Public Service News

Three Penn Law graduates, Elizabeth Frawley L’15, Daniel Lambright L’15, and Katharine Schulman L’15, began their careers in the public sector this year with the support of Penn Law’s Catalyst Fellowships.

Community Legal Services honored the litigation team in Peake v. Commonwealth, which included Penn Law professor Seth Kreimer, as well as Penn Law alumni Sharon M. Dietrich L’85 and Jamie Gullen L’12.

The Toll Public Interest Center at Penn Law has launched Perspectives on Public Interest, a new podcast examining the causes and impacts of inequity, and avenues of positive change.

With the support of a postgraduate fellowship from Penn Law, Rob Zielinski L’15 is working as a staff attorney for the child representative program at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.

Jack Regenbogen L’15 has launched the Second Chance Project, an initiative working toward passing a private sector “ban the box” law in Colorado.

Penn Law hosted a discussion on problems facing veterans as part of the Law School’s Eighth Annual Public Interest Week.

Public Interest Week Honorary Fellow Benjamin Crump gave a presentation titled “We Can’t Breathe: The Struggle to Resuscitate Due Process in Civil Rights § 1983 Police Brutality Cases.”

At an event titled “Challenging Muslim Profiling in Post 9/11 Era,” Baher Azmy, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a constitutional law professor at Seton Hall University, addressed the unconstitutionality of religious profiling that has been “embraced” in the post-9/11 era.