Official account of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Training lawyers through dynamic legal education for an interconnected world since 1850.
Penn Carey Law welcomes
@kateashaw1
, who specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, and legislation, to our esteemed faculty! She will begin teaching at the Law School in January 2024.
The University of Pennsylvania Law Review (
@PennLRev
) has renamed its annual essay competition to honor Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
, acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law.
Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
says terms like 'child welfare' and 'protective services' are propaganda and prefers 'family policing system' as it more accurately defines what the system does.
In New York v. Trump, the court denied
@POTUS
's motion to dismiss, citing an amicus brief co-authored by
@PennLaw
Prof. Stephen Burbank arguing that a sitting president is not immune from suit for actions taken in his unofficial capacity.
An amendment to the “Protecting Our Democracy Act” that was first proposed by Prof.
@COFinkelstein
and Richard W. Painter of the University of Minnesota has passed the House of Representatives.
Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
: Child welfare system "not only harms the children who are taken from their families, but it also diverts our attention from how we should be supporting families."
Feb. 3 marks the launch of our Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic directed by
@CaraMcClellan6
with a day of conversations with leading advocates including Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
about "The Unfinished Work of Abolition" in America.
Read more:
Today is the 263rd commencement ceremony at Penn!
This morning on Locust Walk,
@Dean_Ruger
met up with some of the commencement speakers including Jon Bon Jovi, Bryan Stevenson, and Neville Earl Strumpf.
#pennlawlife
#pennlaw2019
Deuel Ross L’09 (
@RossDeuel
) successfully argued before SCOTUS that Alabama’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act.
“This decision is a crucial win against the continued onslaught of attacks on voting rights,” Ross said.
@NAACP_LDF
"The Clinton-Era Adoption Law That Still Devastates Black Families Today"
@Slate
by Prof. Dorothy Roberts on the repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Read more.
@DorothyERoberts
Prof. Blackhawk, one of Penn Law’s most recent faculty additions, has been awarded the prestigious William Nelson Cromwell Foundation prize for “best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar.”
Professor
@DorothyERoberts
, an internationally recognized expert in race, gender, and the law, has written the Foreword to
@HarvLRev
’s
#SCOTUS
Issue on the 2018 term.
Sophia Z. Lee, an experienced and admired leader whose scholarly work is rooted in cross-disciplinary collaboration, will become the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Penn President Liz Magill announced today.
Read more:
In tomorrow's lecture,
@DorothyERoberts
will draw on on decades of research, including from her forthcoming book, "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World." Learn more and register:
"Practice law like a human being", says
@PreetBharara
@pennlaw
's Commencement. "Justice sometimes springs more from the heart than from the head. Law School has taught you to keep your mind sharp, but don't ever forget to keep your heart full."
#Pennlaw2018
Welcome to Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, who is joining the Future of the Profession Initiative as Strategic Advisor, bringing her breadth of experience and dedication to equal access to justice
@BridgetMaryMc
@fpi_pennlaw
🎉 Penn Carey Law welcomes Asst. Prof.
@MichaelLMorse
C’13, an expert on voting rights and election law, to the faculty. Morse also holds a secondary appointment in the political science department.
Dean Ruger: “I’ve known Ketanji Brown Jackson personally for almost 30 years, and she is exactly the kind of thoughtful and fair-minded judge our country needs today on the Supreme Court."
Oleksiy Goncharenko’s Holt Lecture, "Live Free or Die: Lessons for the Free World from the War in Ukraine," was recently cited in a
@PhillyInquirer
op-ed supporting additional U.S. military support in Ukraine.
@GoncharenkoUa
This week, we celebrate a historic moment: Sophia Z. Lee, the first woman dean in Penn Carey Law’s history begins her tenure. We welcome Dean Lee as she leads us toward a new era of Penn Carey Law.
Learn more:
On 4/13, Just. Goodwin Liu, Assoc. Just. of the Calif. Supreme Court, will deliver the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Distinguished Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law: "Implicit Bias, Structural Bias, and Implications for Law and Policy"
Today, Penn Law becomes the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in honor of a historic $125 million gift made to the Law School by the W. P. Carey Foundation.
Professor
@DorothyERoberts
advocates the Commission on Human Rights investigating racial bias in hospital drug tests of new mothers.
Get the full details here👇
#LawNews
“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
in "Five myths about the child welfare system" at The Washington Post.
Today at Penn Law, we're streaming the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings throughout the building. Our entire community is watching closely as this pivotal moment in our nation's history unfolds.
#pennlaw
#pennlawlife
#lawstudent
#lawstudents
Presidential Prof. Lisa Fairfax reflects on the life and accomplishments of SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, her former college and law school roommate:
In the
@washingtonpost
, Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
advocates for providing increased support to poor and incarcerated parents rather than taking their children away.
👏 Congratulations to the recipients of our 2022-2023 Faculty Awards:
Incoming Dean Sophia Z. Lee, Bill Ewald, Jean Galbraith, Jasmine E. Harris (
@Jeharrislaw
), Matt Duncan L'03, and
@Andrea_Tosato
🏆
In an amicus filed in Trump v. U.S., Prof. Claire Finkelstein (
@COFinkelstein
) along with 14 national security and military experts argue against former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he is immune to all criminal charges, even after leaving office.
Professor
@DorothyERoberts
advocates the Commission on Human Rights investigating racial bias in hospital drug tests of new mothers.
Get the full details here👇
#LawNews
👏 Congratulations to Prof. Anita Allen, whose article on privacy, race, equity, and online data-protection reform has been awarded a 2023 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award:
👏 Presidential Professor Lisa Fairfax, Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics, has been appointed to
@FINRA
's Board of Governors.
Learn more:
At
@Essence
, Chistina Swarns L’93, executive director of the Innocence Project, recently discussed the problem of wrongful convictions and how she plans to expand the focus of the organization, one year into her position.
@ChristinaSwarns
@innocence
Prof. Yoo is Penn Carey Law's John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science and Founding Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
@PCL_CTIC
Because cyber-physical medical devices such as pacemakers are susceptible to cyberattacks, FDA’s traditional approach to safety evaluation is insufficient, argues Christopher Yoo of
@pennlaw
. A new regulatory framework is needed to confront new risks:
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have received teaching awards for the 2020–21 academic year:
@MaggieBlackhawk
;
@elizpollman
;
@ProfPolkWagner
; Jill E. Fisch; Xun Zeng GL’03 L’07; and Cynthia Dahl.
"We no longer live in a world in which a shared conception of constitutional liberty makes a ban on I.V.F. or certain forms of contraception beyond the pale," writes Prof.
@kateashaw1
and
@ProfMMurray
(
@nylaw
)
@nytimes
"Practice law like a human being," says
@PreetBharara
@pennlaw
's Commencement. "Justice sometimes springs more from the heart than from the head. Law School has taught you to keep your mind sharp, but don't ever forget to keep your heart full."
#Pennlaw2018
Get to know one of Penn Law’s newest faculty members,
@ProfOsseiOwusu
! In this Q&A, he talks about professional identity, legal aid, and cheesesteaks.
Congratulations to Texas State Representative Eric Johnson L'03 who defeated Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs by a wide margin on Saturday to become the city’s new mayor!
@PennLawAlumni
@Johnson4Dallas
“It’s unlikely that they’re going to come up with the kind of evidence they need to show that the requirements here actually make poor people healthier,” remarks
@PennLaw
Prof. Allison Hoffman on the rollout of Trump-era
#Medicaid
.
I want to congratulate my son
@JeremiahGrayyyy
on his decision to attend
@pennlaw
, the
#4
law school, as a Merit Scholar. Son, who would have thought that after you retired from Power 5 football you would be attending law school! I love you and I'm so proud of the man you are.
👏 Articles by Profs. Jill E. Fisch and
@elizpollman
are among Corporate Practice Commentator’s Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2022.
This marks Fisch’s 15th appearance; Pollman’s scholarship has been on the list 6 times in the past 6 yrs.
In pathbreaking research,
@HoffProf
finds that illegal, unenforceable terms in
@PhiladelphiaGov
leases have increased sharply over the last 20 years and that factors such as geography and
#race
do affect the kinds of terms tenants face.
Prof. Lisa Fairfax will have the honor and privilege of introducing her longtime friend at the Senate confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation has made a $50 million gift to launch hundreds of students into public interest legal careers.
#publicservice
#lawschool
Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
' book "Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century" was cited in a recent
@ScienceMagazine
article.
Read here:
“Public professionals are far more likely to report maltreatment than are private professionals who serve a more affluent, paying clientele,” says Prof. Dorothy Roberts. Read more.
@DorothyERoberts
We are pleased to welcome Lisa Fairfax,
@Jeharrislaw
, Sandra Mayson, and
@profrothman
to our standing faculty, as well as Sylvia Diaz L’ 08, Matthew Duncan L’03, and
@kulindell
to the Legal Practice Skills faculty. Meet them here:
As featured in
@PhillyInquirer
, Simone Hunter-Hobson L’23, Chayla Sherrod L’23, and Layla June West L’23 are making history as the editors-in-chief at three of the Law School’s journals
The Law School welcomes Cara McClellan GSE’12 (
@CaraMcClellan6
) as the Founding Director and Associate Practice Professor of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic.
Learn more about Cara's work and the new ARC Justice Clinic:
Congratulations to
@PennLaw
's Anita Allen who will be the first African-American woman president of the Eastern Division of the
@apaphilosophy
. She spoke with the
@nytimes
about her journey and vision of the future of philosophy.
In an amicus brief filed in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, Prof. Jasmine E. Harris (
@Jeharrislaw
) explains why civil rights testers are essential to the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Oral arguments will be tomorrow, 10/4.
Read more:
"Practice law like a human being", says
@PreetBharara
@pennlaw
's Commencement. "Justice sometimes springs more from the heart than from the head. Law School has taught you to keep your mind sharp, but don't ever forget to keep your heart full."
#Pennlaw2018
The Law School announces new chaired professorships for David Hoffman, Jonathan Klick, and Kermit Roosevelt.
@HoffProf
specializes in contract law, Klick in law and economics, and
@kroosevelt93
in constitutional law and conflict of laws. Read more:
Offering his perspectives on the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings,
@PennLaw
Prof. Tobias Wolff discusses Dr. Ford's allegations. He describes them as "objectively highly credible" on
@whartonknows
@SIRIUSXM
podcast
From decarbonization in a democracy to clean energy justice, Shelley Welton’s legal research focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental law.
Welcome to the Law School,
@shelley_welton
!
Grace Greene L’20 arrived at Penn Law with a background in microbiology and no idea what a judicial clerkship was. Now, she has the distinguished honor of being selected as a clerk for Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts.