Penn Law Faculty Perspectives
Expert commentary on major developments in the law and their impacts.
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January 12, 2015Penn Law asked several of its faculty members to look ahead and predict some of the key legal issues that will be discussed and debated in the upcoming year. -
November 3, 2014Penn Law’s Criminal Law Research Group, led by Professor Paul H. Robinson, is working with the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command-Pacific (SOCPAC) to determine how foreign criminal law can be used to interdict foreign terrorist fighters. -
July 7, 2014Hobby Lobby ruling could mean some religious claims get more sympathy than others. “Troubling,” Prof. Roosevelt explains to Salon. -
July 1, 2014Prof. Skeel analyzes the possible impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, such as the court’s future campaign finance cases. -
June 25, 2014In this video from Reuters, Prof. Shyam Balganesh explains the landmark Supreme Court ruling against Aereo and its impact on copyright law. -
December 19, 2013Important court decisions, revelations about NSA spying, and high-profile trials were among the legal events that captured headlines in 2013. Here, Penn Law faculty to weigh in on the year’s top legal developments. -
June 26, 2013The Court’s majority is surely correct that the forms, and extent, of outright electoral discrimination based on race have changed and lessened in the past half century, but the phenomenon persists -
June 26, 2013Supreme Court equality decisions tend to move gradually towards recognizing the moral consensus of the American people.
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June 25, 2013By shifting the case back to the lower courts, the Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas has encouraged the constitutional debate on affirmative action to continue among a broader set of institutions around the country. -
April 1, 2013Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law respond to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on the volatile issue of same-sex marriage.