In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In an article for the Harvard Review, Penn Law Professor Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), argues for a paradigm shift in American constitutional law that would place Native Americans, federal Indian law, and American colonialism at the center of how lawyers and the public understand our constitutional framework.
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Penn Law, in partnership with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, hosted a two-day international strategic crisis and negotiation exercise last month. The event marked the first time the Army War College has partnered with a law school to run a strategic crisis exercise.
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Rutgers University-Newark has announced Law School professor Dorothy Roberts will deliver the keynote address at the university’s 2019 commencement ceremony. Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at Penn. She will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers
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Penn Law First Generation Scholars program will welcome its first members this fall, for those who are among the first in their families to attend graduate or professional school. The program, a first for the Law School, will support six students over six years through a scholarship from alumnus David Silk, who graduated in 1988.
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PennLaw School has partnered with Temple’s Beasley School of Law and the Kline School of Law at Drexel University to offer a unique new course on the future of criminal justice reform, co-taught by key leaders in Philadelphia: District Attorney Larry Krasner and Chief Defender Keir Bradford-Grey of the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
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Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner ere named the winners of this year’s Edwin R. Keedy Cup, Penn Law’s internal moot court competition, and Wiessner was named Best Oralist.
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Litman is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who will use his ML degree to advocate for increased regulations related to the safe administration of medicine.
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During law school, Saxena sought out professional experience in women’s rights and in general litigation practice, completing an internship with the Honorable Justice S. Muralidhar, known for progressive judgments on women’s rights and criminal law, and working with a lawyer who practiced at the Supreme Court of India.
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On January 3, Louis S. Rulli, Practice Professor of Law and the former Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies will receive the Father Robert Drinan Award of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities in recognition of his long and distinguished career in pro bono legal service.
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Over the last year, the faculty at Penn Law have continued to push the legal community forward by producing groundbreaking, nuanced, and important work.
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