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  • Penn Law’s Eric Feldman on the likelihood of employers requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccines

    The Heimbold Chair in International Law and Professor of Law Eric A. Feldman predicts that quite a few private companies are likely to require a COVID-19 vaccination, particularly those that involve some degree of contact between employees and the public, citing the 1905 case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which gives states the legal authority to mandate vaccines. However, he thinks a mandate is unlikely.

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  • Master in Law students and alumni lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the Law School and beyond

    The ML is a Penn Law degree launched in 2014 for non-lawyers, providing targeted legal education to industry leaders and accomplished academics, professionals, and Penn students, enabling them to inform their important work by understanding the law impacting their fields.

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  • Promoting gender equality and gender equity at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

    Despite the growing number of women entering the legal field, America’s law school faculty is still largely male. In recent years, the Law School has worked to reduce faculty gender disparity. As of 2020, 35% of Penn Law’s faculty are women—up from 22% just a few years ago. “The goal is to make it clear to everybody that promoting women’s advancement is an institutional priority and that we’re going to support projects and work on multiple fronts,” says dean and Bernard T. Segal Professor of Law Ted Ruger.

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  • The Quattrone Center launches website to help prosecutors set up conviction review units

    The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has launched a new website, www.convictionreview.net, to help prosecutors in conviction review units, as well as innocence organization lawyers, navigate the issues involved in investigating and resolving wrongful convictions. The site provides materials and templates, a wide variety of information regarding best practices, and guidance for working with victims and surviving victims’ families.

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  • The 33rd Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Commemorative Conference

    The Penn chapter of the Black Law Students Association’s annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Commemorative Conference, “Hidden Truths: Addressing a 13th Amendment Ambiguity that Created America’s Carceral State” brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights. Topics included roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement, as well as viable alternatives and legal interventions that can rectify societal harms caused by systemic racism and imprisonment.

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  • The likelihood of employers requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccines

    Penn law professor Eric A. Feldman discusses the issue of mandatory vaccines, and whether employees can require employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their employment, and the potential legal ramifications of doing so.

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  • COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker gives insight into the pandemic’s effects on insurance contracts

    Created by law professor Tom Baker, the COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker will enable scholars and researchers to study in real time how courts respond to the challenges posed by a new wave of mass litigation. 

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  • Second-year law students publish ‘Black Women Future Leaders’ report, developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s ‘Women, Law, and Leadership’ course

    The report, by Dana Dyer and Magali Duque, explores the ways in which themes including bias, representation, and allyship affect Black women in the legal field through the data collected from a survey of 30 Black Penn Law students, of which 24 identify as women and 6 identify as men.

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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. joins 1965 ‘Rule of Law’ panel at Penn

    On May 1, 1965 a special seminar was held at the Penn Museum as part of the University’s observance of Law Day. Titled “Rule of Law,” the program invited 400 guests to engage with the panel that included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as Raymond Pace Alexander, civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas.

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  • This year’s First Generation Professionals Fellows: Trevor Kirby and Virinchi Sindhwani

    The First Generation Professionals Fellowship is designed for students who are the first in their families to attend professional school.

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