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Penn Law Professor Dorothy Roberts was one of 80 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine on October 16, joining Penn Law colleague Anita L. Allen who was elected last year.

On October 11, the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) and the Perry World House hosted a symposium titled “North Korea: Bargaining in the Shadow of Armed Conflict.” The featured panelists at the keynote included Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and ambassador to the United Nations, and David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times.

In an article in the Columbia Law Review, Balganesh argues that copyright law does, in fact, have an important causal dimension, and he proposes the development of a requirement called “copyrightable causation” as a prerequisite to copyright protection.

On October 10, Henry J. Steiner, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard University, visited Penn Law to engage in discussion with students about his newly released book, Eyeing the World, as part of the Law School’s Critical Global Conversations.

Though Penn Law’s Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative, students will have the opportunity to meet with two of the program’s Visiting Policy Fellows, Shira Perlmutter L’83 and Nancy Nord in a series of upcoming career lunches.

On September 28, Penn Law and the Graduate School of Education co-hosted the Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law, which featured Cornell Brooks, former President of the NAACP.

Helen Eisner L’12 explains the investigative work done by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

On October 4, a panel of professors at Penn Law discussed six possible patent law cases for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming term.

Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese contributed extensively to a newly released report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled “Designing Safety Regulations for High-Hazard Industries.”

Delaware Corporation Law Resource Center is now available online

The rise of private enforcement led to a counterrevolution aimed at curtailing it, and that counterrevolution is the focus of a new book by Penn Law professor Stephen B. Burbank and his co-author, Sean Farhang.

Penn Law is pleased to announce that Elise Luce Kraemer L’93 has been appointed the new Executive Director of Graduate Programs at the Law School.

The new Penn Law Global Affairs magazine creates a platform for ideas and action for a rapidly changing global order through the prism of Penn Law.

Penn Law professor Stephen J. Morse and 11 other experts on addiction have filed an amici curiae brief in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case, Commonwealth v. Julie Eldred.

Penn Law has added four new members to the full-time faculty at the Law School, as well as a number of new academic fellows.

On September 20, a panel of constitutional law professors convened at Penn Law to discuss four cases from the Supreme Court of the United States’ upcoming term.

Penn Law’s Center on Professionalism supports students as they prepare for careers as professionals in an evolving legal landscape. In this video feature, COP Director Jennifer Leonard L’04 discusses the center’s mission and programming.

The coming together of law and technology and what it heralds for students and society.

In the Transnational Legal Clinic, which was founded in 2006, students directly represent clients and organizations in international human rights and immigration legal proceedings. In this video feature clinic director Sarah Paoletti and alumni discuss the clinics work for clients seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief.

In this dispatch, Toni Garrett L’18 discusses how her certificate in Communications and Media Policy prepared her for her summer position at A&E Networks.

In this dispatch, Steven Mills L’19 describes his summer litigation internship at the ACLU of Northern California.

Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, with co-author Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law, recently published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture.” The piece provoked intense debate, as well as strong reactions, across the ideological spectrum.

In a recently published article in the Northwestern Law Review titled “Democratizing Criminal Law as an Abolitionist Project,” Penn Law professor Dorothy Roberts sets out an alternative vision of criminal justice.

This week, Penn Law welcomed the JD Class of 2020, comprised of 244 students who will bring their academic talents, professional skills, commitment to service, and artistic abilities to the Law School community.

In this dispatch, Mickey Hartz L’19 describes his experience at the Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division.

With a JD from Penn Law, you’re prepared for your first job and your entire career. In this video feature, students, alumni, and faculty discuss what makes the Penn Law JD experience — and the Penn Law community — so special.

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.