A respected scholar of U.S. foreign relations law and public international law, Penn Law professor Jean Galbraith focuses her research on the allocation of legal authority among U.S. governmental actors and, at the international level, between domestic actors and international regimes. Recently, the prospect of the United States withdrawing from various international commitments has been the subject of significant news coverage.
Against that backdrop, Penn Law’s Office of Communications spoke with Galbraith about her current research on presidential authority to withdraw from and rejoin international agreements.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
