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May 2, 2022
At ProMarket, Prof. Hovenkamp writes about a recently unearthed memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration.
Regulation of Black Families
April 20, 2022
“The United States should replace its current family surveillance system with one that improves children’s welfare,” writes Prof. Roberts at The Regulatory Review.
Centering Youth Voices
April 19, 2022
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.
Child Welfare System Myths
April 18, 2022
“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof. Roberts in The Washington Post.
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.
At Bloomberg Law, Prof. Claire Finkelstein urges Congress to act to ensure executive privileges are not used to cover up illegal government conduct
March 30, 2022
“Doctrines that enhance executive branch secrecy ultimately damage national security if they interfere with the ability of other federal branches to hold the executive branch to account,” writes Finkelstein.
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Prof. Dorothy Roberts argues that the child welfare system can destroy families
March 29, 2022
“Home inspections . . may lead to intensive monitoring that lasts for years, forced separation of children, and, at the extreme, the permanent termination of parental rights,” writes Roberts.
Prof. Dorothy Roberts traces the history of race and the regulation of Black women’s bodies in chapter for The 1619 Project
March 24, 2022
Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, and is the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
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 Smerconish, Prof. Claire Finkelstein evaluates Russia’s threat to treat foreign fighters as war criminals
March 16, 2022
“Russia’s claim that such volunteers may be prosecuted as war criminals simply by virtue of joining the fight is an even grosser distortion of the law of war.”
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 Wall Street Journal, Prof. David Skeel reviews three books that explore the past and future of hedge funds
March 10, 2022
Skeel focuses his research and scholarship on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics.