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Controversial jurist’s name to be removed from Law School building
Exterior of Silverman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

A medallion with the name of controversial jurist Roger Brooke Taney adorns the exterior of Silverman Hall at The University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.

Controversial jurist’s name to be removed from Law School building

Following a yearlong evaluation and inclusive process, the name of Roger Brooke Taney, former chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, will be removed from a decorative medallion on the exterior of Silverman Hall.

Kristen de Groot

Title IX and disability, 50 years later
Abasketball game celebrating the anniversary of Title IX in 2012. (Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Education)

Title IX and disability, 50 years later

On the anniversary of the landmark bill, Penn Carey Law’s Jasmine Harris shares five things to know about how Title IX and disability intersect.

Kristen de Groot

The factors that lead to eviction by default
Entrance to Philadelphia Municipal Court.

The factors that lead to eviction by default

A new study from Penn Law’s David Hoffman links tenant evictions with long courthouse commute times, and finds that adopting video technology in court significantly reduce barriers to justice.

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SCOTUS limits federal court review in immigration cases
Small child being detained by U.S. Border Patrol.

Migrants are detained while being processed by US Border Patrol before boarding a bus to a detention center on June 1, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. (Image: John Lamparski/SIPA US/Sipa via AP Images)

SCOTUS limits federal court review in immigration cases

Penn Carey Law School’s Sarah Paoletti says the recent Supreme Court decisions will have a “devastating impact on non-citizens and their family members.”

Facing climate change with optimism
Satellite view of receding sea ice from space.

Receding Arctic sea ice, as seen from space.

(Image: NASA/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio)

Facing climate change with optimism

In the course titled Climate Change & the Energy Evolution, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law students learn how to use their legal skills to decarbonize the world’s economy.

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Reactions to leaked SCOTUS decision on the future of Roe v. Wade
Crowd in front of U.S. Supreme Court at night holding pro-choice signs like BANS OFF OUR BODIES and I STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court on Monday, May 2, 2022 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday night in Politico. (Image: AP Photo/Anna Johnson)

Reactions to leaked SCOTUS decision on the future of Roe v. Wade

According to a leaked draft published by Politico, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights. University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School faculty offer perspectives.

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Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander outside Houston Hall in the early 20th century.

Sadie T.M. Alexander, seen here outside Houston Hall in the early 20th century, has been posthumously named a 2022 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association. (Image: Courtesy of University Archives)

Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor

The American Economic Association named Alexander, who earned economics and law degrees at Penn a century ago, a 2022 Distinguished Fellow.

Kristen de Groot

Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
A grid of people that includes, in the top row, Dorothy Roberts, Drew Weissman, and Katalin Karikó, and in the bottom row, Yale Goodman, Nicholas Sambanis, and Diana Kotzin.

Six researchers and faculty affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Penn Law have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. (Images: Courtesy of [counterclockwise from top left] Penn Law, Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine, Penn Engineering, Nicholas Sambanis, Graduate School of Education)

Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022

Faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Law School join more 260 honorees recognized for contributions to academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research.

Michele W. Berger

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court on battling bias
Justice Goodwin Liu speaks at a podium in the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California State Supreme Court gave the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law. (Image: Courtesy of Alicia Savoly of FotoBuddy)

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court on battling bias

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court offered his take on implicit and structural bias during the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.

Kristen de Groot

The changing face of portraiture at Penn
portrait in leidy labs

Homepage image: A portrait in Leidy honors Nathan Francis Mossell, who, in 1882, became the first African American student to earn a medical degree from Penn. With its placement in the accessible portion of the building’s stairway, this new portrait gallery is highly visible to students, staff, faculty, and visitors who spend time in the Biology Department.

The changing face of portraiture at Penn

Efforts around campus aim to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art.

Katherine Unger Baillie