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View AllThe Critical Role of History After Dobbs
March 20, 2024
Prof. Serena Mayeri writes, “History can counsel against past errors and justify affirmative approaches to protecting rights and combating inequality.”
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt: ‘Haley Is Offering a Confederate View of the Constitution That Cost Us Over Half a Million Lives’
February 5, 2024
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt Discusses the Impact of Today’s Highly Politicized Supreme Court
January 21, 2024
Karen Tani Participated in the Brennan Center’s “Supreme Fact-Check” Event
November 13, 2023
Along with leading legal historians Laura Edwards and Kate Masur, she discussed “how the Supreme Court gets U.S. history wrong.”
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Awarded an Early Career Fellowship to Penn Ph.D. Candidate Kimberly G. White
November 13, 2023
The American Society for Legal History Awarded the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize to Penn JD/PhD Graduate Justin Simard
November 13, 2023
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.
The American Society for Legal History Named Sarah Barringer Gordon an Honorary Fellow, the Highest Honor That the Society Confers.
November 13, 2023
‘Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi’
July 13, 2023
Prof. Serena Mayeri discusses a new book about Judge Calabresi at the Legal History Blog, co-managed by Prof. Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11.
Professors Bill Ewald and Sophia Lee Receive Teaching Awards for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
May 15, 2023
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 Yet Another Teaching Award
April 20, 2023
Sarah Gronningsater receives the Friars Senior Society Faculty Award for 2023.