Faculty Research and Thought

Empirical evidence from Prof. Cary Coglianese’s study challenges the widespread perception of the U.S. regulatory system as inflexible and burdensome.

Prof. Pollman’s “Private Company Lies” was selected by her peers as among the best corporate and securities articles published in legal journals in 2020.

In a new paper, Prof. Coglianese explores whether U.S. administrative law can accommodate a future in which most government functions are automated.

In a recent article, Prof. Morse explores internal and external challenges to culpability.

The court’s significant ruling cited “The Downstream Consequences of Pretrial Detention,” co-authored by Paul Heaton, Sandy Mayson, and Megan Stevenson.

Prof. Feldman shares his insight into the likelihood of mandatory vaccines for employment and what that could look like in practice.

In “Private Company Lies,” published in the Georgetown Law Journal, Professor of Law Elizabeth Pollman argues that the time has come to examine and address securities fraud in private companies.

Prof. David Hoffman has uncovered that illegal, unenforceable terms in residential leases have increased sharply in recent years and that geography and race play a role in such terms.

United States Senator and former Law School professor Elizabeth Warren honors Professor Stephen Burbank.

Prof. Coglianese recently shared his insight and analysis on conservation and environmental protection under the Biden administration.

 

Prof. David A. Skeel recently published “Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy” in theYale Law Journal.

In “Illuminating Regulatory Guidance,” Prof. Coglianese offers practical guidance on how to enhance public access to administrative agency guidance documents.

Prof. Roosevelt shares the historical background of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as well as his analysis of the House Democrats’ use of the provision in an impeachment article against President Trump.

Prof. Fisch proposes a more defined and enforceable purpose statement for publicly traded public benefit corporations in “The ‘Value’ of a Public Benefit Corporation.”

Professor Herbert Hovenkamp advocates for a better defined principle of consumer welfare so antitrust law can be more effective.

As part of the meeting for the 73^rd Plenary Session, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent federal agency charged with recommending improvements to administrative process and procedure, directly references the work of two University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty members in its recommendations concerning Protected Materials in Public Rulemaking Dockets and Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence.

The Communications team at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School spoke with antitrust expert Professor Herbert Hovenkamp about the recently filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook.

In his book review, Prof. Morse uses Susan Vinocour’s book Nobody’s Child as a vehicle to explore various criminal law and justice system issues that intersect with mental health and social welfare.

Health care law expert Professor Allison Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the United States in this Oxford Handbook chapter.

Professor of Law Shyamkrishna Balganesh contends that courts should allow technical experts to testify in software copyright cases.

In a new article, Prof. Coglianese compiles the first comprehensive empirical effort to track the last 50 years of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking and court decisions involving the agency. 

Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp argues for a properly defined consumer welfare principle so that antitrust law can fulfill its statutory purpose.

Professor Allison Hoffman’s new paper advocates for “a combination of funding, regulation, and a new strategy that fully supports a range of institutional and noninstitutional care.”

Lecturer in Law Michael Murphy argues that an attorney’s “Duty to Google” should be codified in a rule of professional conduct that better defines the duty of factual investigation.

Practice Professor of Law Cynthia Laury Dahl examines the Act’s effects on the patent-centric industry of university technology transfer offices (TTOs) in her recently released paper, “Did the America Invents Act Change University Technology Transfer?”

In a recently released paper, James G. Dinan University Professor Herbert Hovenkamp delves into some of the most pressing antitrust issues concerning large digital platforms.

In his recently released paper, “Law as Scapegoat,” Professor Cary Coglianese argues that some populist leaders frame laws and regulations as “the other” in an effort to expand their followings.

With her pathbreaking paper, Prof. Fisch “offers the first broad-based analysis of shareholder agreements, detailing the scope of issues to which they are addressed and identifying the challenges that they pose for corporate governance.”

Professor Abrams’ research suggests that criminal activity has dropped substantially, dramatically, and broadly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through the leadership of Prof. Christopher Yoo, Penn joins Public Interest Technology University Network