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April 4, 2023
Prof. Claire Finkelstein discusses how this case is a test of America’s institutions, the rule of law, and the world’s oldest democracy.
‘Philosopher and Social Theorist’
December 20, 2022
An in-depth profile of Prof. Anita L. Allen recently appeared in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Closing Guantánamo Bay Prison
October 5, 2022
Prof. Claire Finkelstein has co-authored a report that includes recommendations for closing Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay Prison and restoring the rule of law to the law of war.
Excellence in Bioethics
September 28, 2022
Prof. Anita L. Allen is a recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2022 Bioethics Founders’ Award.
Judicial Ethics
August 18, 2022
Prof. of Practice Lou Rulli recently led an educational session for over 300 Pennsylvania judges, which included a discussion of strategies to better ensure equitable treatment of self-represented litigants.
American Philosophical Society Membership
June 14, 2022
Prof. Anita L. Allen has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society.
Combatting Civil Injustice
May 17, 2022
The Spring 2022 issue of the Penn Law Journal shines a light on alumni working to disrupt systems of injustice that plague the legal world.
AI & Inequities
May 11, 2022
Dana Dyer L’22 has authored a trailblazing report shining a light on how AI contributes to racial bias in hiring processes for Black educators.
Continuing Judicial Education
April 28, 2022
Law School faculty regularly coordinate Continuing Judicial Education programming to help Pennsylvania judges stay abreast of cutting-edge legal issues.
Battling Bias
April 22, 2022
Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court spoke about implicit and structural bias during the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.
Normalizing Moral Absolutes: The Right to Free Expression
October 22, 2018
Through the normalization and unanimous acceptance of treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), history has proven that despite our cultural differences, diverging political and economic systems, and unique social norms, the world can agree that certain actions are unquestionably immoral. On the one hand, it, therefore, appears that the world has conceded that there are certain moral absolutes. On the other hand, however, the belief that there are rights and wrongs relative to our own moral convictions abounds. Saudi Arabia is a case in point.