“The Critical Role of History After Dobbs” by Serena Mayeri is published in the Journal of American Constitutional History. In this article she critiques the current Supreme Court majority’s “history-and-tradition” methodology and offers a very different vision of history’s role in constitutional interpretation.
Hardeep Dhillon’s recently published an article in The Historical Journal entitled “Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922” which is available online by Cambridge University Press.
Hardeep Dhillon interviewed with indianexpress.com to speak about her research on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Karen Tani co-authored “Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution” with Katie Eyer. This article was published by The Yale Law Journal in the January 2024 issue.
Hardeep Dhillon co-organized the 1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America Symposium on February 23, 2024. This event was presented by the Asian American Studies Program and co-sponsored by Penn History Department, Penn Migration Initiative, Penn Carey Law, and The Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration.
The Journal of American Constitutional History recently published an article by Serena Mayeri entitled “The Critical Role of History after Dobbs”.
Professor Tani will discuss themes from her book project, Costed Out: Governing Through Disability in the Late Twentieth-Century U.S.
Serena Mayeri recently published an op-ed for Time entitled “Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Failure to Endorse a Nationwide Abortion Ban”.
Along with leading legal historians Laura Edwards and Kate Masur, she discussed “how the Supreme Court gets U.S. history wrong.”
Justin Simard (Assistant Professor, MSU College of Law) was awarded the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize for the Citing Slavery Project by the ASLH.
Chosen by the LLM Class of 2023, Professor Bill Ewald received the LLM Award for Teaching Excellence. Additionally, Professor Sophia Lee received the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence, chosen by the JD Class of 2023.
Sarah Gronningsater receives the Friars Senior Society Faculty Award for 2023.
The IEHS announced Penn Ph.D. student, Kimberly White, as a Winner of the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award.
The History Department at Brandeis University is hosting Karen Tani to deliver the Annual Ray Ginger Lecture titled “Costed Out: Disabled Citizens and American Governance in the Late Twentieth Century.”
Sarah Gronningsater has received the 2023 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor.
Hardeep Dhillon published a commentary in The Caravan on the relationship of race, caste, and U.S. law.
The Law and History Review Publishes Hardeep Dhillon’s Article “The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law”:
Professor Serena Mayeri delivered the Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law, “Marital Supremacy and Reproductive (In)justice,” as part of our Racial Justice Speaker Series.
The University of Pennsylvania Press published Brent Cebul’s book Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Karen Tani appeared on the Death Panel podcast to discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court case Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski.
Gregory Ablavsky was awarded the Cromwell Foundation Book Prize for his book “Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories.”
Karen Tani interviewed disability rights activist Judith Heumann for the University of California, Berkeley Jefferson Memorial Lecture.
Sally Gordon was awarded a 2022 Klein Family Social Justice Grant for her project Free State Slavery and Bound Labor: Pennsylvania, with Professor Kathleen Brown
Congratulations to Lolo Serrano, who has co-authored “The Person of the Author: Constructing Gendered Scholars in Religious Studies Book Reviews.”
Serena Mayeri quoted in Slate’s Article: “The Supreme Court Is Blowing Up Law School, Too; Inside the growing furor among professors who have had enough”.
Sophia Z. Lee: Evolution or Revolution in Novak’s “New Democracy”
Karen M. Tani–The Modern American State as a Democratic State: Questions Inspired by Novak’s New Democracy
Hardeep Dhillon has published a teaching module on “Indian Immigrants and U.S. Citizenship in an Imperial Context”
Sophia Lee participated in a Roundtable at the Notice & Comment blog on William Novak’s New Democracy. Here’s her post: Revolution versus Evolution in Bill Novak’s New Democracy, Notice & Comment (July 18, 2022).
Sarah Gronningsater displayed her knowledge of the history of baseball in the following article.
Sarah Gronningsater spoke at the East Hampton Public Library on the early antislavery movement in New York state.
Sarah Gronningsater spoke to the New York State Court System’s Franklin H William’s Judicial Commission’s conference on the topic of the Lemmon Slave Case.
Sarah Gronningsater published a chapter on the Tallmadge Amendment (1819) and its author, Rep. James Tallmadge, Jr., last year, in the edited collection on the Missouri Crisis called A Fire Bell in the Past, vol. 1 (U of Missouri Press, 2021).
Sarah Barringer Gordon appeared on the podcast “Mormon Land” to discuss religious liberty.
Sarah Barringer Gordon discussed “God & Football after Bremerton” with Talks On Law
Sarah Barringer Gordon delivered the Keynote Speech for the Brigham Young University Church History Symposium.
The medal is awarded on an occasional basis to acknowledge and honor extraordinary and sustained volunteer service to the Society.
Professor Berry is recognized as a historian for leadership and sustained engagement at the intersection of historical work, public culture, and social justice.
Penn Law’s Serena Mayeri on what the law means and what’s next for Texas and the nation.
Public accommodations are private and public facilities that are held out to and used by the public.
Now more than ever, legal education must come to grips with its role in shaping the minds of those who might help to dismantle — or strengthen — carceral institutions and practices.
Hear her comments on Episode One: Pauli Murray vs. Jane Crow
Read the most recent op-ed in The Washington Post by Sally Gordon.
Watch the University of Pennsylvania’s virtual memorial for Anne Fleming
Read his article entitled For minority law students, learning the law can be intellectually violent
entitled Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the impossible look easy
He will work on his manuscript, The People’s Champ: Legal Aid from Slavery to Mass Incarceration.
Serena Mayeri is quoted in this Penn Today article
Her paper is titled “Policing the ‘Police State’: Detention, Supervision, and Deportation During the Cold War”
Listen to the BackStory podcast on one of the most influential but little-known figures in modern American history.
The article, published in the Boston Review, discusses the disproportionate effect that COVID-19 is having among vulnerable populations.
A renowned legal historian, Tani will be the Seaman Family University Professor, with faculty appointments in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and in the Department of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.
A recap from the American Historical Association’s 134th annual meeting.
Maggie Blackhawk’s recent publication in the Stanford Law Review.
Serena Mayeri’s recent publication in The Yale Law Journal.
“Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State” wins best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar.
Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu joins the Penn Law faculty.
Her project, co-directed by Professor Kevin Waite from Durham University, is called “The Long Road to Freedom: Biddy Mason (1818–1891) and the Making of Black Los Angeles.”
Are the immigration detention centers on the border becoming more like “concentration camps”?
Organized by Tobin’s Institutions of Democracy initiative.
Maggie Blackhawk’s op-ed in the New York Times.
Maggie Blackhawk discusses the 19th Amendment on Matter of Fact.
Maggie Blackhawk’s article in the Harvard Law Review.
