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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.

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.

The award honors a law school staff or faculty member for their work in advancing the ethic of pro bono service through program design or management, or through their own personal service.

Throughout the year, Penn Law professors have won awards, seen their work cited in major judicial decisions, and shared their insights with fellow scholars worldwide.

Penn Law faculty offer insights and analysis on the Senate’s passage of a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill

Penn Law’s Quattrone Center , along with the Baltimore’s City State’s Attorney’s Office, Police Department, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City, and the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic, have released a root cause analysis report on the case of Malcolm J. Bryant, who was convicted of murder in 1999 and exonerated in 2016 after DNA tests proved his innocence.

In his new role, Kosuri will assume responsibility for the oversight and development of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies.

During this busy and successful year, they took on important public interest projects, made their voices heard on major issues in local and national government, gained hands-on practice experience through a variety of experiential learning programs, won cases, competitions, fellowships, and more.

In 2015 students and faculty in DIPTC worked with Lia Diagnostics, Inc., to draft their first nonprovisional patent for Lia’s innovative new paper pregnancy test

Penn Law Global Women’s Leadership Project (GLWP) has launched a student-hosted podcast, the “Feminism Podcast Series.”

Through the Master in Law program, Dr. Eve J. Higginbotham has been able to zero in on those areas of law that are relevant to her medical practice.

On December 5th, a panel of antitrust law experts spoke on several trending topics in recent antitrust legislation, including the case of Ohio v. American Express.

Leading scholars and practitioners comment on a recent book that argues for a simpler, more streamlined legal system.

The dinner recognized students involved in the Initiative and honored Allen Model L’80, chair of the Leo Model Foundation, for his generosity and support.

The documentary was the result of a joint effort between the Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law  (“Docs&theLaw”), of which Professor Austin is the director, Lifers, Inc. at Graterford State Correctional Institution, and the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

Each year, the Initiative’s Visitors Program invites leading policy and government experts to the Penn Law.

The Law School is launching the program in response to series of 2017 recommendations from the ABA, which addressed the burgeoning levels of stress, depression, and substance abuse within the legal profession.

The event’s featured speakers were Fernando Chang-Muy, Penn Law’s Thomas O’Boyle Lecturer in Law, and Stephanie Schwartz, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Perry World House.

The conference will feature presentations by scholars from universities throughout Europe and participation by professors from China, Poland, and South Korea.

The summit discussed emerging issues for prosecutors and allowed attendees to share initiatives aimed at improving the effectiveness of the criminal justice system.

A group of legal scholars submitted an amicus curae brief arguing that a sitting president is not immune from suit for actions taken in his unofficial capacity.

Rangita de Silva de Alwis , the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Associate Dean for International Programs, will be a featured participant at a major international summit, the Women Leaders Global Forum  in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The bill, which is currently working its way through City Council and may soon come up for a vote, would protect tenants by preventing landlords from terminating tenants’ leases without just cause.

The November 14 event was sponsored by the Penn Law Veterans Club as part of the Law School’s Veterans Week programming.

On November 2, Penn Law & the Arts (PLATA), a student organization that explores the intersection between the legal and arts communities, held an event at the Barnes Foundation.

The event, “I’m a Veteran AMA,” was moderated by Sharswood Fellow CDR (Retd.) Mark P. Nevitt W’97.

The Law and Entrepreneurship Lecture featured Osagie Imasogie LLM’85, Senior Managing Partner at PIPV Capital

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