2023–2024
At Penn Carey Law, our faculty are committed to a cross-disciplinary approach to legal education, which connects the law with other disciplines and the academy with the global legal landscape. Nearly half of our standing faculty hold advanced degrees in addition to the JD, and half hold joint or secondary appointments at Penn’s other professional schools. As leaders in the law and their respective fields, my colleagues engage with critical facets of our society: business and corporate law; administrative law and regulation; constitutional law; health care law; technology; racial, social, and criminal justice; and more. Our faculty’s cross-disciplinary approach to scholarship enables them to draw from an array of diverse fields and methodologies to confront the complex legal problems facing the world. Incorporating traditional legal scholarship, archival study, and data-driven research, their cutting-edge scholarship has won numerous national, regional, and university awards. Moreover, because of their prolific and groundbreaking work, our faculty members are regularly sought out by national and international policy makers as experts in their fields. Here at the Law School, our faculty are also deeply committed to their teaching and to our community. They advise and mentor students, collaborate on scholarship, and engage with students on important current events and issues. The supportive, collegial atmosphere at Penn Carey Law allows all members of the Law School community to discuss sensitive issues in a civil and productive manner, paving the way for our students to become the thought leaders and changemakers of tomorrow. This publication showcases our faculty members’ wide range of interests, their distinguished accomplishments, and their significant impact on scholarship and policy. In their research and teaching, our faculty members embrace public service, global leadership, and the value of reaching across intellectual boundaries to integrate the methods and frameworks of other disciplines. Through their critical work at Penn Carey Law, they expand the realm of our knowledge and advance the legal profession. With best regards,
Sophia Z. Lee Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
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cross-disciplinary leadership
faculty scholarship
recent books and book chapters
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Penn Carey Law professors contribute cutting-edge scholarship to leading journals in law and related disciplines
Penn Carey Law faculty are authors of cutting-edge, award-winning scholarship published in leading
and regularly publish books with major academic presses. These recent titles reflect the breadth and depth of
academic journals on a broad range of topics, including business and corporate law; administrative law and
their scholarly interests.
regulation; constitutional law; health care law; technology; racial, social, and criminal justice; and more. A service of Biddle Law Library, the Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository collects and preserve the
Jacques deLisle The Party Leads All (2022)
Lisa Fairfax Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Compliance: Cases and Materials (5th Edition, 2023)
Claire O. Finkelstein Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict (2022)
scholarly output of our distinguished faculty.
Visit the Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository.
Claire O. Finkelstein Rational Deliberation: Selected Writings of David Gauthier (1st Edition, 2022)
Jasmine Harris McCormick on Evidence (8th Edition, 2022)
Herbert Hovenkamp Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application (5th Edition, 2022)
Herbert Hovenkamp Advanced Introduction to Substantive Criminal Law (2023)
Kermit Roosevelt Conflict of Laws: Concepts and Insights (3rd Edition, 2022)
Shelley Welton Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy (2022)
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes our Selves and the Social Order—and What We Can Do About It (1st Edition, 2023)
Tobias Wolff Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (6th Edition, 2022)
joint appointments africana studies
political science
wharton
Dorothy E. Roberts
Beth Simmons
Legal Studies and Business Ethics Herbert Hovenkamp
history
sociology
Karen M. Tani
Dorothy E. Roberts
standing faculty advanced degrees beyond the jd
affiliations
africana studies
government
philosophy & mathematics
center for aids research
center for public health initiatives
leonard davis institute of health economics
Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08, MLA, Penn
Beth Simmons, PhD, MA, Harvard
William Ewald, DPhil, Oxford
Eric A. Feldman
Eric A. Feldman
David S. Abrams
center for east asian studies
fels institute of government
Eric A. Feldman
Jacques deLisle
Cary Coglianese
Allison K. Hoffman
kleinman center for energy policy
penn institute for urban research
Shelley Welton
Wendell E. Pritchett
Tom Baker
african-american studies
history
physics
Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08, PhD, Berkeley
Sophia Z. Lee, PhD, Yale
David S. Abrams, MS, Stanford
Serena Mayeri, PhD, Yale
american civilization
Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97, Penn
political science
Herbert Hovenkamp, PhD, Texas
Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11, Penn
Mitchell Berman, MA, Michigan
american literature
international relations
Herbert Hovenkamp, MA, Texas
William Burke-White, PhD, MPhil, Cambridge
Cary Coglianese, PhD, Michigan
business
Michael Morse C’13, PhD, Harvard
Beth Simmons, MA, Chicago
psychology
Yanbai Andrea Wang, PhD, Oxford
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08, Penn
jurisprudence & social policy
psychology & social relations
Eric A. Feldman, PhD, Berkeley
Stephen J. Morse, PhD, Harvard
Christopher S. Yoo, MBA, UCLA
economics David S. Abrams, PhD, MIT Howard F. Chang, PhD, SM, MIT
law degrees - advanced
public administration
Paul Heaton, PhD, MA, Chicago
Stephanos Bibas, MA, Oxford
Shelley Welton, MPA, Columbia
Leo Katz, MA, Chicago
Gideon Parchomovsky, JSD, Yale; LLM, Berkeley
Jonathan Klick, PhD, George Mason; MA,
Paul H. Robinson, LLM, Harvard; Diploma in
Maryland
Legal Studies, Cambridge
Michael S. Knoll, PhD, AM, Chicago
Shelley Welton, PhD, Yale
Chris William Sanchirico, PhD, Yale Reed Shuldiner, PhD, MIT
mathematics William Ewald, AM, Harvard
Eric A. Feldman
center for neuroscience & society Stephen J. Morse Amy Wax
secondary appointments annenberg school for communication
philosophy
Tom Baker
Jennifer Rothman
Anita L. Allen
Chris William Sanchirico
Christopher S. Yoo
Mitchell Berman William Ewald
Finance
education
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Jill E. Fisch
public policy
Higher Education
Claire O. Finkelstein
Natasha Sarin
Cary Coglianese, MPP, Michigan
Wendell E. Pritchett
political science
Healthcare Management
social work Sophia Z. Lee, MSW, Berkeley
engineering & applied science Computer & Information Science Christopher S. Yoo
economics & public policy Howard F. Chang, MPA, Princeton
medicine
history
Amy Wax, MD, Harvard
Sophia Z. Lee Serena Mayeri
education Stephen J. Morse, EdM, Harvard
philosophy Anita L. Allen, PhD, MA, Michigan Claire O. Finkelstein, PhD, Pittsburgh; Maîtrise, Sorbonne
medicine Medical Ethics and Health Policy Eric A. Feldman
Cary Coglianese Jacques deLisle
psychiatry Stephen J. Morse
psychology Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
wharton Business Economics & Public Policy David S. Abrams
Tom Baker Legal Studies and Business Ethics Mitchell Berman Jill E. Fisch Beth Simmons Real Estate Michael S. Knoll
ABRAMS ALLEN BAKER BERMAN BURKE-WHITE COGLIANESE DELISLE EWALD FAIRFAX FELDMAN FERZAN FINKELSTEIN FISCH GALBRAITH HARRIS HEATON HOFFMAN HOFFMAN HOVENKAMP KATZ KLICK KNOLL KREIMER LEE MAGILL MAYERI MAYSON MORSE MORSE OSSEI-OWUSU PARCHOMOVSKY POLLMAN PRITCHETT ROBERTS ROBINSON ROOSEVELT ROTHMAN RUGER SANCHIRICO SHULDINER SIMMONS SKEEL STRUVE TANI WAGNER WANG WAX WELTON WILKINSON-RYAN WOLFF YOO
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David S. Abrams Professor of Law, Business Economics, and Public Policy
Criminal Law | Intellectual Property | Law and Economics
David S. Abrams is one of the leading young economists working in empirical law and economics; his interests also include law and health economics, labor economics, and corporate finance. His work strives to understand and measure how individuals respond to incentives in various legal contexts. In his work on intellectual property law, he has investigated the expected impact of the America Invents Act, examined the effect of patent duration on innovation, and used natural language processing to establish more reliable measures of patent value. In his latest empirical work, he has shown that long-held views on patent value and citations do not hold and introduced a new model of innovation to account for the findings. He has also done substantial work in criminal justice, including investigating whether longer sentences deter crime, how defendant race impacts judicial decisions, to what extent attorney skill affects case outcomes, and how much individuals value freedom. From 2006 to 2008, Abrams was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago and, from 1998 to 1999, a quantitative analyst and trader with D.E. Shaw and Co. His work has appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of Legal Studies.
recent courses taught Analytical Methods in Law Introduction to Intellectual Property Law and Economics Law and Policy
secondary appointment Wharton (Business Economics & Public Policy)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education PhD 2006 MIT MS 2001 Stanford AB 1998 Harvard
representative publications “Covid and Crime: An Early Empirical Look,” Journal of Public Economics (2021) “Electoral Sentencing Cycles,” CEPR Discussion Paper (2019)
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“The Patent Troll: Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?,” CEPR Discussion Paper (2019) “The Law and Economics of Stop-and-Frisk,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2015) #
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Anita L. Allen
Tom Baker
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Bioethics | Data Protection | Ethics | Jurisprudence Privacy Law | Torts
Anita L. Allen is an internationally renowned expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education.
recent courses taught African American Philosophy Bioethics and the Law of Mental Health Introduction to Ethics Privacy and Data Protection Law Torts
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Philosophy)
affiliations Africana Studies Department Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Philosophy Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Penn Program on Regulation Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences
From 2013 to 2020, Allen has served as Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty. She has also chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council and served as Deputy Dean. Allen is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, and the American Philosophical Society. She served on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and was President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Allen received the 2022 Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Privacy Award, 2022 Hastings’ Center Founders’ Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); she has also chaired EPIC’s board and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Tilburg University (Netherlands) and Wooster College. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Constitutional Center and The Future of Privacy Forum. She has served on numerous other boards including the Pennsylvania Board of Continuing Education, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, the Maternity Care Coalition, the Association of American Law Schools, and the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children. Allen has also taught at Georgetown, Pittsburgh Law, and Carnegie Mellon and was a visiting professor at Fordham, Yale, Harvard, Villanova, Princeton, Arizona, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins, Waseda University, and Tel Aviv University. A prolific scholar, Allen has published over 125 articles and chapters. She has delivered lectures all over the world, appeared on television and radio, and written for major media.
William Maul Measey Professor of Law
Behavioral Economics of Insurance | Insurance Regulation, Law, and Policy Litigation Finance | Sociolegal Research | Torts
Tom Baker is a highly regarded insurance expert and leading scholar of insurance law and policy. He is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance and co-founder of Picwell, a health data analytics company (acquired by Jellyvision) that provides advanced decision support tools to health insurance exchanges, insurers, and employers. Baker created the widely cited COVID Coverage Litigation Tracker, which gathers data on state and federal lawsuits by businesses seeking coverage for business interruption losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2008, Baker served for 11 years as the inaugural Connecticut Mutual Professor and Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut. A graduate of Harvard Law, he also clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, practiced with the law firm of Covington & Burling, served as Associate Counsel to the Independent Counsel Iran/Contra, and taught as an associate professor at the University of Miami Law School and as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt, Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research explores insurance law, institutions, and markets using methods from history, economics, psychology, and sociology. Current research topics include automated financial advice, litigation finance, mass torts, crime risks, and the empirical study of insurance litigation. His scholarship advances our understanding of insurance as governance through studies that examine the historical development of insurance ideas and institutions and their impact on civil litigation, health care, crime, and corporate governance.
JD 1984 Harvard
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PhD, MA Michigan
“Privacy, Critical Definition and Racial Justice,” Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, (Oxford, 2023)
“How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime,” Journal of Legal Analysis (2023)
“Vowing Moral Integrity: Adrian Piper’s Probable Trust Registry,” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2023)
“What History Can Tell Us About the Future of Insurance and Litigation After COVID-19,” DePaul Law Review (2022)
“Dismantling the Black Opticon: Race Equity and Online Privacy and Data Protection Reform,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2022)
“Regulating Robo Advice Across the Financial Services Industry,” Iowa Law Review (2018)
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“Health Data Privacy in the Balance: Evolving Values and Priorities,” Protecting Patient Health Data Privacy and Improving Patient Care (Aspen Institute, 2022) “HIPAA at 25—A Work in Progress,” New England Journal of Medicine (2021)
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Contracts Fintech Challenge Insurance Law and Policy Litigation Finance Torts
secondary appointment Wharton (Business Economics & Public Policy)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Penn Program on Regulation
education
education
BA 1974 New College of Florida
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“Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Affordable Care Act,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2011)
JD 1986 Harvard AB 1982 Harvard
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William W. Burke-White
Mitchell Berman
Professor of Law
Leon Meltzer Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Philosophy
Climate Governance | International Investment Law | Human Rights Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | General Jurisprudence
recent courses taught Constitutional Law Jurisprudence of Sport Theories of Constitutional Interpretation (Seminar)
secondary appointments Arts & Sciences (Philosophy) Wharton (Legal Studies & Business Ethics)
education
Jurisprudence of Sport | Philosophy
International Institutions | International Law
Award-winning teacher Mitch Berman focuses on American constitutional law and theory, philosophy of criminal law, general jurisprudence, and philosophy of sport.
William W. Burke-White is an international lawyer and political scientist and leading expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.
His contributions include a novel nonoriginalist theory of American constitutional interpretation, a new positivist account of legal content, and an original retributivist justification for criminal punishment. He also claims to have solved the paradox of blackmail, the mystery of unconstitutional conditions, and the age-old puzzle of whether referees should “swallow the whistle” in crunch time.
Burke-White researches and writes on the relationships between law and politics in international affairs and has particular expertise on the design and implementation of complex global governance solutions in areas including international investment law, climate governance, and human rights. He has significant regional expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. His current research examines the role of sub-state actors in the international legal system and the impacts of changing global power dynamics on the norms and structures of international law. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Chair at White & Case LLP.
Before coming to the Law School, Berman taught at the University of Texas, where he was the Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy from 2008 to 2014 and the Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor from 2002-2008; he also served as the Co-Director of the Law & Philosophy Program. In 2017-2018, Berman was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values. He has been a visiting professor at Chicago, Michigan, the Hebrew University, and University College London. Berman was also a law clerk for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and an associate at Jenner & Block. His work appears or is forthcoming in the leading peer-reviewed journals in his fields, including Ethics, Noûs, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory; Law & Philosophy, Criminal Law & Philosophy, and Journal of Philosophy of Sport; in prominent student-edited law reviews including University of Pennsylvania Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, Texas Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Georgetown Law Journal; and in edited volumes published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Routledge.
MA 1994 Michigan JD 1993 Michigan AB 1988 Harvard
International Criminal Law | International Arbitration
Burke-White built Penn’s Perry World House, the university’s international affairs institute, from the ground up. He served as its Inaugural Director from 2014-19, established a cutting-edge policy think tank embedded within Penn’s academic community, and recruited staff, faculty, and visiting policy fellows from across the globe. At Penn Carey Law, Burke-White has served as Deputy Dean and Deputy Dean for International Affairs. He has been a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff with the U.S. Department of State. In 2008-09, Burke-White was the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany; he has been a Visiting Scholar at the International Criminal Court; Mofid University in Qom, Iran; and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. From 2003-05, he was a Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at Princeton.
recent courses taught International Law International Investment Law International Climate Law Human Rights
affiliations Center for Asian Law
education PhD 2006 Cambridge JD 2002 Harvard MPhil 1999 Cambridge AB 1998 Harvard
Burke-White’s scholarship has appeared in leading international legal journals, and he regularly offers commentary in the media. He is also an award-winning teacher as the recipient of the A. Leo Levin Award in 2008 and the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007. representative publications
representative publications Blameworthiness, Desert, and Luck, 57 Noûs 370 (2023) The Jurisprudence of Sport: Sports and Games as Legal Systems (West, 2021) read more online
“Of Law and Other Artificial Normative Systems,” Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence (Oxford, 2019) “Our Principled Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2018) “Originalism is Bunk,” New York University Law Review (2009)
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“A World of Clubs and Fences: Changing Regulation and the Remaking of Globalization” White & Case (2023) “Realigning the Governance Architecture After COVID-19: City Diplomacy and Multilateral Institutions,” Columbia Journal of International Affairs (2022) “Power Shifts in International Structural Realignment and Substantive Pluralism,” Harvard International Law Journal (2015)
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“The Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect,” The Responsibility to Protect the Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time (Oxford, 2011) #
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Cary Coglianese Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation
Administrative Law | Environmental Law | International Law Law, Politics, and Society | Law and Technology | Regulatory Policy
recent courses taught Administrative Law Advanced Regulatory Law & Policy Environmental Law Policy Analysis Regulatory Law & Policy
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Political Science)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
DeLisle previously served as the Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn. He is also the Chair, and former Director, of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and a Member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law and president of the American Association of Chinese Studies. He is a member of the Global Faculty of Peking University Law School and served as an Attorney-Advisor with the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. He also clerked for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Coglianese is the founding director of the Penn Program on Regulation (PPR), and he created and advises PPR’s flagship publication, The Regulatory Review. He previously served as the Law School’s Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs and is the founding faculty chair of the school’s Government Service and Public Affairs Initiative. He serves as the faculty director of PPR’s executive education program on regulatory analysis and decision-making offered at the Law School and teaches in the Wharton School’s executive education program. Coglianese is a member of the American Law Institute. He founded the Law & Society Association’s international collaborative research network on regulatory governance and served as a founding editor of the international peer-reviewed journal, Regulation & Governance.
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Administration of Justice Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences
education PhD 1994 Michigan MPP 1991 Michigan
“Influence by intimidation: Business Lobbying in the Regulatory Process,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2023) “Algorithm vs. Algorithm,” Duke Law Journal (2022) read more online
“Unrules,” Stanford Law Review (2021) “Chevron’s Interstitial Steps,” George Washington Law Review (2017) “Separation of Powers Legitimacy: An Empirical Inquiry into Norms About Executive Power,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2016)
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The author of more than 200 articles, book chapters, and essays, he has written recently on climate change policy, public participation and transparency in federal rulemaking, the use of AI by government agencies, voluntary environmental programs, and the role of waivers and exemptions in regulatory law.
AB 1985 College of Idaho
Quattrone Center for the Fair
Chinese Law and Politics | Comparative Law | International Law
Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations.
JD 1991 Michigan
Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Co-Director, Center for Asian Law
Cary Coglianese specializes in the study of administrative law and regulatory processes, with an emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative processes and strategies and the role of public participation, technology, and business-government relations in policymaking.
Prior to Penn, he spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he founded and chaired the school’s Regulatory Policy Program and was an affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School. He has also been a Visiting Law Professor at Stanford and Vanderbilt. A Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), Coglianese has served as an ACUS Public Member and as Chair of ACUS’s Rulemaking Committee. He has chaired or co-chaired several ABA’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy committees and served on the Section’s council or board of directors. He has also served on several National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, most recently chairing a consensus committee studying implications for law and regulation of emerging trends in the maritime sector.
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Jacques deLisle
DeLisle’s scholarship appears in law reviews, international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, including Journal of Contemporary China, Asia Policy, China Review, Orbis, and Administrative Law Review. He is the co-editor and contributor to several books, including, most recently, The Party Leads All: The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in China’s Politics, Governance, Society, Economy, and External Relations (2022), After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations (2021), and Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen (2021). He serves frequently as an expert witness on issues of PRC law and government policies and as a consultant to government and foundation programs on legal reform and foreign relations.
recent courses taught China and International Human Rights Chinese Law International Law Law and the Economy in Contemporary China The State, Sovereignty, and International Law
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Political Science)
affiliations Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Director)
education JD 1990 Harvard AB 1982 Princeton
representative publications “China’s Legal System,” Politics in China: An Introduction (4th ed., Oxford, forthcoming 2024) “Not Quite Déjà Vu All Over Again: CPTPP Accession and Taiwan-China-US Relations,” China, Taiwan, the UK, and the CPTPP: Global Partnership or Regional Standoff (Cambridge, 2023) “Taking Hong Kong’s Constitutional Journey to the World: Some Reflections on the works of Johannes Chan,” Hong Kong Law Journal (2023) “Assessing the Chinese Communist Party and its Many, Changing Roles,” The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings, 2022)
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William Ewald John J. O’Brien Professor of Comparative and International Law and Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy
Comparative Law | International Law | Legal History Philosophy of Law | Philosophy of Mathematics
William Ewald is an internationally recognized scholar in comparative law, legal philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics.
recent courses taught Comparative Law Foundations of the American Legal System
His influential, monograph-length article on the philosophical foundations of comparative law, “What Was it Like to Try a Rat?” has been translated into Chinese and Ukrainian. The broad strategy is to combine the historical study of legal systems with comparative law and with legal philosophy.
Kant’s Legal Theory Philosophy of Law Drafting of the Constitution
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Philosophy)
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His work in comparative law led him to study James Wilson, founder of the Law School at Penn. Wilson signed the Constitution, and Ewald established that he was considerably more important than had previously been recognized. He is currently engaged in writing a full intellectual biography, and in 2018 was invited to report his research at the annual historical lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court. Ewald began his academic career at The Queen’s College, Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the Istituto Universitario Europeo in Florence.
Legal History Consortium
education JD 1981 Harvard DPhil 1978 Oxford (Philosophy) AM 1976 Harvard (Mathematics) AB 1976 Harvard (Philosophy & Mathematics)
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He earned a doctorate in mathematical logic at Oxford University before attending Harvard Law School. In the history and philosophy of mathematics, he translated many foundational documents in his widely used source book, From Kant to Hilbert (Oxford, 1996). The discovery in Göttingen of a large collection of unpublished notebooks of David Hilbert, the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, led to a large, multi-volume project of editing and commenting on the development of Hilbert’s thought.
Ewald has received multiple times the LLM Award for Teaching Excellence and is working on The Style of American Law, which examines the distinctive character of American law from a comparative perspective.
Lisa M. Fairfax Presidential Professor; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics
Business and Corporate Law | Financial and Securities Law Corporate Governance | Board Duties | Board Composition and Diversity
Lisa M. Fairfax’s research and scholarly interests include corporate governance, board fiduciary duties, board-shareholder engagement, board composition and diversity, shareholder activism, board oversight of environmental, social and governance (ESG), affinity fraud, and securities fraud. In addition to numerous law review articles and book chapters, Fairfax has authored a textbook, Business Organizations: An Integrated Approach and a book, Shareholder Democracy: A Primer on Shareholder Activism and Participation; she has also coauthored a textbook, Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Compliance. Fairfax’s article on financial literacy in securities law was voted one of the top ten securities law articles of 2019. In 2017, the Business Associations Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) awarded Fairfax the “Outstanding Mentor Award” in recognition of her scholarship and mentoring. In 2016, the AALS Minority Group Section awarded Fairfax the “Trailblazer Award” in recognition of her teaching and scholarship. Fairfax currently serves as a public governor on the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA). She is a former member of both the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA and FINRA’s NASDAQ Market Regulation Committee, and she previously served as an appointed member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the SEC. Fairfax is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and a member of the Advisory Group for the ALI Restatement of Law, Corporate Governance. She serves on the board of the SEC Historical Society and is a former board member of DirectWomen, an organization dedicated to increasing board diversity. Fairfax is a former member of the Committee on Corporate Laws of the Business Law Section of the ABA and a former chair of both the Securities Regulation and Business of AALS.
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Before joining Penn, Fairfax was the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law at George Washington University Law and Director of the Corporate Law and Governance Initiative. Previously, she was Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Fairfax also practiced corporate and securities law with Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and Washington, D.C.
From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics (2 vols., Oxford, 1996)
Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Compliance: Cases and Materials (West, 2023)
recent courses taught Contracts Corporations ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiatives Securities Law Shareholder Rights
education JD Harvard BA Harvard
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“What Was It Like to Try a Rat?” 143 U. Pa.. L. Rev. 1889 (1995)
Business Organizations: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press, 2019)
“James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution,” 10 U. Pa.. J. Const. L. 901 (2008)
“Board Committee Charters and ESG Accountability,” Harvard Business Law Journal (2022)
“The Committee of Detail,” 28 Const. Comment. 197 (2012)
“The Securities Law Implications of Financial Illiteracy,” Virginia Law Review (2018)
“Hilbert’s Use of the Syllogism,” Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic (Bloomsbury, 2023)
“The Bottom Line on Board Diversity: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Business Rationales for Diversity on Corporate Boards,” Wisconsin Law Review (2005)
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Eric A. Feldman
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95
Deputy Dean for International Programs; Heimbold Professor of International Law; Professor of Health Policy and Medical Ethics; Co-Director, Center for Asian Law; Tri-Chair, University Faculty Senate
Earle Hepburn Professor of Law; Co-Director of the Institute of Law & Philosophy
Comparative Law | Japanese Law | Law and Disasters
recent courses taught Robot Revolution: Legal, Ethical & Policy Challenges of Robotics in the US & Japan Plagues, Pandemics, & Public Health Law Disasters & the Law Law & Society in Japan Public Health Law & Policy Tobacco: Law, Policy, & Ethics
secondary appointments Arts & Sciences (East Asian Studies) Penn Medicine (Health Policy & Medical Ethics)
affiliations Center for AIDS Research (Behavioral & Social Sciences Core) Center for Public Health Initiatives Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Senior Fellow
education
Law and Society | Public Health Law | Torts
Criminal Law | Evidence | Law and Philosophy
Eric A. Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, torts, and law and society.
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95 teaches criminal law, evidence, advanced criminal law, and advanced law and philosophy seminars.
His books and articles explore the comparative dimensions of rights, public health, dispute resolution, and legal culture, often in the context of urgent policy issues, including the regulation of smoking/vaping, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and natural and nuclear disasters.
She joined the Law School in 2020 from the University of Virginia, where she was the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and the Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law. Prior to joining the Virginia faculty, Ferzan was Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University.
Feldman has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in Japan and has received grants and fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Bar Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools, Section on East Asian Law and Society and was an elected trustee of the Law and Society Association and the Asian Law and Society Association.
Before teaching, Ferzan clerked for the Honorable Marvin Katz in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses committed by federal, state, and local officials. She also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia.
Feldman is the past Associate Director of NYU’s Institute for Law and Society. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Georgetown Law, and Stanford Law and a Short-Term Visiting Professor at Waseda University, Seikei University, University of Trento, Hebrew University, and Bar-Ilan University. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Policy Report and the editorial boards of Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, International Journal of Law in Context, and Asian Journal of Law and Society. Feldman is the author or editor of books published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Harvard University Press, and his articles have appeared in journals such as the California Law Review, Law in Japan, American Journal of Comparative Law, Social and Legal Studies, Hastings Center Report, New England Journal of Medicine, and Lancet. His media appearances include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Law, The Asahi Shimbun, Yahoo Finance, NPR, ABC, Fox, CBS, BBC, and KCBS. representative publications
PhD 1994 Berkeley
“The Death of Japanese Legal Studies? An American Perspective,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper (2023)
JD 1989 Berkeley BA 1982 Vassar
“Curbside Consults in Clinical Medicine: Empirical and Liability Challenges,” Journal of Law and Medical Ethics (2021)
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“Regulating E-Cigarettes: Why Policies Diverge,” The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley (Cambridge University Press, 2019) “Informed Consent and the Role of the Treating Physician,” New England Journal of Medicine (2018) “Baby M Turns 30: The Law and Policy of Surrogate Motherhood,” American Journal of Law and Medicine (2018)
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recent courses taught Consent in Law and Morality Criminal Law Evidence
She has been a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Harvard, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago. She has also been an Academic Visitor at Australia National University, an International Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.
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She is the co-editor in chief of Law and Philosophy and is also on the editorial boards of the Stanford Encyclopedia for Philosophy (Philosophy of Law), Legal Theory, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, and Criminal Law and Philosophy.
AB 1991 North Carolina
Arts & Sciences (Philosophy)
education JD 1995 Penn
She is co-editor of three books and co-author of Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009) with Larry Alexander and Stephen J. Morse, and Reflections on Crime and Culpability (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Larry Alexander. Her paper, “Beyond Crime and Commitment,” was selected for the 2013 American Philosophical Association’s Berger Memorial, and her paper, “Beyond Intention,” was selected for the 2006 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in the criminal law category.
representative publications “NDAs: A Study in Rights, Wrongs, and Civil Recourse,” American Jurisprudence (2023) “From Restatement to Model Penal Code: The Progress and Perils of Criminal Law Reform,” The American Law Institute: A Centennial History (2023) “The Trouble with Time Served,” Brigham Young University Law Review (2023) “Dissent-Sensitive Permissions,” Law & Philosophy (2022)
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“#BelieveWomen and the Presumption of Innocence: Clarifying the Questions for Law and Life,” NOMOS: Truth and Evidence (2021) #
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Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Jill E. Fisch
Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; Faculty Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
Criminal Law | International Law | Law of War and Military Ethics National Security Law | Philosophy of Law | Professional Ethics
Claire Oakes Finkelstein is an expert in the law of armed conflict, military ethics, and national security law. Her current research addresses national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.
recent courses taught Introduction to Jurisprudence The Law of War National Security Law Political Philosophy and the Law Professional Responsibility
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Philosophy)
affiliations Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (Faculty Director) Institute for Law & Philosophy
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Finkelstein is the founder and academic director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a distinguished research fellow at Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She has briefed Pentagon officials, U.S. Senate staff, and JAG Corps members on national security law and practice. She has published widely in national security and democratic governance, and most recently led a working group of over 30 national security professionals to produce a significant report discussing recommendations for closing Guantanamo Bay Prison. Prior to Penn, Finkelstein was a Professor of Law at Berkeley. She is a past Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; Harsanyi Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Philosophy, Research School for the Social Sciences at Australian National University and has also held fellowships at the Princeton Center for Human Values and Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée in Paris. She received several Olin fellowships to further her dissertation research. Finkelstein is editor or co-editor of several books and book series including: The Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law; Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Oxford University Press, 2018); Targeted Killings: Law & Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford University Press, 2012); Weighing Lives in War (Oxford University Press, 2017); and Hobbes on Law (Routledge, 2005). She is a frequent media commentator and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.
PhD 1996 Pittsburgh JD 1993 Yale Maîtrise 1987 University of Paris, Sorbonne AB 1986 Harvard
representative publications The Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Times of War (Oxford University Press, 2022) “Restoring the Rule of Law through Department of Justice Reform,” Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy (Brookings, 2022) “The Status of State and Nonstate Actors in Postwar Hostilities: Restoring the Rule of Law to U.S. Targeted Killing Operations,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2022) read more online
“Presidential Accountability and the Rule of Law: Can the President Claim Immunity If He Shoots Someone on Fifth Avenue?,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2021) “Introduction: Cyber and the Changing Face of War,” Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts (Oxford University Press, 2015)
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Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics
Corporate Governance | Corporate Law Federal Courts | Securities Regulation and Litigation
Jill E. Fisch is an internationally known scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of business and law, including the role of regulation and litigation in addressing limitations in the disciplinary power of the capital markets. Fisch has written more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters that have appeared in top law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Texas Law Review. Her work is regularly featured in the Corporate Practice Commentator’s list of “Top Ten Corporate and Securities Articles” and has been cited by a variety of courts including the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, the Delaware Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Utah, and the Delaware Chancery Court. Current projects include a focus on developments in ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing and the Securities & Exchange Commission’s regulatory responses, and ongoing work on the evolving role of institutional investors in corporate governance and the growing importance of retail investors. Fisch is also engaged in a series of experimental projects studying retail investor decision making. She has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia to teach, lecture, and meet with scholars and regulators on issues involving comparative corporate governance and the globalization of the capital markets. Prior to Penn, Fisch was the T.J. Maloney Professor of Business Law and Founding Director of the Corporate Law Center at Fordham Law, where she taught for 19 years. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Georgetown. Before entering academia, Fisch was an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department Honors Program.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Corporate Governance Corporations Securities Regulation
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 1985 Yale BA 1982 Cornell
In 2022, Fisch received the University’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. She has also received the LLM Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015-16 and 2021-22) and the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010-11 and 2020-21). representative publications “What’s in a Name? ESG Mutual Funds and the SEC’s Names Rule,” Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2023) “Corporate Democracy and the Intermediary Voting Dilemma,” Texas Law Review (forthcoming 2023) “GameStop and the Reemergence of the Retail Investor,” Boston University Law Review (2022) “Do ESG Mutual Funds Deliver on Their Promises?,” Michigan Law Review (2021)
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Jean Galbraith
Jasmine E. Harris
Professor of Law; Deputy Dean
Contracts | Federal Courts | Foreign Relations Law International Law | International Organizations
recent courses taught Contracts Federal Courts Foreign Relations & National Security Global Legal Change International Legal Regimes
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AB 1999 Harvard
Administrative, Regulatory, and Compliance Law | Civil Litigation Constitutional Law and Civil Rights | Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
Jean Galbraith teaches and writes about public international law and U.S. foreign relations law.
Jasmine E. Harris is a law and inequality legal scholar with expertise in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence.
Her research focuses on the structure of international legal institutions, especially treaty regimes, and the connections between these institutions and U.S. domestic law.
Her work examines the relationship between law and inequality with a focus on law’s capacity to advance social norms of inclusion in the context of disability.
Prior to joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, Galbraith was an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden. She has previously served as an associate legal officer for Judge Theodor Meron at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, an associate at Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin in Philadelphia, and a Sharswood Fellow in Law and International Affairs at Penn Carey Law. Galbraith received her BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and her JD from Berkeley Law School. She clerked for the Honorable David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2017 and again in 2020, Galbraith received the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.
JD 2004 Berkeley
Professor of Law
Harris consults with federal and state lawmakers and legal advocates on issues of legislative and policy reforms related to disability laws. She also serves on the Board of Directors for The Arc of the United States and as Chair of the Legal Advocacy Subcommittee to advise the organization on impact litigation. Prior to joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, Harris was a Professor of Law & Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at the University of Southern California Davis School of Law. She also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York and worked as a Senior Associate at WilmerHale and Staff Attorney at the Advancement Project. Her recent academic articles have appeared or will appear in such publications as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Cornell Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, and the Journal of Legal Education.
recent courses taught Access to Justice Disability and Education Law Disability Law Evidence
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 2005 Yale AB 1999 Dartmouth
Harris recently joined leading evidence law experts as a co-editor of the preeminent evidence treatise, McCormick on Evidence. She also writes frequently about disability and equality law for popular audiences, with essays appearing in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, and Tribune Wire, as well as in academic blogs such as the American Constitution Society’s Expert Forum and Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health.
representative publications “Poverty Penalties as Human Rights Problems,” American Journal of International Law (2023) (co-authored with students) “The Failed Promise of Installment Fines,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (co-authored) read more online
“The Runaway Presidential Power Over Diplomacy,” Virginia Law Review (2022) “Rejoining Treaties,” Virginia Law Review (2020) “From Treaties to International Commitments: The Changing Landscape of Foreign Relations Law,” University of Chicago Law Review (2017)
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She is regularly interviewed and has been quoted in publications and media outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education, Guardian, Harper’s BAZAAR, USA Today, CNBC, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour. representative publications “The Disability Docket,” American University Law Review (2023) “The Disability Frame,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2022) “Debating Disability Disclosure in Education,” Journal of Legal Education (2021)
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Paul Heaton
Allison K. Hoffman
Professor of Law; Academic Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
Professor of Law; Deputy Dean
Health Insurance | Health Law and Policy Criminal Law and Procedure | Law and Economics
recent courses taught Criminal Law Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law
Social Welfare Program Design and Regulation | Torts
An expert in the empirical analysis of law, Paul Heaton has produced novel insights on a range of criminal and civil justice topics.
Allison K. Hoffman is an expert on health care law and policy who examines some of the most important legal and social issues of our time, including health insurance regulation, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and retiree healthcare expenses, and long-term care.
His research has been published in the most prominent scholarly journals in the areas of law, medicine, public health, and economics, reflecting the multidisciplinary orientation of his work. His work on cost-benefit analysis of criminal justice investments has been cited before Congress and numerous state and local legislatures, and his research on indigent defense helped to catalyze changes to the compensation scheme for appointed private counsel in Philadelphia. Heaton’s recent empirical work on bail and the pretrial process has figured prominently in landmark civil rights litigation challenging the use of cash bail to detain poor criminal defendants accused of low-level crimes. His ongoing work includes projects seeking to identify best practices in public defense, including a first-of-its-kind quasi-experimental study of holistic defense published in the Harvard Law Review in 2019. Prior to joining the Law School, Heaton served as the Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, where he worked with leaders of the defense and plaintiff ’s bar, general counsel of major corporations, federal and state judges, and consumer and labor groups to develop objective, empirical research on the civil justice system.
education PhD 2007 Chicago MA 2003 Chicago BA 2001 BYU
Health Reform, the Affordable Care Act | Long-Term Care
Her research aims to bring greater descriptive and analytical clarity to the purposes of health care and health insurance regulation and policy design. Recent past projects evaluate the adoption of a public health insurance option for employer health plans, consider the future of long-term care and end of life care policies and regulation especially in light of the impact of COVID-19, and critique how economic theory has overly shaped the development of health law and policy. A Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute, Hoffman co-edited the Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law with I. Glenn Cohen and William M. Sage, which offers the most comprehensive review of U.S. health law in the post-ACA era. She is also co-authoring a 3rd edition of The Politics of Medicare with Theodore R. Marmor. At Penn Carey Law, Hoffman was awarded the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017-18. During that year, she also served as Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Hoffman has taught at UCLA Law and Yale Law School and was a Fellow at Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Before entering academia, she was an Associate at Ropes & Gray LLP and worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group and the Bridgespan Group.
recent courses taught Health Law and Policy Torts COVID and the Law Health Insurance Regulation and Reform
affiliations Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 2004 Yale AB 1998 Dartmouth
She is a frequent media commentator on issues of health law and policy. Her opinion writing has appeared in The Hill, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post, among others. representative publications “Reform We Can Agree on: Public Opinion on Prosecutorial Liability,” Journal of Experimental Criminology (2022)
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representative publications “The ACA’s Choice Problem,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (2020)
“Enhanced Public Defense Improves Pretrial Outcomes and Reduces Racial Disparities,” Indiana Law Journal (2021)
“Long-Term Care Policy after COVID-19—Solving the Nursing Home Crisis,” New England Journal of Medicine (2020)
“Medicaid Coverage Expansions and Liability Insurance,” Journal of Risk and Insurance (2020)
“Health Care’s Market Bureaucracy,” UCLA Law Review (2019)
“The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes,” Harvard Law Review (2019)
“Reimagining the Risk of Long-Term Care,” Yale Law Journal of Health Policy, Law, & Ethics (2016)
“The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention,” Stanford Law Review (2017)
“Three Models of Health Insurance: The Conceptual Pluralism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2011)
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David Hoffman
Herbert Hovenkamp
William A. Schnader Professor of Law
Contracts | Corporate Law | Law and Psychology Law and Social Science
recent courses taught Advanced Contracts Contracts Corporations
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics
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BA 1998 Yale
American Constitutional History | American Legal History | Antitrust Law Innovation and Competition Policy | Torts
Dave Hoffman is a widely cited scholar who focuses his research and teaching on contract law.
Dubbed “the dean of American antitrust law” by The New York Times, Herbert Hovenkamp is an internationally renowned U.S. antitrust scholar.
Hoffman writes about all aspects of contracting theory and practice, informed by empirical evidence. In the last few years, his work has included an application of generative AI to contract interpretation; several papers on form contracts—those of both consumers and residential tenants—exploring the relationship between falling transaction costs and the proliferation of aversive written agreements; deep dives into the technical and legal aspects of transactions occurring on and through blockchains; COVID-linked work on the effect of disruptive social changes on how courts consider contracts’ third-party interests; and qualitative and quantitative scholarship on how individuals experience contracting online and what extra-legal goals firms might seek to accomplish using the “terms and conditions.”
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2008 won the Justice Department’s John Sherman Award for his lifetime contributions to antitrust law. In 2012 he served on the ABA’s Committee to advise the President-elect on antitrust matters.
Hoffman’s pathbreaking scholarship on leases led to additional work on evictions, which in turn sparked a project with multiple Penn Carey Law students: a short, fair, legal and free model lease for Philadelphia. He also recently co-authored a paper with a (then) Penn Carey Law student arguing that nondisclosure clauses in employment contracts violate public policy. Hoffman joined the Law School faculty in 2017 after spending the first 12 years of academic career at Temple Law. At Penn, Hoffman was honored with the Harvey Levin teaching award in 2018, and he previously won Temple’s George P. Williams Memorial Award for the Outstanding Professor of the Year (2013). Before joining the legal academy, he was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City and a law clerk for the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
JD 2001 Harvard
James G. Dinan University Professor
Hoffman was born and raised in the Philadelphia area, where he currently lives with his wife and two children. He is a frequently sought after commentator on issues involving contract law, and has been appointed as a Federal Special Master (in the NFL Concussion Litigation) and to the National Arbitration Panel (in the National Opioids Settlement).
His principal writing includes The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870- 1970 (Oxford, 2015); Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip E. Areeda and Donald F. Turner) (22 vols., Aspen 2008-21); Principle of Antitrust (West 2d ed., 2021); Creation Without Restraint: Promoting Liberty and Rivalry in Innovation (Oxford, 2012, with Christina Bohannan); The Making of Competition Policy (Oxford, 2012, with Daniel A. Crane); The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution (Harvard, 2006); Federal Antitrust Policy: The Law of Competition and Its Practice (West, 6th ed. 2020); IP and Antitrust: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles as Applied to Intellectual Property Law (2 vols., Aspen, 2017, with Mark D. Janis, Mark Lemley, Christopher R. Leslie, and Michael A. Carrier); and Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Harvard, 1991). Hovenkamp has also co-authored casebooks in antitrust, property law, and a free open-source casebook on innovation and competition policy. He has consulted on numerous antitrust cases for various government entities and private plaintiffs. Before coming to Penn in 2017 as the University’s 21st Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Hovenkamp was the Ben V. & Dorothy Willie Professor at Iowa Law for 31 years. He has been a Visitor Professor with Ohio State University Law and was a professor in the summer program of the University College London, teaching innovation and competition policy. Hovenkamp has two sons.
recent courses taught Antitrust The Constitution and Free Enterprise Law and Commerce in American History
secondary appointments Wharton (Legal Studies & Business Ethics)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics Legal History Consortium Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 1978 Texas PhD 1976 Texas MA 1971 Texas BA 1969 Calvin College
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“Worker Welfare and Antitrust,” Chicago Law Review (2023)
“Generative Interpretation,” New York University Law Review (forthcoming, 2024)
“Digital Cluster Markets,” Columbia Business Law Review (2022)
“Longer Trips to Court Cause Evictions,” PNAS (2023)
“The Looming Crisis in Antitrust Economics,” Boston University Law Review (2021)
“The Social Cost of Contract,” Columbia Law Review (2021)
“Apple v. Pepper: Rationalizing Antitrust’s Indirect Purchaser Rule,” Columbia Law Review (2020)
“Transnational Scripts in Contract Stacks,” Minnesota Law Review (2020) “Relational Contracts of Adhesion,” University of Chicago Law Review (2018) #
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Leo Katz
Jonathan Klick
Frank Carano Professor of Law
Contracts | Criminal Laws | Jurisprudence
Leo Katz’s work focuses on criminal law and legal theory more generally. By connecting criminal law, moral philosophy, and the theory of social choice, he tries to shed light on some of the most basic building block notions of the law — coercion, deception, consent, and the use and abuse of legal stratagems, among others. Katz is the author of several books: Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Chicago, 1987); Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (Chicago, 1996); and Why the Law Is So Perverse (Chicago, 2011). Together with Stephen J. Morse and Michael Moore, he edited Foundations of the Criminal Law (Oxford, 1999).
recent courses taught Contracts Corporations Criminal Law Law and Morality
affiliations Institute for Law & Philosophy
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In 2020, Katz received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching for his exceptional work migrating his Criminal Law course to the necessarily online, remote format. He has taught at the Law School since 1991, and prior to that, he held positions around the world, including visiting scholar and fellowship positions at Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; the Australian National University; University of California, Berkeley; Goethe Universität Frankfurt; and University of Michigan Law School. Before entering academia, Katz served as a law clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an Associate at Mayer, Brown & Platt LLP.
JD 1982 Chicago MA 1982 Chicago BA 1979 Chicago
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law
Empirical Finance | Empirical Law and Economics | Public Health
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion access and risky sex, the health behaviors of diabetics, the effect of police on crime, addiction as rational choice, and how liability exposure affects the labor market for physicians, as well as a host of other issues. His scholarship has been published in numerous peer-reviewed economics journals, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Journal of Legal Studies. He has also published papers in the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Texas Law Review. Klick has been a Senior Economist with the RAND Corporation since 2007. Before coming to Penn, Klick was a Visiting Professor at the Law School and the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law at Florida State Law, where he was also a Courtesy Professor of Economics. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Columbia, University of Southern California, Northwestern, University of Hamburg, Erasmus University, and University of Canterbury. His four sons think he is the funniest person in the world, while his wife will only commit to his being in the top five. He previously worked as a cashier at the Modell’s Sporting Goods store in the King of Prussia Mall.
recent courses taught Corporations Law & Economics Statistics for Lawyers Torts
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics Penn Program on Regulation Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education JD 2003 George Mason PhD 2002 George Mason MA 1999 Maryland BS 1997 Villanova
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“Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic Behind It,” Journal of Legal Studies (2023)
“Big Tech’s Robber Barons,” Regulation (2021)
“Redoing Criminal Law: Taking the Deviant Turn,” Criminal Law & Philosophy (2022)
“The Ineffectiveness of ‘Observe and Report’ Patrols on Crime,” International Review of Law and Economics (2021)
“The Non-Economic Problems of Law,” Games (2021) “Disorder and Discontinuity in Law and Morality,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2021) “The Inevitability and Ubiquity of Cycling in All Feasible Legal Regimes: A Formal Proof,” Journal of Legal Studies (2017)
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“The Logic and Limits of Event Studies in Securities Fraud Litigation,” Texas Law Review (2018) “Empirical Law and Economics,” Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics (Oxford, 2017) #
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Michael S. Knoll
Seth F. Kreimer
Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Corporate Finance | Real Estate | Taxation
recent courses taught Corporations Deals: The Economic Structure of Transactions and Contracting Federal Income Taxation International Taxation U.S. Army War College: International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise
secondary appointment Wharton (Real Estate)
affiliations Institute for Law & Economics Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 1984 Chicago PhD 1983 Chicago AB 1977 Chicago
Seth F. Kreimer’s first article, “Allocational Sanctions: The Problem of Negative Rights in a Positive State,” set the terms for a generation of scholarship on unconstitutional conditions.
He is the author of more than 60 articles, book chapters, and other pieces. His academic writings have been published in the law reviews of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford as well as in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Law and Economics, and Tax Law Review. He has also published editorials in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
His subsequent work has shaped analysis of privacy, abortion regulation, assisted suicide, and same sex marriage. He has explored the implications of DNA testing in criminal justice, free speech on the Internet, the Freedom of Information Act, and the abuses of the “war on terror.”
His research focuses on the economic incentives created by legal rules and how economics can be used to improve legal doctrine. In recent years, Knoll’s scholarship has focused on taxation, especially cross-border taxation. In “What is Tax Discrimination?,” Knoll and his co-author argue that the prohibition against tax discrimination embodied in the European Union’s free movement rights and the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution can be best understood as calling for a level playing field between interstate and intrastate commerce, and they provide a framework that courts can use to ascertain whether a state tax discriminates against interstate commerce. This argument formed the basis Knoll and his co-author’s amicus brief in Wynne v. Comptroller of Maryland, which was cited by the Supreme Court majority multiple times in its 2015 decision. Knoll and his co-author are also working on a book on tax discrimination in the EU and the United States. Before coming to Penn, Knoll taught at USC Law for a decade. At Penn Carey Law, he served as Deputy Dean (2014-16) and Associate Dean (2004- 06). He has also served as Legal Advisor to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission and a law clerk to the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has been a Visiting Professor/Scholar at Virginia, Georgetown, Toronto, Columbia, NYU, and Boston University. He has been the Editor of Forensic Economic Abstracts since 1997.
“Bibb Balancing: Regulatory Mismatches Under the Dormant Commerce Clause,” George Washington Law Review (2020) “The Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause After Wynne,” Virginia Tax Law Review (2020) “The TCJA and the Questionable Incentive to Incorporate,” Tax Notes (2019) “The Modigliani-Miller Theorem at 60: The Long-Overlooked Legal Applications of Finance Foundational Theorem,” Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin (2018) “On the Disparate Treatment of Business and Personal SALT Payments,” Tax Notes (2018) #
Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Litigation
Michael S. Knoll is an insightful commentator on how income tax laws affect business and investment decisions and a creative proponent of how those laws could be redesigned.
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Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law
Kreimer is the recipient of the 2023 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award, honoring his decades of work promoting equal access to justice. Since 2004, he has been the Legal Committee Chair of the American Civil Liberties Union, Philadelphia Chapter. Among other cases, he served as co-counsel in Ferguson v. City of Charleston (U.S. Supreme Court 2001), establishing the right of obstetrical patients to refuse nonconsensual drug testing; In Re R.B.F. (Pa. Supreme Court 2002), securing the right of gay and lesbian parents to establish families by second parent adoption; Nixon v. Commonwealth (Pa. Supreme Court 2003), overturning a lifetime employment disqualification of ex-offenders; Miller v. Mitchell (3rd Circuit 2010), the first successful constitutional challenge to a prosecution of a minor for “sexting”; Galarza v. Szalczyk (3rd Circuit 2014), securing relief for an American citizen imprisoned because of an unfounded immigration detainer; Whitewood v. Wolf (E.D. Pa. 2014), establishing the right of Pennsylvania couples to marriage equality; Peake v. Commonwealth (Pa. Commonwealth 2015), striking down a statute barring ex-offenders from employment, and Fields v. Philadelphia (3rd Circuit 2017) establishing a First Amendment right to video-record police.
recent courses taught Constitutional Litigation Complex Litigation First Amendment Individual Rights and Health Care Privacy and Disclosure
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
education JD 1977 Yale BA 1974 Yale
Before coming to Penn in 1981, Kreimer was an Associate at Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C. and a law clerk for the Honorable Arlin M. Adams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. representative publications
“The ‘Weaponized’ First Amendment at the Marble Palace and the Firing Line: Reaction and Progressive Advocacy Before the Roberts Court and Lower Federal Courts,” Emory Law Journal (2023) “Still Living After Fifty Years: A Census of Judicial Review Under the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1968,” Rutgers Law Review (2018) “‘Spooky Action at a Distance’: Intangible Injury in Fact in the Information Age,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2016) “The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey,” The Supreme Court Review (1998)
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Sophia Z. Lee
Liz Magill
Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania President, Trustees University Professor and Professor of Law
Administrative Law | American Legal History | Antidiscrimination Law Constitutional Law | Employment and Labor Law
A prominent legal historian, award-winning teacher, and respected leader, Dean Sophia Z. Lee is committed to Penn Carey Law providing an outstanding legal education that is broadly accessible, innovative, and interdisciplinary.
recent courses taught Administrative Law Employment Law Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective The Constitution Outside of the Courts: Theory and History The History of Privacy and the Law
Lee’s scholarship focuses on administrative and constitutional law, using history to place the law in broader context and examine how the law’s past can shed light on its future. She helped pioneer the study of “administrative constitutionalism,” the study of administrative agencies’ role in shaping constitutional law. Her 2014 book, The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, offered an early legal history of the postwar conservative legal movement. The book documents the origins of a rights-based strand of that movement that has come to the fore during the Roberts Court. Her work on civil rights lawyering generated interest in the relationship between administrative law and racial justice movements and intervened in debates about the interaction of civil rights and labor rights. Her forthcoming work examines the origins of privacy as a constitutional value and their implications for contemporary Fourth Amendment doctrine. Throughout, Lee demonstrates how the law is politically embedded, creating important avenues for non-court actors to influence the law and for the law to shape politics, at times in surprising ways.
affiliations Legal History Consortium
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Lee joined the Penn Carey Law faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Law and served as Deputy Dean from 2015 to 2017. She has received the Law School’s Harvey Levin, A. Leo Levin, and Robert A. Gorman awards for excellence in teaching, and she has held leadership roles in the American Society for Legal History and the Labor and Working Class History Association. Prior to joining the Law School, she was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at New York University School of Law and clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
PhD 2010 Yale JD 2006 Yale MSW 1999 Berkeley BA 1994 Berkeley
Administrative Law | Constitutional Law
Liz Magill is the University of Pennsylvania’s ninth president. Magill joined Penn in July 2022 after serving as Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Virginia and, prior to that, as the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of the Stanford Law School. Magill’s leadership at UVA and Stanford brought transformative changes to both institutions. A scholar of administrative and constitutional law, Magill is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, held a fellowship in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University, and was the Thomas Jefferson visiting professor at Downing College, Cambridge University. Her articles have been published in leading law reviews, and she has won several awards for her scholarly contributions.
education JD 1995 University of Virginia BA 1988 Yale
Prior to her career in higher education, Magill acquired experience working in politics and at the U.S. Supreme Court. After completing her bachelor’s degree in history at Yale University, Magill served as a senior legislative assistant for energy and natural resources for U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, a position she held for four years. She left Capitol Hill to attend UVA’s School of Law, where she was articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review. After graduating in 1995, Magill clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In Philadelphia, where Penn is the largest private employer, Magill serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia and on the Board of Directors for the Schuylkill River Development Corporation.
representative publications “The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy,” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2024) “The History of Job (In)Security: Why Private Law Theory May Not Save Work Law,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2023) read more online
“Racial Justice and Administrative Procedure,” Chicago-Kent Law Review (2022) “Our Administered Constitution: Administrative Constitutionalism from the Founding to the Present,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2019) “From the History to the Theory of Administrative Constitutionalism,” Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw (Cambridge, 2017)
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representative publications “Comparative Positive Political Theory and Empirics,” Comparative Administrative Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) “Courts and Regulatory Capture,” Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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Serena Mayeri
Sandra Mayson
Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History (by courtesy)
Professor of Law
Equality Law | Family Law | U.S. Legal and Constitutional History Reproductive Rights and Justice | Law and Social Movements
Serena Mayeri’s scholarship focuses on the historical impact of progressive and conservative social movements on legal and constitutional change. Her book, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard, 2011) received the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association and the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians. recent courses taught Employment Discrimination Family Law Gender and the Law Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Legal and Historical Perspective Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Law and the Family
secondary appointments Arts & Sciences (History)
affiliations Legal History Consortium Program on Gender, Sexuality, and
Mayeri’s current project, tentatively titled Marital Privilege: Transforming the Legal Status of Marriage, 1960-2003, examines the history of challenges to marriage’s primacy as a legal institution and a source of public and private benefits. She has published related articles in the Yale Law Journal and the California Law Review. Mayeri also has written articles and book chapters on reproductive rights and justice, and co-authored several amicus briefs, most recently in cases involving abortion rights, employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and the ban on entry by citizens of predominantly Muslim countries. Mayeri is a former Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at NYU Law and law clerk for the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She serves on the executive committees of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Program on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, where she is a Core Faculty member and faculty advisor to students pursuing GSWS certificates. In 2016, she was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. In 2019, she received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Criminal Law & Procedure
Sandy Mayson researches and writes in the fields of criminal law, constitutional law, and legal theory, with a focus on the role of preventive restraint in the criminal legal system. Her academic work draws on her experience as a trial lawyer at Orleans Public Defenders, where she represented indigent clients in criminal proceedings and trained public defenders on immigration-sensitive defense practice. Her articles have appeared in top legal journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Law & Philosophy, and Criminal Law & Philosophy. Mayson is also engaged in pretrial law reform. She served as the Associate Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Pretrial Release & Detention Act, co-authors amicus briefs in lawsuits challenging aspects of money-bail systems, and advises public and private stakeholders on pretrial reform initiatives.
recent courses taught Criminal Justice Reform Criminal Law Evidence
Mayson clerked for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter L’56 on the U.S. Third Circuit and the Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Penn Carey Law, she was on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law, where she received the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is a past Research Fellow of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and Furman Fellow at NYU Law.
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Mayson’s current research topics include bail in the founding era, the constitutional standards governing pretrial detention, and a theoretical line of inquiry into law as a social practice enabled by recursive theory-of-mind.
JD 2009 NYU
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Penn Program on Regulation
education
BA 2003 Yale
Women’s Studies Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
education PhD 2006 Yale
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JD 2001 Yale
“The Uses of History in Abortion Debates After Dobbs,” Journal of American Constitutional History (forthcoming, 2024).
AB 1997 Harvard
“Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context,” Columbia Journal of Gender & Law (2023) read more online
“The State of Illegitimacy After the Rights Revolution,” in Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in American History (2021) “After Suffrage: The Unfinished Business of Feminist Legal Advocacy,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2020) “Intersectionality and the Constitution of Family Status,” Constitutional Commentary (2017)
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representative publications “Bail at the Founding,” Harvard Law Review (forthcoming) “Systemic Failure to Appear in Court,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming) “Bias In, Bias Out,” Yale Law Journal (2019) “Dangerous Defendants,” Yale Law Journal (2018)
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Michael Morse C’13 Assistant Professor of Law
Stephen J. Morse Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry; Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society
Civil Litigation | Civil Rights Constitutional Law
Criminal Law | Law and Neuroscience | Mental Health Law
Michael Morse C’13 studies voting rights, election administration, and the criminal justice system.
Stephen J. Morse works on problems of individual responsibility and agency. Morse has published numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters and written and co-edited books, including An Advanced Introduction to Substantive Criminal Law (Edwrd Elgar, 2023), Legal, Moral and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S. Moore (Oxford, 2016, with Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95), A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience (Oxford, 2013, with Adina L. Roskies), and Foundations of Criminal Law (Foundation, 1999, with Leo Katz & Michael S. Moore). He was a contributing author (with Larry Alexander and Ferzan) to Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2009). He is working on a new book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control.
His work combines empirical methods and novel administrative data with traditional legal scholarship. He has a secondary appointment in the political science department. Morse has written extensively about the politics of felony disenfranchisement and the impact of fines and fees, including in the Journal of Legal Studies and Quarterly Journal of Political Science. His most recent work on the topic, published in the California Law Review, focused on a Florida ballot initiative, known as Amendment 4, which sought to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Morse has also contributed to current debates about voter access and electoral integrity, evaluating voter identification laws, voter list maintenance, and the extent of double voting in the American Political Science Review, Science Advances, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Morse’s latest article, forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review, focuses on how states have quietly forged a novel bureaucracy to coordinate voter registration through the Electronic Registration Information Center.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Election Law
secondary appointments School of Arts & Sciences (Political Science)
education PhD Harvard 2021
Beyond voting rights and election administration, Morse has also studied the election of local prosecutors across the country, publishing findings in the Iowa Law Review and UC Davis Law Review. He has written popular pieces about each aspect of his research for outlets such as Slate and Vox.
JD Yale 2019 BA Penn 2013
Morse is a proud Penn alumnus and has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Myron Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the Honorable Marsha Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining Penn Carey Law, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.
recent courses taught Criminal Law Freedom & Responsibility
Morse has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs as well as the Co-Director of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. He is also a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology; a past president of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association; a recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology’s Distinguished Contribution Award; a recipient of the American Psychiatric Association’s Isaac Ray Award for distinguished contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence; a recipient of the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award; and was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law and a Trustee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
Mental Health Law
Before coming to Penn, Morse taught at the University of Southern California as the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, and Professor of Psychology. He was a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Cardozo, Georgetown, and Virginia.
education
secondary appointments School of Medicine (Psychiatry)
affiliations Center for Neuroscience & Society Institute for Law & Philosophy
PhD 1973 Harvard JD 1970 Harvard EdM 1970 Harvard AB 1966 Tufts
representative publications representative publications
An Advanced Introduction to Substantive Criminal Law (Eward Elgar, 2023)
“Democracy’s Bureaucracy: The Complicated Case of Voter Registration Lists,” Boston University Law Review (forthcoming)
“Internal and External Challenges to Culpability,” Arizona State Law Journal (2022)
“The Racial Burden of Voter List Maintenance Errors,” Science Advances (2021) read more online
“The Future of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: Evidence from the Campaign to Restore Voting Rights in Florida,” California Law Review (2021) “One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections,” American Political Science Review (2020) “Picking Prosecutors,” Iowa Law Review (2020)
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“The Structure, Function, and Future of Mental Health Law,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (2021) “The Insanity Defense,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) “Criminal Law and Addiction,” The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction (Routledge, 2019)
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“Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility and Civil Commitment,” The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History (2019) #
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Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08
Gideon Parchomovsky
Presidential Professor of Law
Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law
American Legal History | Civil Rights Law | Criminal Law Law and Social Stratification | Legal Profession
Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08 is an emerging interdisciplinary legal scholar with expertise in legal history, criminal law and procedure, civil rights, and the legal profession. His work sits at the intersection of law, history, and sociology, with a focus on how governments meet their legal obligations to provide services and benefits to poor people and racial minorities. He also works on stratification in the legal profession. recent courses taught
He has received awards from social science and humanities organizations such as the American Bar Foundation, American Society for Criminology, American Society for Legal History, The Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Southern California Law Review, and the American Journal of Law & Medicine, among other outlets. His public writing has appeared in the American Prospect, Salon, and Jacobin.
Antidiscrimination Law Criminal Law Law and Inequality Legal Profession
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Information Law | Intellectual Property | Property Law
Gideon Parchomovsky specializes in intellectual property, property law, and cyberlaw. He has already made significant contributions to the field through his wide-ranging scholarship, having written numerous articles for major law reviews on property and liability rules, insider trading, trademarks, domain names, and patents. Most recently, he has been advocating the need for a comprehensive property theory and the need to introduce a value- oriented theory. Parchomovsky has received the A. Leo Levin Award, presented to the best teacher of a first-year course; the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence; and the Inaugural LLM Award for Teaching Excellence. Before coming to Penn, he taught at Fordham Law as an Assistant Professor of Law from 1998 to 2002 and was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law in both 2000 and 2002.
Before joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, he was an Academic Fellow and a Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow at Columbia Law. He previously practiced litigation and healthcare enforcement law at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., and worked as a Loaned Associate focusing on public benefits appeals with the Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
Legal History Consortium
education JD 2016 Berkeley PhD 2014 Berkeley
Copyright Law Impact of the Internet on Copyright and Patent Law Property Law
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics
education JSD 1998 Yale
MLA 2008 Penn
LLM 1995 Berkeley
BS 2007 Northwestern
LLB 1993 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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representative publications “Rationing Access,” Vanderbilt Law Review (2023)
“Velvet Rope Discrimination,” Virginia Law Review (2021)
“Are All Risks Created Equal? Rethinking the Distinction Between Legal and Business Risk in Corporate Law,” Boston University Law Review (2022)
“Civil vs. Criminal Legal Aid,” Southern California Law Review (2021)
“Reversing the Fortunes of Active Funds,” Texas Law Review (2020)
“The Racial Reckoning of Public Interest Law,” California Law Review Online (2021)
“Autonomy,” Toronto Law Journal (2020)
“The Welfarist Right to Counsel,” Stanford Law Review (2020)
“The Agent’s Problem,” Duke Law Journal (2020)
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Elizabeth Pollman Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics
Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97 James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education
Economic Development | Education | Housing Corporations | Corporate Governance | M&A | Venture Capital
Elizabeth Pollman is an expert on corporate law, governance, and rights. She teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics in business law, with a particular focus on corporate governance, purpose, and personhood, as well as startups, venture capital, and law and entrepreneurship. Her recent work has examined ESG, corporate purpose, the system of U.S. public company governance, venture-backed startup governance and failure, director oversight liability, corporate disobedience, companies that have business models aimed at changing the law, and corporate constitutional rights.
recent courses taught Corporations M&A Startups and Venture Capital Corporate Governance Seminar
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 2005 Stanford BA 1999 Stanford
She serves on the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association and is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. She has served on the National Business Law Scholars Conference Board and the AALS Business Associations Executive Committee. She received the 2021 LLM Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the 2022 Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence. Before joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, Pollman taught at Loyola Law in Los Angeles and at Stanford Law, where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law. She is also a past fellow at Stanford Law’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. Pollman clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Land Use | Race Relations | Urban Policy
A distinguished legal teacher and scholar, an award-winning urban historian, and an accomplished educational leader and administrator, Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97 served as Penn’s provost from July 2017 through December 31, 2021 and as interim University president from February to June 2022. He is a former chancellor and law professor at Rutgers University-Camden and deputy chief of staff and director of policy for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Pritchett is recognized for his leadership and public policy expertise in education, housing, race relations, and economic development. He joined the Law School faculty in 2002 and served as associate dean for academic affairs (2006-07) and interim dean (2014-15). In 2020, Pritchett received the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course. Throughout the past 25 years, he has written numerous articles, reviews, and books and has held leadership positions in numerous public and nonprofit institutions, including the Public Health Management Corporation and the Stoneleigh Foundation. He has served on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission; as president of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities; on the board of the Campaign for Blake Male Achievement and Community Legal Services of Philadelphia; and as a member of the Pennsylvania State Planning Board, among others.
“Startup Failure,” Duke Law Journal (2023) read more online
“The Supreme Court and the Pro-Business Paradox,” Harvard Law Review (2021) “The Corporate Governance Machine,” Columbia Law Review (2021) “The History and Revival of the Corporate Purpose Clause,” Texas Law Review (2021) “Private Company Lies,” Georgetown Law Journal (2020)
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secondary appointments Graduate School of Education
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
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Pollman’s scholarship on corporate law and securities regulation has appeared on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s list of the top 10 best articles of the year six times in the past six years, including most recently in 2022 for “The Supreme Court and the Pro-Business Paradox,” published in the Harvard Law Review.
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PhD 1997 Penn JD 1991 Yale BA 1986 Brown
representative publications Perspectives on Fair Housing, editor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
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Dorothy E. Roberts
Paul H. Robinson
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; Professor of Africana Studies
Bioethics | Civil Rights | Critical Race Theory | Family Law Policing | Reproductive Rights and Justice
recent courses taught The Constitution and the Family Criminal Law Current Controversies in Child Welfare Policy Race, Science, and Justice Reproductive Rights and Justice
joint appointments Arts & Sciences (Africana Studies) Arts & Sciences (Sociology)
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education JD 1980 Harvard
Paul H. Robinson is one of the world’s leading criminal law scholars.
She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. She is the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022), Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2001), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), as well as more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, including “Race” in the 1619 Project book (2021).
A former federal prosecutor and counsel for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, he was the lone dissenter when the U.S. Sentencing Commission promulgated the current federal sentencing guidelines.
Roberts has served on the boards of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Juvenile Law Center, and National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, and her work has been supported by fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fulbright Program, Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Northwestern Institute for Policy Research. Recent recognitions of her work include elections to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Medicine; Rutgers University-Newark Honorary Doctor of Law Degree; Harvard Women’s Law Association “Women Inspiring Change,” Juvenile Law Center Leadership Prize; Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award; and American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award.
Robinson completed three criminal code reform projects in the United States and two modern Islamic penal law codifications under the auspices of the UN Development Program and the International Law Development Organization. He also writes for general audiences, including popular books such as Would You Convict? (NYU), Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform (Rowman & Littlefield), Mapping American Criminal Law (Praeger), and Shadow Vigilantes (Prometheus).
representative publications Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Random House/ Pantheon, 1997; Vintage 20th Anniversary edition, 2017)
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Dorothy E. Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, joined the Law School as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Law School, where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair.
BA 1977 Yale
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A prolific writer and lecturer, Robinson has published 18 books as well as articles in virtually all of the top scholarly law reviews, lectured in more than 100 cities in 34 states and 28 countries, and had his writings appear in 14 languages.
A member of the American Law Institute, his books include the standard lawyer’s reference on criminal law defenses, three Oxford monographs on criminal law theory, a highly regarded criminal law treatise, and an innovative case studies course book. He is the lead editor of Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford), and the author of Intuitions of Justice and the Utility of Desert (Oxford, also in Chinese) and American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles & Evolution (Routledge).
Before coming to Penn, Robinson taught at Northwestern, Georgetown, and Rutgers, where he was Acting Dean. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan.
recent courses taught Advanced Criminal Law Criminal Law Criminal Law Codification Criminal Law Theory Seminar Punishment Theory Seminar
affiliations Criminal Law Research Group
education Diploma in Legal Studies 1976 Cambridge LLM 1974 Harvard JD 1973 UCLA BS 1970 RPI
representative publications Getting Away with Murder and Rape: Rethinking the Balance of Interests in Criminal Justice (Rowman & Littlefield forthcoming 2024) “Our Troubling Failures in Catching Criminals: Rethinking Legal Limits on Crime Investigation,” Case Western Law Review (forthcoming 2024)
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books/Civitas, 2001)
“Rethinking the Balance of Interests in Non-Exculpatory Defenses,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (forthcoming 2024)
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011)
“Standing Back and Standing Down: Citizen Non-Cooperation and Police Non-Intervention as Causes of Justice Failure and Crime,” Hofstra Law Review (2023)
Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022)
“Individualizing Criminal Law’s Justice Judgments: Shortcomings in the Doctrines of Culpability, Mitigation, and Excuse,” Villanova Law Review (2022)
“Abolition Constitutionalism,” Harvard Law Review (2019)
“Criminal Law’s Core Principles,” Washington University Jurisprudence Review (2022)
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Kermit Roosevelt
Jennifer E. Rothman
David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice
Conflict of Laws | Constitutional Law
Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Federal Jurisdiction
Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law
Kermit Roosevelt works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. He has published scholarly books in both fields. Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 2010) offers an accessible analytical overview of conflicts. The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (Yale, 2006) sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the Supreme Court is abusing its authority to interpret the Constitution.
recent courses taught Conflict of Laws
education JD 1997 Yale AB 1993 Harvard
Jennifer E. Rothman is nationally recognized for her scholarship in the field of intellectual property law. She is the leading expert on the right of publicity, and is frequently sought after to consult on legislation, high-profile litigation, and the development of creative projects.
He has published articles in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others. He is also the author of two novels, In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Allegiance (Regan Arts, 2015).
In addition to focusing on conflicts between intellectual property rights and other constitutionally protected rights, such as the freedom of speech, her scholarship also explores the intersections of tort and property law, particularly in the context of the right of publicity, copyright, and trademark and unfair competition law. Her current research focuses on the ways intellectual property law is employed to turn people into a form of property, as well as how it regulates the production and content of expression. Her recent book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, published by Harvard University Press, addresses some of these concerns in what has been described as the “definitive biography of the right of publicity.” Rothman’s essays and articles regularly appear in top law reviews and journals. Her most recent article, “The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity,” appears in the Yale Law Journal.
In 2014, he was selected by the American Law Institute as the Reporter for the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws. In 2021, he was appointed to President Biden’s Commission on Supreme Court Reform. He has served as a Fellow of the Yale Information Society Project since 1998.
She also created Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity, an online resource, located at www. rightofpublicityroadmap.com, which provides a comprehensive analysis of state right of publicity laws and commentary on recent cases and legislation.
After law school, Roosevelt served as law clerk for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for the Honorable David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also worked as an associate for Mayer, Brown & Platt.
Rothman is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an adviser on the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy and an Affiliated Fellow of Yale Law’s Information Society Project. Before coming to Penn, she was the William G. Coskran Professor of Law at Loyola Law and Professor and Joseph Scott Fellow at Washington University. Before entering academia, Rothman was an associate at Irell & Manella.
Most recently, The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story (Chicago, 2022) offers a novel reinterpretation of American identity that is more honest and more inspiring than the standard version.
Constitutional Law
Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law
recent courses taught Copyright First Amendment Introduction to Intellectual Property The Right of Publicity Trademarks and Unfair Competition
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education JD UCLA MFA USC AB Princeton
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“Court Reform and the Biden Commission,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy Per Curiam (2022)
“Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark’s Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption,” Harvard Law Review (2022) “The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity,” Yale Law Journal (2020) “The Right of Publicity’s Intellectual Property Turn,” Columbia Journal of Law & Arts (2019)
“McCulloch v. Marbury,” Constitutional Commentary (2019)
“In the Shadow of the Law: The Role of Custom in Intellectual Property,” Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Vol. I – Theory) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)
Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 2010)
The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Harvard University Press, 2018)
“Hamilton’s American—And Ours,” Hamilton and the Law (Cornell University Press, 2020)
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Theodore W. Ruger Professor of Law
Chris William Sanchirico Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business, and Public Policy; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Constitutional Law | Food & Drug Law | Health Law
recent courses taught Constitutional Law Food and Drug Law Health Law and Regulation Legislation Professional Responsibility
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
Legal Profession | Legislation
Evidentiary Procedure | Tax Policy
As a teacher and scholar, Ted Ruger brings fresh insight to the study of some of the oldest questions of American law and the legal profession—namely the theoretical justifications for, and empirical contours of, the manner in which judges resolve disputes and in which the legal profession is constructed and regulated.
Chris William Sanchirico’s work spans several fields of legal scholarship but is chiefly focused on tax law and policy. His work on taxation employs a range of methodologies. His recent research on the tax treatment of private equity funds, for instance, analyzes subtle aspects of tax law doctrine.
In exploring these issues, Ruger supplements traditional legal analysis with the methods of other disciplines, including history, political science, and public health. His scholarly work has appeared in many of the nation’s top law journals and other venues. Ruger also teaches and writes in the areas of health law and food and drug regulation.
His study of work patterns and income tax progressivity applies sophisticated statistical methods to complex data sets. And his contributions to the theory of optimal taxation use mathematical models to help refine policy discourse.
As dean of Penn Carey Law from 2015 to 2023, Ruger collaborated with colleagues to advance and implement a vision of legal education that is increasingly inclusive, rigorous, cross-disciplinary, and broadly accessible. Under his leadership, Penn Carey Law substantially increased its student selectivity and financial aid support, increased the diversity and scholarly impact of its faculty, doubled the number of new graduates going into government and public interest work, and continued to lead the nation in employment outcomes at graduation. Before coming to Penn, Ruger taught at the Washington University School of Law and was an associate at Williams & Connolly and Ropes & Gray LLP. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Honorable Michael Boudin of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
education JD 1995 Harvard AB 1990 Williams
Ruger has also been a Visiting Professor at Yale, Harvard, and NYU.
His work on evidentiary procedure is known for its creativity and focus on important issues that have been largely neglected in the literature. He argues in one recent article that the law makes good use of individuals’ bounded ability to process information. The insincere witness’s cognitive limitations, for example, help make cross-examination effective. In other research he argues that structural features of evidentiary process, such as those that exploit cognitive limitations, are often a better way of dealing with evidentiary misdeeds than attempting to penalize perjury or obstruction of justice. Before coming to Penn, Sanchirico taught at the University of Virginia. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Chair of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the Board of Directors of both the National Tax Association and the American Law and Economics Association.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Federal Income Tax International Taxation The Taxation of Business Entities Tax Policy Evidence
secondary appointments Wharton (Business Economics & Public Policy)
education JD 1994 Yale PhD 1994 Yale AB 1984 Princeton
representative publications “The Primacy of Electoral Politics and Our Outdated Checks and Balances,” Beyond Imagination?: The January 6 Insurrection (West, 2022)
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“After the FDA: A Twentieth-Century Agency in a Post-Modern World,” FDA in the TwentyFirst Century (Columbia University Press, 2014)
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“Health Policy Devolution and the Institutional Hydraulics of the Affordable Care Act,” The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications (Oxford, 2013)
“The New U.S. Tax Preference for ‘Foreign-Derived Intangible Income,’” Tax Law Review (2018)
“Of Icebergs and Glaciers: The Submerged Constitution of American Healthcare,” Law & Contemporary Problems (2012)
“As American as Apple Inc.: International Tax and Ownership Nationality,” Tax Law Review (2015)
“Plural Constitutionalism and the Pathologies of American Healthcare,” Yale Law Journal Online (2011)
“The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it bad?,” University of Chicago Law Review (2008)
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Reed Shuldiner
Beth Simmons
Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics
International Human Rights | International Law | International Relations Income Taxation | Tax Policy
International Political Economy
Reed Shuldiner is one of the nation’s top experts on the federal income tax. He is best known for his seminal work on the taxation of financial products. His current areas of research include the taxation of wealth and the treatment of risk under the income tax.
Beth Simmons is best known for her research on international political economy during the interwar years, policy diffusion globally, and her work demonstrating the influence that international law has on human rights outcomes around the world.
Prior to coming to Penn Carey Law, Shuldiner worked in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury. At the Law School, he has served as Deputy Dean, and he has been a Visiting Professor at Yale and Harvard.
recent courses taught Federal Income Taxation International Taxation Taxation of Financial Products Tax Policy
Shuldiner has advised the governments of China, Lithuania, the Philippines, and South Africa on income tax issues on behalf of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Tannenwald Competition. Shuldiner has also been Counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
education PhD 1985 MIT JD 1983 Harvard BSE 1977 Princeton
Two of her books, Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years (Princeton, 2004) and Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge, 2009) won the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. The latter was also recognized by the American Society for International Law, the International Social Science Council, and the International Studies Association as the best book of the year in 2010. With funding from the Carnegie Foundation and the National Science Foundation, she is currently conducting research on international border security and cooperation, and especially documenting evidence of border “thickening” and changes in sentiments about open international borders in recent decades in many parts of the world. Simmons has spent a year working at the International Monetary Fund, is a past president of the International Studies Association, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She was on sabbatical 2018-19 at the Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Penn Carey Law, Simmons has served as Deputy Dean. She is the past Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. She has also taught at Berkeley and Duke.
recent courses taught Borders and Boundaries in International Relations Global Research Seminar: Colombia International Law
joint & secondary appointments Arts & Sciences (Political Science) Wharton (Legal Studies & Business Ethics)
education PhD Harvard MA Harvard MA Chicago BA Redlands
representative publications “Border Anxiety in International Discourse,” American Journal of Political Science (2023) read more online
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“Infrastructure and Authority at the State’s Edge: The Border Crossings of the World Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research (2023)
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“Cyber Borders: Exercising State Sovereignty Online,” Temple Law Review (2023)
“Marginal Rates Under the TCJA,” Tax Notes (2018)
“Border Orientation in a Globalizing World,” American Journal of Political Science (2022)
“Was the AMT Effectively Repealed?,” Tax Notes (2018)
“Pandemic Response as Border Politics,” International Organization (2020)
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David A. Skeel, Jr. S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law
recent courses taught Bankruptcy Christian Perspectives on Law Corporations Debt Relief and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Law, Literature, and Interpretation
affiliations Institute for Law & Economics Penn Program on Regulation
Catherine T. Struve David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law
Bankruptcy | Christianity and Law | Corporate Law
Civil Procedure | Federal Courts | Federal Indian Law
David A. Skeel, Jr. is the author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World (InterVarsity, 2014); The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2010); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford, 2006); Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2003); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics.
Catherine Struve teaches and researches in the fields of civil procedure and federal courts.
Skeel has also written commentaries for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.
Prior to teaching at Penn Carey Law, Struve clerked for the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked as an associate in the litigation department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
He has received the Harvey Levin Award three times for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the graduating class; the Robert A. Gorman Award for excellence in upper-level course teaching; the LLM Award for Excellence in Teaching, as selected by the LLM class; and the University’s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching.
She serves as reporter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which is the parent committee to the advisory committees tasked with considering amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, and Criminal Procedure.
She won the Law School’s Harvey Levin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, 2009, and 2015 and was elected to the Council of the American Law Institute in 2010. Her recent research concerns federal appellate procedure, and she is the lead co-author of the two volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise that cover that topic.
On August 31, 2016, President Obama appointed Skeel to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. He currently is the board’s chairman. He is also a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy.
recent courses taught Advanced Problems in Federal Procedure Civil Procedure Federal Courts Federal Indian Law
education JD 1995 Harvard AB 1992 Harvard
Skeel previously taught at Temple Law and has been a Visiting Professor at Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
education JD 1987 Virginia BA 1983 North Carolina
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Bankruptcy (11th ed., West Academic, 2021)
“Allowing the Courts to Step in Where Needed: Applying the PLRA’s 90-Day Limit on Preliminary Relief,” University of St. Thomas Law Journal (2023)
“Bankruptcy’s Identity Crisis,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2023)
16AA Federal Practice & Procedure (5th ed., Thomson West, 2020)
“The Corporation as Trinity,” Seattle University Law Review (2022)
16A Federal Practice & Procedure (5th ed., Thomson West, 2019)
“Pandemic Hope for Chapter 11 Financing,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2021)
“The Federal Rules of Inmate Appeals,” Arizona State Law Journal (2018)
“Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy,” Yale Law Journal (2020)
“The Conditions of Pretrial Detention,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2013)
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Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11
R. Polk Wagner
Seaman Family University Professor
Administrative Law | Social Welfare Law | Torts
Cyberlaw | Intellectual Property | Law and Technology
U.S. Legal and Constitutional History
Patent Law | Property Law
Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11, the first graduate of Penn’s JD/PhD program in American Legal History, is a scholar of U.S. legal history with broad interests in social welfare law, administrative agencies, and the role of rights in the modern American state. Her current research is about the legal category of disability and its role in governing American life in the late 20th century and after. A Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, she holds a joint appointment in Penn’s History Department.
recent courses taught COVID & the Law
Tani is the author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which won the 2017 Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
Law & Inequality Torts U.S. Legal History
Her recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Disability Studies Quarterly. Award-winning publications have also appeared in the Duke Law Journal, and the Cornell Law Review, and the Law and History Review.
joint appointment Arts & Sciences (History)
affiliations Legal History Consortium Penn Program on Regulation
Michael A. Fitts Professor of Law
Tani is a past George Sharswood Fellow in Law and History at Penn Carey Law and Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law. She has also taught at Berkeley Law and as a Visiting Professor at the law schools of Yale and Columbia.
R. Polk Wagner focuses his research and teaching in intellectual property law and policy, with a special interest in patent law. He has written over 20 articles on topics ranging from an empirical analysis of judicial decision-making in patent law to the First Amendment status of software programs. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among several others. He is the author (with Craig Nard) of Patent Law (Concepts and Insights Series) (Foundation, 2008). He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics worldwide. In 2021, Wagner was awarded the Law School’s A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course and has served as Deputy Dean and as CoDirector for the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition. Prior to joining the Penn Carey Law faculty in 2000, Wagner served as a clerk to the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He holds degrees from Stanford Law and the University of Michigan (engineering) and was the 1994-95 Roger M. Jones Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Patent Law & Policy Property Law Introduction to Intellectual Property Law & Policy Strategic Intellectual Property (Seminar)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
education JD 1998 Stanford
Tani served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
education
recent courses taught
BSE 1993 Michigan BS 1993 College of Charleston
PhD 2011 Penn JD 2007 Penn BA 2002 Dartmouth
representative publications “Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution,” Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2024) “The Disability Docket,” American University Law Review (2023)
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“After 504: Training the Citizen-Enforcers of Disability Rights,” Disability Studies Quarterly (2023) “The Pennhurst Doctrines and the Lost Disability History of the ‘New Federalism,’” California Law Review (2022) “Disability Benefits as Poverty Law: Revisiting the ‘Disabled State,’” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2022)
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representative publications “Teva and the Process of Claim Construction,” Florida Law Review (2018) “Poisoning the Next Apple: The America Invents Act and Individual Inventors,” Stanford Law Review (2013) “Did Phillips Change Anything? Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Claim Construction Doctrine,” Intellectual Property and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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Yanbai Andrea Wang
Amy Wax
Assistant Professor of Law
Civil Litigation: Practice and Procedure | China Law Conflict of Laws | Courts and the Judicial System International and Comparative Law
recent courses taught Civil Procedure
education
JD 2011 Stanford
Law and Economics of Work & Family
Amy Wax’s work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets.
She investigates how the design of procedural doctrines and judicial institutions shapes the relationship between American and Chinese courts as well as their respective roles in the international legal order. Her current research examines the enforcement of foreign judgments, the determination of foreign law, and the growing appearance of Americans in Chinese courts.
Bringing to bear her training in biomedical sciences and appellate practice and her interest in economic analysis, Wax has developed a uniquely insightful approach to problems in her areas of expertise. She has published widely in law journals, addressing liberal theory and welfare work requirements as well as the economics of federal disability laws. Current works in progress include articles on same-sex marriage, disparate impact theory and group demographics, rational choice and family structure, and the law and neuroscience of deprivation.
She holds a PhD in International Relations from Oxford, a JD from Stanford Law, and a BA from Princeton.
DPhil 2014 Oxford
Civil Procedure | Social Welfare Law
Yanbai Andrea Wang specializes in comparative civil procedure and transnational litigation, with a focus on the United States and China.
Before joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, she clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and litigated at two global law firms.
Litigating Across Borders
Robert Mundheim Professor of Law
MPhil 2007 Oxford BA 2005 Princeton
At Penn Carey law, Wax has received the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. As Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1988-1994, she argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before coming to Penn, Wax taught at the University of Virginia. She was also a Resident in Neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and a Consulting Neurologist at the Bronx Cross County Clinic and Brooklyn North Medical Group.
representative publications “Judicial Extraterritoriality,” Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023) “Pandemic Governance,” Boston College Law Review (2022) read more online
Brief of Prof. Yanbai Andrea Wang as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd., Nos. 21-401 & 21-518 (2022) “Exporting American Discovery,” University of Chicago Law Review (2020) “The Dynamism of Treaties,” Maryland Law Review (2019)
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recent courses taught Civil Procedure Conservative Political & Legal Thought Labor Law Social Welfare Law & Policy Law & Neuroscience Supreme Court Practice & Process
education JD 1987 Columbia MD 1981 Harvard BS 1975 Yale
representative publications “DeBoer’s War on Smart,” The New Criterion (2021) “Merit and Misery: Daniel Markovits on the Meritocracy,” Claremont Review (2020) “Pursuing Diversity: From Education to Employment,” University of Chicago Law Review Online (2020) “Affirmative Action and the ‘Woke’ of Destruction: Melvin Urofsky’s History of a Bad Idea,” Law and Liberty Online (2020)
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Shelley Welton
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy
Golkin Family Professor; Professor of Psychology
Administrative Law | Climate Change Law | Energy Law Environmental Law
Shelley Welton holds an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School as part of President Amy Gutmann’s 2019 commitment to build a multidisciplinary energy policy faculty affiliated with the Kleinman Center. Welton’s scholarship focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental governance within the United States and transnationally. Current research projects include exploring a just energy transition for the U.S. south; understanding what lessons the failed nuclear renaissance offers for climate infrastructure development; and investigating grid reliability governance under climate change.
recent courses taught Environmental Law Climate Change Seminar Introduction to Energy Policy Networks, Platforms, & Utilities: Law & Policy
affiliations Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Penn Program on Regulation
education
She is also co-authoring a second edition of a pathbreaking new textbook Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy. Welton’s scholarship has appeared in top legal journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Harvard Environmental Law Review. Before joining the faculty at Penn, Welton was an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to academia, Welton worked as the deputy director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She also clerked for the Honorable David Trager of the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Allyson Duncan of the Fourth Circuit.
Contract Law | Empirical Legal Studies | Psychology
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 studies contract law and psychology. Her research explores the role of moral judgment in legal decision-making, with a particular focus on consumer contracting and consumer behavior. She uses experimental methods from psychology and behavioral economics, respectively, to ask how people draw on their moral intuitions to motivate or inform legal choices. Her work often asks how individuals understand their legal obligations. She has won two teaching awards since she began teaching at Penn Carey Law in 2010, the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course (2012) and the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence (2014), decided by a vote of the graduating class. Wilkinson-Ryan served as the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs from 2017-2019 and is a former George Sharswood Fellow in Law and Psychology, Lecturer in Law (2008-2010). She was also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the winter of 2015.
recent courses taught Contracts Law, Economics, and Psychology Trusts and Estates
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education PhD 2008 Penn
PhD 2017 Yale
MA 2006 Penn
JD 2009 NYU
JD 2005 Penn
MPA 2006 Columbia
BA 1999 Harvard
BA 2004 North Carolina
representative publications representative publications “Rural Energy Justice,” Handbook on Energy Justice (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023) read more online
Neutralizing the Atmosphere, Yale Law Journal (2022) Grid Reliability through Clean Energy, Stanford Law Review (2022) Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy (2022) “Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era,” California Law Review (2021)
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Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order—and What We Can Do About It (HarperCollins, 2023) “Justifying Bad Deals” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020) “The Perverse Consequences of Disclosing Standard Terms,” Cornell Law Review (2017) “The Common Sense of Contract Formation,” Stanford Law Review (2015)
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Tobias Barrington Wolff Jefferson Barnes Fordham Professor of Law; Deputy Dean for Equity & Inclusion
Civil Procedure and Complex Litigation | Conflict of Laws Constitutional Law | Sexuality and the Law
recent courses taught
Constitutional Law Federal Courts
Law and Sexuality
Wolff has served as pro bono counsel in many civil rights cases seeking equal treatment under law for LGBT people. He won the Beacon Award for Public Service in 2013 and the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course in 2009.
One of the most cited scholars in administrative and regulatory law as well as intellectual property, he has authored or edited five books and over 100 scholarly works. His major research projects include investigating innovative ways to connect more people to the internet; exploring the economics and regulation of digital services; comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the U.S.; analyzing the technical determinants of optimal interoperability; and studying the regulation of internet-related technologies. He has also created innovative joint degree programs designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering.
Wolff also served as LGBT Policy Chair for Senator Barack Obama’s “Obama for America ’08” campaign.
education JD 1997 Yale
Antitrust | Communications Law | Intellectual Property Law Presidential Power | Privacy and Security | Regulated Industries
Christopher S. Yoo has emerged as one of the world’s leading authorities on law and technology.
He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the Honorable William A. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
First Amendment
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Tobias Barrington Wolff writes and teaches in the fields of civil procedure and complex litigation, the conflict of laws, constitutional law, and LGBT rights.
Before coming to Penn Carey Law, Wolff was a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis and a Visiting Professor at NYU, Harvard, Penn, Northwestern, and Stanford.
Conflict of Laws
Christopher S. Yoo
BA 1992 Yale
Yoo is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. He recently served as a Member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, Consultant to the joint American Law Institute-European Law Institute Project on Principles for a Data Economy, and Consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and is currently serving as CoChair of the Program Committee of the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law, and Expert for the Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development’s Working Group on Smartphone Access. Before coming to Penn, Yoo taught at Vanderbilt Law. He served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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“Choice of Law and Jurisdictional Policy in the Federal Courts,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2017) “Managerial Judging and Substantive Law,” Washington University Law Review (2013) “Civil Rights Reform and the Body,” Harvard Law & Policy Review (2012) read more online
representative publications “Optimizing Cybersecurity Risk in Medical Cyber-Physical Devices,” William & Mary Law Review (2023)
Artificial Intelligence and the Law Copyright Theory Internet Law Privacy Technology and Policy Telecommunications Law
secondary appointments Annenberg School for Communication Department of Computer and Information Science (School of Engineering and Applied Science)
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
education
MBA 1991 UCLA AB 1986 Harvard
“Net Neutrality, Network Slicing, and the Deployment of 5G and 6G,” Europe’s Future Connected: Policies and Challenges for 5G and 6G Networks (European Liberal Forum, 2022) “The First Amendment, Common Carriers, and Public Accommodations: Net Neutrality, Digital Platforms, and Privacy,” Journal of Free Speech Law (2021) “Self-Actualization and the Need to Create as a Limit on Copyright,” Cambridge Handbook of Limitations and Exceptions in Copyright Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021) “Network Effects in Action,” The Global Antitrust Institute on the Digital Economy (2020)
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Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed., 2021) “Class Actions, Statutes of Limitations and Repose, and Federal Common Law,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2018)
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Cynthia L. Dahl
Kara R. Finck
Practice Professor of Law; Director, Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic
Intellectual Property | Technology Law
Practice Professor of Law; Director, Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Child Welfare | Children’s Rights | Law and Social Work Parental Rights
Cynthia L. Dahl directs the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic (DIPTC), a transactional clinic focusing on the commercialization of innovation. Students in DIPTC represent clients ranging from individual inventors and artists to technology startups, nonprofits, and the Penn Center for Innovation, Penn’s technology transfer office.
recent courses taught Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic (DIPTC)
Dahl’s areas of specialty focus on the intersection of business, law, and technology. She writes and speaks frequently on issues involving IP, privacy, social media, and the pedagogy involved in preparing students to enter an interdisciplinary legal practice. She is a faculty member of the Law School’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC), and in 2021, she received the Experiential Teaching Award.
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education
Before founding DIPTC in 2012, Dahl was Senior IP Counsel for TruePosition, Inc., an international telecommunications company in the wireless location space. She also managed the intellectual property portfolio of TruePosition’s three entrepreneurial spinoffs. Before moving in- house, Dahl was a litigation associate at Holland & Hart LLP and Pennie & Edmonds LLP.
JD 1998 Stanford BA 1991 Yale
Kara R. Finck’s areas of specialty include child welfare, parents’ rights, and interdisciplinary practice focusing on law, social work, and mental health collaboration. She directs the Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic, addressing the complex legal needs of children and families through an interdisciplinary model of practice. The clinic provides direct representation in child welfare, immigration, education, and health law cases, through a medical-legal partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Nurse-Family Partnership. Before coming to Penn Carey Law, Finck was the Managing Attorney of the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders, where she created a groundbreaking interdisciplinary legal practice for parents involved in the child welfare system. She has also taught at Fordham Law as an Adjunct Professor of Law, was a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at The Door’s Legal Services Center, and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Reginald Lindsay of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
recent courses taught Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
education JD 2001 Columbia BA 1996 Columbia
Finck has presented on best practices in child welfare and dependency cases, the collateral consequences of child welfare involvement, immigrant children’s rights, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
representative publications “Did the America Invents Act Change University Technology Transfer?,” Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (2021) “When Standards Collide with Intellectual Property: Teaching About Standard Setting Organizations, Technology, and Microsoft v. Motorola,” IP Theory (2020) read more online
“Reviewing Inter Partes Review Five Years In: The View From University Technology Transfer Offices,” The Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (Edward Elgar Publ. 2020) “Innovation and Tradition: A Survey of Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinics,” Clinical Law Review (2018)
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representative publications “Applying the Principles of Rebellious Lawyering to Envision Family Defense,” Clinical Law Review (2016)
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Praveen Kosuri Deputy Dean for Clinical Education; Practice Professor of Law; Director, Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Cara McClellan GEd’12 Associate Practice Professor; Director, Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic
Attorney Professional Development | Clinical Legal Education Community Economic Development | Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Ventures Professional Responsibility and the Legal Profession | Transactional Law
As a former investment banker, corporate and transactional lawyer, commercial litigator, and criminal defense lawyer, Praveen Kosuri has a unique background in law, business, and public interest. He applies an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to teaching students to solve problems, most notably in his direction of the Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC).
recent courses taught Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic Professional Responsibility for Business Lawyers
education MBA 2001 Chicago JD 1994 Washington (St. Louis) AB 1991 Duke
Kosuri has marshaled the resources of the ELC to positively impact distressed communities, under-represented entrepreneurs, and social ventures by representing clients that range from small business owners in urban centers, to nonprofit organizations engaged in community revitalization, to startup ventures creating technologies that can benefit society at large. Beyond the Law School, Kosuri is also an active contributor to the national clinical legal education community having served on the Executive Committee of the Clinical Legal Education Association for several years as well as chairing its New Clinicians Conference. He has also been involved in numerous AALS committees both as a member or chair. As a former trial lawyer and teacher of trial advocacy, Kosuri also serves as part of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s national faculty. He also consults with law firms on attorney professional development as well as professional responsibility issues. Before coming to Penn, Kosuri was a Lecturer in Law and Assistant Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at Chicago Law. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern, an Assistant Public Defender with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office, a law firm associate, and an Investment Banking Associate at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Civil Rights | Education | Equal Protection
Cara McClellan GEd’12 joined the Law School from her position as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where her work focused on increasing education equity and ending the criminalization of Black people. She gained litigation experience as the lead counsel on several cases, including I.S. et al. v. Binghamton School District, a case challenging a school’s discriminatory strip search of four Black and Latina middle school girls. McClellan has also represented students and families in school desegregation cases, such as Sheff v. O’Neill, and students and alumni as amici in SFFA v. Harvard, defending Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy. A former Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU Law, McClellan has published in esteemed law journals such as the Columbia Journal of Race & Law, Yale Law & Policy Review, and Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. A Philadelphia native, McClellan graduated from Central High School and spent two years teaching middle school in Philadelphia with Teach for America. She has also worked on several cases advocating for civil rights in the Philadelphia region, including Holbrook v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which challenged prison-based gerrymandering, and Smith v. City of Philadelphia, challenging the Philadelphia Police Department’s indiscriminate use of military-style weapons against protesters, residents, and bystanders in a predominately Black West Philadelphia community.
recent courses taught Advocacy for Racial & Civil Justice Clinics
education JD 2015 Yale MSEd 2012 Penn BA 2010 Yale
McClellan served as law clerk for the Honorable Gregory M. Sleet, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, and the Honorable Andre M. Davis, Senior Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
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“When Claims Collide: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the Meaning of Discrimination,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2023) “Evading a Race-Conscious Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online (2023)
“Beyond Gilson,” Lewis & Clark Law Review (2015)
“Policy Dialogue: Racial Segregation in America’s Schools,” History of Education Quarterly (2023)
“Losing My Religion: The Place of Social Justice in Clinical Legal Education,” Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice (2012)
“Discrimination as Disruption: Addressing Hostile Environments Without Violating the Constitution,” Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia (2023)
“‘Impact’ in 3D—Maximizing Impact Through Transactional Clinics,” Clinical Law Review (2011)
“Dismantling the Trap: Untangling the Chain of Events in Excessive Force Claims,” Columbia Journal of Race and Law (2023)
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Sarah Paoletti
Louis S. Rulli
Practice Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Legal Clinic
Asylum Law | Immigrant Rights/Migrant Rights
Public Interest | Civil Forfeiture | Legislation
International Human Rights
Clinical Education | Ethics
Sarah Paoletti’s research focuses on the intersection of human rights, migration, labor law, and access to justice. She founded and directs the Transnational Legal Clinic, the Law School’s international human rights and immigration clinic through which students grapple with international and comparative legal norms, working across borders, legal systems, cultures, and languages; representing individuals in immigration proceedings; and advocating on behalf of and in collaboration with organizations and individuals before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the UN, and other fora.
recent courses taught Transnational Legal Clinic
In addition to authoring numerous amicus briefs addressing international law in federal court litigation, she was the lead author of “Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Nepal” (2014) and co-author of “Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Indonesia” (2013), both published as part of the Open Society Foundations’ Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice Series.
education JD 1998 American BA 1992 Yale
Practice Professor of Law; Director of Civil Practice Clinic & Legislative Clinic
Paoletti is a former Practitioner in Residence at American University, Staff Attorney at Friends of Farmworkers Inc, Skadden Fellow, Independence Fellow, and law clerk for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She was also a member of the Advisory Group for Five Corridors Project of FairSquare Projects.
Lou Rulli possesses substantial experience in public interest law, civil forfeiture, legislation, ethics, and clinical legal education and has written and lectured frequently on access to justice for the poor. From 2008 to 2018, he served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Rulli was the Executive Director of Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. He is a founding member of the Pennsylvania Lawyer Trust Account Board (IOLTA) and a past Chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association (PBA)’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention. He is an advisor for the PBA’s Task Force on Civil Gideon Access to Justice and a past Pro Bono Chair of the PBA’s Board of Governors. He serves in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates and on the Advisory Committee of the PBA’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program and Villanova University’s Ethics Program Advisory Council. In 2015-16, Rulli served on Philadelphia Mayor-Elect Jim Kenney’s Transition Team, and from 2011 until 2013 he served on Pennsylvania’s Ad Hoc Judicial Ethics Committee, which drafted a revised judicial code of conduct for adoption by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Hearing Officer for the City of Philadelphia’s Board of Ethics and has testified on proposed legislation before Congress, the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, and Philadelphia City Council.
recent courses taught Civil Practice Clinic Legislative Clinic Lawyering in the Public Interest Seminar Policy Lab: Health Law Policy Advocacy Poverty Law Seminar
education JD 1974 Rutgers BA 1971 Rutgers
In 2006, Rulli received the University-wide Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and in 2022, the Law School’s Faculty Experiential Teaching Award. In 2012, he received the Champion of Justice Award from Community Legal Services and the Beacon Award from the Law School for Exemplary Faculty Commitment to Pro Bono Work. In 2015, Villanova University awarded Rulli its Praxis Award for Professional Ethics, and in 2019, he received the AALS Father Robert Drinan Award. Rulli also taught at Rutgers Law. representative publications representative publications “Working Towards Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children,” The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)
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“Assuring Access to Pro Se Litigants in the Courtroom,” The Philadelphia Lawyer (2022) “Prosecuting Civil Asset Forfeiture on Contingency Fees: Looking for Profit in All the Wrong Places,” Alabama Law Review (2021)
“Relentless Pursuits: Reflections of an Immigration and Human Rights Clinician on the Past Four Years,” William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice (2021)
“Seizing Family Homes from the Innocent: Can the Eighth Amendment Protect Minorities and the Poor from Excessive Punishment in Civil Forfeiture,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2017)
“Finding the Pearls When the World Is Your Oyster: Case and Project Selection in Clinic Design,” Drexel Law Review (2014)
“5 Things Lawyers Should Know When Defending Against Civil Forfeiture,” For The Defense (2017)
“Redefining Human Rights Lawyering Through the Lens of Critical Theory: Lessons for Pedagogy and Practice,” Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy (2011)
“Roadblocks to Access to Justice: Reforming Ethical Rules to Meet the Special Needs of Low-Income Clients,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change (2014)
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legal practice skills lecturers
legal practice skills lecturers
Silvia Diaz L’08 Senior Lecturer
Silvia Diaz L’08 has over 13 years of experience practicing law as a commercial litigator, a school law attorney, and as corporate counsel. A former teacher, Diaz received her JD cum laude from Penn Carey Law and has master’s degrees in English Literature and Secondary Teaching from Lehigh University and Pace University. Before returning to Penn Carey Law, she served as Senior Counsel at a large, international education technology company where she specialized in accessibility and discrimination, employment law, technology, and data privacy. read more QR code more online QR coderead more read online online
Matthew Duncan L’03 Legal Practice Skills Senior Lecturer
Matthew Duncan L’03 received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Bucknell University and his JD from Penn Carey Law. After clerking for the Honorable Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he practiced class action and complex antitrust litigation at Fine, Kaplan, and Black from 2005- 2018. In 2014, Duncan received the American Antitrust Institute’s award for “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer” for his role in the Steel Antitrust Litigation. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and devotes his pro bono practice to representing children in Philadelphia family court proceedings. At the Law School, he teaches courses in Legal Practice Skills, Appellate Advocacy, and Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation.
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Gayle Gowen L’98 Legal Practice Skills Senior Lecturer; Director, Moot Court and LLM Practice Skills
Before joining the Legal Practice Skills faculty as a Senior Lecturer, Gayle Gowen L’98 practiced law in both the areas of commercial litigation and patent law. She received her JD from Penn Carey Law, magna cum laude, BS in environmental engineering from MIT, and MS in environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon. Before returning to the Law School, Gowen worked in both the litigation departments and the intellectual property departments at Morgan Lewis in Philadelphia. Gowen also clerked for the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. read more online
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Sarah Pierce Associate Dean for Legal Practice Skills; Academic Director, JD/MBA Capstone Program
Sarah Pierce brings more than a decade of transactional and courtroom experience to the Legal Practice Skills program and to the Carey JD/MBA Program, where she is the Academic Director of the Capstone Program. She is also the Academic Co-Director of the U.S. Corporate Law and Strategy Executive Education Program and was awarded the Experiential Teaching Award in 2020. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Pierce was Counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where she practiced for 13 years focusing on corporate and financial restructurings and reorganizations, representing companies, secured lenders, investors, and buyers.
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During her time in practice, Pierce also served as an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law teaching “Secured Transactions.”
Karen U. Lindell
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Jessica P. Simon C’95 Associate Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program and Senior Lecturer; Director of Academic Support
Karen U. Lindell teaches in the Legal Practice Skills Program and supports the Law School’s public interest programs.
Jessica P. Simon C’95 received her JD from the George Washington University Law School and her BA in History and American Civilization from Penn.
Before joining the Penn Carey Law faculty, Lindell was a Senior Attorney at Juvenile Law Center, where she engaged in impact litigation, direct representation, and policy advocacy to advance the rights and well-being of youth in the child welfare and justice systems.
Simon is a frequent lecturer on legal writing and exam-taking skills, having spoken at Yale Law School, the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, and the Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Seminar.
She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and to the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Lindell was the 2012 First Honor Graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School, and she has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Georgia.
Before joining the Law School faculty in 2007, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at both Drexel University College of Law and Villanova University School of Law. Prior to entering academia, Simon was an associate in the Labor and Employment Department of Fox Rothschild LLP.
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distinguished fellows, lecturers, and visitors
d is t in guished fel lows, l ec t ur er s, a n d v isito r s
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights
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Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Recognized worldwide as a leading and outspoken promoter of universal human rights, he is the President and CEO of the International Peace Institute in New York and an Adviser to the Government of Palau on Climate Change (have previously served in that position with the Governments of the Maldives). He is also is an Associate Tenant (Academic Adviser) with Doughty Street Chambers, London and was awarded the 2015 Stockholm Human Rights Award and the 2018 Human Rights Tulip Prize. With over 20 years of direct exposure to the world’s most turbulent international crises and serious security threats, Al Hussein’s knowledge is steeped in the global security environment. A former president of the UN Security Council, he was elected the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002, guiding the court’s growth in its first three years. There, he chaired some of the most complex legal negotiations associated with the court’s statute. He also led the international community’s efforts to counter the threat of terrorists trafficking and maliciously using nuclear materials and was once a UN peacekeeper. A native of Jordan, Al Hussein twice served as the country’s ambassador to the UN and once as its ambassador to the United States. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge University, and of the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) and in 2019 was appointed a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders working for peace, justice, and human rights, founded by Nelson Mandela. Each spring, along with Prof. William Burke-White, he teaches “International Human Rights: Current Topics.”
The Honorable Stephanos Bibas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Senior Fellow
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Rangita de Silva de Alwis Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership; Member of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Treaty Body Expert Committee (2023-2026) Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a globally recognized international women’s rights expert. At the Law School, she has served as Associate Dean of International Affairs, directs the Global Institute for Human Rights, and teaches Policy Lab, including “Policy Lab on AI and Bias,” and about international women’s human rights. She was named the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Fellow on Gender Equity, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and was a Fellow with the Private Capital Research Institute at Harvard Business School on a study on diversity and inclusion in private equity. De Silva de Alwis is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession where she is co-authoring a study with Under Secretary General Mlambo-Ngcuka. She was appointed Leaderin-Residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. In the summer of 2022, she directed the Cherie Blair Women’s Leadership Institute for Afghan Women at the Asian University for Women. In 2017, she started the Global Women’s Leadership Project and “Women, Law, and Leadership Lab” under the auspices of UN Women’s Executive Director, Under Secretary-General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. She is visiting faculty at Wharton and the Harvard Kennedy School and will be a visiting fellow at Oxford’s Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. She is also a Special Advisor to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Gender Apartheid.
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Justin (Gus) Hurwitz Academic Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition; Senior Fellow
Judge Stephanos Bibas studies the powers and incentives that shape how prosecutors, defense counsel, defendants, and judges behave in the real world of guilty pleas. His paper, “Plea Bargaining Outside the Shadow of Trial” (Harvard Law Review), explored the agency costs, structural forces, and psychological biases that cause plea bargaining to deviate from expected trial outcomes. His book The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford, 2012) explains how criminal justice should do more to encourage acceptance of responsibility, remorse, apology, and forgiveness.
Gus Hurwitz’s work builds on his background in law, technology, and economics to consider the interface between law and technology and the role of regulation in high-tech industries. He is Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), a think tank based in Portland, Oregon. He also is, or has been, affiliated with the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law, the National Security Institute at George Mason University, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Bibas was previously a professor of law and criminology at Penn Carey Law. As director of the Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic, he argued six cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and filed briefs in dozens of others. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1989 with a BA in political theory and from Oxford University in 1991 with a BA in jurisprudence. He earned his JD from Yale Law in 1994.
Hurwitz has expertise in telecommunications law and technology, including data- and cybersecurity and was recognized as a Cyber Security & Data Privacy Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. He was previously a full professor and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska, prior to which he was the inaugural research fellow at CTIC. His work has appeared in numerous law reviews and journals across the country.
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David Rudovsky Senior Fellow
distinguished f ellows, lecturers, and visitors
Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Senior) Senior Fellow
David Rudovsky, one of the nation’s leading civil rights and criminal defense attorneys, practices public interest law with the firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, LLP. He became a Senior Fellow at the Law in 1988 and teaches courses in criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, and evidence. He is coauthor of Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation (co-authors, Michael Avery, Karen Blum, and Jennifer Laurin, Thomson-Reuters, 2023, 3d ed.) and The Law of Arrest, Search, and Seizure in Pennsylvania (PBI Press, 2020, 11th ed.).
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In the classroom, Rudovsky integrates doctrine and practice to give his students a comprehensive understanding of legal principles and their role and application in the courts. His awards include a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award for Accomplishments in Civil Rights Law and Criminal Justice, the ACLU Lifetime Achievement Award, and six Harvey Levin Memorial Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Law School. He also won a Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1996.
Norman M. Powell Executive Director, Institute for Law & Economics; Senior Fellow
Norm Powell’s primary interests include Delaware corporate and alternative entity law, secured transactions, and third-party legal opinions. He makes presentations for bar associations, trade groups, and law firms, and publishes in a variety of law journals and other periodicals. Powell is currently Vice Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section and was formerly its Content Officer (2017-2022), a member of its governing Council (2015-2017), and Chair of its Uniform Commercial Code Committee (2012-2015).
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An elected member of the American Law Institute, Powell began practicing law in Delaware in 1989 and is a partner in the firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, admitted to practice in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He has taught at Temple’s Beasley School of Law as an adjunct professor. He is a Fellow and former President of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the Permanent Editorial Board for Uniform Commercial Code, the TriBar Opinion Committee, and The Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation (Board of Directors (2019-2021); Advisory Board (2017-2019 and 2021-present)).
Anthony J. Scirica, one of the nation’s leading jurists, is a Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He became a Senior Fellow at Penn Carey Law in 2013 and teaches courses in civil procedure and complex litigation. Judge Scirica was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1987 and served as Chief Judge from 2003 to 2010. In addition to his service on the bench, he served as a member and then Chair of the Executive Committee of the United States Judicial Conference, the governing body of the federal judiciary. He has previously served as Chair of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Chair of the U.S. Judicial Conference Working Group on Mass Torts, Chair of the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability, and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Multidistrict Litigation Panel.
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Leon Szeptycki Senior Fellow
Leon Szeptycki is an expert in water law and policy and has worked extensively on large-scale watershed restoration projects. Prior to joining Penn Carey Law, Szeptycki taught at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as associate director of UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute (now Environment Institute). From 2013 to 2019, Szeptycki was a Professor of the Practice and Executive Director of Water in the West at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, where he oversaw an interdisciplinary research program focused on water management in the American West. Szeptycki also served as the director of UVA Law’s Environmental Law and Conservation Clinic and as general counsel of Trout Unlimited, a national conservation organization. Early in his career, he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced law at the Charlottesville office of McGuire Woods. Szeptycki currently serves on the board of directors of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, a nonprofit corporation charged with removing four hydropower dams on the Klamath River. After graduating Yale Law School in 1988, he clerked for the Honorable Stephanie Seymour of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
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