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Staff News: Chloe Field and Jacob Elkin Join the Sabin Center as Legal Fellows

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Working with the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law she will focus on federal and state regulatory efforts to address climate-related financial risks. from Harvard Law School in 2021 and an L.LM in Environmental and Energy Law from NYU Law in 2023. She received her J.D.

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Justices to consider choice-of-law clauses in maritime insurance contracts

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Perhaps some of the justices will even enjoy a return to their law-school days, as they consider whether state or federal law should govern the enforceability of maritime choice-of-law clauses. Specifically, Great Lakes is a foreign insurance company that insured a yacht owned by Raiders, a Pennsylvania company.

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Matthew Eisenson Joins the Sabin Center as Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative Fellow

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He also previously worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and as a law clerk for Senior U.S. Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before law school, he served as a special assistant to the President and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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US dispatch: a politicized judiciary could facilitate an authoritarian turn

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Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . The politicization of state courts is particularly worrisome because they hear 95 percent of all complaints filed, including election-related litigation. Judge Aileen M.

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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

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Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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STAFF NEWS: FIVE FELLOWS JOIN THE SABIN CENTER

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She is an experienced securities litigator whose work focuses on addressing climate risk and financial regulation. Her work with the Initiative for Climate Risk & Resilience Law supports ambitious, durable action on climate risk by federal and state financial regulators as well as the private sector. She also holds a B.A.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

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This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. But Mallory argued that by registering to do business in Pennsylvania, it had agreed to appear in Pennsylvania courts on any cause of action. Gold Issue Mining & Milling Co.

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