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How to prevent student loan delinquency

Wharton’s Katy Milkman and Robert Kuan find that simple, inexpensive “nudges” can help prevent delinquencies among student loan borrowers.

From Korean policing to international law enforcement

Penn Carey Law student Jaehyung Ahn shares his goals and experiences while earning an LLM degree.

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From the Archives: Photograph of Penn’s first female law graduate

A photo in the University Archives pictures 43 members of the Penn Law School graduating class of 1883 on the steps of College Hall. Among them is Caroline Burnham Kilgore, the first woman to enter the law school, to receive a law degree, and to be admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

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Election transparency and voter privacy

A new study in Sciences Advances, co-authored by Penn Carey Law’s Michael Morse, introduces the concept of vote revelation, or the potential for a vote on an anonymous ballot to be linked to the voter’s name in the public voter file.

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Developing critical law career experience

Penn Carey Law’s Externship Program supplements traditional classroom study with experiential learning and meaningful lawyering.

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2025 Tulane Pro Basketball Negotiation Competition winners

Three University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Entertainment and Sports Law Society members—Greg Drapkin, Brian Ibarguen, and Benjamin Ruvo—have won the eighth annual simulated NBA contract negotiation competition.

Dorothy Roberts recognized among TIME’s 2025 list

Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights was named to TIME’s 2025 list of “The Closers,” recognizing 25 Black leaders working to end racial equity gaps.

Why does gender income inequality still exist in the U.S.?

New research from Wharton’s Peter Cappelli finds that while women’s job responsibilities are now closer to men's, the gender pay gap remains largely unchanged.

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Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies.

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‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.

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