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Christopher Stuart Patterson (June 24, 1842 – November 8, 1924) [1] was an American lawyer who served as dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His parents were Joseph and Jane (Cuyler) Patterson. [2] Patterson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1860, [2] and lived in Chestnut Hill, in Philadelphia. [3]
Amram worked as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1929 to 1942. During World War II, he served as special assistant to the United States attorney general. He was an expert on international private law and served as the chairman of the United States delegation to the 1972 Hague Conference on International Private ...
In November 2019, the Law School received a $125 million donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation, the largest single donation to any law school to date; the school was renamed University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, in honor of the foundation's first president, alumnus Francis J. Carey (1926–2014), who was the brother of William Polk ...
In 1985 he was nominated by President Reagan to serve as a member of the newly created United States Sentencing Commission. [4] [5] He was later confirmed by the United States Senate and served in that position until he resigned on February 1, 1988. [4] [5] Robinson is the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law ...
Lee joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as an assistant professor of law from 2009 to 2013, and professor of law and history starting in 2014. [1] On July 1, 2023, she became the dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, succeeding Theodore Ruger. [1] [2] She is the school's first female dean. [3]
Jennifer E. Rothman (born August 4, 1969) is an American legal scholar.. Rothman was raised in Berkeley, California. [1] After graduating from Princeton University in 1991, [2] she attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and worked for Paramount Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment.
Notably, the two men served as editors of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, published at the time under the name American Law Register and Review. Lewis saw a national role for the Law School, one that would fill the role of the fading apprenticeship system for young lawyers. Development of a core of full-time faculty sat at the top of ...
Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States [33]; James Wilson, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (Hon. LL.D); Penn's first law professor (1790-92); signer of the Declaration of Independence, and major participant in first and subsequent drafts of U.S. Constitution, which he signed (becoming one of only six people to sign both documents) [34]