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On September 17, Penn Law’s Legal Scholarship Repository surpassed two million downloads. Maintained by the Biddle Law Library, the repository contains digital copies of all of the Law School’s student journals for their entire run, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, which dates back to 1852.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School has entered into Memoranda of Understanding with UN Women and the UN Global Compact to establish a fellowships for Penn Law students to work with UN Women on issues of gender equality and the law and with the UN Global Compact on human rights and decent work.

Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, Penn Law professors Christopher Yoo and Jonathan Klick, and Wharton professor Joseph Harrington are joining with scholars from China and Europe to launch a three-year study comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the United States.

Six Penn Law graduates and alumni are hitting the ground running in their public interest careers with the help of postgraduate fellowships from Penn Law.

Hina Jilani and Dr. Navi Pillay talked at Penn Law about the challenges faced by women human rights defenders and the opportunities they could take advantage of to advance human rights.

In January, Penn Law’s newest Chubb Rule of Law Fellow, Natasha Arnpriester L’16, will begin her fellowship at Human Rights First, where she will be working in the group’s international refugee protection division, focusing on refugee advocacy and refugee law within the international context.

The University of Pennsylvania celebrated the grand opening of Perry World House with two days of events featuring leading scholars and policymakers in the field of global affairs.

Pro bono service is one of the hallmarks of a Penn Law legal education. In this video feature, three students discuss their individual pro bono experiences and how those experiences influenced their thinking about the law.

Newly appointed as he eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Beth Simmons discusses her upcoming plans at Penn, the intersection of law and political science, and her latest research on international borders.

Penn Law welcomed 244 students to the JD Class of 2019. The members of the Law School’s newest class come from 33 states, the District of Columbia, and countries across the globe, including Canada, China, and South Korea.

The Law School and its centers and institutes added new faculty, fellows, and staff members this academic year.

Two new studies from the Quattrone Center find that defendants subject to pretrial detention are more likely to be convicted and less likely to receive favorable plea terms than similarly situated defendants who make bail, and those who experienced pretrial detention committed more crimes after their release than similarly situated individuals who made bail.

Five Penn Law graduates and alumni were awarded prestigious national fellowships to pursue a diverse array of public interest projects.

Adeline Rolnick L’18 is a summer intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City.

Brett Peanasky L’16, MCP’16 graduated this spring from Penn Law’s JD/MCP program, where students earn a JD from the Law School and a master’s in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. This four-year degree program let him to combine his background in architecture with his interest in policy.

Karin DeMasi L’96 and Patricia Menéndez-Cambó L’89 balance high-level legal careers with active family lives.

Leah Wong L’18 was an International Human Rights Fellow at the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights this summer.

Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon explains how corporate law held a critical place in African Americans’ spiritual life in early America.

Penn Law welcomed the LLM Class of 2017, which includes lawyers, judges, government officials, and academics from over 30 different countries.

Genevieve Urban L’18, is spending her summer as a judicial intern at the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

To help students prepare for the early years of practice, Penn Law’s Center on Professionalism has created a series of hands-on, interactive programs that provide students with a variety of opportunities to learn about and practice some of the skills they will need in practice.

Maura Douglas L’18 is spending her summer working at the Institute for Human Rights and Business in London as a Mead Fellow and International Summer Human Rights Fellow.

In a historical account of the changes wrought by Gideon, Penn Law’s Sara Mayeux shows that the decision’s legacy remains inextricable from the challenges in indigent defense that still remain to this day.

Beth Simmons, a world-renowned authority on international relations and human rights has been appointed the eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor.