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The results are in for the 2020 Edwin R. Keedy Cup Moot Court Competition

How the Law School continues to embrace mental health and wellness

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School professor and public international law expert Jean Galbraith has been elected to the American Law Institute.

Law School students prepare to argue in this year’s moot court competition.

The Law School receives gifts for cross-disciplinary programs, student financial aid, and scholarship.

Flags remembering transgender victims of violence in 2019 on display in Biddle Library. 

Sivani Babu L’10 went from advocating for indigents to becoming a champion for the conservation of the night sky

In “Our Administered Constitution: Administrative Constitutionalism from the Founding to the Present,” in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Lee offers a corrective to the arguments of legal scholars and jurists who seek to rein in the powers of the modern administrative state.

This past fall a small group of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students had the unique opportunity to take a course on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda taught by the UN’s former Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy.

As 2019 comes to an end, the editorial staff of The Regulatory Review has put together a special series highlighting many of these developments and showcasing the most widely read essays published during this past year.

Learn more about Penn Law’s premier moot court competition and how this year’s competitors are preparing for the big day.

The Skadden Foundation recently announced that University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School 3L Mariel Mussack has secured one of its coveted fellowships.

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Maggie Blackhawk has won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation article prize for “Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State,” published in the Yale Law Journal.

What’s coming on the legal front in 2020? Penn Law professors tell us what to expect.

Scholars explore questions about how agencies shape and are shaped by the U.S. Constitution

Military veteran Andrew Timmick talks about his choice to serve in the armed forces and his transition to studying law.

Charles Ramsey named Distinguished Policy Fellow, will teach Policing in the 21^st Century

These two initiatives support Law School students in gaining invaluable international legal experience.

The ACLU report, “More Law, Less Justice,” cites several publications by criminal law expert Professor Paul H. Robinson

Alumni Gregory B. David L’04, Clare Putnam Pozoz L’07, Jennifer Arbittier Williams C’92 L’95 and former Lecturer Alison Kehner discuss leadership in the EDPA.

From filing the complaint all the way to the Supreme Court, Cindy Randall L’93, in-house counsel for Microsoft, managed the software giant’s legal challenge of the rescission of the DACA program on behalf of its 66 DACAmented employees.

Roberts is the second black woman to pen the Foreword of the esteemed law journal, after Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier, and the second Penn Law professor to do so, after Paul Mishkin in 1965.

The Initiative aims to help both law students and alumni maneuver through an ever-changing legal profession.

Professor Anita L. Allen was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, participated in a symposium about her work, and delivered a lecture at The Hague.

Michael Gerhardt, the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, at the University of North Carolina School of Law and Lecturer in the Master in Law (ML) program at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, will testify to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, Wednesday, December 4.

“Rejoining Treaties,” forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, addresses an underexplored question of separation of powers and international law that has become increasingly urgent in the current polarized political climate.

Penn Law’s Office of International Programs has released the publication, “Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe: Three Essays on Moral Leadership.”

At the annual Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative dinner, Nicole Isaac L’04 shared her professional journey from law school, to government service in the Obama administration, to her current role as the head of North America policy at LinkedIn.

2019 MacArthur Fellow, Louis H. Pollak Alumni Award winner, and director of the Restorative Justice Project sujatha baliga, L’99, recently spoke with us about her time at the Law School.

First Generation Professionals at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School