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Education, Business, & Law
Penn Lightbulb Café: Emily Owens on ‘Immigration Policy, Informality and Criminal Behavior’
WHO: Emily Owens Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology
'Shared Vision' Opens at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania presents Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection. It opens to the public on Saturday, July 19, 2014.
In Penn’s Stouffer College House, Students Get a Touch of Home
This is the first in a series of articles about families living in the University of Pennsylvania’s College House system.
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher of Penn Receives 2014 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, associate director of the International Educational Development Program at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania, has earned the Comparative and International Education
Penn Libraries to Host Digital Humanities Conference
WHO: University of Pennsylvania Libraries and PhillyDH WHAT: PhillyDH@Penn, a digital humanities, participant-led conference WHEN: Friday, June 20, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.WHERE: Van Pelt Library
The University of Pennsylvania Announces Gift to Name the Home of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology
The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and the School of Engineering and Applied Science are pleased to announce a gift of $7.5 million to name the home of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (M&T Program).
Penn Study: Massive Open Online Courses Not a Threat to Traditional Business Schools
Data from a University of Pennsylvania study of massive open online courses offered by Penn’s Wharton School suggest that MOOCs aren’t a threat to traditional business programs, but rather an opportunity to expand to underserved markets. The findings were published today in the Harvard Business Review.
Practicing What She Teaches, Penn Alum Is Award-winning Film Editor
When the winners of the 2013 Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting were announced late last month, Nancy Novack, a University of Pennsylvania alum and a lecturer of fine arts in the School of Design, had cause to celebrate. A film series she edited, the PBS TV documentary “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” won a Peabody.
University of Pennsylvania Establishes Penn Center for Innovation
President Amy Gutmann today announced the launch of the Penn Center for Innovation, a new initiative that will provide the infrastructure, leadership and resources needed to transfer promising Penn inventions, know-how and related assets into the marketplace for the public good.
Penn Student-run Club Sails into National Championships
It’s smooth sailing ahead for one student-run club at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the News
BBC
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court may try to issue a measured, unanimous decision in Donald Trump’s politically charged immunity case.
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Associated Press
No one is above the law. Supreme Court will decide if that includes Trump while he was president
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court should not have taken Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case because an ideologically diverse panel of the federal appeals court in Washington adequately addressed its issues.
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Associated Press
TikTok has promised to sue over the potential U.S. ban. What’s the legal outlook?
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court, given its current composition, would likely uphold a TikTok ban.
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The Hill
Biden signed a bill that could ban TikTok. What happens next?
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz of Penn Carey Law says that federal legislation is more likely to be seen by the courts as responding to and addressing national security concerns than similar legislation by a state.
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The Washington Post
Groups sue to block FTC’s new rule barring noncompete agreements
Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law says that the current Supreme Court has a majority that’s looking skeptically at the exercise of governing power by administrative agencies like the Federal Trade Commission.
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