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An interdisciplinary edge in the entertainment industry
A worker on a movie set.

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An interdisciplinary edge in the entertainment industry

Penn Carey Law students and alumni successfully navigate legal careers in the ever-changing entertainment industry.

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Fair use in visual arts
Left: Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith; Right: Art work from The Andy Warhol Foundation 

(Left) Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith. (Right) Artwork from The Andy Warhol Foundation.

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Fair use in visual arts

Penn Carey Law’s Cynthia Dahl weighs in on the SCOTUS decision regarding Andy Warhol and fair use in art.

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Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society
Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts.

Paul Offit, the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and Dorothy E. Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

(Images: (Left) Courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and (right) Sameer A. Khan)

Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society

Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts have been recognized for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.
Cary Coglianese on regulating machine learning
Abstract scan of brain overlapping a computer chip network.

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Cary Coglianese on regulating machine learning

The Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science analyzes the Biden administration’s recent actions concerning the federal government’s use of artificial intelligence.

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The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration
Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

The Prison Legal Education Project co-founder Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

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The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration

Co-founded by Penn Carey Law alumni Felicia Lin and Miriam Nemeth, PLEP supports incarcerated individuals in leading their own successful legal advocacy.

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Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
A panel sits at at table in Perry World House as a presenter on the right stands at a podium explaining his research.

Bodong Chen of the Graduate School of Education (right, at podium) discusses his project that focuses on helping integrate sustainable development goals into schools in China.

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Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research

The Penn Global Research and Engagement Fund is supporting the 19 new faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America, India, China, and beyond. 

Kristen de Groot

Claire Finkelstein on Trump’s indictment
Trump supporters hold Trump 2024 flags and campaign signs in shadow as the sun sets.

Supporters carry flags as they protest the news that former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Thursday, March 30, 2023, near his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

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    • Claire Finkelstein on Trump’s indictment

    Finkelstein, the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, discusses how this case is a test of America’s institutions, the rule of law, and the world’s oldest democracy.

    Kristen de Groot

    To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration
    A child uses a cell phone in a dark room

    “Technology often has mixture of benefits and perils,” says Gideon Nave of the Wharton School. He teamed with legal and scientific experts to call for research to fuel evidence-backed laws and policies to protect children in the digital world.

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    • To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration

    A team of neuroscientists and legal experts, including Gideon Nave of the Wharton School, published a perspective in Science drawing attention to the need to develop science-backed policies that take into account children’s vulnerabilities in the digital world.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Panelists discuss ‘complex web’ of voting rights in America
    A line of people waiting outside a polling place.

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    Panelists discuss ‘complex web’ of voting rights in America

    President Liz Magill moderated the third Forum on Social Equity and Community, which featured Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, Lisa Fairfax, Michael Jones-Correa, and Liz Theoharis.

    Lauren Hertzler