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Galbraith clerked for Justice Stevens after graduating from law school.

Nagda is Director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and an adjunct lecturer-in-law in Penn Law’s Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic.

Caris is spending the summer as a legal intern for the Women’s Law Project.

Capozzi will clerk for Justice Gorsuch during the 2021 October Term after completing clerkships with Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2019 to 2020, and with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2020 to 2021.

After graduating from Penn Law with a joint Masters degree in Bioethics, Garrison Todd L’18, MBE’18 joined Advocates for the West as a Catalyst Fellow.

Kanodia discusses his summer experience in the New York and London offices of Linklaters LLP.

In Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that a question on citizenship could not be added to the 2020 census on the basis of the government’s proffered reasoning.

Leading professionals from business, law, and government studied regulation in a cutting-edge course at Penn Law.

In Iancu v. Brunetti, the Court held that the Lanham Act’s restriction on “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks violates the Constitution.

He spoke with Penn Law’s Office of Communications about his internship at The Hague and how it fits into his larger goals for his legal education and career.

The new recommendations grew out of a study produced for ACUS by University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Cary Coglianese. 

In Flowers v. Mississippi, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to overturn the conviction and death sentence in the sixth murder trial of Curtis Flowers, finding that the prosecutor had engaged in misconduct by discriminating against black people in jury selection.

Students developed briefs with the aim of informing and shaping the work of international policymakers to advance the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Court decided 7-2 to allow a 40-foot-tall cross-shaped World War I memorial to remain on state property.

The the series highlights the individual stories of Penn Law students and the ways they have learned to thrive during their time at Penn Law.

Bluestine joins the Quattrone Center after a decade leading the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, a non-profit dedicating to securing exoneration for individuals wrongfully convicted of crimes.

The Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law, directed byLaw Professor Regina Austin , has produced a new documentary that exposes the discriminatory impact of a provision of the VCAP law that denies assistance to victims who contribute, or are suspected of contributing, to their own death or injury.

In his two-part article “The TCJA and the Questionable Incentive to Incorporate,” published in Tax Notes, Knoll “questions the claim that there will be a mass conversion of passthrough entities into C corporations” as a result of the tax reform law.

Each year, Equal Justice Works selects a class of public service leaders who have designed two-year projects in partnership with legal services organizations that help build sustainable solutions in the communities where they serve. Brill was one of 76 new lawyers selected from over 450 applicants.

As a Catalyst Fellow in the Capital Habeas Unit of the Philadelphia Federal Community Defender, Matt De Stasio L’18 has been working at the heart of the criminal justice system.

A Dallas native, he is currently serving his fifth term as representative of Dallas-based District 100.

In the decision, the Court upheld part of a state law that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, but declined to reinstate a different part of the same law that banned abortions sought on the basis of fetal sex or disability.

Sanchirico evaluates the tax code provision along with newly proposed regulations, and finds that although the BEAT “is apparently targeted at earnings stripping,” he argues, “it does not appear to be clearly grounded in a coherent view of what earnings stripping is.”

Under the umbrella of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition  (CTIC) and its associated faculty, research, teaching, and events, Penn Law rose from number 16 to a tie for number 8 in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report law school specialty rankings for intellectual property.

Fatal Invention explores the resurgence of race as a biological category in science, medicine, and biotechnology, and the implications for health inequities and social policy.

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Penn Law’s Public Interest Program, which since its inception has made Penn Law a leader among United States law schools in fostering an ethos of public service.

The CTIC Summer Public Interest Fellowship funds internships with public interest or government organizations that are doing work relevant to CTIC’s focus in technology policy, intellectual property, cyber law, privacy, and related fields.

On Monday, May 20, the University of Pennsylvania Law School hosted its graduation ceremony at the American Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

The article, “The Dynamic Impact of Periodic Review on Women’s Rights,” appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and challenges the conventional wisdom that the process of self-reporting on compliance with human rights treaties serves no useful purpose.

Saks was the inaugural speaker for Penn Law’s Fund for the Study of Behavioral Health Law and Policy, in collaboration with Penn Law’s Center on Professionalism and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care.