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PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania Law School and two human rights groups are calling on the government of Iran to release an Iranian legal scholar scheduled to teach in the U.S.

PHILADELPHIA –- A University of Pennsylvania Law School professor is introducing a way of teaching mediation law using an interactive, multi-media approach, combining a text book with an instructional DVD.

PHILADELPHIA –- In a radically new interactive approach to legal scholarship, more than 100 leading scholars are debating the fundamental questions of modern criminal law through a law professor’s version of the TV show “American Idol.”

PHILADELPHIA –- A University of Pennsylvania Law School group is recommending ways to implement the Agreement on Justice and Accountability between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group.

PHILADELPHIA –- Louis Rulli has been named director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Rulli will succeed Douglas Frenkel, who is stepping down as director on June 30. Frenkel will remain on the faculty at Penn Law, focusing on teaching, writing and dispute-resolution work.

WHO: William Koenig, NBA vice president of business affairs and general counsel Melinda Witmer, Time Warner Cable executive vice president and chief programming officerWHAT: Penn Law Dean’s Speaker Series, “Sports on Television: Tiers or Tears”WHEN: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 4:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA –- Arlene Rivera Finkelstein has been appointed assistant dean and executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Toll Public Interest Center. She will direct Penn Law’s public-interest initiatives, including student pro bono projects.

WHO: Norman Pearlstine, former Time Magazine editor-in-chiefWHAT: "Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous SourcesWHEN: Nov. 28, 20074:30 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Law School3400 Chestnut St.