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Court no-shows: A systemic issue
The courtyard at City Hall in Philadelphia.

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Court no-shows: A systemic issue

Penn Carey Law professor Sandy Mayson has found that failure-to-appear is a systemic phenomenon that plays a central role in criminal case processing in Philadelphia.

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Supporting vital immigrant defense
Members of Penn Carey Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic in the office of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Members of Penn Carey Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic traveled to Georgia to assist the Southern Poverty Law Center’s work representing immigrant detainees.

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Supporting vital immigrant defense

Penn Carey Law Transnational Legal Clinic students spent a semester with the Southern Poverty Law Center, learning immigration law while serving clients seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief.

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Supporting sustainable startups and underrepresented entrepreneurs
Students in the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic in a classroom working on laptops.

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Supporting sustainable startups and underrepresented entrepreneurs

Penn Carey Law’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic contributes to economic development with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and social impact startups.

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Penn Carey Law faculty react to SCOTUS ruling on immunity, social media content
he Guardian of Law sculpture is seen at the west entrance of the Supreme Court in Washington.

The Guardian of Law sculpture at the west entrance of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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Penn Carey Law faculty react to SCOTUS ruling on immunity, social media content

University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School professors share their reaction to two Supreme Court decisions delivered on the final day of the 2023-2024 term—presidential immunity and social media content.

Continued access to emergency abortion care
Supreme Court building with a video camera pointed at the front steps.

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Continued access to emergency abortion care

In dismissing Moyle v. United States, Penn Carey Law’s Allison K. Hoffman says the Supreme Court took a “procedural punt” in allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing emergency abortion care.

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The Civil Rights Act at 60
president johnson with martin luther king, jr signing civil rights act

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. after presenting the civil rights leader with one of the 72 pens used to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1964. Surrounding the president, from left, are, Rep. Roland Libonati, D-Ill., Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., Rev. King, Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., and behind Celler is Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League.

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The Civil Rights Act at 60

To mark the anniversary, Mary Francis Berry, Marcia Chatelain, and William Sturkey of the School of Arts & Sciences and Deuel Ross of Penn Carey Law offer takeaways on the landmark legislation.

Kristen de Groot, Kristina García

Public defender shortages
Image is of the Delaware County courthouse, a Classical Revival/Neo-Classical style building made of white marble,with a six column portico and clock in the pediment, located in Media, Pennsylvania.

The Delaware County courthouse is seen, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Media, Pennsylvania.

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Public defender shortages

A new report by Paul Heaton, director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, shows that nearly every county in Pennsylvania has a shortage of public defenders.

Kristen de Groot