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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 ...
New Hampshire adopted a right-to-work bill in 1947, but it was repealed in 1949 by the state legislature and governor. [72] In 2017, a proposed right to work bill was defeated in the New Hampshire House of Representatives 200–177. [73] In 2021, the same bill was reintroduced but again defeated in the House of Representatives 199–175. [74]
The school offers optional concentrations in business and entrepreneurship law, criminal law, health law, and intellectual property law and as of 2019 has 134 full and part-time faculty members. [ 12 ] [ 21 ] The School of Law is the first to have enrolled all of its students in the Philadelphia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section.
In 1994 to 1995 he was a law clerk to Judge James Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. [2] Berman is the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Professor of Philosophy. [1] [3] [4] He is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy. [2]
The School of Law was founded in 1911, and is the only multiple-division law school in western Pennsylvania. Located on the 47-acre (19 ha) Duquesne University campus, the law school is walking distance to Pittsburgh's downtown legal, corporate, and government communities. The School of Law has over 8,500 alumni globally.
The law school's Semester in D.C. Program allows spring semester second- and third-year students to pursue a full-time externship for an employer in Washington, D.C. [10] The Semester in D.C. combines full-time work for academic credit with a small seminar class held at the law school's dedicated Washington Center to fulfill a full semester ...
Among the six official journals of Penn Law, JLASC is unique both in its mission and its democratic article selection process. All journal members participate in decision-making by collectively reviewing, selecting and editing each piece of scholarship.
Robinson is the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. [3] [6] [7] He has published 17 books and many articles. [3] [8] [9] He co-authored three books on criminal law with law professor and Dean of Brooklyn Law School Michael T. Cahill. [10]