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February 1, 2021The Law School’s annual Public Interest Week will be held from February 1 to February 5 with all virtual events. -
December 18, 2020Take a look back at the unique year that was 2020 with the top ten stories from the Law School’s newsroom
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November 2, 2020Student-led groups within the Toll Public Interest Center are collaborating with local legal aid advocates to provide relief to those who have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. -
October 26, 2020The 2020 National Celebration of Pro Bono, led by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, takes places from October 25 – 31, 2020. Join the conversation and celebration with the Toll Public Interest Center. -
July 22, 2020As a Catalyst Fellow, Sabrina Ruchelli L’19 is working as a Law and Policy Analyst with the Policy Surveillance Program at Center for Public Health Law Research, which is based at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. -
July 21, 2020The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC) has awarded the CTIC Summer Public Interest Fellowships to students Gerald Adams L’22 and Joshua Burd L’22.
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July 10, 2020On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School held the second event in its summer series, A Path for Change: Policing in America. The series is part of a yearlong colloquium, Achieving Racial Justice, as one of many initiatives Penn Law will be implementing in the coming months “to work internally and externally against anti-Black violence and racism and to promote meaningful change toward a more just reality.” -
July 2, 2020Jocelyn A. K. Walcott, a JD/MSEd candidate, has spent the summer as an intern at the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR). -
June 25, 2020On Wednesday June 24, 2020, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School held the first event in its summer series, A Path for Change: Policing in America. The series is part of a yearlong colloquium, Achieving Racial Justice. -
May 29, 2020A historic number of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law school JD and LLM grads to launch public interest careers to serve communities in need. -
May 21, 2020Giwa-Ojuri was selected as a recipient of the EJW Fellowship from a pool of over 430 applicants. -
April 30, 2020Demonstrating the powerful partnership that can occur between private and public sector lawyers, a class action lawsuit has been brought against the City of Philadelphia on behalf of all medically vulnerable incarcerated people in the Philadelphia county prisons. Representation for the plaintiffs include Law School alumni and faculty. -
March 18, 2020The course, co-taught by Professor John Hollway, is held bi-weekly and features small, student-led discussions about various contemporary issues in policing
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February 21, 2020With the Independence Foundation fellowship, Valerie Snow L’20 will work at Philadelphia’s SeniorLAW Center, focusing on the legal rights of low-income seniors. -
December 18, 2019The Skadden Foundation recently announced that University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School 3L Mariel Mussack has secured one of its coveted fellowships.
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December 16, 2019Military veteran Andrew Timmick talks about his choice to serve in the armed forces and his transition to studying law. -
December 9, 2019Alumni Gregory B. David L’04, Clare Putnam Pozoz L’07, Jennifer Arbittier Williams C’92 L’95 and former Lecturer Alison Kehner discuss leadership in the EDPA. -
December 2, 2019On November 13, Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank, presented the The Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. -
November 27, 2019At the annual Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative dinner, Nicole Isaac L’04 shared her professional journey from law school, to government service in the Obama administration, to her current role as the head of North America policy at LinkedIn. -
October 18, 2019Connected: Reimagining Community in the Pursuit of Justice -
June 13, 2019Each year, Equal Justice Works selects a class of public service leaders who have designed two-year projects in partnership with legal services organizations that help build sustainable solutions in the communities where they serve. Brill was one of 76 new lawyers selected from over 450 applicants. -
May 28, 2019This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Penn Law’s Public Interest Program, which since its inception has made Penn Law a leader among United States law schools in fostering an ethos of public service. -
April 10, 2019The dinner, co-sponsored by the Leo Model Foundation for Government Service and Public Affairs, brought together more than 50 Penn Law students, alumni, and staff for a celebration of service. -
November 21, 2018Rangita de Silva de Alwis, the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Associate Dean for International Programs, will be a featured participant at a major international summit, the Women Leaders Global Forum in Reykjavik, Iceland. -
November 19, 2018The bill, which is currently working its way through City Council and may soon come up for a vote, would protect tenants by preventing landlords from terminating tenants’ leases without just cause. -
October 5, 2018Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, spoke at Penn Law on October 4th about the modern Supreme Court nomination process. -
October 4, 2018The panel presentation, part of Public Interest Week programming, explored how the policy emerged over time and connects to longstanding inequalities in the family immigration system. -
October 1, 2018The 11th Annual Public Interest Week brings together students, noted public interest lawyers, policymakers, and scholars for events addressing the theme of “Justice for All.” -
August 27, 2018In this pathway, Emily Lubin L’19 recounts her summer internship with the Alaska Public Defender Agency in Fairbanks, Alaska. -
June 7, 2018Margaret Zhang L’15 works as a legal fellow at the Women’s Law Project advocating for pregnant and breastfeeding women in PA workplaces, schools, and prisons. -
May 25, 2018Penn Law continues to build upon programs that create pathways to careers in public interest and government. -
April 30, 2018Penn Law’s important assets are people: those who are learning the law and those who educate and support them. -
April 25, 2018Members of Penn Law’s public interest community gathered together in an annual celebration of public service and exemplary achievements in pro bono. -
March 29, 2018Rodney Holcombe L’17 works as a legal fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance in Oakland, California. -
March 26, 2018Carl Snodgrass L’17 has joined the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program as the Debtors’ Prisons Fellow with the support of a postgraduate fellowship from Penn Law. -
March 19, 2018Penn Law student Patrick A. Berry L’18 was named the recipient of the Samuel T. Gomez Award by the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the Asian American Bar Association of Philadelphia. -
March 14, 2018Honorary Fellow-in-Residence Juan Cartagena and guest speaker Cecilia Wang discuss strategies for successful advocacy during TPIC’s 10th annual public interest week.
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March 1, 2018The EJF is a student-run organization that funds Penn Law students pursuing public interest work and serving communities whose legal needs may otherwise go unmet. All proceeds from the auction are given as grants to students. -
February 28, 2018Penn Law receives $3 million gift to expand public interest programs, establish Public Service CorpsGift from Robert Toll L’66 and Jane Toll GSE’66 further increases access for Penn Law students to pursue impactful public service careers -
February 19, 2018Penn Law’s 10th annual Public Interest Week runs until February 23, bringing noted bringing noted public interest lawyers, including this year’s Public Interest Week Honorary Fellow-in-Residence Juan Cartagena, to the Law School for a variety of panels and discussions. -
January 29, 2018
Penn Law students from the Environmental Law Project (ELP) argue that the proposed repeal is not supported by scientific evidence, and that the agency’s change in course is not supported by a valid justification.
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January 22, 2018Penn Law alumnus George Donnelly L’15 has been awarded a Public Interest Law Fellowship from the Independence Foundation to continue his work with Philadelphia’s Public Interest Law Center representing tenants and developing strong legal protections for the housing rights of low-income Pennsylvanians. -
January 2, 2018Two Penn Law students, Albert Pak L’18 and Jayme Wiebold L’18, have been awarded Skadden Fellowships to pursue work in the public interest. These highly competitive postgraduate fellowships fund two years of work providing legal services to the poor, the elderly, the homeless, the disabled, and those deprived of their civil or human rights. -
December 18, 2017Shira Perlmutter L ’83 visited Penn Law this fall semester as part of the Leo Model Foundation fellows program. -
December 5, 2017Nancy Nord’s visit to Penn law with The Leo Model Foundation as the Fall 2017 Distinguished Policy Fellow. -
November 13, 2017As part of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative, in partnership with the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights, Penn Law’s Emily Sutcliffe traveled to Malaysia to conduct a week-long training for human rights attorneys and activists. -
October 9, 2017Helen Eisner L’12 explains the investigative work done by the Office of Congressional Ethics. -
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. -
February 24, 2017On February 22, as a part of Penn Law’s ninth annual Public Interest Week, the Law School hosted “A Life Unraveled: How Criminal Records Destabilize the Lives of Low-Income Individuals.” The program simulated the struggles facing individuals with criminal backgrounds such as custody issues, access to housing, and financial stability. -
February 23, 2017On February 20, as a part of Penn Law’s Ninth Annual Public Interest Week, the Law School held an panel discussion titled “Voting Rights in Philadelphia: The 2016 Election from a Community Perspective.”
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February 13, 2017Rick Mula L’15, an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, promotes equal rights for LGBT youth through his public interest work. -
January 30, 2017Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger affirms that “as a world-leading research and teaching institution, we must engage actively with students, attorneys, and policymakers from around the globe in order to prepare our students to be lawyers and leaders in an increasingly connected society and economy.”
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January 3, 2017Four Penn Law students and alumni have been awarded sought-after post-graduate fellowships to begin their public interest legal careers. -
November 14, 2016This past summer, six Penn Law students — three 2Ls and three 3Ls — had the opportunity to work in various areas of the government as Model Summer Fellows. -
October 24, 2016In Kuren v. Luzern County, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that public defender clients have the right to sue counties that do not provide adequate funding to their public defender offices. David Rudovsky explains the repercussions for public defender offices throughout Pennsylvania. -
September 26, 2016Six Penn Law graduates and alumni are hitting the ground running in their public interest careers with the help of postgraduate fellowships from Penn Law.
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September 12, 2016Pro bono service is one of the hallmarks of a Penn Law legal education. In this video feature, three students discuss their individual pro bono experiences and how those experiences influenced their thinking about the law. -
August 15, 2016Five Penn Law graduates and alumni were awarded prestigious national fellowships to pursue a diverse array of public interest projects.
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July 11, 2016Three 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. -
June 28, 2016Community 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. -
May 23, 2016The 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. -
April 4, 2016With 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. -
February 29, 2016Jack Regenbogen L’15 has launched the Second Chance Project, an initiative working toward passing a private sector “ban the box” law in Colorado. -
February 26, 2016Penn Law hosted a discussion on problems facing veterans as part of the Law School’s Eighth Annual Public Interest Week. -
February 26, 2016Public 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.” -
February 25, 2016At 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. -
February 23, 2016On February 22, the start of Public Interest Week, former SEC commissioner Troy Paredes spoke about the SECs new crowdfunding rules, which could change the way that small businesses grow. -
February 17, 2016Benjamin Crump, counsel for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, is this year’s Honorary Fellow in Residence at Public Interest Week. -
February 1, 2016As the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Public Interest Fellow, Ben Wiener L’14 is providing public defense for indigent clients who have pleaded guilty through the Center for Appellate Litigation in New York City. -
January 21, 2016Wan-an Chiang LLM’04, L’06 and Chiao-hui Su LLM’07 were elected to the parliament in Taiwan, and they will be among the youngest members of Taiwan’s legislature. -
November 10, 2015Sparer Symposium keynote speaker Brenda Wright discussed the ever-increasing roll of money in politics and how this money creates political inequality. -
November 9, 2015Three recent Penn Law graduates have been awarded 2015–2016 postgraduate fellowships from Penn Law and are currently working with public interest organizations across the country to serve underrepresented communities. -
October 13, 2015At “Don’t Throw Away the Key: Perspectives on Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences,†panelists told stories from their own backgrounds and explained their advocacy for the complete abolishment of juvenile sentencing without parole. -
September 28, 2015Miriam Archibong L’16 discusses how her Penn Law education has influenced her long-standing work in government and public policy. -
September 17, 2015Robert Toll L’66 and Jane Toll GSE’66 have given a $2.5 million gift, which will further support the Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC) and public interest programming at the Law School. -
May 4, 2015Valerie Baron L’12 and Rick Mula L’15 were awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowships to fund their work on innovative projects for communities in need of legal assistance. -
March 2, 2015Reed Brody, the Honorary Fellow-in-Residence for this year’s Public Interest Week, discussed working high profile cases against dictators such as Augusto Pinochet, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, and Hissène Habré. -
February 16, 2015Whitney Viets L’15 has been awarded the 2014–15 ACE Rule of Law Fellowship, given annually to a Penn Law student or recent graduate pursuing an international public-interest law career. -
January 20, 2015Two Penn Law students and one recent graduate were recently awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowships, and a Penn Law student was also selected for the highly coveted Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship from the American Civil Liberties Union in New York. -
December 15, 2014The Public Service Program is, today, one of the Law School’s glories, and Howard Lesnick was the inspiration and force behind its creation. -
November 17, 2014On November 14, Mark O’Brien spoke on the value of technology to at-risk communities. O’ Brien was keynote speaker for the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s 34th Annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium, titled “Law 2.0: Progress and Challenges for Justice in the Digital Age.” -
October 31, 2014Penn Law and the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting a series of events highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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October 20, 2014A new gift from the Leo Model Foundation to the University of Pennsylvania Law School will create the Model Government and Public Affairs Initiative, a series of new programs designed to prepare students for fulfilling work in government and public policy. -
October 16, 2014On October 14, Penn Law’s Office of Career Planning and Professionalism hosted its annual 1L Summer Experience Fair. Second-year students who worked in various sectors in the legal field last summer talked with the 1Ls about their experiences and the summer job search process. -
October 13, 2014Penn Law’s first class of Catalyst Grant recipients have begun their work in the public sector, working on everything from prosecuting criminals to determining the legal status of shipwrecks. The Catalyst Grant program provides a year of support for Penn Law graduates who serve in government or conduct human rights work. -
September 2, 2014Marking a major milestone in legal education and emblematic of the service ethic at the core of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, this academic year Penn Law will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of its public interest program, featuring a year-long series of lectures, workshops, conferences focusing on the power and impacts of public service lawyering. -
August 11, 2014Can Gigi Sohn L’86 keep both the internet and lines of communication with industry open?
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July 14, 2014Joanna Visser Adjoian L’10, Associate Director for Penn Law’s Toll Public Interest Center, has co-founded a new nonprofit, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP), which aims to improve outcomes for minors entangled in the adult criminal justice system.
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May 8, 2014The Maldives has enacted a comprehensive penal code drafted by Prof. Paul Robinson and his students; it is the first in the world to incorporate the major tenets and principles of Islamic law. -
May 7, 2014Penn Law’s Rule of Law Policy and Practice class traveled to Washington, DC for a day of meetings with key stakeholders in Rule of Law and International Human Rights arenas.
