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In a Q&A, McMenamin discusses his fellowship with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County and what led him to public interest work.

The ranking uses data from law school’s classes of 2017. Penn Law’s Class of 2017 was more than 99 percent employed.

Seventy-five students, organized into eight teams and each representing a different nation, will engage in a complex and broad geopolitical crisis centered around the South China Sea.

His lecture was part of a week-long engagement with Penn Law students and faculty.

These pieces feature Penn Law faculty and students who are breaking barriers and working toward women’s advancement across a wide range of fields and disciplines.

The program focuses on students who are ethnically diverse, first-generation college attendees, or who have disadvantaged backgrounds, and aims to help them successfully complete their bachelor’s degrees, and apply to and enter law school.

The Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs helps Penn Law fulfill the school’s commitment to public service.

Robinson, an expert in criminal law and criminal code reform, has previously worked with several Muslim-majority countries to write criminal codes based upon principles of Shari’a.

The new videos are part of an ongoing ILE project to develop a website featuring in-depth interviews with the lawyers and judges who were at the center of the explosive evolution of Delaware corporate law.

The Rutgers-Newark commencement ceremony will take place on May 22 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.

The program, a first for the Law School, will support six students over six years.

In the article, “Relational Contracts of Adhesion,” Hoffman proceeds through a series of case studies based upon interviews with lawyers at Tumblr, Kickstarter, Etsy, Airbnb, and Bumble.

In her new position, Finnerty is responsible for contract review as well as negotiating privacy and confidentiality terms, particularly if there is HIPAA-covered medical data or student information involved.

The course, “Prosecution and Defense in the 21st Century” is open to students of all three Philadelphia-area law schools.

The mission of the National Academy’s CLAJ is to “improve governmental decision making and public policy, and promote the understanding and dissemination of research in matters involving law and justice.”

Recently, the prospect of the United States withdrawing from various international commitments has been the subject of significant news coverage.

The Committee aims to consider whether the inspection program is effectively meeting its regulatory mission, and it will look to practices by other regulators from around the world that BSEE might employ to supplement and improve the program.

Chanona decided to pursue a career in law to help others and to improve the future of his home country.

The all-day event, titled “Harmonizing Business Law,” was held at Penn Law in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC) at the University of Maryland.

The Symposium was titled Tinker at 50: Student Activism on Campus. Mary Beth Tinker, one of the named plaintiffs in the Tinker Supreme Court case, delivered the keynote address on student activism.

Hoffman is a frequently-cited expert on health care law and policy.

These generous gifts have come in the midst of the Law School’s “Power of Penn Law: Advocates for a New Era” Campaign.

The four finalists argued New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira, a pending Supreme Court case testing whether a court or an arbitrator is the appropriate body to decide whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) applies to a contract, and whether Section 1 of the FAA applies to independent contractor relationships.

Barry Wolf, Executive Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, talked with students about how law firms operate during the January 22 Q&A session.

This year’s finalists are Charles Nary L’19 and Patrick Reischl L’19 for the Petitioner, and Steven Mills L’19 and Greta Wiessner L’19 for the Respondent.

The featured speaker was Shawn Watts (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law and the former Associate Director of Columbia Law School’s Meditation Program.

Watch the first video of a new series that explores how students engage with the community.

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 British lawmakers voted to reject the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Professor William Burke-White offers his reaction to the results and examines possible next steps.

Litman is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

In recognition of her extensive record of work on women’s rights and sexual violence, the Law School awarded Saxena the 2018-19 Human Rights Scholarship.