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View AllThriving Master in Law Program transcends disciplinary boundaries
September 21
In its eighth year, the Law School’s Master in Law Program continues to expand, drawing students from a wide array of fields with its fundamentally cross-disciplinary approach to legal education.
Cross Disciplinary, Law School, ML, Tertiary features Bestselling alum authors share how the Law School shaped their fiction-writing careers
September 8
Lisa Scottoline C’77, L’81, Kimberly McCreight L’98, and Pam Jenoff L’01 discuss how their Penn Law education helped them build incredibly successful writing careers.
Alumni, Careers, Cross Disciplinary, Staff Law School welcomes largest ever LLM class
August 11
An impressive cohort of 156 globally-trained lawyers, judges, and diplomats will join the Law School in the fall of 2021.
Cross Disciplinary, Featured, Global, Life at Penn Law, LLM, News, Students Alicia Lai L’21 wins Jan Jancin Award for outstanding contributions to intellectual property law
August 4
Each year, the Foundation for the Advancement of Diversity in Intellectual Property honors one law student who has made exceptional contributions to intellectual property.
Alumni, Cross Disciplinary, Featured, inclusion, IP, Journals, Law Review, Students Legal scholarship of Jessica Rizzo L’21 published in three law journals
July 29
Rizzo’s recently published pieces span constitutional, environmental, family, and intellectual property law.
Alumni, Conlaw, Cross Disciplinary, Environment, Featured, IP, Journal of Con Law, Publications, Students Student journals afford members the opportunity to engage in and produce cutting-edge legal scholarship
July 8
The Law School’s seven journals provide student members an invaluable experience in substantive law as well as skills in research, analysis, and expression.
Cross Disciplinary, Cross-Disciplinary, Featured, JBL, JIL, JLASC, Journals, Law Review, Publications, Secondary features, Student Life, Students Law School’s clinical offerings and externships ‘put students front and center’
July 1
Penn Law students in clinics and externships serve as lead counsel on their own cases rather than merely supporting the work of faculty.
Clinics, clinicseries, Criminal Justice, Cross Disciplinary, Entrepreneurship, Immigration Lindsay Kirker ML’17 MSN’17 is applying her interdisciplinary education at Penn Medicine during the COVID-19 crisis
May 24
Lindsay Kirker ML’17 MSN’17 is an Assistant Nurse Manager with Penn Medicine’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Alumni, coronavirus, Cross Disciplinary, Health Law, ML Max Masuda-Farkas L’22, MUSA’22 shares his experience in the Wharton Certificate of Management
April 21
Max Masuda-Farkas L’22, MUSA’22 is taking full advantage of the Law School’s cross-disciplinary offerings, pursuing joint degrees from the Law School and the Weitzman School of Design and earning a Wharton certificate.
Cross Disciplinary, Students, Video Hannah Victor Nu’17 L’18 combines law and nursing degrees as an Air Force Nurse and Bioethics Committee Chair
April 21
Victor was not only the first, but also remains the only person to have completed the BSN/JD program at Penn.
Alumni, Cross Disciplinary Prof. Tani L’07 leads Law School’s Legal History Consortium through historic times
February 16
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.
Cross Disciplinary, Faculty, Legal History