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Mired Asfour L’19 talks about his internship with the United Soccer League in this latest dispatch.

David Washington L’15 has been named the Penn Law Civil Rights Fellow, a new, two-year, post-graduate fellowship created by Penn Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center for graduating public interest students and recent alumni.

In this dispatch, Devin Troy L’18 describes her experience as part of the Morgan Lewis Community Experience program.

Herb Hovenkamp, a renowned scholar of antitrust law and legal history, sat down with Penn Law’s Office of Communications to discuss his research and teaching this upcoming academic year.

In this dispatch, Darien Wynn L’19 describes his work with SECTION27, a public interest law center in South Africa.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School has appointed Maureen Reilly to the position of Assistant Dean and Executive Director for Career Services.

With the support of a postgraduate fellowship from Penn Law, Isabel Abreu L’16 is working in the legal services department of HIAS Pennsylvania, where she provides immigration assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who live in counties outside of Philadelphia.

Penn Law welcomes 118 students into the LLM Class of 2018

This summer, Sabine Cardio L’19 worked in Rome with the governance department of the external relations team of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO).

Penn Law faculty comment on President Trump’s ban on transgender individuals in the U.S. military

Seven Penn Law graduates and alumni were awarded fellowships to launch their public interest careers.

In this dispatch, Margaret Ledak L’19 discusses her work at Bermeo & Bermeo in Ecuador.

Professor Bill Burke-White has acquired a deep well of knowledge about global affairs the hard way: he’s set foot in much of the world and studied the most difficult challenges as a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Burke-White, a scholar in the areas of international criminal and international economic law, is drawing on his expertise and experience as the Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director of Perry World House.

In this video, students from the First Generation Professionals group speak about their experience at Penn Law and what this group provides for them, as well as what it will provide for future students.

This summer, Kevin Lawler L’19 is interning for the Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal Group at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Kermit Roosevelt, a Professor of Law at Penn Law and scholar of the Constitution, says that meeting between the Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. could possibly have fun afoul of campaign finance laws.

With the support of an Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Penn Law graduate Frank White L’16 is fighting these predatory lending in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

In this week’s summer employment dispatch, Celeste Cirillo-Penn L’19 discusses her work interning at Warner Bros.

The Light Opera Company has been a fixture of student life at Penn Law for decades. In this video feature, students discuss their passion for performing and the group’s role in the Law School community.