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A conversation with guest lecturer, historian, and best-selling author Jill Lepore
three people sitting on a stage

Best-selling author Jill Lepore (center), a Harvard history professor and staff writer at The New Yorker, spoke about teaching the U.S. Constitution during an era of constitutional crisis in a conversation at Penn with Graduate School of Education dean Pam Grossman (right) and School of Law dean Theodore Ruger. (Image: Jane Lindahl)

A conversation with guest lecturer, historian, and best-selling author Jill Lepore

Best-selling author Jill Lepore, a Harvard history professor and staff writer at The New Yorker, spoke about teaching the U.S. Constitution during an era of constitutional crisis in a conversation with Graduate School of Education Dean Pam Grossman and Law School Dean Theodore Ruger.
Texas abortion ban
Pro-choice activists hold signs reading "keep abortion legal' and "protect abortion access' in front of the US Supreme Court building

Image: Adam Fagen/Flickr

  • Q&A

    • Texas abortion ban

    Penn Law’s Serena Mayeri on what the law means and what’s next for Texas and the nation.

    Kristen de Groot

    HIPAA at 25 remains a work in progress
    Folders full of alphabetized medical records on a shelf.

    HIPAA at 25 remains a work in progress

    Anita Allen argues that while HIPAA has delivered meaningful benefits to consumers, it still needs updating to address new and emerging privacy challenges.

    From the Regulatory Review

    Long-term COVID and the ADA
    microscopic view of coronavirus
  • Q&A

    • Long-term COVID and the ADA

    Jasmine Harris, a disability law expert, shares her thoughts on President Biden’s announcement that long-term COVID sufferers could be protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act

    Kristen de Groot

    COVID-19, protests, and crime
    Three police cars with sirens flashing are seen in a line from behind police crime tape at night

    How did the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s racial justice protests affected America’s crime rate? Two undergrads worked with Law professor David Abrams to find out.

    COVID-19, protests, and crime

    During a summer internship with the Law School’s David Abrams, rising sophomores Caroline Li and David Feng looked at how the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s racial justice protests affected America’s crime rate. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: 40th anniversary of a historic first
    Three people stand in front of a bookcase full of books in burgundy binding, the man on the left is wearing judge robes and has his right hand in the air, the woman on the right is in judge robes and has her right hand in the air and left hand on a bible and a man in the middle wears a suit and tie, is holding the bible and is looking at the woman

    Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in to the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Warren Burger as her husband John O’Connor looks on.

    (Image: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives)

    Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: 40th anniversary of a historic first

    July 7 marked 40 years since O’Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court. Scholar Marci A. Hamilton shares her thoughts on O’Connor’s legacy

    Kristen de Groot

    Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias
    Partially obscured head of Blind Justice statue against a backdrop of algorithmic code.

    Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias

    The Class of 2022 law student works to identify biases and ‘stereotype threat’ in AI and help provide context for the conversation around mitigating those biases.

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