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July 9The tribute book celebrates Prof. Hovenkamp’s life and work through contributions by peers, colleagues, and former students.
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July 8Four distinguished faculty members have retired from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year: Professors Regina Austin, Stephen B. Burbank, Charles W. Mooney Jr, and Stephen R. Perry.
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June 30Fernando Chang-Muy, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, comments on SCOTUS the decision in Johnson v. Guzman Chavez. Supreme Court held that 6-3 that deported immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally and claim they fear torture at home must remain in custody while their cases are processed.
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June 29Dahl comments on the SCOTUS ruling, Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, which limits the patent-law doctrine known as “assignor estoppel” baring inventors who sell patent rights from later claiming they’re invalid as a defense to infringement claims.
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June 29Professor Sarah Paoletti comments on Supreme Court ruling that deported immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally and meet the definition of a refugee, or because they face torture in their home country must remain in custody while their cases are processed.
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June 25Prof. Coglianese: The Supreme Court today stepped in to reverse the lower court, giving EPA more latitude to exempt even more refineries from renewable fuel requirements.
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June 24Prof. Wolff stated that while the decision is “good,” the opinion doesn’t offer much guidance for the future of the First Amendment in schools.
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June 21Prof. Coglianese expounds upon his analysis of the decision in “A Trojan Horse from the Court’s Conservatives?” in The Regulatory Review.
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June 18Professor Yoo comments on the multilayered challenges in closing the broadband coverage gap
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June 17Prof. Wolff pushes back on early characterizations of the Supreme Court decision as a narrow ruling.
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June 17Health law expert Prof. Allison Hoffman observes that this decision is consistent with others in recent years where the Supreme Court has narrowed the ability of aggrieved parties to bring suit.
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June 2Adjunct Prof. Chang-Muy discusses the impact of the recent decision in the consolidated immigration cases of Garland v. Dai and Garland v. Alcaraz-Enriquez.
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May 27In “Criminal Law’s Core Principles,” Robinson writes that focusing only on the current criminal justice theory leads to a “blank slate” conception of lawmaking, which is “dangerously misguided.”
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May 25Prof. Coglianese offers an in-depth analysis of soft law governance of environmental quality, concluding that while it holds much appeal, decision makers should also be aware of its limitations.
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May 18Prof. Hoffman presented her paper “A Public Option for Health Care Plans” at “The Promise of Health Reform and a Public Option in a Biden Administration” virtual conference organized by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and United States of Care.
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May 17
Provost Wendell E. Pritchett GR’97, Erica V. Rodarte Costa L’22 and Reinvestment Fund’s Ira J. Goldstein and Emily S. Dowdall GCP’09, emphasize that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provision of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an obligation that attaches to all federal agencies.
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May 14Six members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have received teaching awards for the 2020–21 academic year. Maggie Blackhawk is awarded the Harvey Levin Memorial teaching award; Elizabeth Pollman is awarded the LLM teaching award; R. Polk Wagner is awarded the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course; Jill E. Fisch is awarded the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching; Xun Zeng GL’03 L’07 is awarded the Adjunct Teaching Award; and Cynthia Dahl receives the Experiential Teaching Award.
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May 11Through the Toll Public Interest Center, Law School students work with Troutman Pepper’s Pepper Center for Public Service on pro bono immigration cases.
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May 10The ISCNE is designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the highest strategic level.
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May 3Empirical evidence from Prof. Cary Coglianese’s study challenges the widespread perception of the U.S. regulatory system as inflexible and burdensome.
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April 27Prof. Pollman’s “Private Company Lies” was selected by her peers as among the best corporate and securities articles published in legal journals in 2020.
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April 19In a new paper, Prof. Coglianese explores whether U.S. administrative law can accommodate a future in which most government functions are automated.
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April 13In a recent article, Prof. Morse explores internal and external challenges to culpability.
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April 13The court’s significant ruling cited “The Downstream Consequences of Pretrial Detention,” co-authored by Paul Heaton, Sandy Mayson, and Megan Stevenson.
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April 7Prof. Feldman shares his insight into the likelihood of mandatory vaccines for employment and what that could look like in practice.
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April 6In “Private Company Lies,” published in the Georgetown Law Journal, Professor of Law Elizabeth Pollman argues that the time has come to examine and address securities fraud in private companies.
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March 30With more women entering the legal field than ever, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is strengthening its efforts to encourage and support gender equity.
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March 25The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, partnering with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, will host a unique, two-day international strategic crisis and negotiation exercise from March 25-27.
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March 16The event brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights to engage in a robust conversation about the roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement.
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March 15Assistant Professor of Law Natasha Sarin is taking a public service leave to join the Biden Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department.