News & Events
Government news
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June 7, 2017Details on Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. -
June 7, 2017University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Stephanos Bibas, Professor of Law and Criminology and director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic, will be nominated by President Trump to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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June 1, 2017Cary Coglianese spoke with the Law School’s Office of Communications about President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, a carbon reduction agreement signed onto by more than 190 countries. -
May 22, 2017As part of Penn Law’s Model Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Executive Director John Hollway taught a Policy Research Seminar this spring semester titled “A Systems Approach to Conviction Integrity,” which took a cross-disciplinary look at why the criminal justice system sometimes gets it wrong and how the system can be improved in the future. -
May 13, 2017“The question,” Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains, “is whether our constitutional system—designed by people who didn’t foresee the party system—can continue to function in an era of severe political polarization.”
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Recent government testimony
- Prof. Cary Coglianese testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management hearing on “Reviewing Independent Agency Rulemaking” (Sep. 8, 2016)
- Prof. Louis Rulli testifies on civil forfeiture in Pennsylvania (Oct. 21, 2015)
- Prof. David Skeel testifies at hearing entitled, “The Dodd-Frank Act Five Years Later: Are We More Free?” (Sept. 17, 2015)
- Prof. Christopher Yoo testifies on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger (Apr. 9, 2014)
- Prof. Cary Coglianese testimony before Senate on auto safety regulation (Nov. 7, 2013)
- Penn Law students’ testimony before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on guest worker abuses (Mar. 6, 2013)
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Adam Finkel testimony before the U.S. House Small Business Committee
Recordings of past events
- “Pursuing regulatory excellence: Brexit, Trump, and beyond” (Prof. Cary Coglianese at Brookings)
- PI Podcast: Steven Croley offers insights on the future of energy regulation
- “Getting Things Done: America’s Yearning for a New Way of Governing” (At the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.)
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“Will Reauthorization Save the Higher Education Act?” (At New America, Washington, D.C.)
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“A Dream Realized or Denied? Voting Rights & Access” (At Reagan Center, Washington, D.C.)
- “Drone Wars: The Future of Targeted Killings & Presidential Power” (At National Press Club, Washington, D.C.)
- “Are Superpowers Above the Law? The U.S., China, and the Future of the International Legal Order” (At National Press Club, Washington, D.C.)
- “Are the branches of government broken?”(At National Press Club, Washington, D.C.)
