This spring’s ILE Roundtable was entitled “Securities Intermediation and Technological Changes: Loaning, Owning, & Voting.”
The ELC’s FAQ page is broken down into seven different sections: force majeure clauses, business interruption insurance, managing employees during COVID-19 shutdowns, shutdown orders and “essential” businesses, operating a physical business while social distancing, pivoting a business to e-commerce/delivery/pickup, financial difficulties and relief.
Dean Ruger sits down with alumni across the public and private sector who are engaged in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Howard Lesnick, a beloved professor who redefined what it means to be a lawyer and built the foundation for the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s nationally recognized public service program, passed away on Sunday, April 19th. He was 88.
Alyssa Cannizzaro L’21 and Eduarda Lague L’21, two students in Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ International Women’s Human Rights class, share their insights from their research papers on COVID-19’s impact on two key issues: reproductive healthcare and domestic violence.
Meet four law professors who have joint appointments in the University’s Wharton School of Business, emphasizing the Law School’s cross-disciplinary focus.
Dustin Webster ML’21 helped organize Philadelphia’s first regional Ethics Bowl competition with the support of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and others.
On March 19, 20, and 21, 2020, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students participated remotely in a simulated international crisis negotiation exercise developed by the U.S. Army War College.
In the midst of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon offers commentary on the legal history of epidemics in the United States from 1890 to the present.
JD candidates at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will be able to earn a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies by completing approved courses and a year-long Proseminar
Professor Allison Hoffman, health care law and policy expert, shares her observations on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
The course, co-taught by Professor John Hollway, is held bi-weekly and features small, student-led discussions about various contemporary issues in policing
Dr. Kiran Musunuru ML’19 and Jehan Luth ML’20 have been recognized in their respective fields for their impressive achievements.
Two current federal judges and one former state judge recently visited the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School to discuss professionalism before the court.
Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff and Attorney Amy Maldonado L’98, supported by the research of Adam Garnick L’21, convinced a Third Circuit panel that immigrant detainees have a right to challenge the government’s authority to send them to Mexico as they await the outcome of deportation proceedings.
Sophie Beutel L’20, Marissa Fritz L’20, and Simone Hussussian L’20 recently placed first in the 9th Annual Health Law Regulatory & Compliance Competition at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law
The Honorable Jerome B. Simandle Memorial Fund will provide financial support for public sector summer employment in New Jersey
The Equal Justice Foundation (EJF) held its annual auction on February 13, 2020, with many exciting, interesting, and unique donations in an auction list that numbered over 200 objects or experiences.
Alums share their stories of finding love at the Law School
ABA exhibit on women’s suffrage visits Penn Law to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment
Self-Reporting contributes to human rights improvements, find professors Beth Simmons and Cosette Creamer, who offer recommendations to improve UN Human Rights Treaty Body System
Professor Eric Feldman traveled to Japan with Global Research Seminar students to meet with industry leaders, academics, and scientists as part of the Penn Law course on legal issues surrounding robot technology.
Petition filed on one-year anniversary of implementation of MPP program, also known as “Remain in Mexico”
Flags remembering transgender victims of violence in 2019 on display in Biddle Library.
The Skadden Foundation recently announced that University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School 3L Mariel Mussack has secured one of its coveted fellowships.
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Maggie Blackhawk has won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation article prize for “Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State,” published in the Yale Law Journal.
What’s coming on the legal front in 2020? Penn Law professors tell us what to expect.
Scholars explore questions about how agencies shape and are shaped by the U.S. Constitution
Professor Anita L. Allen was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, participated in a symposium about her work, and delivered a lecture at The Hague.
First Generation Professionals at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Town Hall addressed the current state of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the challenges it is facing at the Supreme Court. On November 12, students from the Law School traveled with students, staff, and faculty from across the University of Pennsylvania campus to Washington, D.C., to witness as thousands participated in rallies on the Supreme Court steps.
Leader in legal education is named University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in recognition of transformative commitment – the largest ever to a law school
As part of the Leo Model Foundation Government & Public Affairs Initiative, Distinguished Policy Fellow Richard Cordray will visit the Law School the week of November 4.
The Center on Professionalism selects three 1L students for First Generation Professionals Fellowship
Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu recently sat down with Penn Law’s Communications staff to talk about his arrival at the school, his current projects, and more.
Wellness Week at Penn Law offers students a full menu of well-being techniques and the opening of new space dedicated to relaxation
The Initiative will “Teach, Lead, and Transform” by examining new ways law schools can adopt a holistic vision for the formation of lawyers.
The amicus brief addresses the question of whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense. The authors argue that some form of insanity defense is required by the Constitution.
On October 3rd , the Penn Law Alumni Society acknowledged the achievements of seven alumni at the annual Penn Law Society Alumni Awards.
For this academic year, Penn Law has added three members to the faculty. The new hires are in addition to the six professors brought on between 2016 and 2018.
Restorative justice attorney sujatha baliga, Penn Law ’99, has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation for her work as the director of the Restorative Justice Project.
Leading professionals from business, law, and government studied regulation in a cutting-edge course at Penn Law.
He spoke with Penn Law’s Office of Communications about his internship at The Hague and how it fits into his larger goals for his legal education and career.
The new recommendations grew out of a study produced for ACUS by University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Cary Coglianese.
The article, “The Dynamic Impact of Periodic Review on Women’s Rights,” appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and challenges the conventional wisdom that the process of self-reporting on compliance with human rights treaties serves no useful purpose.
Penn Law students in Associate Dean for International Programs Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s seminar presented their research to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN Women, Office of Legal Affairs, and the newly appointed Office of the Secretary-General’s Victims’ Rights Advocate.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world.
She earned her initial law degree at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah in 2014, where she was part of one of the first classes of female graduates from the school.
The Helton fellowship provides funding for law students and professionals to pursue research and fieldwork on important issues related to international law, human rights, and related areas.
Her fellowship goal is to decrease the number, frequency, and length of school suspensions and reduce the number of school-based arrests.
The Rutgers-Newark commencement ceremony will take place on May 22 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
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.
The panel, “The Origins of Administrative Constitutionalism,” was part of the law review’s two-day symposium.
Penn Law faculty react to the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition offer $40,000 scholarship to support students pursuing joint degrees in law and technology
Judah Bellin L’18 won a recent case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act through Penn Law’s Federal Appellate Externship
Justin R. Ehrenwerth L’09 discusses how Deepwater Horizon shaped his career and the challenges of Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration.
As part of the RAPS Regulatory Focus series, ‘Focus on…,’ Coglianese profiled for his leadership, views on regulatory excellence & future of healthcare regulation.
Penn Law’s 11 cross-disciplinary academic centers and institutes promote research that yield solutions in law and policy.
Gift from Robert Toll L’66 and Jane Toll GSE’66 further increases access for Penn Law students to pursue impactful public service careers
On February 3, the Journal of Business Law held its annual symposium at Penn Law. The symposium, “A Chip Off the Old Block(chain): How Blockchain Technology is Changing Law and Business,” focused on four key issues of blockchain technology: digital currencies, the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, smart contracts, and blockchain regulation.
Penn Law students from the Environmental Law Project (ELP) argue that the proposed repeal is not supported by scientific evidence, and that the agency’s change in course is not supported by a valid justification.
President Trump has promised to enforce the law and curtail the flow of undocumented immigrants into the United States, and he’s held true to his word. That concerns Cathryn Miller-Wilson L’93, executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania.
Penn Law alumnus George Donnelly L’15 has been awarded a Public Interest Law Fellowship from the Independence Foundation to continue his work with Philadelphia’s Public Interest Law Center representing tenants and developing strong legal protections for the housing rights of low-income Pennsylvanians.
The coming together of law and technology and what it heralds for students and society.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School has appointed Maureen Reilly to the position of Assistant Dean and Executive Director for Career Services.
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).
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.
On February 20, as a part of Penn Law’s Ninth Annual Public Interest Week, the Law School held an panel discussion titled “Voting Rights in Philadelphia: The 2016 Election from a Community Perspective.”
Matthew Parker L’00, EdD’16, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Executive Director of Legal Education Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, died Sunday, November 6. He was 43.
In January, Penn Law’s newest Chubb Rule of Law Fellow, Natasha Arnpriester L’16, will begin her fellowship at Human Rights First, where she will be working in the group’s international refugee protection division, focusing on refugee advocacy and refugee law within the international context.
Genevieve Urban L’18, is spending her summer as a judicial intern at the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Maura Douglas L’18 is spending her summer working at the Institute for Human Rights and Business in London as a Mead Fellow and International Summer Human Rights Fellow.
Dean Ruger comments on the divided Supreme Court over Obama’s Immigration plan.
Amanda Johnson L’15 had the opportunity to argue a case in front of the Third Circuit at a 3L at Penn Law. In a recently released decision, the court accepted her argument and in doing so created a circuit split with the four other circuits to have considered the issue.
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has been awarded $350,000 by the National Institute of Justice to fund the Philadelphia Event Review Team, which will unite the major criminal justice agencies in Philadelphia in the regular review of cases of error in Philadelphia’s criminal justice system.
Robert Toll L’66 and Jane Toll GSE’66 have given a $2.5 million gift, which will further support the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) and public interest programming at the Law School.
Penn Law graduate Michael Paranal JD/MBA’13 has received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship, which provides young professionals with the opportunity to advance their careers through professional development experience in Germany and the European Union.
Since January, a group of Penn Law students have been blogging about their experiences in #PennLawLife. Browse their blogs below to learn more about the 1L experience, pro bono work, classes, and student life at Penn Law.
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office have been jointly selected by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys to receive the 2015 Innovations in Criminal Justice Award.
Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, gave the keynote at the annual symposium of Penn Law’s Journal of Constitutional Law.
Penn Law and the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting a series of events highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
On October 28, the Law School honored six University of Pennsylvania Law School graduates and one former Penn Law dean and faculty member for their career achievements, pro bono work, service to the legal profession, and service to the School.
Can Gigi Sohn L’86 keep both the internet and lines of communication with industry open?
Joanna Visser Adjoian L’10, Associate Director for Penn Law’s Toll Public Interest Center, has co-founded a new nonprofit, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP), which aims to improve outcomes for minors entangled in the adult criminal justice system.
Wendell Pritchett on returning to Penn, and the future of legal and higher education.
In a deanship spanning 14 years, Michael A. Fitts has helped Penn Law become a model for how greatness can be achieved and maintained in an era of accelerating professional and social change.
Rick Mula L’15 from Kingsport, Tennessee, is pursuing a career in legal advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. In this dispatch, he discusses his summer work at Lambda Legal’s National Headquarters.
Professor Bill Burke-White examines shifts in global power and how they translate in the international legal system.
The Quattrone Center for Fair Administration and Justice’s Spring Symposium took place April 14-15, featuring a variety of panels and speakers exploring a “systems approach” to conviction integrity.
Baron sat down with Penn Law’s Office of Communications to talk more about her experience as a Penn Law Fellow and her Factory Farm Accountability Project.
The Tolls’ gift will enable the Law School to expand its existing public interest programs by supporting an array of student pro bono initiatives, guaranteeing summer funding to hundreds of students annually, and supporting a generous loan repayment program.
The Pennsylvania Criminal Code is rife with irrational and contradictory grading differences, Professor Robinson told the Pennsylvania Judiciary Committees. In many cases, less serious crimes garner harsher punishment than more serious crimes. And often, new criminal statutes are enacted that conflict with the existing grading structure and with citizens’ views about how crimes should be punished.