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The legal history of epidemics in America
The legal history of epidemics in America
Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, offers a commentary on American political responses to epidemics past.
Allison Hoffman on congressional response to coronavirus
Allison Hoffman on congressional response to coronavirus
Penn Law Professor Allison Hoffman, a health care law and policy expert, explains HR 6201 and what it means in practical terms.
Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers
Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers
In the city’s first regional Ethics Bowl, facilitated by Penn philosopher Karen Detlefsen and Graduate School of Education doctoral student Dustin Webster, six local teams competed for a chance at Nationals.
Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Karen Tani has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 24th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1. The announcement was made today by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.
Penn Law’s Beth Simmons on improving the UN Human Rights Treaty
Penn Law’s Beth Simmons on improving the UN Human Rights Treaty
Self-reporting contributes to human rights improvements, says Simmons in a paper she co-authored on recommendations to inform the review of the UN Human Rights Treaty.
Experts weigh in on the future of U.S.-China relations
Experts weigh in on the future of U.S.-China relations
Huang Ping, China’s consul general in New York, and Robert Work, former U.S. deputy secretary of defense, were among the speakers at the annual Penn China Research Symposium.
Dorothy Roberts on prison abolition constitutionalism
Dorothy Roberts on prison abolition constitutionalism
In “Abolition Constitutionalism,” the Penn Law professor argues that prison abolitionists can “reinvigorate abolition constitutionalism” by using the Reconstruction Amendments.
Understanding how information flows into and out of Gitmo
Understanding how information flows into and out of Gitmo
Annenberg doctoral student Muira McCammon studies the intersection of technology, law, and military policy. She’s on the quest to understand how people and data move through the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
Penn sends largest ever delegation to UN climate conference
Penn sends largest ever delegation to UN climate conference
At COP 25, representatives from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Perry World House, Penn IUR, and elsewhere discuss global climate challenges.
Revolving door politics: Can a U.S. president rejoin an international treaty?
Revolving door politics: Can a U.S. president rejoin an international treaty?
A new article by Penn Law Professor Jean Galbraith illuminates how and why future presidents can use their power to reenter the same international agreements the current president is withdrawing from, without returning to Congress for renewed advice and consent.
In the News
The Washington Post
Trump’s sarcastic response to Mitt Romney’s negative test for coronavirus follows years of bad blood
Claire Finkelstein of the Law School commented on President Trump’s negative reaction to Mitt Romney’s self-quarantine. “[Trump] would have had a moment there to unify the country around this crisis and to show his moral leadership in doing so,” she said.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Chinese propaganda claims democracy can’t stop coronavirus. We can—but can Trump?
Jacques deLisle of the Law School and School of Arts and Sciences said propaganda coming from China regarding the coronavirus is “designed to take some of the heat off Xi Jinping at home, so he can say look at us as compared to the feckless Americans.”
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The New York Times
A conservative agenda unleashed on the federal courts
Stephen Burbank of the Law School spoke about trend by recent presidents to draw the federal judiciary into policy debates. “The problem as I see it is not that judges differ ideologically—of course they do—nor is it that a Republican president would look for someone with congenial ideological preferences,” he said. “It’s that in recent decades the search has been for hard-wired ideologues because they’re reliable policy agents.”
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Voice of America
Legal experts say immigration directives issued under Cuccinelli are vulnerable
Sarah Paoletti of the Law School spoke about the ramifications of a federal court’s ruling that Ken Cuccinelli’s appointment as acting director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wasn’t legal. “I think it does call into question all of his policies. I think the challenge is [to find out] which policies are under his name, and which policies are more broadly issued—or maybe prompted by him, proposed by him—but ultimately issued by the Department of Homeland Security,” she said.
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The Washington Post
A judge resigns after using the n-word in texts that she says the public was never meant to see
Anita Allen of the Law School and School of Arts and Sciences commented on a Louisiana judge who resigned after using a racial slur in multiple text messages. “I’m African American and a lawyer, and I have never once in my entire life used the n-word in any conversation,” she said. “I know for a fact it’s avoidable. It’s not necessary.”
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