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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV

Reflecting on 100 years of television, Christopher Yoo of Penn Carey Law provides an overview of TV’s shifting legal landscape, and Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School shares how branding has evolved.

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Injecting humanity into the criminal legal system

Injecting humanity into the criminal legal system

Students in Penn Carey Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic gain hands-on trial experience representing clients in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the Philadelphia Municipal Court.

From Penn Carey Law

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Workshops prepare future lawyers for productive disagreement

Workshops prepare future lawyers for productive disagreement

To strengthen civil discourse initiatives at the Penn Carey Law School, the Student Affairs Office held two Joint Problem-Solving workshops this winter to helping students develop essential leadership skills for navigating conflict.

Strengthening the peace and security agenda

Strengthening the peace and security agenda

Penn Carey Law’s Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s work on women in conflict, the “Women, Peace and Security Addendum“ has been formally adopted at the 92nd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty

A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Penn Today Staff

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Connecting health care policy to people’s lives 

Connecting health care policy to people’s lives 

Allison Hoffman studies Medicare and long-term care and helps policymakers understand the impact that health insurance regulations can have on people’s lives.

Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
Dorothy Roberts and the cover of her new book “The Mixed Marriage Project”

Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

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Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America

Roberts’ new memoir, “The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family” is an exploration of race, identity, and family in America.

From Penn Carey Law

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How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

Penn graduate students are learning that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines, and why interdisciplinary teaching is climate action—including how it builds the human capital the clean energy transition demands.

From Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

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