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Penn Law Student helps reporter find migrant laborer mistakenly declared dead in Saudi Arabia. Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times: https://pennlaw.news/3ozCFpm

Law School students are at the forefront of election-protection efforts in Pennsylvania. Rhochelle Krawetz, L’21 will be volunteering as an observer. I’ll be working the polls this year because the pandemic is presenting our democracy with unprecedented challenges, she said. ... So many of the basic freedoms I’ve studied in my Constitutional Law classes depend on every American being able to vote in fair elections, and I want to make sure they can. Read more: https://pennlaw.news/3owJjg3 #NationalProBonoWeek

CERL Virtual Book Talk October 29th at 5-6:30 pm ET with Barton Gellman, author of "Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State" "[E]ssential reading for anyone who cares about privacy and national security" - David Ignatius, Wash Post. ... Register at https://pennlaw.news/3ohWKQZ

Reflecting on a Decade of "The Regulatory Review" To celebrate the 10th anniversary, we collected short reflections from every person who has served as Editor-in-Chief of "The Regulatory Review"from the former student who helped launch this publication, to the current student overseeing "The Review" in its tenth year. Read their reflections: https://pennlaw.news/3nseTuY

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law publishes cutting-edge scholarship on a wide range of business law issues. The Journal publishes articles and comments on business law topics, including corporate governance, securities regulation, capital market regulation, employment law, and the law of mergers and acquisitions. Learn more: https://pennlaw.news/2IRUr6Q

Professor Osagie Imasogie, who earned his early legal education in Nigeria, shares his take on the escalating unrest in the country. "One of the main issues underlying the Nigerian #ENDSARS situation is the reality that the rule of law has been compromised in the country. When norms are broken and it seems that there is no equality under law for all citizens, this tends to ultimately lead to violence and civil unrest." Learn more: https://pennlaw.news/2FXntRA

Law student Alicia Lai's paper, "Artificial Intelligence, LLC: Corporate Personhood for AI," was recently accepted for publication in the "Michigan State Law Review." "Our legal system has long tried to fit the square peg of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into the round hole of the current tort regime, overlooking the inability of traditional liability schemes to address the nuances of how AI technology creates harms." Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dvkX3Pv

Join us as we celebrate the amazing ways #PennLawDoesProBono The 2020 National Celebration of Pro Bono, led by the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, takes place from October 25 31, 2020. This year’s theme is Rising to Meet the Challenge: Pro Bono Response to COVID-19. Have you risen to the challenge and performed pro bono services this year? ... Are you ready to accept the challenge and commit to providing pro bono service in the future? Are you interested in hearing more about the pro bono experiences of Penn Law students, alumni, faculty, and community partners? If so, join our social media celebration as we show the many ways #PennLawDoesProBono. Step 1: From your Instagram account, visit @pennlawtpic and hit 'Follow'. Step 2: Take a picture (or use an existing photo) to create a story or post dedicated to the National Celebration of Pro Bono. Step 3: Add these three hashtags - #PennLawDoesProBono #PennLawTPIC #NationalProBonoWeek and then post your photo. You can take it to the next level by adding a caption highlighting your own experiences with pro bono and/or your commitment to performing pro bono in the future. Don’t have Instagram? Share your pro bono story on any social media account using the hashtags #PennLawDoesProBono #PennLawTPIC #NationalProBonoWeek. Learn more here https://pennlaw.news/2Timmia

Prof. Jill E. Fisch challenges use of corporate shareholder agreements as private ordering mechanisms. With her pathbreaking paper, Fisch offers the first broad-based analysis of shareholder agreements, detailing the scope of issues to which they are addressed and identifying the challenges that they pose for corporate governance. Learn more here ... https://pennlaw.news/36yA48D See more

In "The Washington Post," Professor Natasha Sarin co-writes an op-ed about how many companies pay nothing in taxes. "Yet it is striking how little U.S. corporations pay in taxes: Based on public reporting, we calculate that in 2019, nearly 20 percent of large corporations that reported profits to shareholders of $100 million (or more) paid zero (or even negative) federal income taxes." Read more here: https://pennlaw.news/35tnaGI

[PODCAST] Law School Professor Herbert Hovenkamp visits Case in Point to discuss the Department of Justice’s blockbuster lawsuit against Google. The litigation marks the biggest antitrust strike against big tech since Microsoft in 2000. Listen here: https://pennlaw.news/37sp9hg

[VIDEO] Professor Burbank discusses the effects of ideology, race and gender on voting behavior of federal Court of Appeals judges. Watch here: https://pennlaw.news/3m7PIMM

Google Justice Department antitrust lawsuit explained: This is what it means for you. Prof. Christopher Yoo says consumers switch to Google even when it's not the default search engine. Get more details here: https://pennlaw.news/3jc0aRy