Law experts on SCOTUS decisions on Chevron, Jan. 6 obstruction charge, administrative powers Image: iStock/RomanBabakin Law experts on SCOTUS decisions on Chevron, Jan. 6 obstruction charge, administrative powers Faculty experts from Penn Carey Law reflect on the latest Supreme Court decisions and their consequences for future judicial decisions.
Continued access to emergency abortion care Image: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Continued access to emergency abortion care In dismissing Moyle v. United States, Penn Carey Law’s Allison K. Hoffman says the Supreme Court took a “procedural punt” in allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing emergency abortion care.
Public defender shortages The Delaware County courthouse is seen, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Media, Pennsylvania.(Image: AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) Public defender shortages A new report by Paul Heaton, director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, shows that nearly every county in Pennsylvania has a shortage of public defenders.
The Immigration Act of 1924 A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children waiting to be processed, held in a wire mesh enclosure at the Angel Island Internment barracks in San Francisco Bay. The Angel Island Immigration Station processed one million immigrants from 1910 to 1940, mostly from China and Japan.(Image: AP Photo/File) Q&A The Immigration Act of 1924 A century after a federal law established a national quota system on immigration, legal historian Hardeep Dhillon explains the significance and legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924.
Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values “Criminal law earns its moral authority by publicly committing itself to doing justice above all else,” says Paul H. Robinson. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law) Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values The Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s new book is titled “American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles, and Evolution.”
Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants seeking asylum, mainly from Colombia, China, and Ecuador, in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States on Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba, California. (Image: AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election An April 2 symposium will bring together policy analysts, immigration scholars, and representatives of nonprofit advocacy organizations to discuss immigration policies and their impact.
The critical role of history after Dobbs Patients arriving at the Family Planning Clinic in New Orleans in 1971. The clinic was only one of 170 in Louisiana established to bring birth control information to women at no cost. (Image: AP Photo) The critical role of history after Dobbs According to Penn Carey Law’s Serena Mayeri, the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization relies upon a flawed, results-driven historical methodology to deny fundamental freedoms.
First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award Britain’s Prince William presents an award to Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati, a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania from Oman, during the Diana Legacy Award, at the Science Museum in London, on March 14, 2024. (Image: Arthur Edwards/Pool Photo via AP) First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award Korisepati, a student in the Hunstman Program at Penn, accepted the 2024 Diana Legacy Award from the Prince of Wales at a ceremony held March 14.
How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements Image: iStock/Aphithana Chitmongkolthong How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements.
Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals Kanyinsola Ajayi (left) and Ty Parks won first place in the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law) Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals Penn Carey Law’s Kanyinsola Ajayi and Ty Parks captured first place in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition, and advance to the competition’s national championship.