: How Can Companies Maintain their Commitments to Racial Equity in a Changing Legal Environment? This panel will examine the implications of litigation involving challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies, including the pending Students for Fair Admissions cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment action before the Fifth Circuit, and California cases challenging state board diversity statutes. The discussion will also explore related anti-ESG pressures facing corporate leadership.
February 25
The 35th Annual Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander Commemorative Conference
The End of Affirmative Action: Diversity in Education in a Post-Brown World
February 22
Best Practices for Professional and Leadership Development, Promotion, and Advancement of Diverse Legal Professionals
Presented by the Office of Equity and Inclusion (E&I) in collaboration with E&I’s Alumni Advisory Board and the Law Alumni Society’s Board of Managers.
February 19
Penn Carey Law Lambda Symposium
Lambda Symposium 2023: The State of Antidiscrimination Law Recent and upcoming Supreme Court cases, such as Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, cast doubt on the strength of antidiscrimination and public accommodations laws protecting LGBTQ+ people. Our Symposium will explore topics related to these cases on a local, national, and international level. The Symposium seeks to educate professionals, students, and scholars about the state of antidiscrimination law now and its application to LGBTQ+ people across different contexts.
February 11
Penn Carey Law 2022-2023 APALSA-ALR Conference
Future of Cybersecurity: Regulatory Impacts on Conglomerates, Silent Warfare, and Global Cooperation Efforts
February 3
Advocacy for Racial & Civil Justice Clinic Symposium: The Unfinished Work of Abolition
On February 3, 2023, the Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic held its official launch event, “The Unfinished Work of Abolition.” Click here to see the schedule and speaker line-up from the event. Click here to see the complete video recording of the event.
November 2, 2022
Best Practices for Recruitment, Inclusion, and Retention of Diverse Legal Teams
Presented by the Office of Equity and Inclusion (E&I) in collaboration with E&I’s Alumni Advisory Board and the Law Alumni Society’s Board of Managers.
October 25, 2022
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month: Evening with Kalki
Kalki is one of the most recognized Indian transgender activists who, with Evergreen Story produces the Indian Transgender Oral History Project. This event is sponsored by Penn’s LGBT Center, Pan Asian American Community House, Department of South Asia Studies, South Asia Center, and Penn Carey’s E&I Office
October 17, 2022
The Stories We Tell: Law, Identity, and Advocacy Part II
Dr. Howard C. Stevenson will offer you strategies to manage how you experience identity-based stress. Developing these skills to understanding identity, bias, and identity-based stress can enable you to flourish as a student and professional. Lunch is provided.
September 29, 2022
The History & Future of The Indian Child Welfare Act: Implications for tribal sovereignty and native family preservation
Across the country, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes that have a government-to-government relationship with the United States. As sovereign nations, they have legal jurisdiction over their lands and citizens. However, until the passing of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), the authority of Tribes to exercise their exclusive jurisdiction over their Native children in child custody proceedings was not recognized. ICWA established procedural guidelines for placement and removal protocols that mandate notice to Native families and Tribes in all pending child custody proceedings to prioritize family integrity and adhere to tribal sovereignty. In recent years, ICWA has been a legal battleground between non-native families seeking to adopt native children and native families trying to keep children connected to their culture and communities. The current legal challenge to ICWA is headed to the Supreme Court, which could either reaffirm the constitutionality of the law acknowledging the special relationship between tribes and the federal government or strike it down as an unconstitutional “race-based” law in violation of equal protection and states’ rights. Join the Field Center and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School for a virtual webinar series this fall exploring the history and future of ICWA and the potential implications of the Supreme Court case for native children, families, and tribal sovereignty.
June 22, 2022
Alumni Speaker Series: Best Practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Legal Profession
Presented by the Office of Equity and Inclusion (E&I) in collaboration with E&I’s Alumni Advisory Board and Law Alumni Society’s Board of Managers https://pennlaw.zoom.us/j/94003073877
June 21, 2022
50th Anniversary of Title IX
Join us for a 1-hour lunchtime virtual conversation about Title IX and Trans Athletes. https://pennlaw.zoom.us/s/91928542958
June 16, 2022
“A Crime on the Bayou” Screening & Q&A
As part of the Achieving Racial Justice series, and in commemoration of Juneteenth, the Quattrone Center and the Penn Carey Law Office of Equity & Inclusion present a screening of A Crime on the Bayou, a film by Nancy Buirski, followed by a Q&A featuring Gary Duncan (petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case Duncan v. Louisiana) and producer Brenda Robinson L ’03, moderated by Paul Heaton, Academic Director of the Quattrone Center. Register here
April 13, 2022
CANCELED: Law and Inequality
This virtual event is hosted by Penn Carey Law’s Office of Equity & Inclusion, highlighting work to advance equity and the law. The programs in this series will feature law school faculty and alumni being led in conversation by student moderators on the substantive law and practice skills essential for effective discussion and advocacy on these critical topics.
April 5, 2022
Administrative Law’s Racial Blind Spot
This event is part of the 2021-2022 Lecture Series on Race and Regulation, organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Penn Law Office of Equity and Inclusion. Professor Daniel E. Ho of Stanford Law School is the speaker. Drawing on a recent article, “Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination,” Prof. Ho in this lecture traces how civil rights and administrative law have diverged over the past fifty years, as U.S. court decisions removed issues of racial discrimination from administrative law’s purview. He explains the legal and policy implications for today’s administrative state.
March 28, 2022
Law and Inequality
This virtual event is hosted by Penn Carey Law’s Office of Equity & Inclusion, highlighting work to advance equity and the law. The programs in this series explore substantive law and practice skills essential for effective discussion and advocacy on these critical topics.
March 28, 2022
In-House Legal Careers: A Diverse Perspective
Join attorneys from Comcast Legal’s Diversity Committee as they share insights into their work at Comcast and their paths to successful careers as in-house attorneys in both litigation and transactional practice. Bring your questions and prepare for a robust conversation.
March 25, 2022
The Confirmation Hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson
This audio “hot topic” conversation, held via Twitter Spaces, is part of the Law and Governance series co-sponsored by the Penn Program on Regulation and organized by Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar at Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Lecturer in Law at Penn Law, and Research Affiliate of the Penn Program on Regulation. The conversation on March 25 focuses on “The Confirmation Hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Michael C. Dorf (Cornell Law School), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate), Kate Shaw (Cardozo Law), David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), and Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law) discuss what the hearings portend for the future of SCOTUS. Neysun Mahboubi (Penn) moderates. All interested faculty and students are encouraged to participate. Click here to get the link to join the conversation. Click here to view all upcoming events sponsored by the Penn Program on Regulation.
March 23, 2022
Race, Citizenship, and Political Inequality
This event is part of the 2021-2022 Lecture Series on Race and Regulation, organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and co-sponsored by the Penn Law Office of Equity and Inclusion. Professor Ming Hsu Chen, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, is the speaker.
March 21, 2022
The AI and Bias Policy Lab Celebrates Women’s History Month and Honors a Woman Leader in Tech: Dr. Finale Doshi-Velez
How has artificial intelligence changed and shaped our world over the last five years? How will AI continue to impact our lives in the coming years? The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence is an ongoing project hosted at Stanford University, that will study the status of AI technology and its impacts on the world over the next 100 years. Finale Doshi-Velez, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University’s Paulson School of Engineering, is part of the panel of interdisciplinary researchers who wrote this year’s report.