Penn Law Faculty Perspectives
Expert commentary on major developments in the law and their impacts.
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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. -
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. -
January 8, 2013Whether the issue is the legality of drone strikes, impending Supreme Court decisions about affirmative action and same-sex marriage, the anniversary of the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainright, the impact of documentary filmmaking on the pursuit of justice, or key regulatory decisions by administrative agencies, here developments to watch for in the year ahead. -
November 7, 2012The re-election of President Barack Obama on Tuesday elicited a broad spectrum of commentary from faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A round-up of their insights into how the election was conducted and what it means for health reform, economic recovery, immigration, women’s rights and a host of other issues vital to the country’s future follows. -
October 10, 2012An issue for the justices to decide is whether to follow or overrule recent precedent, according to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Theodore Ruger. -
October 2, 2012University of Pennsylvania Law School Professors Kermit Roosevelt and Seth Kreimer Tuesday praised a Commonwealth Court judge’s decision to block implementation of Pennsylvania’s controversial Voter ID law. -
July 5, 2012In the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act decision, we asked Constitutional and health law and policy experts at the University of Pennsylvania Law School to share their insights about what the decision portends for the scope of federal power to meet economic and social problems and the future of the nation’s health care system.