The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The answer, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers Katherine Rohde, Taylor Ross, and Caitlyn Kim , “is not so clear.”. An article published in 2021 by University of Michigan Law School researchers argues that the law which excludes inmates from receiving Medicaid funds is detrimental to inmate health.

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MAY 23, 2022

We are thrilled to welcome Matthew Eisenson to the Sabin Center, where his work will focus on leading and expanding the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Ben Crump, Founder , Ben Crump Law, PLLC.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

A conference for a forthcoming Elgar Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality and International Law. Utrecht University (Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law). Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Rudy Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. The conference.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

Many are by now aware of the fact that AI tools such as ChatGPT have been able to pass exams from prestigious law schools and business schools. The chatbot tool was able to pass four exams at the law school of the University of Minnesota and one exam at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. The Path to Well-Being in Law. What an interesting position.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 11, 2021

Justice Clarence Thomas traveled to Florida to speak at the University of Florida and to the Florida chapter of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society. He reported being reimbursed by the law school for lodging and meals at an unspecified location in Farmington, Pennsylvania, during that time.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

She is on the governing council of the American Bar Association Center for Innovation and is a strategic advisor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative. At a time when so much is changing in the legal profession, the AAA-IDCR’s mission and vision are more important than ever.”

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey. And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

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ALPS

MAY 5, 2021

Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, a training and consulting firm that partners with organizations to help them reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level. So the simple answer is that I burned out during what became the last year of my law practice.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. Prior to working in the well-being field, Martha practiced law for almost 18 years. Bree, welcome.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 16, 2022

Ayala , “Pris­on­ers are shut away—out of sight, out of mind,” while their condi­tions of confine­ment are “too easily ignored” by the public and the legal academy. A new resource produced by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School explores the land­scape of prison and jail over­sight reform since 2018.

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ALPS

JULY 14, 2021

Transcript: CHRIS NEWBOLD: Hello, well-being friends and welcome to the Path to Well-Being in Law podcast, an initiative of the Institute for Well-Being in Law. And we are in the midst right now of spending a three-part miniseries within the podcast of really looking in terms of what’s going on in the law schools.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The use of paraprofessionals to provide individualized information about defendants that could guide judges’ decisions about granting bail could reduce racial disparities in pretrial detention, argues Paul Heaton , the director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. When the prosecutors’ positions and the judges’ ultimate decisions were informed by the “holistic” detail generated by the Bronx Defenders the difference in outcomes was dramatic.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Written by Martina Ticic, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law; Croatian Science Foundation ( HRZZ ) doctoral student. As such, the Academy was truly a place to be this summer for everyone wanting to learn more on the matters of private international law, as well as to connect with others who share the same or similar interests.

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InHouseOps

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, prior to his appointment to the U.S. It’s a one-and-a-half-day ADR program that introduces diverse law students to ADR and gives them an in-depth understanding of what it really takes to become a successful arbitrator and mediator. Leon Higginbotham Sr.

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ALPS

MAY 5, 2021

Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, a training and consulting firm that partners with organizations to help them reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level. So the simple answer is that I burned out during what became the last year of my law practice.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The law would mesh with corporate climate disclosure regulations elsewhere, particularly in Europe, and would therefore represent a significant step toward assuring the accuracy, trustworthiness, and transparency of corporate climate performance reporting. 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. He studies criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing. percent of the U.S.

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ALPS

APRIL 14, 2021

Welcome to the Path to Well-Being In Law podcast, an initiative of the Institute for Well-Being In Law. And as we launched the Institute for Well-Being In Law, she’ll be such a great leader for us. I’m your co-host Chris Newbold, Executive Vice President of ALPS Malpractice Insurance. So Bree, welcome. STEVE: Yeah.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 15, 2023

Law Professor Accused Of Serial Sexual Harassment: Things got really bad really quickly. Who Needs Legal Dictionaries When You Have The Bible?: You'd Expect A Law School To Be More Transparent With Its Fact Patterns: Two Pennsylvania law schools are merging and the logistics are flaky at best.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In a new escalation of the grassroots struggle between justice reformers and traditional law-and-order proponents, progressive prosecutors around the nation have balked at prosecuting some GOP-led laws. The real limit on this is political,” said William & Mary Law School professor Jeffrey Bellin.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Jewish groups at the University of California, Berkeley are suing the college, claiming it has become a hotbed of “unchecked” antisemitism, including at its elite law school, Jonathan Stempel reports for Reuters. The complaint also said “no fewer” than 23 law school groups have anti-Jewish policies.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., How did you get started in legal advocacy? Advice for women lawyers or law students? I loved it.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here is the column: This month, the sudden appearance of Special Counsel Robert Hur caused as much of a stir as Bigfoot suddenly appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue. In his press conference announcing the criminal charges against Trump, Smith declared, “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone….Nothing

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

There is a great divide on the issue of how to define gender and how legally to address different genders. He used his Catholic education to overcome segregation and prejudice to eventually go to Holy Cross and gained admission to Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania law schools.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2024

This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice. Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots. I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

Biden was grammatically correct, if legally confused, in only describing his first reaction rather than his prior actions. For example, Biden left office as vice president in 2017 and had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term until 2019. Biden was indeed surprised by the discovery.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We at the Supreme Court mourn the loss of a beloved colleague, a fiercely independent defender of the rule of law, and an eloquent advocate for civics education.” Also like Ginsburg, O’Connor was unable to find work at a law firm even though she was at the top of her class and an editor of the law review.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

This weekend, I was unable to attend our law school graduation after traveling to Utah to speak to the Federal Bar Association. Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. I have only missed a couple of graduation in almost 30 years of teaching.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him the move was unconstitutional. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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