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The Detkin Clinic promotes justice with innovation
The Detkin Clinic promotes justice with innovation
At Penn Law School’s Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, students assist creative thinkers with patents, trademarks, and copyright-related ventures.
David Hoffman on broken contracts during pandemics
David Hoffman on broken contracts during pandemics
Law professsor David Hoffman argues that there isn’t a precedent, outside a major unexpected event, to keep a party from fulfilling a contract. The pandemic raises a questions about obligations, public policy, and public health.
Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic ‘makes dreams come true’
Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic ‘makes dreams come true’
The Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic assists Philadelphia business owners with their legal needs whose missions are to help economically distressed communities and impact positive social change.
Law School hosts ‘Structural Frustrations: Challenges to Implementing Change’
Law School hosts ‘Structural Frustrations: Challenges to Implementing Change’
The second virtual event in its summer series, “A Path for Change: Policing in America” is part of a yearlong colloquium titled “Achieving Racial Justice.”
Penn submits amicus brief in support of international students with F-1 visas
Penn submits amicus brief in support of international students with F-1 visas
The brief, signed by Penn and 58 other schools, was filed in support of the case brought last week by Harvard and MIT against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Coding for a cause
Coding for a cause
As the viral pandemic shuttered campus and disrupted routines, The Borders and Boundaries Project turned the challenging situation into a chance to give back and get work done.
Five takeaways from the DACA ruling
Five takeaways from the DACA ruling
What does this decision mean for the nearly 700,000 DACA recipients in America? Political scientist Michael Jones Correa shares five key takeaways from the ruling
SCOTUS ruling a ‘major milestone in LGBTQ rights’
SCOTUS ruling a ‘major milestone in LGBTQ rights’
Penn Law professors weigh in on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that protects gay and transgender individuals from workplace discrimination.
Child abuse is Marci Hamilton’s Goliath
Child abuse is Marci Hamilton’s Goliath
Marci Hamilton, Fels Institute of Government Professor of Practice, has faced down institutional child abuse for decades—and she is just getting started.
AI technology in courts and administrative agencies
AI technology in courts and administrative agencies
A forthcoming article co-authored by Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese explores algorithmic governance, examining how machine-learning algorithms are currently used by federal and state courts and agencies to support their decision-making.
In the News
The Washington Post
Schumer’s overblown attack on GOP proposal for medical malpractice lawsuits
Allison Hoffman of the Law School said the Republican-proposed Safe to Work Act wouldn’t wholly prevent medical malpractice lawsuits, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has suggested it would, saying that it would actually only apply to coronavirus-related health care services. However, she said, the bill does have other concerning loopholes.
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Forbes
What to do about contracts during COVID-19
David Hoffman of the Law School and a University of Virginia Law School colleague published a paper about the impact of COVID-19 on contracts. They recommend renegotiating contracts to minimize damages over trying to enforce or fight the terms.
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Associated Press
Trump talks up his rule-cutting, but courts saying otherwise
Cary Coglianese of the Law School said the Trump administration has both limited the implementation of new regulations and repealed many existing ones. “There’s a lot more smoke-and-mirrors to the deregulatory picture than the administration paints,” he said. “It’s certainly not at all the driver of economic growth during the pre-COVID period of the administration, and it’s certainly not enough to take us out of the economic troubles we find ourselves in.”
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The Washington Post
Conservative media helps Trump perform ‘law and order’ in Portland, with risks for November
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about media coverage of the federal crackdown in Portland, Oregon. “The framing of this is dramatically different news channel to news channel, and this is an instance in which the visuals are difficult to understand because you’re seeing people in what look to be a kind of military uniform, and it’s unfolding at night,” she said.
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ABC News
Supreme Court rejects Trump claim of 'absolute immunity' from grand jury subpoena for tax returns
Claire Finkelstein of the Law School commented on this week’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity from subpoenas. "The Court has now said, guess what, it is constitutionally permissible to investigate a sitting president," she said. "And that has the backward implications that it is also potentially constitutionally permissible to indict a sitting president."
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Forbes
Meet the forgotten woman who forever change date lives of LGBTQ+ workers
Serena Mayeri of the Law School and School of Arts & Sciences spoke about Pauli Murray’s effort to include “sex” in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “There’s this pernicious myth that the sex amendment was some kind of joke, or fluke, or a poison pill that was designed to sink the Civil Rights Act,” Mayeri said, “when in fact it really was the product of the deliberate efforts by advocates for women.”
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