2025–2026
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At Penn Carey Law, we are deeply committed to providing a legal education that is broadly accessible, innovative, and interdisciplinary. Our world-class faculty exemplifies our dedication to scholarly and teaching excellence, positioning our institution as a leader in the future of legal education. Our faculty facilitate the hallmark of a Penn Carey Law education: a supportive, collegial atmosphere that allows all Law School community members to conduct civil, productive discussions, paving the way for our students to become the leaders and changemakers of tomorrow. Approximately half of our standing faculty hold advanced degrees in disciplines beyond the JD—in fields such as economics, education, history, international relations, medicine, political science, and philosophy. Many more engage deeply with methods and scholarship from these and other related disciplines. Our faculty is also well represented across Penn, with many holding joint or secondary appointments in schools including the Annenberg School for Communication, Engineering & Applied Science, the Perelman School of Medicine, and The Wharton School. Underlying this long-standing commitment to interdisciplinarity is a belief in the transformative value of engaging with the law from multiple perspectives. As leaders in the law and their respective fields—including business and corporate law; administrative law and regulation; constitutional law; health care law; law and technology; legal history; racial, social, and criminal justice; and more—my colleagues are renowned scholars and exceptional teachers. They are authors of cutting-edge, awardwinning scholarship and are regularly sought out by national and international policy makers as experts in their fields. Within the Law School, our faculty play an essential role in both our intellectual life and collegial community. In the classroom, they teach an innovative curriculum that features a broad selection of small classes, ensuring that students have the best academic experience possible. Outside the classroom, they advise and mentor students and regularly collaborate on research and scholarship. This publication showcases our faculty members’ distinguished accomplishments, significant impact on scholarship and policy, and broad range of interests. They embrace public service, global leadership, and the value of reaching across intellectual boundaries. Through their critical work, 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
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recent books Penn Carey Law professors contribute cutting-edge scholarship to leading journals in law and related disciplines and regularly publish books with major academic presses. These recent titles reflect the breadth and depth of their scholarly interests.
Herbert Hovenkamp Principles of Antitrust, 3rd Edition (2025)
Herbert Hovenkamp Federal Antitrust Policy (2024)
Herbert Hovenkamp Tech Monopoly (2024)
Serena Mayeri Marital Privilege: Transforming the Legal Status of Marriage, 19602003 (forthcoming 2025)
Saule T. Omarova Hidden Fallacies in Corporate Law and Financial Regulation: Reframing the Mainstream Narratives (2025)
Elizabeth Pollman Business Organizations: A Contemporary Approach, 4th Edition (2023)
Dorothy Roberts Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science (2024)
Paul H. Robinson Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away with Murder and Rape Robinson (2024)
David A. Skeel, Jr. Bankruptcy, 12th Edition (2025)
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sampling of law journal articles Penn Carey Law faculty are authors of cutting-edge, award-winning scholarship published in leading academic journals on a broad range of topics, including business and corporate law; administrative law and 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 scholarly output of our distinguished faculty.
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standing faculty advanced degrees beyond the jd african-american studies
history
philosophy & mathematics
Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08, PhD, Berkeley
Sophia Z. Lee, PhD, Yale
William Ewald, DPhil, Oxford
Serena Mayeri, PhD, Yale
american civilization
Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97, Penn
physics
Herbert Hovenkamp, PhD, Texas
Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11, Penn
David S. Abrams, MS, Stanford
american literature
international relations
political science
Herbert Hovenkamp, MA, Texas
William Burke-White, PhD, MPhil, Cambridge
Mitchell Berman, MA, Michigan
Beth Simmons, MA, Chicago
Cary Coglianese, PhD, Michigan
Yanbai Andrea Wang, PhD, Oxford
Michael Morse C’13, PhD, Harvard
jurisprudence & social policy
psychology
Eric A. Feldman, PhD, Berkeley
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08, Penn
Paul Heaton, PhD, MA, Chicago
law degrees - advanced
psychology & social relations
Leo Katz, MA, Chicago
Gideon Parchomovsky, JSD, Yale; LLM, Berkeley
Stephen J. Morse, PhD, Harvard
Jonathan Klick, PhD, George Mason; MA,
Paul H. Robinson, LLM, Harvard; Diploma in
business Christopher S. Yoo, MBA, UCLA
economics David S. Abrams, PhD, MIT
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
education Stephen J. Morse, EdM, Harvard
medicine Amy Wax, MD, Harvard
government Beth Simmons, PhD, MA, Harvard
philosophy Claire O. Finkelstein, PhD, Pittsburgh; Maîtrise, Sorbonne
public administration Shelley Welton, MPA, Columbia
public policy Cary Coglianese, MPP, Michigan Michael Knoll, AM, Chicago
social work Sophia Z. Lee, MSW, Berkeley
urban studies & africana studies Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08, MLA, Penn
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joint appointments africana studies
political science
wharton
Dorothy E. Roberts
Beth Simmons
Legal Studies and Business Ethics Herbert Hovenkamp
history
sociology
Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11
Dorothy E. Roberts
affiliations center for aids research
center for public health initiatives
leonard davis institute of health economics
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
Jasmine Harris
center for neuroscience & society
kleinman center for energy policy
Stephen J. Morse
Shelley Welton
Tom Baker
Amy Wax
Allison K. Hoffman
penn institute for urban research Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97
secondary appointments annenberg school for communication
medicine
wharton
Jennifer Rothman
Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Business Economics & Public Policy
Christopher S. Yoo
Eric A. Feldman
David S. Abrams
Allison K. Hoffman
Tom Baker
education
Chris William Sanchirico
Higher Education
philosophy
Wendell E. Pritchett
Mitchell Berman
Policy, Organizations, Systems and Leadership Jasmine Harris
engineering & applied science Computer & Information Science Christopher S. Yoo
history Sophia Z. Lee Serena Mayeri
William Ewald
Finance Jill E. Fisch
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95
Healthcare Management
Claire O. Finkelstein
Tom Baker
political science
Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Cary Coglianese
Mitchell Berman
Jacques deLisle
Jill E. Fisch Beth Simmons
psychiatry Stephen J. Morse
psychology Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08
Real Estate Michael S. Knoll
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ABRAMS BAKER BERMAN BURKE-WHITE COGLIANESE DELISLE EWALD FAIRFAX FELDMAN FERZAN FINKELSTEIN FISCH GALBRAITH HARRIS HEATON HENDRICKS HOFFMAN HOFFMAN HOVENKAMP KATZ KLICK KNOLL KREIMER LEE MAGILL MAYERI MAYSON MORSE MORSE OMAROVA OSSEI-OWUSU PARCHOMOVSKY POLLMAN PRITCHETT ROBERTS ROBINSON ROOSEVELT ROTHMAN RUGER SANCHIRICO SHAW 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.
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
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.
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education PhD 2006 MIT MS 2001 Stanford AB 1998 Harvard
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“Covid and Crime: An Early Empirical Look,” Journal of Public Economics (2021) “Electoral Sentencing Cycles,” CEPR Discussion Paper (2019) “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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Tom Baker Henry R. Silverman 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, a leading scholar of insurance law and policy, and a devoted law teacher.
recent courses taught 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
His research explores insurance law, institutions, and markets using methods from history, economics, psychology, and sociology. His many books, articles, and reports address topics such as the impact of insurance on personal injury and securities litigation, health insurance reform, insurance underwriting and claims management, the historical development of insurance institutions, insurance company restructuring, litigation finance, and many aspects of insurance coverage. 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. He was awarded the 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize by the Law and Society Association for “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society” and the 2013 Robert B. McKay award from the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, to honor his “commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession, demonstrated by outstanding contributions to the fields of tort and insurance law.” Baker is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance and a member of the Board of Directors of Bowhead Specialty Holdings. He co-founded Picwell, a health data analytics company (acquired in 2023 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. Among other current projects, he is studying and teaching about the emerging field of litigation finance and its relationship to liability insurance.
education JD 1986 Harvard
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AB 1982 Harvard
“How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime,” Journal of Legal Analysis (2023) “What Litigation Funders Can Learn about Settlement Rights from the Law of Liability Insurance,” 25.2 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 17 (2024) read more online
“Regulating Robo Advice Across the Financial Services Industry,” Iowa Law Review (2018) “Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Affordable Care Act,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2011) “Blood Money, New Money and the Moral Economy of Tort Law in Action,” Law & Society Review (2001)
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Mitchell Berman Leon Meltzer Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Philosophy
Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | General Jurisprudence Jurisprudence of Sport | Philosophy
Award-winning teacher and scholar Mitch Berman works in American constitutional law and theory, philosophy of criminal law, general jurisprudence, and philosophy of sport. His scholarly 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.
recent courses taught Constitutional Law Jurisprudence of Sport Theories of Constitutional Interpretation (Seminar)
secondary appointments Arts & Sciences (Philosophy) Wharton (Legal Studies & Business Ethics)
education MA 1994 Michigan JD 1993 Michigan AB 1988 Harvard
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, and Co-Director of Texas’s Law & Philosophy Program. In addition to his permanent faculty positions, Berman has taught at Chicago, Michigan, Yale, and the Hebrew University, and has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values. Since 2017, he has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Legal Theory. Berman’s work appears in the leading peer-reviewed journals in his fields, including Ethics, Noûs, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, Legal Theory, Law & Philosophy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 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, and Georgetown Law Journal; and in edited volumes published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Routledge. Before entering academia, Berman clerked for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was an associate at Jenner & Block, in Washington, D.C.
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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William W. Burke-White Professor of Law
Climate Governance | International Investment Law | Human Rights International Criminal Law | International Arbitration International Institutions | International Law
William W. Burke-White is an international lawyer and political scientist and leading expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.
recent courses taught International Law International Investment Law
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, and Eastern Europe. His current research examines the tensions between the legal protection of foreign investment and global responses to climate change as well as the use of legal mechanisms to mobilize climate finance. 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.
International Climate Law Human Rights
affiliations Center for Asian Law Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
education PhD 2006 Cambridge JD 2002 Harvard MPhil 1999 Cambridge AB 1998 Harvard
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. Burke-White regularly represents sovereign clients and serves as an expert witness in international arbitration and litigation. 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 “Harnessing the Power of Investment Law to Close the Climate Finance Gap,” Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (2024).
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“Regulation of Great Power Competition in Space: International Law and the Strategies of the US, China, and Russia in Space Governance,” Center for International Governance Innovation, (2024) “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)
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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
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. The author of more than 300 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.
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 Institute for Law & Economics Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences The Water Center at Penn Wharton Accountable AI Lab Wharton Human-AI Research
education PhD 1994 Michigan MPP 1991 Michigan JD 1991 Michigan
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 has served as the faculty director of PPR’s executive education program on regulatory analysis and decision-making offered at the Law School and taught 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. Prior to Penn, he was on the faculty at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he founded and chaired the 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, including chairing a consensus committee studying implications for law and regulation of emerging trends in the maritime sector. A complete list of his scholarship across more than a dozen major areas of regulatory law can be found at www.CaryCoglianese.net. representative publications
AB 1985 College of Idaho
“Leashes, Not Guardrails: A Management-Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence Risk Regulation,” Risk Analysis (2025)
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“The Great Unsettling: Administrative Governance After Loper Bright,” Administrative Law Review (2025) “Influence by intimidation: Business Lobbying in the Regulatory Process,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2023) “Algorithm vs. Algorithm,” Duke Law Journal (2022) “Unrules,” Stanford Law Review (2021)
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Jacques deLisle Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Chinese Law and Politics | Comparative Law | International Law Taiwan and Hong Kong Law and Politics | Torts
Jacques deLisle’s scholarship and teaching focus on China’s engagement with international law and the international order, Taiwan’s international status and crossStrait relations, law and legal institutions and their relationship to politics, policy, and economic governance in the PRC, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and US-China relations.
recent courses taught Chinese Law International Law Law and the Economy in Contemporary China Torts
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Political Science)
affiliations Center for East Asian Studies Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Director)
DeLisle is the Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC) and former Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, both at Penn. He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Comparative Law, Chair and former Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a Member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Council on International Law, a Member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a Member of the Global Faculty of Peking University Law School. He served as an Attorney-Advisor with the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, and clerked for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. DeLisle’s writings appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes, Asian studies journals, law reviews, policy reports, and media commentary. He is co-editor of, and contributor to, nine edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship on China and Taiwan. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of PRC law and government policies and as a participant in government, foundation, and think tank programs on law reform and legal issues, primarily concerning China.
education JD 1990 Harvard AB 1982 Princeton
representative publications “Chinese Developmentalism and Law,” Chinese Developmentalism in the Global Legal and Economic Order (2026) (co-author) “China’s Evolving (Re-)Engagement with International Law”‘Reform and Opening to the Outside World’ to Building ‘Foreign-Related Rule of Law’: All Under Heaven—Histories of International Law in China (2025) read more online
“China’s Legal System,” Politics in China: An Introduction (2024) “Beijing’s Lawfare Against Taiwan: The One-China Principle, UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, and the Nexus between the International Law and Politics of Taiwan’s Status” in Changing Dynamics in Geopolitics: Implications for Taiwan (2025) “Taking Hong Kong’s Constitutional Journey to the World,” Hong Kong Law Journal (2023)
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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
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, widely considered 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 and his contributions to mathematical logic. 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)
affiliations Legal History Consortium
education JD 1981 Harvard DPhil 1978 Oxford (Philosophy) AM 1976 Harvard (Mathematics) AB 1976 Harvard (Philosophy & Mathematics)
His work in comparative law led him to study James Wilson, the first Professor of Law at Penn. Wilson signed the Constitution, and Ewald established that he was considerably more important to the 1787 Convention than had previously been recognized, placing him, along with Madison, among the principal architects of the Constitution. He is currently engaged in writing a full intellectual biography, and in 2018 was invited to report on 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. 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. representative publications From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics (2 vols., Oxford, 1996) “What Was It Like to Try a Rat?” 143 U. Pa.. L. Rev. 1889 (1995)
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“James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution,” 10 U. Pa.. J. Const. L. 901 (2008) “The Committee of Detail,” 28 Const. Comment. 197 (2012) “Hilbert’s Use of the Syllogism,” Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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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
recent courses taught Contracts Corporations ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiatives Securities Law Shareholder Rights
Lisa M. Fairfax is an expert on corporate law, corporate governance, shareholder rights, and securities matters. Her research and scholarship focus on corporate purpose, board governance practices and procedures, board composition and diversity, board oversight and fiduciary duties, shareholder rights and activism, and various securities law topics with a specific focus on securities and investment affinity 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 co-authored a textbook, Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Compliance. Fairfax’s article on the divide between mandatory and voluntary disclosure was voted one of the top ten securities law articles in 2024, and her 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 was an appointed member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and previously served as a public governor on the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She also served on the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA and FINRA’s NASDAQ Market Regulation Committee. Fairfax is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and a member of the ALI’s Advisory Group for the Restatement of Law, Corporate Governance. 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 the Business Associations Sections of AALS.
education JD Harvard BA Harvard
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. representative publications
Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Compliance: Cases and Materials (West, 2023) Business Organizations: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press, 2019) read more online
“Dynamic Disclosure: An Exposé on the Mythical Divide Between Voluntary and Mandatory ESG Disclosure,” Texas Law Review (2022) “The Securities Law Implications of Financial Illiteracy,” Virginia Law Review (2018) “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 Deputy Dean for International Programs; Heimbold Professor of International Law; Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy; Co-Director, Center for Asian Law; Past Chair, University of Pennsylvania Faculty Senate
Comparative Law | Japanese Law | Law and Disasters Law and Society | Public Health Law | Torts
Eric A. Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, torts, and law and society. 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. 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 (Medical Ethics & Health Policy)
affiliations Center for AIDS Research (Behavioral & Social Sciences Core) Center for Public Health Initiatives Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Senior Fellow
education
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. 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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Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95 Herbert F. Goodrich Professor of Criminal Law; Co-Director of the Institute of Law & Philosophy
Criminal Law | Evidence | Law and Philosophy
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan L’95 teaches criminal law, evidence, advanced criminal law, and advanced law and philosophy seminars. 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. recent courses taught Criminal Law Evidence Law and Philosophy Workshop
secondary appointment Arts & Sciences (Philosophy)
education JD 1995 Penn
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. 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. 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
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 Journal of Jurisprudence (2023) read more online
“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) Flight and Force, Criminal Law and Philosophy (2023) (with Rachel Harmon) “#WeToo” Florida State University Law Review (2022)
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Claire Oakes Finkelstein 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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Jill E. Fisch Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
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.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Corporate Governance Corporations Securities Regulation
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation Fellow, European Corporate Governance Institute
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 ongoing work on the evolving role of institutional investors in corporate governance as well as 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.
American Law Institute
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 “Control and Its Discontents,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2025) (co-author) “What’s in a Name? ESG Mutual Funds and the SEC’s Names Rule,” Southern California Law Review (2024) (co-author) read more online
“Corporate Democracy and the Intermediary Voting Dilemma,” Texas Law Review (2023) (co-author) “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) (co-author)
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Jean Galbraith Professor of Law
Contracts | Federal Courts | Foreign Relations Law International Law | International Organizations
Jean Galbraith teaches and writes about public international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Her research focuses on the structure of international legal institutions, especially treaty regimes, and the connections between these institutions and U.S. domestic law. 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.
recent courses taught Administrative Law Contracts Federal Courts Foreign Relations & National Security Global Legal Change International Legal Regimes
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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. Galbraith received the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017, 2020, and 2024.
JD 2004 Berkeley AB 1999 Harvard
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 (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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Jasmine E. Harris Professor of Law
Administrative, Regulatory, and Compliance Law | Civil Litigation Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law and Civil Rights | Evidence Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
Jasmine E. Harris is a law and inequality legal scholar with expertise in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence. Her work addresses law’s capacity to define and advance social norms of inclusion. Her evidence scholarship explores topics such as the application of critical theories to evidentiary rules, principles, and doctrine.
recent courses taught Access to Justice Disability and Education Law Disability Law Evidence Health, Disability & Justice
secondary appointment Penn Graduate School of Education
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Economics (LDI)
Her recent academic articles have or will appear in such leading law reviews and journals as the Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, among others. Harris also co-edits a preeminent evidence treatise, McCormick on Evidence, and is currently working on a co-edited book, Critical Evidence Law. Harris also writes frequently about disability and equality law for popular audiences. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, and Tribune Wire, in addition to academic blogs such as the American Constitution Society’s Expert Forum and the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health. She is regularly quoted in media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Forbes, CNBC, National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour, Chronicle of Higher Education, Guardian, Harper’s BAZAAR, and USA Today. Harris is an award-winning scholar and teacher. The Law & Society Association awarded Harris the John Hope Franklin Prize for her article, “The Political Economy of Conservatorship,” published in the UCLA Law Review. Harris is also a recipient of the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in Teaching at Penn Carey Law and has received recognition for her teaching and mentorship of students at other universities. Harris graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in Latin American & Caribbean Studies. She received her juris doctorate from Yale Law and clerked for the late Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Harris practiced in the areas of complex commercial litigation, securities, and government investigations as a Senior Associate with WilmerHale. She also worked as a staff attorney at Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, where she assisted grassroots advocacy campaigns to advance racial justice in education and address the school to prison pipeline through legal, policy, and strategic communications efforts.
education JD Yale AB Dartmouth
representative publications
“The Political Economy of Conservatorship,” UCLA Law Review (2024) read more online
“Taking Disability Public,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2021) “Reckoning with Race and Disability,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2021) “The Aesthetics of Disability,” Columbia Law Review (2019) “Sexual Consent and Disability,” NYU Law Review (2018)
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Paul Heaton Professor of Law; Academic Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
Criminal Law and Procedure | Law and Economics Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law
An expert in the empirical analysis of law, Paul Heaton has produced novel insights on a range of criminal and civil justice topics.
recent courses taught Criminal Law Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
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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 studies of holistic defense and public defender resourcing in Pennsylvania. He is also engaged in research that uses AI models to improve eyewitness lineup procedures. 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.
PhD 2007 Chicago MA 2003 Chicago BA 2001 BYU
representative publications “Assessing Verbal Eyewitness Confidence Statements Using Natural Language Processing,” Psychological Science (2024) “Reform We Can Agree on: Public Opinion on Prosecutorial Liability,” Journal of Experimental Criminology (2022) read more online
“Enhanced Public Defense Improves Pretrial Outcomes and Reduces Racial Disparities,” Indiana Law Journal (2021) “Medicaid Coverage Expansions and Liability Insurance,” Journal of Risk and Insurance (2020) “The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes,” Harvard Law Review (2019)
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Anjelica Hendricks Assistant Professor of Law
Criminal Law and Procedure | Policing
Anjelica Hendricks researches and writes in the fields of policing, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Her academic work draws on her experiences as a Senior Policy Analyst for Philadelphia’s Police Advisory Commission (PAC), where she worked to identify systemic barriers to police accountability, and as a Philadelphia Public Defender, where she represented indigent clients in criminal proceedings. recent courses taught Policing Marginalized Communities Regulating Police
She is a past postdoctoral fellow at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.
affiliations Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education JD 2015 Washington and Lee BA 2012 James Madison
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representative publications “Tolling Justice,” Ohio State Law Journal (2024) “Exposing Police Misconduct in Pre-Trial Criminal Proceedings,” New York University Journal of Legislation & Public Policy (2021)
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Allison K. Hoffman William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences
Health Insurance | Health Law and Policy Health Reform, the Affordable Care Act | Long-Term Care Social Welfare Program Design and Regulation | Torts
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. 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.
recent courses taught Health Law and Policy Torts COVID and the Law Health, Disability, & Justice Health Insurance Regulation and Reform
secondary appointment Penn Medicine (Medical Ethics & Health Policy)
affiliations Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education JD 2004 Yale
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. She served as Deputy Dean of the Law School from 2022-24. 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. 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
AB 1998 Dartmouth
“How Power Undermined the Medical Profession,” Rethinking the Lawyer’s Monopoly (Cambridge University Press, 2025) “A Public Option for Employer Health Plans,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, & Ethics (2021) (co-authored) “The ACA’s Choice Problem,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (2020) read more online
“Health Care’s Market Bureaucracy,” UCLA Law Review (2019) “Reimagining the Risk of Long-Term Care,” Yale Law Journal of Health Policy, Law, & Ethics (2016) “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 William A. Schnader Professor of Law
Contracts | Corporate Law | Law and Psychology Law and Social Science
Dave Hoffman is a widely cited scholar who focuses his research and teaching on contract law. 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.”
recent courses taught Advanced Contracts Contracts Corporations Remedies
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics
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.
education JD 2001 Harvard BA 1998 Yale
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). representative publications “Generative Interpretation,” New York University Law Review (2024) read more online
“Longer Trips to Court Cause Evictions,” PNAS (2023) “The Social Cost of Contract,” Columbia Law Review (2021) “Transnational Scripts in Contract Stacks,” Minnesota Law Review (2020) “Relational Contracts of Adhesion,” University of Chicago Law Review (2018)
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Herbert Hovenkamp James G. Dinan University Professor
American Constitutional History | American Legal History | Antitrust Law Innovation and Competition Policy | Torts
Dubbed “the dean of American antitrust law” by The New York Times, Herbert Hovenkamp is an internationally renowned U.S. antitrust scholar. 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. 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
His principal writing includes Tech Monopoly (MIT Press, 2024), The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870- 1970 (Oxford, 2015); Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip E. Areeda and Donald F. Turner) (Aspen, 2008-2024); 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 (7th ed. 2024); 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. representative publications
BA 1969 Calvin College
“The Antitrust Text,” Indiana Law Journal (2024) “The 2023 Merger Guidelines: Fact, Law, and Method,” Review of Industrial Organization (2024) “Worker Welfare and Antitrust,” Chicago Law Review (2023) “Digital Cluster Markets,” Columbia Business Law Review (2022) read more online
“The Looming Crisis in Antitrust Economics,” Boston University Law Review (2021) “Apple v. Pepper: Rationalizing Antitrust’s Indirect Purchaser Rule,” Columbia Law Review (2020) “Framing the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020)
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Leo Katz Frank Carano Professor of Law
Criminal Law | Contracts | Corporations | 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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After graduating from the University of Chicago, Katz clerked for then-Judge Anthony Kennedy on the Ninth Circuit, worked as an associate at Mayer, Brown and Platt, and began his teaching career at the University of Michigan. He came to Penn in 1991. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. In 2020 students voted him the Robert A Gorman award for excellence in teaching, for the way in which he migrated his criminal law course online in the face of the pandemic.
JD 1982 Chicago MA 1982 Chicago BA 1979 Chicago
representative publications “The Judging Game” Journal of Legal Studies (2025) (with Alvaro Sandroni) “Circumvention of Law and the Hidden Logic Behind It,” Journal of Legal Studies (2023) (with Alvaro Sandroni)
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“Redoing Criminal Law: Taking the Deviant Turn,” Criminal Law & Philosophy (2022) (with Alvaro Sandroni) “Disorder and Discontinuity in Law and Morality,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2021) (with Alvaro Sandroni) “The Inevitability and Ubiquity of Cycling in All Feasible Legal Regimes: A Formal Proof,” Journal of Legal Studies (2017) (with Alvaro Sandroni)
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Jonathan Klick 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. recent courses taught
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.
Corporations Law & Economics Statistics for Lawyers Torts
Klick has been a Senior Economist with the RAND Corporation since 2007.
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics Penn Program on Regulation Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
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.
education JD 2003 George Mason PhD 2002 George Mason MA 1999 Maryland BS 1997 Villanova
representative publications “Big Tech’s Robber Barons,” Regulation (2021) read more online
“The Ineffectiveness of ‘Observe and Report’ Patrols on Crime,” International Review of Law and Economics (2021) History of Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, 2018) “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 Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Corporate Finance | Real Estate | Taxation
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. 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.
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
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.
representative publications “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) read more online
“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)
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Seth F. Kreimer Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law
Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Litigation
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. His subsequent work has shaped analysis of free expression, privacy, abortion regulation, assisted suicide, and same sex marriage. Kreimer 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.” He is the recipient of the 2023 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award, honoring his decades of work promoting equal access to justice.
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
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 non-consensual drug testing; Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L. (U.S. Supreme. Court 2021) vindicating the right of high school students to post on the internet without retaliation; In Re R.B.F. (Pa. Supreme Ct. 2002), securing the right of gay and lesbian parents to establish families by second parent adoption; Nixon v. Commonwealth (Pa. Supreme Ct. 2003), overturning a lifetime employment disqualification of ex-offenders; Miller v. Mitchell (3rd Cir. 2010), the first successful constitutional challenge to a prosecution of a minor for “sexting”; Galarza v. Szalczyk (3rd Cir. 2014), securing relief for an American citizen imprisoned because of an unfounded immigration detainer; Fields v. Philadelphia (3rd Circuit 2017) establishing a First Amendment right to video-record police; and Whitewood v. Wolf (E.D. Pa. 2014), establishing the right of Pennsylvania couples to marriage equality. 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)
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“‘Spooky Action at a Distance’: Intangible Injury in Fact in the Information Age,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2016) “Good Enough for Government Work: Two Cheers for Content Neutrality,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2014)” Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2011)
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Sophia Z. Lee Dean and Bernard G. Segal 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 most recent 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
representative publications “The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy,” University of Chicago Law Review (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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Liz Magill Professor of Law
Administrative Law | Constitutional Law
M. Elizabeth (Liz) Magill is Professor of Law at the Penn Carey Law School, a position she has held since 2022.
education JD 1995 University of Virginia BA 1988 Yale
Magill was Penn’s 9th President until December 2023. She came to Penn after serving for three years as the Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Virginia, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to that, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of Stanford Law School for seven years. Before joining Stanford, she was on the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law for 15 years. Magill’s leadership at UVA and Stanford brought transformative changes to both institutions. An award-winning 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. A member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center, 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. Prior to her career in higher education, Magill acquired experience working in politics and 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 the Honorable 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.
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“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) “Allocating Power Within Agencies,” Yale Law Journal (2011)
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Serena Mayeri Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History (by courtesy)
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. Mayeri’s new book, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law (Yale University Press, 2025) examines the history of challenges to marriage’s primacy as a legal institution and a source of public and private benefits. 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
Her first book, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2011) received the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association and the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians. Mayeri also writes about reproductive rights and justice, equality and democracy, and history’s role in constitutional discourse and litigation. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and has co-authored amicus briefs in cases involving abortion rights, employment discrimination, immigration and family law. Mayeri teaches courses in family law, employment discrimination, reproductive rights and justice, gender and the law, and legal history. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of History, and is a Core Faculty member in the Program on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS). She has served on the executive committees of GSWS and of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. In 2016, Mayeri was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. In 2019, she received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Women’s Studies Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
education PhD 2006 Yale JD 2001 Yale
representative publications
AB 1997 Harvard
“The Critical Role of History After Dobbs,” Journal of American Constitutional History (2024) “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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Sandra Mayson Professor of Law
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
affiliations Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Penn Program on Regulation
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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. Mayson’s current research topics include the constitutional standards governing pretrial detention and a theoretical line of inquiry into law and consciousness.
JD 2009 NYU BA 2003 Yale
representative publications “Bail at the Founding,” Harvard Law Review (2024) “Systemic Failure to Appear in Court,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2023) read more online
“Bias In, Bias Out,” Yale Law Journal (2019) “Dangerous Defendants,” Yale Law Journal (2018) “The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention,” Stanford Law Review (2017)
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Michael Morse C’13 Assistant Professor of Law
Civil Procedure | Election Law
Michael Morse C’13 studies voting rights, election administration, and the criminal justice system. 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 latest work on the topic, published in the California Law Review, focused on a Florida ballot initiative which sought to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Election Law
Morse has also contributed to ongoing 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. A recent article, published in the Boston University Law Review, called attention to how states had quietly forged a novel bureaucracy to coordinate voter registration through the Electronic Registration Information Center. Other recent work, published in Science Advances, focused on Pennsylvania to highlight the phenomenon of “lost votes by mail.”
secondary appointments School of Arts & Sciences (Political Science)
education PhD Harvard 2021
Morse has addressed broader issues across election administration too, including the tension between privacy and transparency in the reporting of election results in Science Advances and the consequences of flawed ballot design in the American Journal of Political Science.
JD Yale 2019 BA Penn 2013
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 also written popular pieces about each aspect of his research for outlets such as Slate, Vox, and NBC News.
representative publications ”Privacy Violations in Election Results,” Sciences Advances (2025) ”Measuring Lost Votes by Mail,” Science Advances (2024)
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”Democracy’s Bureaucracy: The Complicated Case of Voter Registration Lists,” Boston University Law Review (2023) ”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)
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Stephen J. Morse Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry; Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society
Criminal Law | Law and Neuroscience | Mental Health Law
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.
recent courses taught Criminal Law Freedom & Responsibility Mental Health Law
secondary appointments School of Medicine (Psychiatry)
affiliations Center for Neuroscience & Society Institute for Law & Philosophy
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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. 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.
PhD 1973 Harvard JD 1970 Harvard EdM 1970 Harvard AB 1966 Tufts
representative publications An Advanced Introduction to Substantive Criminal Law (Eward Elgar, 2023) “Internal and External Challenges to Culpability,” Arizona State Law Journal (2022) “The Structure, Function, and Future of Mental Health Law,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (2021) read more online
“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) “Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility and Civil Commitment,” The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History (2019)
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Saule Omarova Earle Hepburn Professor of Law
Business & Corporate Law
Saule Omarova specializes in regulation of financial institutions and markets, banking law, international and corporate finance, and political economy of finance. Omarova was previously the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law and director of the Jack Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets at Cornell Law School, and the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. recent courses taught Financial Institutions Issues in Financial Regulation Securities Regulation
education PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison JD Northwestern
Prior to joining academia, Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis, Polk, & Wardwell, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in financial regulation. From 20062007, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. Omarova is a frequent commentator on financial and regulatory matters, including in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Rolling Stone, NPR, and the American Prospect. She has testified on a broad range of law and policy issues before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services.
representative publications “Banking and Antitrust,” Yale Law Journal (2024) (co-author) “The People’s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy,” Vanderbilt Law Review (2021)
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“Central Bank Money: Liability, Asset, or Equity of the Nation?,” CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15521 (2020) (co-author) “Technology v. Technocracy: Fintech as a Regulatory Challenge,” Journal of Financial Regulation (2020) “Why We Need a National Investment Authority,” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-34 (2020)
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Shaun Ossei-Owusu LPS’08 Presidential 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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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 MLA 2008 Penn BS 2007 Northwestern
representative publications “The New Penal Bureaucrats,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2022) read more online
“Velvet Rope Discrimination,” Virginia Law Review (2021) “Civil vs. Criminal Legal Aid,” Southern California Law Review (2021) “The Racial Reckoning of Public Interest Law,” California Law Review Online (2021) “The Welfarist Right to Counsel,” Stanford Law Review (2020)
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Gideon Parchomovsky Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law
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.
recent courses taught Copyright Law Impact of the Internet on Copyright and Patent Law Property Law
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.
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Institute for Law & Economics
education JSD 1998 Yale LLM 1995 Berkeley LLB 1993 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
representative publications “Rationing Access,” Vanderbilt Law Review (2023) read more online
“Are All Risks Created Equal? Rethinking the Distinction Between Legal and Business Risk in Corporate Law,” Boston University Law Review (2022) “Reversing the Fortunes of Active Funds,” Texas Law Review (2020) “Autonomy,” Toronto Law Journal (2020) “The Agent’s Problem,” Duke Law Journal (2020)
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Elizabeth Pollman Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics
Corporations | Corporate Governance | M&A Startups & 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 the fiduciary duties of controlling stockholders, founder-CEOs in dual-class firms, venture-backed startup governance and failure, and corporate purpose.
recent courses taught Corporations M&A Startups and Venture Capital Corporate Governance Seminar
affiliations Institute for Law & Economics 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 LLM Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2021 and 2024 and the Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022. 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. 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 eight times in the past eight years, including most recently for “The Making and Meaning of ESG,” published in the Harvard Business Law Review, and “Startup Failure,” published in the Duke Law Journal.
representative publications “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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Wendell E. Pritchett PhD’97 James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education
Economic Development | Education | Housing 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.
recent courses taught Educational Policy Land Use Local Government Law Property
secondary appointments Graduate School of Education
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
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.
education PhD 1997 Penn JD 1991 Yale BA 1986 Brown
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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) Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
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Dorothy E. Roberts 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
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.
recent courses taught The Constitution and the Family Criminal Law Family Law Race, Science, and Justice Reproductive Rights and Justice
joint appointments Arts & Sciences (Africana Studies) Arts & Sciences (Sociology)
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation Penn Population Studies Center Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
education JD 1980 Harvard BA 1977 Yale
She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society and a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. 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 The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family (Atria/One Signal, 2026), 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), and the Foreword to the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court 2018 Term issue. 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; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Honorary Doctor of Science Degree; 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. representative publications
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family (Atria/One Signal, 2026) Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Random House/ Pantheon, 1997; Vintage 20th Anniversary edition, 2017) read more online
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011) Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022) “Abolition Constitutionalism,” Harvard Law Review (2019)
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Paul H. Robinson Colin S. Diver Professor of Law
Criminal Law | Criminal Law Theory Criminal Code Reform | Sentencing
Paul H. Robinson is one of the world’s leading criminal law scholars. A prolific writer and lecturer, Robinson has authored 20 books and over 150 articles, including publications in nearly all leading scholarly law reviews. He has delivered lectures in more than 100 cities across 34 states and 28 countries, and his work has been translated into 15 languages. 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.
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
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). 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), Pirates, Prisoners & Lepers: Lessons From Life Outside the Law (Potomac), Crimes That Changed Our World: Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform (Rowman & Littlefield), Mapping American Criminal Law (Praeger), and Shadow Vigilantes (Prometheus). 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. representative publications Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away with Murder and Rape (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles & Evolution (Routledge, 2023) “Decriminalizing Condemnable Conduct: A Miscalculation of Societal Costs and Benefits,” Southern California Law Review (forthcoming, 2024) “’Mass Incarceration’ Myths and Facts: Aiming Reform at the Real Problems,” American Journal of Criminal Law (2024)
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“Individualizing Criminal Law’s Justice Judgments: Shortcomings in the Doctrines of Culpability, Mitigation, and Excuse,” Villanova Law Review (2022) “Criminal Law’s Core Principles,” Washington University Jurisprudence Review (2022)
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Kermit Roosevelt David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice
Conflict of Laws | Constitutional Law Federal Jurisdiction
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
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.
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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).
JD 1997 Yale AB 1993 Harvard
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. 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.
representative publications The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story (Chicago, 2022) read more online
“Court Reform and the Biden Commission,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy Per Curiam (2022) “Hamilton’s American—And Ours,” Hamilton and the Law (Cornell University Press, 2020) “McCulloch v. Marbury,” Constitutional Commentary (2019) Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press, 2010)
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Jennifer E. Rothman Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law
Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Intellectual Property and Technology Law Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law
Jennifer E. Rothman is globally 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.
recent courses taught Copyright First Amendment Introduction to Intellectual Property The Right of Publicity Trademarks and Unfair Competition
secondary appointments Annenberg School for Communication
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
education JD UCLA MFA USC AB Princeton
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, “Postmortem Privacy” appears in the Michigan Law Review. She also created Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity, an online resource, located at www. rightofpublicityroadmap.com, which provides a comprehensive analysis and commentary on right of publicity and related laws, litigation, and legislation. Rothman is the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Study of Name, Image, and Likeness Rights, and an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an adviser on the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy. She is an Affiliated Fellow of Yale Law’s Information Society Project. Before joining the Penn Carey Law faculty in 2021, Rothman held the William G. Coskran Chair at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she received the David P. Leonard Faculty Service Award for outstanding teaching and service. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty, she was an associate professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. representative publications The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, Harvard University Press (2018) “Postmortem Privacy (with Anita Allen), Michigan Law Review,” Vol. 123, 285 (2024)
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“Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark’s Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption,” Harvard Law Review, Vol. 135, 1271 (2022) “The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity,” (co-authored), Yale Law Journal, Vol. 130, 86 (2020) “The Questionable Use of Custom in Intellectual Property,” Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, 1899 (2007)
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Theodore W. Ruger John H. Chestnut Professor of Law
Constitutional Law | Food & Drug Law | Health Law Legal Profession | Legislation
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. 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.
recent courses taught Constitutional Law Food and Drug Law Health Law and Regulation Legislation Professional Responsibility
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation
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.
representative publications “The Primacy of Electoral Politics and Our Outdated Checks and Balances,” Beyond Imagination?: The January 6 Insurrection (West, 2022) “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) “Of Icebergs and Glaciers: The Submerged Constitution of American Healthcare,” Law & Contemporary Problems (2012) “Plural Constitutionalism and the Pathologies of American Healthcare,” Yale Law Journal Online (2011)
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Chris William Sanchirico Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business, and Public Policy; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Tax Policy | Evidentiary Procedure
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. 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.
recent courses taught 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
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.
AB 1984 Princeton
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“The New U.S. Tax Preference for ‘Foreign-Derived Intangible Income,’” Tax Law Review (2018) “As American as Apple Inc.: International Tax and Ownership Nationality,” Tax Law Review (2015) “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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Kate Shaw Professor of Law
Administrative, Regulatory, and Compliance Law Constitutional Law and Civil Rights
Kate Shaw joined Penn Carey Law in January 2024 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was also Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Shaw is a constitutional law scholar who has also taught courses in administrative law, legislation, the Supreme Court, and executive power. She was a Visiting Professor at Penn Carey Law during the spring of 2023. recent courses taught
Her academic work focuses on executive power, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. She previously worked in the Obama White House Counsel’s Office and served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and the Honorable Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Administrative Law Constitutional Law
affiliations Penn Program on Regulation Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
Shaw’s scholarly work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Texas Law Review, among other places. Her popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time, the Washington Post, and Slate. She is a co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny, a contributor with ABC News, a Contributing Opinion Writer with the New York Times, and a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States. She was recently elected to the American Law Institute.
education JD 2006 Northwestern BA 2001 Brown
representative publications “Partisanship Creep,” Northwestern University Law Review (2024) read more online
“Dobbs and Democracy,” Harvard Law Review (2024) (co-author) “Of Might and Men,” Michigan Law Review (co-author) (2024) “Transition Administration,” Minnesota Law Review (2021) (co-author) “Beyond the Bully Pulpit,” Texas Law Review (2017)
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Reed Shuldiner Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law & Policy
Income Taxation | Tax Policy
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. 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
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representative publications “Marginal Rates Under the TCJA,” Tax Notes (2018) “Was the AMT Effectively Repealed?,” Tax Notes (2018)
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Beth Simmons Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics
International Human Rights | International Law | International Relations International Political Economy
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.
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
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 delivered the 2024 Hersh Lauterpact Memorial Lectures in International Law at Cambridge University in 2024, on “International Borders in an Interdependent 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.
representative publications “Border Anxiety in International Discourse,” American Journal of Political Science (2023) read more online
“Infrastructure and Authority at the State’s Edge: The Border Crossings of the World Dataset,” Journal of Peace Research (2023) “Cyber Borders: Exercising State Sovereignty Online,” Temple Law Review (2023) “Border Orientation in a Globalizing World,” American Journal of Political Science (2022) “Pandemic Response as Border Politics,” International Organization (2020)
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David A. Skeel, Jr. S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law
Bankruptcy | Christianity and Law | Corporate 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. 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
Skeel has also written commentaries for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. 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. On August 31, 2016, President Obama appointed Skeel to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. He served until July 2024, the last three and a half years as chair. He is also a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy. 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
representative publications Bankruptcy (12th ed., West Academic, 2025) (with Daniel Bussel and Michelle Harner) read more online
“Bankruptcy’s Identity Crisis,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2023) “The Corporation as Trinity,” Seattle University Law Review (2022) “Pandemic Hope for Chapter 11 Financing,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2021) “Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy,” Yale Law Journal (2020)
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Catherine T. Struve David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law
Civil Procedure | Federal Courts | Federal Indian Law
Catherine Struve teaches and researches in the fields of civil procedure and federal courts. 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. recent courses taught Advanced Problems in Federal Procedure Civil Procedure
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. She won the Law School’s Harvey Levin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, 2009, 2015, and 2025, and a Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2024. She was elected to the Council of the American Law Institute in 2010 (and, after serving three terms, was transferred to “emeritus” status in 2025). Her recent research concerns federal appellate procedure, and she is the lead coauthor of the two volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise that cover that topic.
Federal Courts Federal Indian Law
education JD 1995 Harvard AB 1992 Harvard
representative publications “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) read more online
16AA Federal Practice & Procedure (5th ed., Thomson West, 2020) 16A Federal Practice & Procedure (5th ed., Thomson West, 2019) “The Federal Rules of Inmate Appeals,” Arizona State Law Journal (2018) “The Conditions of Pretrial Detention,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2013)
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Karen M. Tani L’07, PhD’11 Seaman Family University Professor
U.S. Legal and Constitutional History | Administrative Law Social Welfare Law | Torts
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 Law & Inequality
In 2024, Tani authored the Foreword to the Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court issue, marking her as one of the nation’s foremost legal scholars. She is also the author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 19351972 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which won the 2017 Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
Torts U.S. Legal History
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In recent years, she has also published in the Yale Law Journal, the California Law Review, and the Disability Studies Quarterly. Award-winning publications have also appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, and the Law and History Review.
Arts & Sciences (History)
affiliations Legal History Consortium Penn Program on Regulation
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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. Tani served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
PhD 2011 Penn JD 2007 Penn BA 2002 Dartmouth
representative publications “Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court,” Harvard Law Review (2024) “Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution,” Yale Law Journal (2024) read more online
“The Disability Docket,” American University Law Review (2023) “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)
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R. Polk Wagner Michael A. Fitts Professor of Law
Cyberlaw | Intellectual Property | Law and Technology Patent Law | Property Law
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. recent courses taught Patent Law & Policy Property Law Introduction to Intellectual Property Law & Policy Strategic Intellectual Property (Seminar)
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
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.
education JD 1998 Stanford BSE 1993 Michigan BS 1993 College of Charleston
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) read more online
“Did Phillips Change Anything? Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Claim Construction Doctrine,” Intellectual Property and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) “Unenforceability,” Washington & Lee Law Review (2013) “Life After Bilski,” Stanford Law Review (2011)
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Yanbai Andrea Wang Assistant Professor of Law
Civil Litigation: Practice and Procedure | China Law Conflict of Laws | Courts and the Judicial System International and Comparative Law
Yanbai Andrea Wang specializes in comparative civil procedure and transnational litigation, with a focus on the United States and China. 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.
recent courses taught Civil Procedure Dispute Resolution in the Global Conflict Litigating Across Borders
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. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Oxford, a JD from Stanford Law, and a BA from Princeton.
education DPhil 2014 Oxford JD 2011 Stanford MPhil 2007 Oxford BA 2005 Princeton
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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Amy Wax Professor of Law
Civil Procedure | Social Welfare Law 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.
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
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. 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.
MD 1981 Harvard BS 1975 Yale
representative publications “The Woke and the Asleep, Review of Richard Hanania, The Origins of Woke,” American Conservative (January/February 2024) “Affirmative Action: Past, Present, and Future,” Law and Liberty (January 2022) read more online
“Inconvenient Truths, Review of Charles Murray, Facing Reality,” Claremont Review (Winter 2021/2022) “Family Matters, review of Matt Feeney, Little Platoons,” Claremont Review (Summer 2021) Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century (Hoover Institution Press/ Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
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Shelley Welton Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy
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 the theoretical and practical role of public ownership in the energy transition; and investigating the role of state-level sovereign wealth funds in state energy policy.
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
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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.
PhD 2017 Yale JD 2009 NYU MPA 2006 Columbia BA 2004 North Carolina
representative publications “Not Just Another Utility”: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Public Power in the Energy Transition (co-authored), Iowa Law Review, Vol. 110, 2233 (2025) Lessons in Climate Derisking: The United States’ Failed Nuclear Renaissance (co-authored), University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 173, 705 (2025) read more online
The Public-Private Blur in Clean Energy Siting, 35 King’s Law Journal 258 (2024) Taxing Luxury Emissions (co-authored), Cornell Law Review, Vol. 109, 1153 (2024) Grid Reliability for the Electric Era (co-authored), Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 41, 164 (2024)
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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 Golkin Family Professor; Professor of Psychology
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. recent courses taught
Wilkinson-Ryan was recently awarded the 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award for tenured and tenure-track faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously received 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.
Contracts Consumer Law Law and Psychology
affiliations Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition Penn Program on Regulation
Wilkinson-Ryan currently serves as the Deputy Dean for Faculty Affairs and Intellectual Life, a role she also held from 2017-2019. Before she joined the standing faculty, she was a George Sharswood Fellow (2008-2010).
education PhD 2008 Penn MA 2006 Penn JD 2005 Penn BA 1999 Harvard
representative publications Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order—and What We Can Do About It (HarperCollins, 2023) read more online
“Expecting Specific Performance,” New York University Law Review (2023) (co-author) “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
Civil Procedure and Complex Litigation | Conflict of Laws Constitutional Law | Sexuality and the Law
Tobias Barrington Wolff writes and teaches in the fields of civil procedure and complex litigation, the conflict of laws, constitutional law, and LGBT rights. 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. recent courses taught
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.
Civil Procedure Complex Litigation Conflict of Laws
Law & Sexuality
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.
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Wolff also served as LGBT Policy Chair for Senator Barack Obama’s “Obama for America ’08” campaign.
Constitutional Law First Amendment
JD 1997 Yale BA 1992 Yale
representative publications Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2021 & Supp. 2024) “Consent Decrees and Federal Jurisdiction,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review (2022) read more online
“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)
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Christopher S. Yoo Imasogie Professor in Law and Technology; Professor of Communication; Professor of Computer and Information Science; Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC); Faculty Director, Penn Center on Media, Technology & Democracy Antitrust | Communications Law | First Amendment Intellectual Property Law | Presidential Power | Privacy and Security
Christopher S. Yoo has emerged as one of the world’s leading authorities on law and technology.
recent courses taught Antitrust Artificial Intelligence and the Law Internet Law Privacy Technology and Policy
secondary appointments Annenberg School for Communication SEAS
affiliations CTIC Penn Center on Media, Technology & Democracy Penn Program on Regulation The Warren Center in Network and Data Sciences The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
Recognized as 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 200 scholarly works. His major research projects include investigating innovative ways to connect more people to the internet; studying new approaches to the regulation of Internet platforms; creating technically implementable standards for artificial intelligence; analyzing the technical determinants of optimal interoperability; and online privacy and security. He has also created innovative joint degree programs designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering. 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, Member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on the Impact of Social Media on the Health and Wellbeing of Adolescents and Children, 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 Expert for the Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development’s Working Group on Smartphone Access. He is currently serving as the General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law and as an Advisor to the ALI Project on Principles in the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence. Before coming to Penn, Yoo taught at Vanderbilt Law School. He served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
education JD 1995 Northwestern
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MBA 1991 UCLA
“The First Amendment, Common Carriers, and Public Accommodations: Net Neutrality, Digital Platforms, and Privacy,” Journal of Free Speech Law (2021)
AB 1986 Harvard
“The Post-Chicago Antitrust Revolution: A Retrospective,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020) read more online
The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses Are Transforming the Network (AEI Press, 2012) Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (co-authored) “Copyright and Product Differentiation,” New York University Law Review (2004)
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Cynthia L. Dahl Practice Professor of Law; Director, Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic
Intellectual Property | Technology Law
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
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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
representative publications Without Noncompete Agreements, Can Employers Keep a (Trade) Secret?, American University Business Law Review, Vol. 14:3 (2025) Looking Back on Vaccine Deal-Making in a Global Pandemic (co-authored), ACC Docket (Mar. 27, 2023) Did the America Invents Act Change University Technology Transfer?, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Vol. 19, 1 (2021) read more online
Reviewing Inter Partes Review Five Years In: The View from the University Technology Transfer Offices, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer 339 (Edward Elgar) (2020) When Standards Collide with Intellectual Property: Teaching About Standard Setting Organizations, Technology, and Microsoft v. Motorola, IP Theory, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (2020)
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Kara R. Finck Deputy Dean for Clinical Education; Practice Professor of Law; Director, Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Children’s Rights | Family Defense Immigration and Family Law | Law and Social Work
Kara R. Finck’s areas of specialty include family and child advocacy, the overlap between immigration and family law, interdisciplinary legal practice models and law and social work.
recent courses taught Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
education JD 2001 Columbia
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 to parents, youth and caregivers in child welfare, custody, guardianship and other civil matters through partnerships with local agencies and a medical- legal partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and HELP:MLP. The Clinic pairs law students with graduate social work students to learn interprofessional collaboration and advocacy skills. 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 impacted by the child welfare system.
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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. Finck has presented nationally and internationally 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 “Increasing Access to Justice for Families through Preventive Legal Advocacy” Family Court Review (2024) “Family Regulation System and Medical Legal Partnerships,” Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2023) read more online
“Presumed Unfit: The Dual Bind Faced by Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care,” American University Law Review (2023) “Applying the Principles of Rebellious Lawyering to Envision Family Defense,” Clinical Law Review (2016) Social Work Practice and the Law (Springer, 2d ed. 2025)
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Praveen Kosuri Deputy Dean for Clinical Education; Practice Professor of Law; Director, Entrepreneurship Legal 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.
representative publications “Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide,” Clinical Law Review (2021) “Democratizing Entrepreneurship: Online Documents, Tools, and Start-Up Know-How,” Journal of Affordable Housing (2017) read more online
“Beyond Gilson,” Lewis & Clark Law Review (2015) “Losing My Religion: The Place of Social Justice in Clinical Legal Education,” Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice (2012) “‘Impact’ in 3D—Maximizing Impact Through Transactional Clinics,” Clinical Law Review (2011)
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Cara McClellan GEd’12 Associate Practice Professor; Director, Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic
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.
recent courses taught Advocacy for Racial & Civil Justice Clinic
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 NYU Law, McClellan has published in law reviews, including Boston University Law Review, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Fordham Urban Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Race & Law, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online, and she has a forthcoming article in the Northwestern University Law Review.
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.
representative publications “Challenging Legacy Discrimination: The Persistence of School Pushout as Racial Subordination” Boston University Law Review (2025) “When Claims Collide: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the Meaning of Discrimination,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2023)
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“Evading a Race-Conscious Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online (2023) “Discrimination as Disruption: Addressing Hostile Environments Without Violating the Constitution,” Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia (2023) “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 Practice Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Legal Clinic
Asylum Law | Immigrant Rights/Migrant Rights International Human Rights
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
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.
representative publications “Bridging the Accountability Gap: A Call to Action for Persons Subjected to Abuse in Immigrant Detention,” UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (forthcoming, 2024) (co-author) Trauma and Emotions in Human Rights: Reflections from Teaching and Practice, How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching (Edward Elgar, 2024) (co-author)
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“Temporary Protected Status in the United States: An incomplete and imperfect complementary system of protection,” Background Paper, World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, Societies, World Bank (2023) “Relentless Pursuits: Reflections of an Immigration and Human Rights Clinician on the Past Four Years,” William & Mary Journal of Women & the Law (2020) “Working Towards Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children,” The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law (2020)
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Louis S. Rulli Morris M. Shuster Practice Professor of Law; Director of Civil Practice Clinic & Legislative Clinic
Public Interest | Civil Forfeiture | Legislation Clinical Education | Ethics
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.
recent courses taught Civil Practice Clinic Legislative Clinic Lawyering in the Public Interest Seminar Policy Lab: Health Law Policy Advocacy Poverty Law Seminar
From 2008 to 2018, he served as Director of the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies. He is the long-time Director of the Civil Practice Clinic and the founder and Director of the Legislative Clinic. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Rulli was the Executive Director of Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. He was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Lawyer Trust Account Board (IOLTA), a past Chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association ’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, and for many years served as the Pro Bono Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Board of Governors. He currently serves on the Association’s Civil Gideon and Access to Justice Task Force and the Municipal Court’s Consumer Debt Court Modernization Committee. He currently serves as the Hearing Officer for the City of Philadelphia’s Board of Ethics. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates and serves on the Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania IOLTA Loan Repayment Assistance Program and on 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 has testified on proposed legislation before Congress, the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, and Philadelphia City Council. 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.
education JD 1974 Rutgers BA 1971 Rutgers
representative publications “Duress, Coercion, and Intimidation on the Highway: A Call to Ban Roadside Waivers in Civil Forfeiture,” Yale Law & Policy Review (2025) Testimony (Written), U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, (Civil Forfeiture) (2023) read more online
Testimony (Written and Oral), Philadelphia City Council, (Medical Deportation) (2023) “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)
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Colleen F. Shanahan Practice Professor of Law
Administrative Law | Civil Litigation: Practice and Procedure Criminal Law and Procedure | Courts and the Judicial System Professional Responsibility | Social Justice, Equity, Inclusion
Colleen F. Shanahan is a leading scholar of state civil courts, using theoretical and empirical approaches to understand the lawyerless courts where millions of Americans bring their problems each year. Her research spans civil procedure, state courts, access to justice, and poverty law and has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review Forum, and Stanford Law Review, among others. Shanahan is a nationally recognized clinical teacher, launching Justice Lab at Penn Carey Law in Fall 2025, which pairs students and community organizations to advance racial and economic justice in reforming the civil and criminal legal systems. Her clinic’s advocacy regarding fees in the juvenile justice system in Philadelphia received local and national awards and was covered by NBC News, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Shanahan previously taught at Columbia Law School where she served as Vice Dean for Experiential Education, Temple University Beasley School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. She practiced as a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller in Philadelphia and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Michael Baylson W’61, L’64 on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Jane R. Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
education LLM 2012 Georgetown JD 2003 Columbia AB 1998 Princeton
representative publications “The Institutional Mismatch of State Civil Courts,” Columbia Law Review (2022) “The Field of State Civil Courts,” Columbia Law Review (2022) (co-author) read more online
“The Democratic (Il)legitimacy of Assembly-Line Litigation,” Harvard Law Review (2022) (co-author) “A Tale of Two Civil Procedures,” Columbia Law Review (2022) (co-author) “Judges in Lawyerless Courts,” Georgetown Law Journal (2021) (co-author)
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Silvia Diaz L’08 Senior Lecturer; Academic Director, Pre-College Academy
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.
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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.
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Karen U. Lindell Senior Lecturer, Legal Practice Skills
Karen U. Lindell teaches in the Legal Practice Skills Program and supports the Law School’s public interest programs. 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. 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.
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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. Pierce 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. During her time in practice, Pierce also served as an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law teaching “Secured Transactions.”
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Jessica P. Simon C’95 Associate Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program and Senior Lecturer; Director of Academic Support
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. 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 also works with many large law firms, training their lawyers on writing more concisely, persuasively, and effectively. Simon trains law firm partners on how to effectively give feedback to their associates. Finally, she works individually with lawyers, reviewing and critiquing their writing. 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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Benjamin Sirolly L’13 Senior Lecturer, Legal Practice Skills
Benjamin Sirolly L’13 draws on over a decade of experience in private practice and government service to teach Legal Practice Skills. Sirolly began his legal career as a patent litigator at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. He then clerked for the Honorable Kara Farnandez Stoll on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After clerking, he joined MoloLamken LLP, where he litigated complex, high-stakes disputes at trial and on appeal. He then served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General. Sirolly previously taught high school science in North Carolina and Philadelphia and Patent Appellate Practice at the George Washington University Law School. Sirolly has a JD from Penn Carey Law, magna cum laude, and a degree in Physics and Political Science from Bucknell University.
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Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights
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.”
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The Honorable Stephanos Bibas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 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. 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.
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Rangita de Silva de Alwis Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law and Global Leadership
Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a globally recognized international women’s rights expert and a member of the treaty body to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), where she is Chair of the Working Group on Individual Petitions Mechanism under the Optional Protocol and the Women, Peace and Security Co-Chair. She is also on the high level advisory board of the President of the UN General Assembly. From 2025, she will serve as the Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, which is headed by Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws, KC. At the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, she teaches International Women’s Human Rights; Women, Law, and Leadership; and the Policy Lab, including the Policy Lab on AI and Bias, and directs the Global Institute for Human Rights. She is also faculty the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and at Wharton where she teaches Globalization and Human Rights. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Mansfield College, Oxford and at the Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Trinity Term (2024). She will be a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute in the Trinity Term (2025) where she will examine AI- driven Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and Women Peace and Security. She is also co-chair of the High Level Expert Group on Global Gender Justice. In recognition of Rangita’s global work in advancing women’s rights, she was named the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Fellow on Gender Equity, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She has been recognized globally for her work, including at the South Korean Supreme Court and with the Austrian Justicia award and was honored by Harvard Law School as a Woman Inspiring Change, 2015. Rangita’s recent work was featured in the Financial Times (FT) and the New York Times. She has also appeared on C-SPAN’s Book TV. Rangita also leads the Thomson Reuters Project on Inclusion and Transforming Women’s Leadership. Her work on expanding the Women Peace and Security agenda to include gender- based intellectual violence such as the denial of women’s education as a security threat has informed the consultative groups working on the ICC’s new Gender Policy. She has published widely with the United Nations the World Bank, and in various leading law journals including law journals at Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Berkeley, Duke, UCLA, Michigan, Virginia, Georgetown, NYU and in the Oxford and Cambridge Press. She has a SJD from Harvard Law School. read more online
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Justin (Gus) Hurwitz Academic Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition; Senior Fellow
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). 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
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, 2025, 3d ed.) and The Law of Arrest, Search, and Seizure in Pennsylvania (PBI Press, 2020, 11th ed.). 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.
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Jim Sandman Distinguished Lecturer; Senior Consultant to the Future of the Profession Initiative
Jim Sandman has had a long and varied career in private practice with a big law firm, in government service, and as a public interest lawyer. He is President Emeritus of the Legal Services Corporation; practiced law for 30 years with the international, Washington-based law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he served as the firm’s Managing Partner for a decade; and was General Counsel of the District of Columbia Public Schools. He is a past President of the D.C. Bar and has served on the Board of Penn Carey Law, where he has been honored with the Alumni Award of Merit and Howard Lesnick Pro Bono Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. Sandman is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a cum laude graduate of Penn Carey Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Max Rosenn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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The Honorable Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Senior Fellow
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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