Announcing 2021-2022 Global Online Courses
Through this partnership opportunity, Penn Law students can enroll remotely in 1 of 8 classes being offered at Hong Kong University or Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more about the Global Online Courses. ...
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Announcing Our Newest Global Research Seminar: The High Tech Nation (Israel)
GRS Fall 2021 We are pleased to announce an exciting new Global Research Seminar (GRS) taught by Professor Gideon Parchomovsky (Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law) and Dr. Muhammad Sarahne (SJD’20). This course will meet weekly throughou...
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students represent the United States as virtual delegates in conference on same-sex marriage laws around the world
This spring, six University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students joined students from law schools around the world to participate in a weeklong virtual workshop hosted by Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The theme of this year’s workshop, “Sam...
Allison Perlin L’20: Advocacy and Representation in Immigration
Allison Perlin L’20 is the recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Fellowship and works at Human Rights First. Originally from Kildeer, Illinois, Allison received her B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of Wisconsin, wher...
Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 fights for more equitable access to asylum system
Patricia was awarded postgraduate funding to support her first year at Human Rights First as a Chubb-Penn Rule of Law and Human Rights Fellow. Instead of following a linear career trajectory, Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 has left room to act r...
Penn Law coordinates virtual global learning experience despite the COVID-19 pandemic
During a time when international travel was impossible for many, Penn Law students could still log into an international classroom – without leaving their homes. Penn Law prides itself in offering students a wealth of opportunities to tailor t...
Demisse Selassie, a Perry World House Graduate Associate, shares his take on the ongoing violence in Tigray.
This interview originally appeared in Penn Today. Penn Today spoke to Demisse Selassie L’21, to hear his thoughts on the continuing turmoil. Perry World House’s Graduate Associates Program is open to all graduate students, from any sch...
Law School partners with U.S. Army War College to hold International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School recently hosted an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE) in partnership with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL), with some participants attendin...
Joelle Hageboutros L’21 joins prestigious ICJ Judicial Fellows Programme
Joelle Hageboutros L’21 has received and accepted an offer to be in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judicial Fellows Programme for 2021-2022. The competitive, highly selective program was established to provide recent law graduates the ...
With University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School roots, Earth Refuge continues to grow
Yumna Kamel LLM’20 came to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School with an interest in immigration and refugee policy. Stephanie Hader LLM’20 arrived with a background in environmental law. Upon graduation, they joined forces to build ...
Bok Visiting International Professors Program adapts to remote learning
Each year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Bok Visiting International Professors Program brings several internationally recognized experts to the Law School to lead intensive seminars, engage with faculty and students, and brin...
Students forge online connections at the ninth annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program
Students from University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School joined their peers from 13 other leading law schools online this March to explore the future of public and private international law at the ninth annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program. ...
Law School team wins the Americas Regional Round of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School won the Americas Regional Round of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition this past month. The Price Media Law Moot Court is a worldwide, international competition run by the Univer...
Innovative Spanish for Law program helps students gain confidence with legal Spanish
Many students who come to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School having studied a foreign language — or even having grown up speaking one —discover their fluency does not automatically extend to legal matters. As every 1L quickly lear...
Getting Involved with the Middle East Center
The following excerpts are from a conversation with John Ghazvinian, Interim Director of the Middle East Center, as part of a Fall 2021 info session on Penn Law’s International Certificates and Joint Degrees. About the Middle East Cen...
Getting Involved with Latin American and Latinx Studies
The following excerpts are from a conversation with Catherine Bartch, Associate Director for Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of a Fall 2021 info session on Penn Law’s International Certificates...
Transnational Legal Clinic students ‘learn fast and work hard in a broken system’
Passing through the gate of the double-barbed-wire fence surrounding the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Meroua Zouai L’20 thought about the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policies and the people who bore the brunt of th...
Pathways to the Profession: Victoria Ochoa L’21
Victoria Ochoa L’21 is a Texas native and a JD/MPP student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. Last year, the President circumvented Congress and declared a national emergency to build a wall in my hometo...
Access to Justice in The Gambia
How does transitional justice become truly inclusive? What are the essential legal mechanisms necessary to ensure a participatory democracy? These are important questions that six of us had the opportunity to delve into last month, w...
The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Buenos Aires: Perspectives from a Global Justice Fellow
By: Eduarda Lague L’21 This summer I am working at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CEJIL is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with consultative status before the Organization of Amer...
Penn Law Study Abroad: A Dispatch from Tokyo
By: Peter Jones L’20 My primary goal for studying at Waseda Law School was to engage in a comparative Environmental Law curriculum in a country that has a unique history of environmental regulations, challenges, and agreements. I conducted r...
Penn Law Study Abroad: Letters from London
By: Shane Fischman L’19 This piece originally appears in the 2018 Global Affairs Review. October 15, 2018 Dear Rangita, LSE is going really well. I’ve been going to some interesting events here as well. There was a panel last w...
Penn Law Professor Jacques deLisle interviews Visiting Scholar Xinjun Zhang
Reposted from an earlier interview. Q: Could you tell us about your areas of teaching and research and why you wanted to come to Penn Law School for the year? A: I teach international law at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing. Inter...
Penn Law Study Abroad: A Dispatch from King’s College London
By: James Albrecht L’19 I am currently a visiting student at King’s College London, set right on the Thames River in the heart of London. Seeking to take advantage of everything London has to offer both in the city and in the classroom, I h...
Penn Law Study Abroad: A Dispatch from Colombia
By: Austin Gassen L’19 When I tell people that I am studying abroad in my last year of law school, I generally get the same response: “Wait, what? You can do that? Also, why?” I understand these questions. Studying abroad in law school i...
Crafting a European Agenda on Migrant Integration
By: Christopher Ritter L’18 Since 2015, European lawmakers have faced the daunting challenge of registering, identifying, and integrating rising numbers of refugees from war-ravaged nations, such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Across the E...
Atrocity Crimes, the Responsibility to Protect, and the U.S. Constitution
Frank Broomell L’19 This piece originally appeared in the 2018 Global Affairs Review. All views are the author’s own, and do not reflect the views of his current or previous employers or the U.S. government. Frank Broomell was a studen...
Guantanamo Military Commissions: Wading Through Secrecy, Searching for Justice
Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 Guantanamo Bay is a surreal place. Almost as if a land outside time, it also exists outside the awareness of many Americans. Before my first trip to Camp Justice as a legal observer, friends and family were confused...
How American Cities and States Comply with International Disability Law: A Snapshot of a Cutler Fellow’s Research
By: Benjamin Barsky L’19 The international community has both welcomed and used the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a means of supporting people with disabilities. On March 30, 2007, when the CRPD opened for s...
Reporting from the Salzburg Seminar: Sharing Experiences Across Borders to Combat Extremism
By: Joshua Spector L’18 June 28, 2018 In the aftermath of World War II, as Europe lay in a state of ruin, three young Harvard students decided that physical reconstruction of the continent was insufficient to avert the recurrence of the...
Student Groups in Action: Penn Law International Arbitration Association (PLIAA) asks ‘Is International Arbitration in Jeopardy?’
By: John Morgan LLM’18 More than twenty eminent practitioners and academics met at Penn Law in April 2018 for the day-long PLIAA conference, which addressed the most pressing questions in international arbitration. Over 150 students from are...
Promoting Gender Equality in African countries: An Update from our LLM Human Rights Post-Graduate Fellow
By: Amanda Nasinyama LLM’17 In 2017, I interned with UN Women’s East and Southern Africa Regional Office for six months where I served as the Africa focal point for the Penn Law Global Women’s Leadership Project. During that period, I wo...
Conversations with FARC: Reflections on the Global Research Seminar
By: John Morgan LLM’18 The one thing we hadn’t expected was the visceral reaction. We had litigated before eminent judges, debated in parliaments, spoken at political rallies, but never had simply speaking to somebody so limited our abilit...
Victims’ Participation in the ICC: Perspectives from a Global Justice Fellow
By: Allyson Reynolds L’17 Victims’ participation in proceedings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a relatively recent innovation in international criminal law. Though some civil law systems have maintained long-standing mech...
Migrant Workers Gaining a Voice in a Transitioning Nepal: Perspectives from a Global Justice Fellow
By: John Peng L’19 After its successful completion of federal, provincial, and local level elections in the summer and fall of 2017, Nepal took its first formal steps toward fulfilling its decade-long, constitutionally mandated transition to...
Inhumane Conditions in Greek Refugee Camps Persist Despite Significant Funding
Natasha Arnpriester L’16 Reception conditions for individuals who fled to Greece in search of safety and a chance of a better life are characterized by widespread suffering, substandard accommodations, and exposure to extreme weather conditi...
Economic Social and Cultural Rights in Uganda: An Interview with Amanda Nasinyama LLM’17
What did you learn about your own country from this experience? The trip back to Uganda was truly enlightening. I do not think I had ever had the opportunity or time to appreciate the work that lawyers in Uganda, especially young lawyers, are do...
Cuba and Economic Reform
By: Claude Muhuza, LLM ’17 On 1 January 2017, Penn Law’s Global Research Seminar (GRS) class landed at José Martí international airport in Havana. The GRS class had spent the fall semester examining the treatment of civil and political r...
Penn Law Travels to Cuba: A Dispatch
By: Allison Kowalski, L’17 February 8, 2017 Walking around the colorful streets of Havana is a disorienting experience. The buildings are antique, worn, crumbling, and full of life. The streets are full of people, tourists and locals al...