Why the Supreme Court Should Clear the Way for a Pre-Election Trump Trial
At The New York Times,Prof. Kate Shaw argues that the Court should reject Trump’s immunity argument quickly to allow a criminal trial to proceed before the presidential election in the fall.
Learn MoreFeminization of Poverty and Women’s Leadership
Rangita de Silva de Alwis encourages UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2024 anti-poverty policymakers to “give women’s leadership and decision-making a fresh look.”
Learn MoreProtecting the Right to Seek Asylum
At The Hill,Transnational Legal Clinic Director Sarah Paoletti urges representatives to “take a long, hard look at the ways our immigration and deportation systems are failing people who are in harm’s way.”
Learn MoreSexual Violence as a Tactic of War
“If we take gender justice out of the criminal justice system, we are left with a system that only serves the criminal,” writes Rangita de Silva de Alwis.
Learn MoreExamining the UN Secretary General’s Independent Assessment of Afghanistan Submitted to the Security Council Under Resolution 2679 of 2023
“At the heart of the gender equality project,” writes Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership Rangita de Silva de Alwis, “is the full and equal right to education of women and girls.”
Learn MoreThe 2024 Presidential Ballot and the 14th Amendment
“Hand your republic over to the enemies of democracy, and it could take a hundred years to get it back,” writes Prof. Kermit Roosevelt at the Los Angeles Times.
Learn More‘No One Is Above the Law’
Prof. Claire O. Finkelstein explores the Georgia district court decision denying Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadow’s request to move his case to federal court.
Learn MoreHow To Regulate with Excellence
Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how regulators can sharpen their skills and produce better regulatory outcomes.
Learn More‘Human Questions of Character and Community’
Prof. Tobias Wolff: “We can and should interrogate the values and the approach to community that people exhibit when they ask to have their personal religious beliefs elevated into special legal privileges at the expense of others in public institutions.”
Learn MoreApplying a ‘Disability Lens’ to the SCOTUS Docket
Profs. Jasmine Harris and Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11 discuss their article, “Disability on the Docket” with the Center for Public Integrity.
Learn More‘Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped’
“It’s no coincidence that the cities we most associate with violence also have long and documented histories of police abuse,” writes Quattrone Center Journalism Fellow Radley Balko.
Learn MorePenn Scholars Lead Thought Leadership on Supreme Court’s Regulatory Decisions
Leading lawyers and scholars examine the Supreme Court’s major regulatory decisions from its recent term.
Learn MoreScope and Limits of the Dormant Commerce Clause
At The Regulatory Review, Prof. Michael S. Knoll shares his insights on a recent Supreme Court decision that is “about much more than porkchops.”
Learn MoreSCOTUS Election Law Decision
Asst. Prof. of Law Michael Morse C’13 told Penn Today that the Moore v. Harper ruling is “a mixed bag.”
Learn MoreThe Path to Student Loan Forgiveness
Prof. Cary Coglianese says “the only sure-fire way to deliver comparably massive student loan debt relief will be to secure approval of Congress.”
Learn MoreQuestions Remain on Major Questions Doctrine
Without answers on what constitutes a “major question,” says Prof. Cary Coglianese, “the Court’s continued invocation of the major questions doctrine cannot help but continue to appear to many observers as essentially a judicial power grab.”
Learn More‘Blow to Equal Treatment in the Public Market’
“It remains to be seen how far this radical new doctrine will reach,” said Prof. Tobias Wolff on the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative.
Learn More‘Another Fractured Opinion’ on Personal Jurisdiction
Prof. Tobias Wolff opines that the Supreme Court’s decision in Mallory “may have major implications.”
Learn MoreImmigration-Enforcement Guidelines and Article III Standing
Prof. Cary Coglianese and Practice Prof. of Law Sarah Paoletti respond to the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Texas.
Learn MorePublic Marketplace Discrimination on SCOTUS Docket
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the upcoming SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis “threatens to be a blockbuster.”
Learn More‘Arbitrary Cruelty of Our Current Asylum System’
“We cannot turn our backs on Central American immigrants at the border,” writes Adj. Prof. Fernando Chang-Muy.
Learn MoreQuestions Remain After SCOTUS Trademark Decision
Prof. Jennifer E. Rothman discusses the Supreme Court’s narrow ruling in the Jack Daniel’s case and its implications for both that case and trademark law generally.
Learn MoreAdvocating for Voting Rights
Deuel Ross L’09 successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Alabama’s congressional map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Learn MoreAI for the Antitrust Regulator
Prof. Cary Coglianese writes, “The same digital tools that drive innovations in the private sector can—and in some cases must—be deployed to improve regulators’ ability to oversee markets.”
Learn MoreFirst Amendment and Anti-Discrimination
“The Speech Clause of the First Amendment has never been a license for businesses to discriminate in the commercial marketplace,” writes Prof. Tobias Wolff.
Learn MoreDid SCOTUS Fix ‘Brown Shoe?’
“As other zombies, BrownShoe should be put back in its coffin,” writes Prof. Herb Hovenkamp at ProMarket.
Learn MoreFair Use in Visual Arts
Practice Prof. Cynthia Dahl writes that the Andy Warhol SCOTUS decision “has wider implications for other art forms, like music and adaptions of literary works.”
Learn More‘America’s Mothers Are Suckers’
“Mother’s Day is a celebration that inspires its purported honorees to reflect on the very nature of a consolation prize,” writes Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 at Slate.
Learn More‘Fool Me Once’
“The fear of playing the sucker can make it harder to read your own moral compass,” writes Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 at The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Learn MoreEqual Rights Amendment Advocacy
“The fight for the E.R.A… . should serve as a reminder that constitutional amendment is possible,” writes Visiting Prof. Kate Shaw at The New York Times.
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