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On April 28th, students in the Policy Advocacy Clinic traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to present their research on Republican support for criminal justice reform in the South. The students spent the semester analyzing thousands of bills…
Our PLUS graduates are heading off to exciting post-grad fellowships, new roles as human rights organizers, consultants, paralegals, legal analysts, and civil rights legal assistants—and some are diving into LSAT prep and law school applications along the way. We wish you all the best. Please stay in touch with all of us at P*Law!
Please help us welcome our new P•LAW Fellows, Professors Kate Shaw and Catherine Powell, for the 2025-26 academic year!
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
Shaw is a constitutional law scholar who has also taught courses in administrative law and legislation…
On March 15, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation titled, “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua.”…
Sarah Staszak recently presented her new book, "Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and the Decline of Public Governance in the U.S.," to P*LAW's audience at the Frontiers of Law Seminar. Congratulations Sarah!
Professor Charles Cameron has been awarded APSA’s Law and Court Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given for a “lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the Law and Courts field.”
Senate Democrats are demanding the Trump administration provide information on its transfers to torture in El Salvador, including actions it has taken in response to court orders. On May 1, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Alex Padilla (D-CA),…
The Law and Ethics of Human Rights (LEHR) Journal publishes symposium on polarized constitutionalism, including Professor Deborah Pearlstein’s article The Impact of Movement “Originalism” on American Legal Polarization.
Madisonian democracy, as James Madison himself propounded it and as it has subsequently become to be practiced in the United States, has been viewed as different from the democratic theory developed by the French philosopher Marquis de Condorcet and the many subsequent scholars of social choice working in Condorcet’s wake. A letter that Madison…
Last Look: How America – and Trump – became addicted to emergency powers. Fareed Zakaria explains how President Donald Trump’s frequent use of emergency powers has exposed a deep flaw in the US constitutional structure.
“Trump, Immigration & the Erosion of Due Process”
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to a series of legal skirmishes with major constitutional implications. To unpack it all, Kara speaks to three experts:
Caitlin Dickerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Atlantic who…
P*Law's 2025 Liman Undergraduate Fellows traveled to Yale Law School last week with faculty advisor Prof. Lynda Dodd to attend the annual Arthur Liman Center Colloquium, which brings together scholars, students, lawyers, social scientists, current and former Liman Fellows, and other experts to address issues in criminal and civil law reform and…
President Donald Trump has suggested that “methods” exist by which he could attempt to serve a third term in the White House, an act that is barred by the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“I’m not joking,” Trump said, in a Sunday interview with NBC News, when asked to clarify speculative comments on the possibility.
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Originalism was championed by early leaders of the conservative legal movement for the purpose of advancing a substantive political agenda, including the rejection of various constitutional protections of civil and social equality. Yet unlike the equality-focused Civil Rights Movement from which conservative lawyers drew key lessons, the…
In his chaotic attempt to dismantle democratic governance, redefine citizenship and cast aside fundamental rights of speech and due process, President Trump has all but declared war on one of the most effective forces to stand in his way: America’s legal institutions.
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CNN from Happening today: Judge Boasberg and Trump DOJ face off in court.
CNN Anchors are Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez.
The Trump Administration’s Recent Removals to El Salvador Violate the Prohibition on Transfer to Torture
Several of our colleagues have already provided excellent analyses of the fast-evolving legal and factual questions presented by President Donald Trump’s pretextual and abusive invocation of the Alien Enemies…
P*LAW Faculty Affiliate Kim Lane Scheppele delivers the Inaugural Sanford Levinson Lecture in Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas on March 21, 2025, at 4pm. Details and registration are available in the link.