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Rulli</a> shares his insights on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in <em>Culley v. Marshall.</em></p></p><a href="/live/news/16740-civil-forfeiture-decision-may-present-hope-as-well" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="flex-2 relative news-content"><div><h4><a href="/live/news/16687-amicus-urges-supreme-court-to-reject-trumps">Amicus Urges Supreme Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claims</a></h4><p class="intro-p"><p><a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/cfinkels">Prof. Claire Finkelstein</a>, along with 14 national security and military experts, has filed an amicus brief in Trump v. United States.</p></p><a href="/live/news/16687-amicus-urges-supreme-court-to-reject-trumps" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="flex-2 relative news-content"><div><h4><a href="/live/news/16680-emergency-abortion-care">Emergency Abortion Care</a></h4><p class="intro-p"><p> Professors <a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/ahoffma1">Allison K. 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Leadership</a></h4><p class="intro-p"><p><a href="/faculty/rdesilva" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rangita de Silva de Alwis</a> encourages UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2024 anti-poverty policymakers to “give women’s leadership and decision-making a fresh look.”</p></p><a href="/live/news/16533-feminization-of-poverty-and-womens-leadership" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="flex-2 relative news-content"><div><h4><a href="/live/news/16520-protecting-the-right-to-seek-asylum">Protecting the Right to Seek Asylum</a></h4><p class="intro-p"><p> At <em>The Hill,</em><a href="/faculty/paoletti" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transnational Legal Clinic Director Sarah Paoletti</a> urges representatives to “take a long, hard look at the ways our immigration and deportation systems are failing people who are in harm’s way.”</p></p><a href="/live/news/16520-protecting-the-right-to-seek-asylum" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="flex-2 relative 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education of women and girls.”</p></p><a href="/live/news/16332-examining-the-un-secretary-generals-independent" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="flex-2 relative news-content"><div><h4><a href="/live/news/16213-the-2024-presidential-ballot-and-the-14th">The 2024 Presidential Ballot and the 14th Amendment</a></h4><p class="intro-p"><p> “Hand your republic over to the enemies of democracy, and it could take a hundred years to get it back,” writes <a href="/faculty/krooseve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prof. Kermit Roosevelt</a> at the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>.</p></p><a href="/live/news/16213-the-2024-presidential-ballot-and-the-14th" class="button">Learn More</a></div></div><div class="lw_paginate"><a 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