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Law School Lectures, Addresses, Conferences, and Workshops

Law School lectures, addresses, conferences and workshops include those of various student organizations and events (e.g., the Black Law Student Association, the Penn Latinx American Law Students Association, and the Edwin R. Keedy Cup Competition), the School’s institutes and centers (e.g., the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, the Penn Program on Regulation, the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, and the Toll Public Interest Center), as well as distinguished lectures (e.g., The Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law and the Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law, Government, and Public Policy).

The collection also includes bibliographies, prepared by Biddle Law Library staff, for further reading on the subject matter of some of the events.

Submissions from 2023 2023

Selected Bibliography for Panel Discussion: "Judging How Judges Judge" (5/13/23)

Selected Bibliography for 2023 Distinguished Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law: Oleksiy Goncharenko: "Live Free or Die: Lessons for the Free World from the War in Ukraine" (2/1/23)

Submissions from 2022 2022

Selected Bibliography for 2022 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture: Linda Sheryl Greene: "The Desegregation of Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future," December 6, 2022, Biddle Law Library

Selected Bibliography for 2022 Distinguished Hon. Arlin M. Adams Lecture: Mary Sarah Bilder: "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution," November 17, 2022, Biddle Law Library

Selected Bibliography for Toll Public Interest Center Public Interest Week, November 14-18, 2022, Biddle Law Library

Selected Bibliography for "The Wide Reach of Dobbs: Impacts Beyond Abortion," presented by the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, and the Center for Technology, Innovation, & Competition, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, November 9, 2022, Biddle Law Library

Selected Bibliography for Law 2030 Conference, November 3-4, 2022

Announcement of Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (3/4/22)

Selected Bibliography for Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (3/4/22)

Announcement of Penn Law Black Law Student Association Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference: "Reflections on Critical Race Theory: Creating Static to Interfere with Dominant Legal Ideologies--Honoring Professor Regina Austin" (2/26/22)

Submissions from 2021 2021

Announcement of Fireside Chat: Jay Clayton and Chris Giancarlo (12/9/21)

Selected Bibliography for Fireside Chat: Jay Clayton and Chris Giancarlo (12/9/21)

Announcement of Law and Governance Panel Discussion: "The Congressional Bureaucracy" (12/8/21)

Announcement of Race and Regulation Lecture: Jill Fisher: "How Race and Social Inequalities Influence Healthy People's Paid Participation in FDA-Required Clinical Trials" (12/7/21)

Announcement of A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture: TomikJustice and the Judicial Role: The Quest for Empathy and Impartiality" (12/2/21)o Brown-Nagin: "

Selected Bibliography for A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture: Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "Justice and the Judicial Role: The Quest for Empathy and Impartiality" (12/2/21)

Announcement of Medha D. Makhlouf: "Immigrant Access to Healthcare" (12/1/21)

Announcement of Law & Inequality Webinar: Demystifying Disability (11/29/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Divided Agencies" (11/17/21)

Announcement of Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Webinar: "Interrogating Without Coercion: How police and policymakers are reforming interrogations to eliminate coercion and prevent false confessions" (11/16/21)

Announcement of Race and Regulation Lecture: Dorothy E. Roberts: "Black Families Matter: How the U.S. Family Regulation System Punishes Poor People of Color" (11/16/21)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Book Event: Lewis Grossman: "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (11/15/21)

Announcement of Wendy Green: "The CROWN Act and Hair Discrimination" (11/11/21)

Announcement of Documentaries & the Law Lecture: "Taking It to the Streets: The First Amendment Right to Gather and Report the News in the Aftermath of the 2020 Protests and Beyond" (11/9/21)

Announcement of Marc Bookman: "The Case for Abolishing the Death Penalty" (11/9/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "The Ecology of Homicide: Race, Place, and Space in Post-War Philadelphia" (11/9/21)

Announcement of Law and Government Panel Discussion: "Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation" (11/4/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Tackling America's Housing Crisis: Improving Housing Affordability Through Land Use Law Reform" (11/4/21)

Announcement of Toll Public Interest Honorary Fellow-in-Residence Keynote: Damon Hewitt (11/4/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings" (11/3/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "The Cost of Rehabilitation: How the Imposition of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Legal System Harms Youth and Families" (11/3/21)

Announcement of Distinguished Regulation Lecture: Guy-Uriel Charles: "Race, Political Power, and American Democracy: Rethinking Voting Rights Law for a Divided Nation" (11/2/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Solving the Democracy Problem" (11/2/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Abortion Access and Economic Justice: Dobbs, SB8, and Beyond" (11/1/21)

Announcement of Law and Government Panel Discussion: "The Polish Challenge to the Future of the European Union" (10/29/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "A Conversation about Voting Rights" (10/27/21)

Announcement of Race and Regulation Lecture: Jessica Trounstine: "Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today's Land Use Regulations" (10/26/21)

Announcement of International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform: "Bicontinental Perspectives on Legislative Drafting" (10/21-22/21)

Announcement of Paul Clement: "SCOTUS Term Preview" (10/20/21)

Announcement of Clark Neily: "The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court" (10/14/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "The Show Must Go On: The Future of Live Events" (10/14/21)

Announcement of Penn Program on Regulation Panel DIscussion: "How Judges Can Make a Difference in the Success of Supervised Release" (10/13/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "2021-22 SCOTUS Term Preview & Review" (10/12/21)

Announcement of "The Power of Penn Law: Introducing Our Newest Faculty Members" (10/1/21)

Selected Bibliography for "The Power of Penn Law: Introducing Our Newest Faculty Members" (10/1/21)

Announcement of Richard Epstein and Amanda Shanor: "State Efforts to Regulate Social Media" (9/29/21)

Announcement of Lecture on Race and Regulation: Chris Brummer: "New Evidence of Racial Disparities in Financial Regulatory Leadership" (9/28/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Responding to 'Unequivocal' Climate Change: Legal and Policy Implications of the Latest IPCC Report" (9/23/21)

Announcement of Roberto Gonzalez: "DACA and the Limits of Citizenship" (9/22/21)

Announcement of Ilya Shapiro and Kermit Roosevelt III: "Protecting the Public or Assaulting Democracy? A Discussion of State and Federal Voting Initiatives" (9/20/21)

Announcement of "Women's Leadership at a Time of Crisis: How Can the Global Community Stand with the Women and Girls of Afghanistan?" (9/14/21)

Announcement of Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law: Ayelet Hoffman Libson: "Is the Value of Human Life Paramount? Law and Personal Autonomy in Rabbinic Law" (9/13/21)

Announcement of Institute for Law and Philosophy Virtual Roundtable: Renee Jorgensen Bolinger: "Rewriting Rights: Making Reasonable Mistakes in a Social Context": Part 2 (8/20/21)

Announcement of Institute for Law and Philosophy Virtual Roundtable: Renee Jorgensen Bolinger: "Rewriting Rights: Making Reasonable Mistakes in a Social Context": Part 1 (7/16/21)

Announcement of Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Panel Discussion: "Revisiting Reform: Taking Stock One Year Later" (6/15/21)

Selected Bibliography for Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Panel Discussion: "Revisiting Reform: Taking Stock One Year Later" (6/15/21)

Announcement of Institute for Law and Economics Law & Entrepreneurship Lecture: Martin Lipton (5/12/21)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "The Future of Copyright Law: The CASE Act and Beyond" (4/6/21)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "The Future of Copyright Law: The CASE Act and Beyond" (4/6/21)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "What to Expect: Communications Law & Policy in 2021" (3/23/21)

Announcement of John Hollway: "A Systems Approach to Improving the Criminal Justice System" (3/23/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "The State of the Fintech Market: Trends and Regulatory Issues Concerning the Digitalization of Credit and the Future of Money" (3/23/21)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "What to Expect: Communications Law & Policy in 2021" (3/23/21)

Selected Bibliography for John Hollway: "A Systems Approach to Improving the Criminal Justice System" (3/23/21)

Selected Bibliography for Panel Discussion: "The State of the Fintech Market: Trends and Regulatory Issues Concerning the Digitalization of Credit and the Future of Money" (3/23/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Prospects for Reform of Individual Health Insurance and the ACA's Exchanges" (3/19/21)

Announcement of Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and Asian Law Review Joint Conference: "Roarin' 20s? Law, Politics, and Asian Americans in 202x" (3/14/21)

Announcement of Academic Workshop: Jeff Schwartz: "'Public' Mutual Funds" (3/12/21)

Announcement of SJD/Visiting Scholar Workshop: Waleed Haj Hasan: "Cyber-Currencies: A Sui Generis Form of Money in Common Law?"

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "COVID Vaccines for Developing Countries" (3/11/21)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "COVID Vaccines for Developing Countries" (3/11/21)

Announcement of Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Lawyer Formation" (3/10/21)

Selected Bibliography for Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Lawyer Formation" (3/10/21)

Announcement of American Constitution Society Panel Discussion: "High Crimes and Misdemeanors - the Dual Impeachments of Donald J. Trump" (3/9/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Administrative Law and Federal Indian Law" (3/9/21)

Announcement of Cecilia Wang: "Examining the Current Escalation of Anti-Asian Racism" (3/8/21)

Announcement of Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Legal Regulatory Reform" (3/3/21)

Selected Bibliography for Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Legal Regulatory Reform" (3/3/21)

Announcement of Grab A Book & Take A Break: Professor Dorothy Roberts on "Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the 21st Century" (3/1/21)

Announcement of Penn Black Law Student Association Sadie Alexander Conference: "Hidden Truths: Addressing a 13th Amendment Ambiguity that Created America’s Carceral State" (2/27/21)

Selected Bibliography for Sadie Alexander Conference Keynote: Paul Butler (2/27/21)

Selected Bibliography for Sadie Alexander Conference Panel: "History of the 13th Amendment: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration" (2/27/21)

Selected Bibliography for Sadie Alexander Conference Panel: "The Road to Freedom: Abolishing America’s Prison System" (2/27/21)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "New Directions in Technology Law and Policy: The Biden Administration" (2/24/21)

Announcement of Fireside Chat with Hon. Leo E. Strine: "Corporate Governance Post-Pandemic and Post-President Trump" (2/24/21)

Announcement of Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Racial Equity in the Profession" (2/24/21)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "New Directions in Technology Law and Policy: The Biden Administration" (2/24/21)

Selected Biblography for Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Racial Equity in the Profession" (2/24/21)

Announcement of A Conversation with Stacey Abrams (2/19/21)

Announcement of Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law Book Talk: Jeffrey W. Taliaferro: "Defending Frenemies: Alliances, Politics, and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy" (2/18/21)

Announcement of Sandeep Vaheesan: "Disrupting Contract Law" (2/18/21)

Announcement of Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Legal Services" (2/17/21)

Selected Bibliography for Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Legal Services" (2/17/21)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Building Better Government: Priorities and Challenges for the New Administration" (2/16/21)

Announcement of Academic Workshop: Matthew Jennejohn: "Deal Networks" (2/12/21)

Announcement of "Civil Procedure, Judicial Administration, and the Future of the Field: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Stephen B. Burbank" (2/12/21)

Announcement of Stephanie Kelton: "Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory" (2/11/21)

Announcement of Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of the Legal Work Environment" (2/10/21)

Selected Bibliography for Future of the Legal Profession Initiative Panel Discussion: "Reimagining the Future of the Legal Work Environment" (2/10/21)

Announcement of Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Panel Discussion: "Rescuing 911 : Opportunities for Reform in Police Dispatch" (1/27/21)