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.

The End of Affirmative Action: Diversity in Education in a Post-Brown World

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.

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.

Future of Cybersecurity: Regulatory Impacts on Conglomerates, Silent Warfare, and Global Cooperation Efforts

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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

Join us for a 1-hour lunchtime virtual conversation about Title IX and Trans Athletes. https://pennlaw.zoom.us/s/91928542958

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.