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With more women entering the legal field than ever, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is strengthening its efforts to encourage and support gender equity.

The event brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights to engage in a robust conversation about the roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement.

Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ class on International Women’s Human Rights celebrated International Women’s Day with Justice Rosalie Abella of the Canadian Supreme Court; Martha Minow, the former dean of Harvard Law School and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University; and Clara Spera, a fellow at the ACLU’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s granddaughter.

Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis will be affiliated with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) as a Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow on Gender Equity 2021-2022.

During “A Conversation with Stacey Abrams,” the Georgia politician sat down with Ben Jealous to discuss topics from gerrymandering to romance novels in a lively virtual discussion.

The Legal History Consortium, jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Penn’s Graduate History Department, was formed to promote interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and education in law and history.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, together with Harvard Law, celebrates the legacy of the late Deborah Rhode with the nomination for the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.

Penn faculty analyze the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Dana Dyer L’22 and Magali Duque L’22 have published “Black Women Future Leaders,” a report developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s “Women, Law, and Leadership” course at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will join UN Women in honoring the global legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on December 10, International Human Rights Day.

Health care law expert Professor Allison Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the United States in this Oxford Handbook chapter.

Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu has been elected to the Law and Society’s 2023 Board of Trustees as Class Representative.

Professor Maggie Blackhawk has announced that the Congressional Petitions Database has been released for public use.

Jim Sandman L’76 recently joined the Law School faculty as a Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Consultant to the Future of the Profession Initiative (“FPI”).

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu has been named one of this year’s 10 New America National Fellows.

Professor Allison Hoffman’s essay, “Medicalization of Civil Rights Could Disappoint” responds to former Sharswood Fellow Craig Konnoth’s recent piece, “Medicalization and the New Civil Rights.”

The article is part of a special online supplemental issue of International Organization focusing on COVID-19 and international relations.

Transnational Legal Clinic students represent clients from around the world attempting to obtain asylum and victims of human trafficking and other crimes hoping to secure immigration visas.

On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School held the second event in its summer series, A Path for Change: Policing in America. The series is part of a yearlong colloquium, Achieving Racial Justice, as one of many initiatives Penn Law will be implementing in the coming months “to work internally and externally against anti-Black violence and racism and to promote meaningful change toward a more just reality.”

On Wednesday June 24, 2020, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School held the first event in its summer series, A Path for Change: Policing in America. The series is part of a yearlong colloquium, Achieving Racial Justice.