Public Service News
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August 14, 2017David Washington L’15 has been named the Penn Law Civil Rights Fellow, a new, two-year, post-graduate fellowship created by Penn Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center for graduating public interest students and recent alumni. -
August 10, 2017In this dispatch, Devin Troy L’18 describes her experience as part of the Morgan Lewis Community Experience program. -
July 31, 2017With the support of a postgraduate fellowship from Penn Law, Isabel Abreu L’16 is working in the legal services department of HIAS Pennsylvania, where she provides immigration assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who live in counties outside of Philadelphia. -
July 24, 2017Seven Penn Law graduates and alumni were awarded fellowships to launch their public interest careers. -
July 10, 2017With the support of an Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Penn Law graduate Frank White L’16 is fighting these predatory lending in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. -
May 1, 2017Sheerine Alemzadeh L’11 has co-founded a new nonprofit in Chicago called Healing to Action, whose mission is to advance a worker-led movement to end gender violence. -
April 24, 2017Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 has been awarded this year’s Chubb Rule of Law Fellowship to support her work in international law and human rights following her graduation from Penn Law this year. -
April 24, 2017Penn Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have created a new, two-year, post-graduate fellowship for a new or recent graduate to work with the SPLC’s Special Litigation Practice Group. -
March 28, 2017Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger is one of 166 law school deans from around the country who have signed a letter addressed to the Chairs of the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committee, as well as the Chairs of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, & Related Agencies, urging them to maintain funding for the Legal Services Corporation. -
February 28, 2017On February 24, Penn Law, as a part of Public Interest Week, hosted a panel titled “Making an Impact as a Government Lawyer,” where Marsha Chien L’10 and Omar Gonzalez-Pagan L’10 answered law students’ questions about working in state government.