In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
“Spanish for Law,” a new program offered by the Office of International Affairs, is designed to shrink the fluency gap by helping Spanish-speaking students become confident using Spanish legal terminology.
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In “The American Pathology of Inequitable Access to Medical Care,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor of Law Allison K. Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the U.S. and shows how “variable access illustrates, among other things, an American ambivalence about health solidarity.”
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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School announces that its Future of the Profession Initiative will partner with Access to Justice Tech Fellows (“A2J Tech Fellows”), a nonprofit organization that develops summer fellowships for law students seeking to leverage technology to create equitable legal access for low-income and marginalized populations. A2J Tech Fellow’s founder and executive director, Miguel Willis, will serve as FPI’s inaugural Innovator in Residence.
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To commemorate The Review’s first decade of publishing daily regulatory news, analysis, and opinion, leading regulatory scholars and distinguished regulatory leaders reflect on regulatory changes and developments over the past ten years.
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The New America Fellowship Program supports and invests in writers, scholars, filmmakers, and journalists, and awards ten fellows each year. Through his fellowship, Ossei-Owusu will work on his manuscript, “The People’s Champ: Legal Aid from Slavery to Mass Incarceration.”
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Associate dean and executive director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice John Hollway has been named to the Prosecutor Wellbeing Task Force of the National District Attorneys Association. The task force is designed to develop and disseminate resources, training, and peer-to-peer exchanges for prosecutors across the country to promote their health and wellbeing.
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After a 15-year hiatus, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Colin S. Diver Professor of Law Paul Robinson was reelected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) in June. Founded in 1923, the ALI is an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. Its elected members include eminent lawyers, judges, and academics.
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Small businesses have been hit especially hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a group of Penn Law students and recent graduates continue to be “indispensable” to the Pennsylvania 30 Day Fund, a program that provides financial assistance to small businesses during the pandemic. In eight weeks, the program has raised over $1.5 million and provided loans to 442 small businesses across the state.
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A large collection of data from nearly 25 cities on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on crime in the United States presents an opportunity to “test basic theories of crime.” In general, Abrams found crime has fallen considerably during the pandemic.
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Penn Law’s Dorothy Roberts’ pens a response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, which strikes down an oppressive Louisiana anti-abortion rights law, calling it “a major victory for reproductive justice in America.”
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