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A group of 46 alumni of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic has submitted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Professor Stephanos Bibas’ nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In this summer employment dispatch, John Peng L’19 discusses his work in Nepal with the Center for Migration and International Relations.

The Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch L’44, a Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a champion for women in the legal profession, and an early litigator of civil rights in the Deep South, has died at age 96.

The Law School and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition have awarded this year’s annual CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholarships to three students: Christina Chen L’20, Delaney Butler L’20, and Kelsey Matevish L’19.

In April, students from Penn Law’s seminar of International Women’s Rights presented their research during a forum at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. The seminar was taught by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, the Law School’s Associate Dean for International Programs. In this video feature, students from the course discuss their work on women’s rights and the trip to meet with policymakers and researchers.

University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology and director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, will be nominated by President Trump to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

On May 30, the President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli, announced the appointment of Indira Jaising and Radhika Coomaraswamy to serve on a three-member high-level fact-finding mission in Myanmar.

Professor Baker explains the process involved in an ALI Restatement.

Cary Coglianese spoke with the Law School’s Office of Communications about President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, a carbon reduction agreement signed onto by more than 190 countries.

Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have received teaching awards for the 2016–17 academic year.

University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Christopher Yoo and co-author Timothy Pfenninger released the first comprehensive study of the financial viability of America’s municipal fiber networks — “Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Financial Performance.”

As part of Penn Law’s Model Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Executive Director John Hollway taught a Policy Research Seminar this spring semester titled “A Systems Approach to Conviction Integrity,” which took a cross-disciplinary look at why the criminal justice system sometimes gets it wrong and how the system can be improved in the future.

The Law School’s Sarah Barringer Gordon has been appointed the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress for the fall semester of 2017. While at the center, she will continue her research on her book project “Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776–1876.”

Penn Law professor Mitchell Berman has been named a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University for the 2017–2018 academic year.

On Monday, May 15, the University of Pennsylvania Law School hosted its graduation ceremony at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. The Class of 2017 Commencement Address was delivered by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland.

Public law scholar Maggie McKinley, whose research examines legislative procedure and the representation and participation of minorities in the lawmaking process, will join the Penn Law faculty this July.

“The question,” Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains, “is whether our constitutional system—designed by people who didn’t foresee the party system—can continue to function in an era of severe political polarization.”

Penn Law professor Beth Simmons, an expert on international relations and human rights, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. She was one of 32 new members elected by the society’s membership this April.

Health care law and policy expert Allison K. Hoffman will join the Law School’s faculty in July. Hoffman comes to the Law School from the UCLA School of Law, where she taught courses on health insurance and reform, health law and policy, and torts.

Penn Law students Stephen DeSalvo L’17 and Matt Lembo L’17 won the national championship of the 44^th annual American Intellectual Property Law Association Giles S. Rich Moot Court.

In response to a lawsuit filed by two civil rights groups, and in the wake of a recent study by researchers at Penn Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice analyzing the consequences of pretrial detention, a federal judge in Houston has ordered Harris County to begin releasing inmates arrested for misdemeanor offenses who cannot afford to pay bail.

Sheerine Alemzadeh L’11 has co-founded a new nonprofit in Chicago called Healing to Action, whose mission is to advance a worker-led movement to end gender violence.

Gary Clinton and his husband, Penn Law graduate and lawyer Don Millinger L’79, have designated a portion of their estate to support the Law School’s Clinton-Millinger Scholarship program.

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Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 has been awarded this year’s Chubb Rule of Law Fellowship to support her work in international law and human rights following her graduation from Penn Law this year.

Penn Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have created a new, two-year, post-graduate fellowship for a new or recent graduate to work with the SPLC’s Special Litigation Practice Group.

Two Law School students traveled with Professor Douglas Frenkel L’72, the Mediation Clinic’s director, to mediate an international child abduction dispute in Omaha, Nebraska.

Penn Law professor Christopher S. Yoo is one of 29 members of the newly created Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee.

Singer-songwriter, film and TV producer, criminal justice reform advocate, and University of Pennsylvania alumnus John Legend C’99 has joined the Quattrone Center’s Advisory Board.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School and the United Nations Development Programme-Sustainable Development Goals Fund have established an agreement to strengthen cooperation and enhance the effectiveness of global development efforts.