Items tagged with Legal History
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May 28Hear her comments on Episode One: Pauli Murray vs. Jane Crow
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May 26Read the most recent op-ed in The Washington Post by Sally Gordon.
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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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February 16The Legal History Consortium, jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Penn’s Graduate History Department, was formed to promote interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and education in law and history.
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January 12Prof. Roosevelt shares the historical background of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as well as his analysis of the House Democrats’ use of the provision in an impeachment article against President Trump.
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November 23Watch the University of Pennsylvania’s virtual memorial for Anne Fleming
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October 16Read his article entitled For minority law students, learning the law can be intellectually violent
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September 21
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September 15He will work on his manuscript, The People’s Champ: Legal Aid from Slavery to Mass Incarceration.
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September 2Serena Mayeri is quoted in this Penn Today article
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July 10Her paper is titled “Policing the ‘Police State’: Detention, Supervision, and Deportation During the Cold War”
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May 11Listen to the BackStory podcast on one of the most influential but little-known figures in modern American history.
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April 8The article, published in the Boston Review, discusses the disproportionate effect that COVID-19 is having among vulnerable populations.
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February 20A renowned legal historian, Tani will be the Seaman Family University Professor, with faculty appointments in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and in the Department of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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February 5A recap from the American Historical Association’s 134th annual meeting.
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February 1Maggie Blackhawk’s recent publication in the Stanford Law Review.
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January 20Serena Mayeri’s recent publication in The Yale Law Journal.
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January 19An op-ed by Sarah Barringer Gordon in the Los Angeles Times.
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November 27“Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State” wins best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar.
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October 28Presidential Assistant Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu joins the Penn Law faculty.
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October 15Her project, co-directed by Professor Kevin Waite from Durham University, is called “The Long Road to Freedom: Biddy Mason (1818–1891) and the Making of Black Los Angeles.”
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July 19Are the immigration detention centers on the border becoming more like “concentration camps”?
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July 16Organized by Tobin’s Institutions of Democracy initiative.
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May 28
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May 26Maggie Blackhawk’s op-ed in the New York Times.
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May 11Maggie Blackhawk discusses the 19th Amendment on Matter of Fact.
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May 10Maggie Blackhawk’s article in the Harvard Law Review.
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April 22Amber Armstrong’s op-ed in The Washington Post.
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April 8