Congratulations to to Geneva Campbell L’13 for earning the Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division diversity scholarship! Read more about her activities at Penn Law.
Inaugural 3 Year JD/MBA Class Graduates… in Spectacular Fashion
Penn Law and Wharton are now proud to welcome its first three-year JD/MBA graduating class to its alumni communities and extend congratulations to the Class of 2012! These 12 talented students graduated with their joint degrees in two days – Wharton on May 13 and Penn Law on the 14th. 
All of our JD/MBA Class of 2012 have secured post-graduation employment and have set the bar high for JD/MBA classes to come, heading to firms such as Blackstone, Greenhill, JLL Partners, the Navy JAG Corps, Quinn Emanuel, Simpson Thatcher, Sullivan Cromwell and the Chancery Court, to name just a few.
Read more notable achievements of the class:
The annual faculty-staff BBQ event was a zero-waste event. Find out more about Penn’s Green initiative.
Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of the City of New York and Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP gave Penn Law’s 2012 Commencement address.
Prof. Stephen Burbank will serve as arbitrator in hearing on whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has jurisdiction to punish Saints players for the team’s bounties program has been set for May 30. Read more here.
Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) received a three-year $600,000 grant from the New York Bar Foundation to explore policy issues surrounding the Internet. Professor and CTIC Director Christopher Yoo was presented with the check last week. Read more about the grant in our newsroom.
The University of Pennsylvania Law School’s graduation ceremony was held at the Academy of Music on Monday, May 14, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has had a varied career as a lawyer, prosecutor, Mayor of New York City, Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and a 2008 presidential candidate delivered the Law School’s commencement address. View more on our Facebook page.
Golkin Hall’s dedication is featured in the latest issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette. The new building features three times the square footage as its one-story predecessor.
Professor Tobias Wolff met with the White House earlier this week to discuss America’s judicial vacancy crisis. Nearly one out of every 10 federal judgeships remains vacant, and more than 250 million Americans live in a community with a courtroom vacancy.
Angela Briggs L’12 and Rich Slavin L’12 argued a pro bono case before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals as part of their Federal Appellate Litigation Externship supervised by the Dechert law firm and Louis Rulli, Director of Clinical Programs and Practice Professor of Law. The panel to whom they argued before included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Judge McKee, and Judge Sloviter.
