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View AllProf. Dorothy Roberts Discusses Racial Disparities in Foster Care: WYPR
April 26, 2022
AI and Implicit Bias
April 25, 2022
Veda Handa LLM’22 shares her reflections on the Spring 2022 “Policy Lab on AI and Implicit Bias” with Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis.
Antitrust by Algorithm
April 18, 2022
In the Stanford Computational Antitrust Journal, Prof. Coglianese and Alicia Lai L’21 explore machine-learning algorithms’ potential role in antitrust regulation.
Understanding Neurodiversity
April 8, 2022
In the latest NALP Bulletin, Maureen Reilly reviews a book that explores why understanding neurodiversity is a necessity for all professions.
Prof. Dorothy Roberts Says the ‘So-Called Child Welfare System’ and Criminal Law Enforcement Are ‘Symbiotic’: Jezebel
April 6, 2022
Abolishing the Child Welfare System
April 6, 2022
Mother Jones recently published an excerpt of Prof. Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
Data-Driven Support for Labor Equity
March 31, 2022
Elizabeth Shackney L’24, MUSA’24 co-authors a report on improving equity in the federal oversight of employers who hire migrant workers on H-2A visas.
At Criminal Law and Philosophy, Prof. Stephen Morse explores the question: Is executive function the universal acid?
March 22, 2022
Morse’s persuasive essay is in response to Responsible Brains, a book authored by William Hirstein, Katrina L. Sifferd, and Tyler K. Fagan of Elmhurst College.
At the Duke Law Journal, Prof. Cary Coglianese and Alicia Lai L’21 offer a framework for determining when government should use artificial intelligence
March 10, 2022
Coglianese and Lai caution that existing processes can sometimes be “far more problematic than their digital counterparts.”
At the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Prof. Claire Finkelstein explores the issue of presidential immunity
March 7, 2022
“[I]mmunity from criminal prosecution for a sitting President would undermine all other forms of accountability …”
At Smerconish, Prof. Claire Finkelstein argues that closing Guatanamo is only the first step
February 10, 2022
Finkelstein delineates three areas of military law and policy that President Biden should address to “begin to set the country on a path to restoring integrity to U.S. detention policy.”
In a prominent Indian law journal, Apratim Vidyarthi L’22 argues that the Trump Administration’s proposed blanket TikTok ban would cause immense harm
February 10, 2022
Vidyarthi’s paper, co-authored by Rachel Hulvey, a PhD candidate at Penn, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.