Faculty Research and Thought

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.”

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

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

Professor Allison Hoffman’s essay, “Medicalization of Civil Rights Could Disappoint” responds to former Sharswood Fellow Craig Konnoth’s recent piece, “Medicalization and the New Civil Rights.”

The article is part of a special online supplemental issue of International Organization focusing on COVID-19 and international relations.

Chris Sanchirico comments on Apple’s legal victory against European antitrust regulators as a European court overruled a 2016 decision that ordered the company to pay $14.9 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland.

On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. Prof. Allison Hoffman provides additional context. 

On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru. the justices held that federal employment discrimination laws don’t apply to teachers who provide religious instruction at parochial schools.

On June 22, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to limit the power of the Securities Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits form wrongdoers. Prof. Jill Fisch discusses the decision on Bloomberg.

On Monday, June 29, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court announced they struck down a Louisiana anti-abortion rights law. Our faculty members have offered their insights.