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View AllPrison Portraits: Photographic Self-Representation in an Image Desert
December 7
As the Docs Program undertakes visual work on behalf of lifers incarcerated for decades because they are ineligible for parole, we confront a ban on photographing and filming in prisons. Prison Portraits may be useful in providing not only a way to deal with the ban, but also an argument why it is wrong.
Civil Rights, Documentaries blog, Human Rights, production tips, Social Justice Visual Advocacy, Visual Advocacy, VLA Production Collective Trauma, Transitional Justice and Two Documentaries about Philadelphia’s Confrontation with MOVE
July 3
As “Let the Fire Burn” (2013) and “The Bombing of Osage Avenue” (1987) show in very different ways, May 13, 1985 was a traumatic day in the history of police/citizen relations in Philadelphia. Its legacy is reflected in contemporary controversies over race relations in America.
Civil Rights, Documentaries blog, Documentaries, Human Rights, Law-Genre Docs, Philadelphia, Social Justice Twenty years later: Law School faculty reflect on 9/11’s impact on the law
September 10
Law School faculty share their insights into how 9/11 has impacted the law, particularly in their areas of expertise:
Anita Allen, Criminal Justice, faculty perspectives, Faculty, Featured, Government, Human Rights, Main feature, Quattrone, Research and Impact, Tertiary features Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis makes the case for CEDAW ratification in the U.S.: Inter Press Service
September 9
Civil Rights, Faculty, Human Rights, inclusion, International, Media, Rangita de Silva de AlwisProf. Serena Mayeri explains what the Texas abortion ban means and what’s next for the country: Penn Today
September 2
Faculty, Human Rights, Media, SCOTUS, Serena MayeriMargaret Zhang L’15 advocates for pregnancy and lactation rights at the Women’s Law Project
August 23
Zhang’s own experience of attempting to obtain lactation accommodations to take the bar exam helped inspire her career path.
Alumni, Civil Rights Profiles, Civil Rights, clerkships, Clinics, Fellowships, Human Rights, inclusionalumnivoices, Law Review, PI Fellowships, Social, Tertiary features, Women's Rights Pathways to the Profession: Trevor Stankiewicz L’23
August 9
A recipient of the Mead Fellowship, Trevor Stankiewicz L’23 is interning at Fortify Rights, a global nonprofit that works to ensure human rights for all people.
dispatches, Featured, Fellowships, Global, Human Rights, International, Public Service, Students Prof. Jasmine Harris explores the intersection of race and disability in the activities of law enforcement in at-risk communities: The Crime Report
August 4
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Faculty, Human Rights, Jasmine E Harris, MediaLLM graduate fellows to advance human rights in the justice system and technological world
August 4
The work of Hugh Fitzgibbon LLM’21 and Meri Baghdasaryan LLM’21 is supported by the Law School’s LLM Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship.
Featured, Fellowships, Human Rights, LLM, PI Fellowships, Social, Tertiary features Policy Lab on Global Sexual Harassment Lawmaking submits model codes to the World Bank Legal Vice Presidency
August 3
The model codes address “gender-based harassment in the virtual world of work.”
Curriculum, Faculty, Global, Human Rights, inclusion, International, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Secondary features, Women's Rights Public interest fellows to advocate for civil and criminal justice worldwide
July 28
Upon graduation, eighteen 2021 graduates will pursue important and diverse public interest work with the support of prestigious fellowship funding.
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