April

    • Fact and Fiction Merge in National Competition

      April 14, 2010

      For the second year in a row, the law school hosted the National Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Moot Court Competition, but this time, the fictional legal scenario at the heart of the contest bore an uncanny resemblance to reality.

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    • Labor Law Class Turns Students into Union Activists

      April 14, 2010

      Posters appeared on bulletin boards at the law school in March bearing the countenance of a prominent Philadelphia labor lawyer superimposed on the image of Batman nemesis, The Joker.

      Proclaiming "Don't Let this Joker Fool You: Labor Law Inc. Is the Villain," the posters were part of a collective action by students enrolled in the Labor Law class taught by Nancy B.G. Lassen, a partner with the top shelf Philadelphia firm, Willig, Williams & Davidson, and an adjunct professor at the school.

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    • Surviving a Storm

      April 14, 2010

      Jennifer M. Branch is a first-year associate at a major Center City law firm who has the poise, polish and calm demeanor of an attorney who slid effortlessly into the profession.

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    • Law and Human Values

      April 14, 2010

      The slaying of an unarmed man by police officers in Oakland, Calif. in 2009, a 1921 Supreme Court ruling involving the construction of a country house in New York and controversy over the sale of T-shirts emblazoned with "Stop Snitching'" in Baltimore six years ago.

      On the surface, these matters have little in common.

      But three professors contend that the legal debates underlying each case can either obscure or highlight basic human values like loyalty, equality or compassion.

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    • Learning from the Unexpected

      April 14, 2010

      Kaitlyn Cahill was ready and eager to handle her first hearing in Philadelphia's Dependency Court, where she expected to file a petition for an order for protective custody of a minor.

      A 2L who is completing a co-op placement with the Child Welfare Unit of Philadelphia's Law Department, Cahill had spent months acquainting herself with Pennsylvania's Juvenile Act and Child Protective Service Law.

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    • Novel Competition Highlights the Art of the Deal

      April 14, 2010

      Wearing crisp suits and bearing dog-eared documents, scores of law students from 10 universities around the U.S. gathered at the law school in early March to make deals.

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