Shifting Landscape of Reproductive Rights

Prof. Kate Shaw writes, “Woven throughout [two cases before the Supreme Court] are arguments that gesture toward the view that a fetus is a person.”

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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.

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Feminization 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.”

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Protecting 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.”

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Sexual 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.

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Examining 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.”

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The 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.

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‘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.

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How To Regulate with Excellence

Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses how regulators can sharpen their skills and produce better regulatory outcomes.

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‘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.”

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Applying 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.

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‘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.

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Penn 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.

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Scope 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.”

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SCOTUS Election Law Decision

Asst. Prof. of Law Michael Morse C’13 told Penn Today that the Moore v. Harper ruling is “a mixed bag.”

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The 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.”

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Questions 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.”

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‘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.

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‘Another Fractured Opinion’ on Personal Jurisdiction

Prof. Tobias Wolff opines that the Supreme Court’s decision in Mallory “may have major implications.”

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Immigration-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.

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Public Marketplace Discrimination on SCOTUS Docket

Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the upcoming SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis “threatens to be a blockbuster.”

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‘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.

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Questions 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.

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Advocating 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.

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AI 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.”

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First 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.

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Did SCOTUS Fix ‘Brown Shoe?’

“As other zombies, BrownShoe should be put back in its coffin,” writes Prof. Herb Hovenkamp at ProMarket.

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Fair 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.”

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‘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.

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‘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.

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Equal 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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Institutional Investor Efforts to Promote Corporate Diversity

Prof. Jill E. Fisch analyzes institutional investor efforts to promote corporate diversity and, in particular, the rationale for these efforts.

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Regulating Machine Learning

Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses the Biden administration’s recent actions concerning the federal government’s use of artificial intelligence.

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Ending Mass Incarceration

At Slate, Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, explores how incarcerated individuals have contributed to the conversation on reducing incarceration and crime.

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Protecting Children’s Right of Publicity

Prof. Jennifer Rothman recently penned a piece at Slate exploring the “growing threat to the next Brooke Shields of the world.”

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Fox News Defamation Settlement

Prof. Cary Coglianese and Amanda Shanor, Asst. Prof. at Wharton, offer insight into the recent settlement in the Fox News defamation case.

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What’s Next for Crypto?

CTIC Academic Fellow Giovanna Massarotto outlines the possible routes of cryptocurrency’s future.

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‘Abortion Pill Ruling is Bad Law’

At The New York Times, Visiting Prof. Kate Shaw argues that the Biden Administration should challenge the recent abortion pill decision.

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Modernizing the Federal Regulatory Process

At Bloomberg Law, Prof. Cary Coglianese discusses President Biden’s executive order that aims to modernize and strengthen the federal regulatory system.

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Trump’s Indictment and Our Democracy

Prof. Claire Finkelstein discusses how this case is a test of America’s institutions, the rule of law, and the world’s oldest democracy.

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Disability & the Right to Move in the World

“[G]reater overall access masks the realities and stakes of air travel for people with disabilities,” writes Prof. Jasmine Harris at The Regulatory Review.

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‘Where Is the Outrage?’

The Future of the Profession Initiative’s Jim Sandman L’76 recently discussed strategies to close the civil justice gap.

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‘The Nation that Never Was’

In The Nation that Never Was, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt provides an alternate understanding of American identity.

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Fear of Playing the Sucker

Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 discusses her new book, Fool Proof, in this short video.

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Why Student Loan Forgiveness Makes People Boiling Mad

At Slate, Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 explores how the fear of playing the sucker shows up in rhetoric surrounding student loan forgiveness.

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The Founding and Re-Founding of America

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt discusses his book, The Nation That Never Was, with Robin Lindley at George Washington University’s History News Network.

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The True Birthday of Modern America

At the Los Angeles Times, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt argues that March 2 is the true birthday of Modern America.

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‘Valentine’s Day Is For Fools’

Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 wishes readers a “Happy Valentine’s Day, suckers,” with “utter affection” at The Washington Post.

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Life Sentence Commutations

David Rudovsky and Kathleen M. Brown advocate the continuation of the commutation process and reform legislation providing for life with parole.

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SCOTUS Tackles Pork Regulation

Prof. Michael Knoll explores the potential ramifications of National Pork Producers Council v. Ross in The Regulatory Review.

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Will SCOTUS Upend the Internet?

“The Supreme Court’s resolution of the Gonzalez case will likely represent the most consequential update for Section 230 in the foreseeable future,” writes Prof. Christopher S. Yoo in the Los Angeles Times.

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The Uncertain Future of DACA

Practice Prof. Sarah Paoletti spoke with Penn Today about what the recent 5th Circuit decision means for DACA beneficiaries and their family members.

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Antitrust Reform

At The Hill, Prof. Christopher S. Yoo urges Congress to not allow “the heat of the ‘techlash’ moment” to guide antitrust reform decisions.

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Equal Access to Justice

Jim Sandman L’76  urges California legislators to amend a bill that would “prohibit reforms that are essential to allow people to exercise their civil rights.”

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Abortion Rights Post-Dobbs

At Penn Today, Prof. Dorothy Roberts discussed what the Dobbs decision means for abortion rights across the U.S.

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Weakening Miranda Rights

Senior Fellow David Rudovsky recently spoke to KYW News Radio about the Supreme Court’s decision in Vega v. Tekoh.

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Bankruptcy System Backlash

Prof. David A. Skeel discusses the recent backlash against the bankruptcy system — including against judge shopping, the Texas Two-Step and third-party releases — and what can be done.

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Health Care in the Court

In The Regulatory Review, Prof. Allison Hoffman, analyzes the major health-related decisions of the Supreme Court’s last term.

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Judicial Activism

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains judicial activism in a historical sense, and how justices today interpret the Constitution and federal and state policies.

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Dangerous Opinion on Climate Change

“[T[here is no escaping the conclusion that the opinion is dangerous on two fronts: for the climate and for administrative capacity more broadly,” writes Prof. Shelley Welton of the Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA.

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Freedom of Speech or Coerced Prayer?

Prof. Kermit Roosevelt recently discussed the Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. with KYW.

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Hong Kong Handover

Prof. Jacques deLisle discusses where Hong Kong stands now at 25 years under Chinese control, and what the future might hold.

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‘Devastating’ Climate Change Decision

Prof. Shelley Welton calls the decision “bad for climate change and bad for people in the administration who are working creatively on solutions to the big, important problems that are facing the nation.”

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Expanding Judicial Sentencing Discretion

The Quattrone Center’s John Hollway shares his insights on the Court’s decision on sentencing reductions under the First Step Act.

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SCOTUS Curbs EPA on Climate Change

Penn Carey Law faculty respond to the Court’s recent decision that limits the EPA’s role in combatting climate change.

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Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors

The Honorable Leo E. Strine Jr. L’88 has submitted a letter to the SEC arguing that the agency should require climate-related disclosures to investors.

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International Arbitration Discovery

“The Supreme Court has limited U.S.-style discovery for international arbitration — but not entirely,” said Assistant Prof. of Law Yanbai Andrea Wang.

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‘Evolving Interpretations of Title IX’

On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Prof. Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11 shares her insights on the landmark bill from a historical perspective.

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Title IX and Disability

On the anniversary of the landmark bill, Prof. Jasmine Harris shares five things to know about how Title IX and disability intersect.

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Faculty Reactions to AHA v. Becerra

Prof. Coglianese and Prof. Hoffman share their perspectives on the recent Supreme Court decision.

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SCOTUS Bankruptcy Decision

Bankruptcy expert Prof. David A. Skeel offers his perspective on the Court’s decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald.

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Long COVID and the Workplace

Prof. Jasmine Harris discusses the new disability of Long COVID in the context of employment law.

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Penn Carey Law Reacts to Leaked Opinion

Profs. Roosevelt and Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.

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‘Opinion Suffused with Contempt and Rage’

Of the leaked document, Prof. Wolff said that Justice Alito “has crafted an opinion that disregards the lives of women and girls altogether.”

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Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Reaction

Referencing gay rights decisions, Prof. Roosevelt cautions, “If there are five justices who endorse this draft, it’s unlikely that they will stop with Roe.”

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Antitrust from a Historical Perspective

At ProMarket, Prof. Hovenkamp writes about a recently unearthed memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration.

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Regulation of Black Families

“The United States should replace its current family surveillance system with one that improves children’s welfare,” writes Prof. Roberts at The Regulatory Review.

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Child Welfare System Myths

“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof. Roberts in The Washington Post.

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Historic SCOTUS Confirmation

Penn Carey Law reacts to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States as the country’s first Black woman justice.

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At Bloomberg Law, Prof. Claire Finkelstein urges Congress to act to ensure executive privileges are not used to cover up illegal government conduct

“Doctrines that enhance executive branch secrecy ultimately damage national security if they interfere with the ability of other federal branches to hold the executive branch to account,” writes Finkelstein.

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At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Prof. Dorothy Roberts argues that the child welfare system can destroy families

“Home inspections . .  may lead to intensive monitoring that lasts for years, forced separation of children, and, at the extreme, the permanent termination of parental rights,” writes Roberts.

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Prof. Tobias Wolff explains the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and a Texas directive on transgender children

Wolff is the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Equity and Inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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Prof. Kimberly Ferzan L’95 discusses self defense and the use of deadly force at Talks On Law

Ferzan explains self-defense laws and its elements, including the use of deadly vs. nondeadly force, when use of force is reasonable, and provocateurs and initial aggressors.

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At Smerconish, Prof. Claire Finkelstein evaluates Russia’s threat to treat foreign fighters as war criminals

“Russia’s claim that such volunteers may be prosecuted as war criminals simply by virtue of joining the fight is an even grosser distortion of the law of war.”

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Lecturer in Law Neil Makhija warns that SCOTUS congressional voting maps decisions could signal eventual erosion of state courts’ power

Makhija is frequently called upon as an expert on issues of voting rights, immigration, and Pennsylvania.

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At Newsweek, Prof. Claire Finkelstein advocates for the ban of all Russian oil and gas imports, including into Europe

“The U.S. ban on Russian oil and gas imports will not be truly effective unless Europe participates.”

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At The Hill, Prof. William Burke-White warns that the international order will hold Putin accountable for his invasion of Ukraine

“Precisely because of the flagrancy of Putin’s violation, the world has emerged united behind the United Nations Charter,” writes Burke-White.

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At The Washington Post, Prof. Dorothy Roberts denounces Texas governor’s use of child welfare agencies to investigate parents seeking gender-affirming care for trans children

“Abbott’s deployment of the child welfare system will punish parents for affirming their children’s gender identities, not protect children,” writes Roberts.

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Prof. Claire Finkelstein urges the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the torture of Abu Zubaydah and encourage the government to waive the state secrets privilege

“How can we credibly criticize Putin for committing war crimes in Europe at the same time that we distort the law to cover up our own illegal conduct?” Finkelstein wrote. 

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Prof. David Skeel testifies before U.S. Senate subcommittee on the potential abuse of ‘Texas Two-Step’ transactions in the Chapter 11 reorganization process

“The opportunity for abuse — and for undercutting the rights of victims and other creditors — is obvious,” wrote Skeel.

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Q&A with Quattrone Center Assistant Director Ross Miller on the invisibility of prosecutorial misconduct

The recently published report “Hidden Hazards” analyzes the varied allegations and findings of prosecutorial misconduct in state and federal courts throughout Pennsylvania.

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Prof. Claire Finkelstein discusses Ukraine NATO membership as well as U.S. ethical, legal, and cybersecurity concerns

Finkelstein is a renowned expert in national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.

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At Smerconish, Prof. Claire Finkelstein argues that closing Guatanamo is only the first step

Finkelstein delineates three areas of military law and policy that President Biden should address to “begin to set the country on a path to restoring integrity to U.S. detention policy.”

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In Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, Prof. David Hoffman, Jordan Konell L’22, and Luke McCartney L’23 advocate for rental lease template to help prevent disputes

Access to a plain language, easy-to-understand guide with legally valid terms would bring much-needed stability and fairness to the start of the rental process for both sides.

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At the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Prof. Claire Finkelstein argues that ‘violent nonstate actors are more properly thought of as civilians than combatants’

Finkelstein is an expert in national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.

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Former Justice Breyer law clerks Dean Ruger and Prof. deLisle share perspectives on his retirement

Ruger and deLisle praise Justice Breyer’s brilliance and broad approach to reaching legal decisions.

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At TIME, Prof. Kermit Roosevelt traces the evolution of MLK Jr.’s views on America through his speeches

Roosevelt maintains that King’s focus on Reconstruction should guide us forward.

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At The Christian Science Monitor, Prof. Coglianese explains the potential far-reaching consequences of the SCOTUS decision that strikes down OSHA’s vaccine mandate

Coglianese predicts the Court will continue to “be suspicious of grand exercises of regulatory authority by federal agencies.”

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Prof. Eric Feldman says SCOTUS decision denies ‘OSHA the opportunity to protect millions of workers from the possibility of COVID-19-related hospitalization and death’

Feldman is an expert in comparative public health law, particularly in the context of regulations surrounding COVID-19 and other urgent policy issues.

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Prof. Allison Hoffman explains SCOTUS decisions that block Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate but allow the rule for health care workers

“This Supreme Court has begun to narrow the scope of agency authority, including with today’s decision on the OSHA rule.”

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