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Our people and programming are dedicated to your success, which is why, for example, Penn Carey Law is routinely number one in the country for our new graduates’ career outcomes. Our careers counselors provide comprehensive guidance for you from your first day in the classroom to the start of your career, and executive skills support through the Center on Professionalism will help you navigate the legal profession. Moreover, when you graduate, as alumni you will have the benefit of lifelong learning and career support from the Law School, including through our ever-expanding Future of the Profession Initiative, whose mission of educating the next generation of lawyers and catalyzing change throughout the profession provides the innovative thought leadership and organization needed to develop the legal professionals of tomorrow, like yourself.
You will learn from a dedicated and diverse group of visionary scholars, teachers, and mentors who are preeminent in the law and the myriad fields with which it is connected. Our faculty-led academic centers and institutes generate research that yields insights and solutions to complex problems in the law and our society. In addition to the ten standing faculty members who have joined the Law School in the last five years, we’re excited to welcome five additional standing professors who enhance our academic program. Our faculty engage and mentor students, from support for judicial clerkship applications to simply taking students out to lunch to talk about their studies.
Penn also has a well-deserved reputation for cross-disciplinary innovation and as a world-leading research hub, attracting national and global figures to campus and to the Law School. To best prepare students to solve the legal challenges of the future, the Law School believes students must receive equal, parallel training in related fields like business, health, technology, education, and social work, which complement and enhance their legal expertise. Law students can easily take a class or classes (all within walking distance) at one of Penn’s 11 other graduate and professional schools, such as Wharton or the Perelman School of Medicine, enroll in one of the over 35 Joint Degrees and Certificate Programs offered, or study abroad at one of our partner law schools around the globe.
Opportunities abound here: you can develop your lawyering skills and serve real-life clients through our clinical programs; participate in or even start a pro bono student project through our Toll Public Interest Center; take part in one or more of dozens of student groups, from the substantive (Penn Intellectual Property Group) to the social and very fun (Bowling League); and take advantage of our many well-being initiatives, which aim to keep you healthy in body and mind.
Most importantly, the Law School’s collegial and inclusive community will be there to support you every step of the way with a network of colleagues and fellow alumni that will last a lifetime.
This publication includes details about our curriculum, our programs, and life in Philadelphia. Please take the time to review this information, and don’t hesitate to contact our Office of Admissions & Financial Aid if you have any questions. Congratulations once again, and welcome to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Sincerely,
Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
Collegiality
OUR COLLABORATIVE ETHOS
Our supportive community encourages students to take intellectual risks. Furthermore, our students do not receive class rankings. Our belief — confirmed by feedback we receive from employers and leaders in the profession — is that students who learn the law in a supportive and collaborative environment, such as Penn Carey Law’s, make exceptional lawyers and leaders.
Dechert LLP, New York, NY
Cross-Disciplinary
At Penn Carey Law, you will receive a classic legal education adapted to a world in which lawyers must navigate diverse fields to serve their clients’ needs and to address virtually every issue facing society. Over 100 students graduate each year with joint degrees or certificates that propel them along varied career paths. Even if you choose not to obtain a joint degree or certificate, you are still able to take up to four classes at other Penn graduate and professional schools on campus.
Gabriella Ravida MSSP’20, L’20
3-Year Programs
JD/MA or MS, Criminology
JD/MSEd, Education Policy
JD/MSEd, Higher Education
JD/MA, International Studies
JD/MA, Economic Law with Specialization in Global Governance (Sciences Po)
JD/MBE, Bioethics
JD/MS, Nonprofit Leadership
JD/MSSP, Social Policy
JD/MSW, Social Work (for BSW candidates)
JD/LLM, Hong Kong University
Certificate Programs
Business Economics and Public Policy
Communication and Media Policy
East Asian Studies
Economics Development and Growth
Energy Management and Policy
Environmental Policy
Environmental Science
Experimental Ethnography
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Global Human Rights
Latin American and Latino Studies
Management
Middle East and Islamic Studies
Nonprofit Administration
Nonprofit Leadership
Politics
Public Finance
SCAN Neuroscience
Other Degree Programs
JD/MCIT, Computing and Information Technology
JD/MCP, City and Regional Planning
JD/MPA, Public Administration
JD/MPH, Public Health Studies
JD/MES, Environmental Studies
JD/AM, Islamic Studies
JD/MSW, Social Work
JD/MBA, Business Administration
JD/PhD, American Legal History
JD/PhD, Philosophy
JD/BA, JD/BS, University of Pennsylvania
JD/MD, Medicine
JD/DMD, Dentistry
LEADERS IN LAW AND BUSINESS
WHARTON CERTIFICATE IN MANAGEMENT
The course is divided into four modules: Finance and Accounting; Leadership and Organization Design; Strategic Decision-Making and Leadership; and Competitive Advantage: Building a Strong Personal Brand.
Designed exclusively for Law School students and taught by Wharton faculty, the certificate complements and strengthens the practical training Penn Carey Law students receive as part of a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary legal education. The managerial and leadership skills taught in the course build upon Penn Carey Law students’ extensive practice skills, developed in the Law School’s many clinics, externship programs, and pro bono service opportunities and honed through the Center on Professionalism.
FRANCIS J. & WILLIAM POLK CAREY JD/MBA
Students spend their first year at the Law School and the following summer in Law and Wharton courses designed specifically for the Carey JD/MBA Program. The second and third years include a combination of Law and Wharton courses, along with the JD/MBA capstone course in the third year.
Advancing Law and Technology
KELSEY MATEVISH C’14, W’14, MCIT’19, L’19
CHRISTINA CHEN MCIT’19, L’20
Professionals
All OCS counselors are experienced in coaching students, whatever their career interests. Each counselor also draws from a significant background as a legal practitioner and offers specialized expertise including cross-disciplinary, international, public sector (government and non-profit), private sector, academia, and judicial clerkships. Our counselors are knowledgeable about the exceptional Penn Carey Law programs that support these careers, as well as the related job markets.
Ava K. Mehta L’21
Careers: By the Numbers
Employment Statistics
Employment Locations
Public Sector Careers
Students come to us to pursue careers dedicated entirely to the public sector or to explore ways in which they can incorporate public interest work into their careers. OCS has two counselors dedicated to supporting students who seek public sector employment. We also offer programs to support the public sector job search, including networking opportunities with public sector lawyers and intensive fellowship application support.
Summer Employment Funding
With financial support from work-study programs, grants, and fellowships, each summer about 200 students pursue a wide variety of summer employment opportunities with courts, government agencies, and public interest organizations around the country.
International fellowship and internship programs support students working in a variety of human rights organizations and governmental and non-governmental agencies around the world.
As a result, Penn Carey Law students spend their 1L and 2L summers all over the country and the world. They secure placements in federal, state, and local government offices, and legal aid, public policy, and impact litigation organizations.
The Center on Professionalism
COP prepares Penn Carey Law students to succeed as professionals, in law school and beyond, by offering an innovative and rigorous professionalism curriculum. COP’s programs advance students’ development of the mindsets, personal and professional management skills, technological competencies, listening skills, and emotional intelligence tools that enable modern leaders to thrive, adapt, and achieve lasting success.
Some of COP’s programs include:
- 1L professionalism cohorts, in which Penn Carey Law students learn from inspiring experts about fundamental professionalism skills.
- Executive and virtual communication coaching sessions.
- Training in the technologies and applications lawyers most commonly use, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe.
- A Project Management for Student Leaders Bootcamp, in coordination with Student Affairs, as well as programs about Time Management.
- The First Generation Professionals (FGP) Fellowship. This programmatic fellowship, available to selected Fellows, provides a unique connection to a mentor, one-on-one coaching opportunities, and private meet-and-greets with on-campus speakers and other legal professionals.
COP’s virtual programs are hosted and retained in an exclusive online platform, available only to Penn Carey Law students. There, past and present COP programs, including its collaborations with other departments, are stored and are available for repeat viewings.
Judicial Clerkships
Many Penn Carey Law graduates begin their careers as law clerks in the chambers of judges around the country. With clerkship counseling and support from OCS and the faculty clerkship committee, almost 400 students and alumni in recent years secured clerkships at all levels of the judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Many of our faculty members have held prestigious clerkships, and they — along with OCS’s clerkship counselor — advise and guide students as they move through the application process. Penn Carey Law’s careers office also offers extensive programming on the value of clerking, and clerkship applicants are supported by a network of former clerks, alumni judges, and faculty members committed to the success of our students and alumni.
Louis J. Capozzi III C’16, L’19
Law Clerk to Judge Anthony Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2019-2020);
Law Clerk to J. Harvie Wilkinson III , U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2020-2021);
Law Clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch, U.S. Supreme Court (2021- )
“Penn Carey Law has given me incredible opportunities. I have taken four classes with federal appellate judges, traveled around the world with Professor Christopher Yoo, written an article on personal jurisdiction under the supervision of Professor Stephen Burbank, conducted research on the right to counsel under the supervision of Judge Stephanos Bibas, and helped teach a constitutional law class with Dean Ted Ruger. These experiences have prepared and inspired me to embrace future challenges and opportunities.”
Faculty
Academic Centers and Institutes
Center for Asian Law
Center for Tax Law & Policy
Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
Criminal Law Research Group
Institute for Law & Economics
Institute for Law & Philosophy
Legal History Consortium
Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law
Penn Program on Regulation
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
Kristin DeWilde L’20
Focus on
Cross-Cutting Research
Dorothy Roberts
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Focus On
Global Engagement
Beth Simmons
Eric A. Feldman
Focus On
Policy
Christopher Yoo
Cary Coglianese
Teaching Law Firm
Our clinics are specially designed to help students develop core lawyering competencies and foster professional identities. They offer challenging experiential learning opportunities in litigation, business transactions, child advocacy, mediation, legislation, interdisciplinary practice, international lawyering, appellate lawyering, and IP and technology law.
Mary Felder L’21
Appellate Advocacy Clinic
Civil Practice Clinic
Recently:
The Clinic successfully represented elderly clients and veterans who had lived in their homes for many years but did not have legal title. In these cases, student teams filed actions to quiet title through adverse possession in state court, and, after detailed pre-trial filings and evidentiary hearings, they won legal title for their low-income clients. The hearings were held in the same City Hall courtroom that was used to film the movie “Philadelphia.”
Criminal Defense Clinic
Recently:
They conducted initial interviews of dozens of Defender clients in felony and misdemeanor cases.
They successfully litigated motions to suppress physical evidence and for dismissal of cases based on excessive pre-hearing delay and discovery violations.
They prepared writs of certiorari and motions to quash to the Court of Common Pleas.
They received trainings in a variety of topics, including immigration law, appellate practice, and the use of expert testimony in narcotics cases.
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Recently:
They advised on copyright and trademark for an author and illustrator of a series of children’s books and for another nonprofit delivering educational programming to Haitian schoolchildren.
They developed a protection strategy for the processes and sculptures of a women-owned glassblowing studio upcycling recycled glass.
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Recently:
They counseled a trade association of mobile food vendors about how to navigate and advocate for better City regulations for this industry.
And they represented a fashion business founded by a Black female entrepreneur trying to overcome barriers to raising capital and scaling her business to compete with mainstream brands.
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
As a member of the Family Justice Partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Community Legal Services, the clinic provided legal services to address the social determinants of health for children and families in Philadelphia. Students helped staff an onsite utility clinic to assist low-income families with applying for assistance with their gas, water, and electricity bills.
As part of the clinic’s work with immigrant families, students successfully represented parents and relatives seeking to gain custody of children who have been abused or neglected in their home country. Additionally, students developed a legal training on custodial decision-making for noncitizen parents fearful of deportation and detention. Partnering with community-based organizations, students presented at local community centers and churches and conducted individual meetings with participants.
Legislative Clinic
Recently:
A student attached to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s office focused deeply on antitrust and price-fixing issues, conducting research and writing and developing policy positions related to proposed health insurance mergers and airline surcharges.
Another student interning in the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings’ office conducted research on obtaining increased funding for a historically Black college, helped arrange witnesses for a legislative hearing on a pending witness protection bill, and attended briefings on prison healthcare reform.
A student interested in state legislative affairs chose to work with a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, for whom she conducted extensive research and analysis on redistricting reform and drafted a comprehensive redistricting bill.
Another student worked closely with a Philadelphia City Councilmember on critical local issues such as affordable housing, community land trusts, and gun violence.
Mediation Clinic
Recently:
Students mediated Hague Convention international child abduction disputes on referral from the U.S. State Department. Students worked on a matter that involved a six-year-old child allegedly kidnapped to the Midwestern United States from Europe.
Transnational Legal Clinic
Recently:
Students have submitted urgent action communications to U.N. human rights bodies to address egregious violations against immigrants held in detention centers in Georgia. They participated in litigation at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on abuses against unaccompanied children held in immigrant detention and on a case seeking termination of the “Stay in Mexico” program. Students drafted amicus briefs addressing international human rights law specific to arbitrary and prolonged detention in cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Ninth Circuits. Looking beyond the U.S. borders, students have aided advocates in Nepal to advance the rights of the country’s migrant workers, pursuing law reform and other initiatives as Nepal transitions to a new constitution and a federal system of government.
Students have traveled to El Paso, TX; Lumpkin, GA; Leesport, PA; and Tijuana, Mexico, to provide pro bono support to asylum seekers through faculty-supervised service immersion weeks.
Study and
Practice
Academic Support
In the fall term of your 1L year, you’ll be invited to attend a series of lectures; topics include notetaking, outlining, essay writing, exam study techniques, and more.
In the spring term of your 1L year, you can meet with the Academic Support staff to discuss a personalized support plan, catered to your individual needs.
After your 1L year, academic support continues to be available to help you succeed in your studies at the Law School.
A directory of online resources is available at:
https://www.law.upenn.edu/academics/support/
These include:
- Resources for how to read judicial opinions
- Information about how to write an effective exam answer
- Resources on class notetaking
You’ll also find a repository of helpful lectures on a range of topics that you can use at any time.
Legal Practice Skills
In Legal Practice Skills, you will also practice communicating formally, in legal documents and oral arguments, and informally, as all lawyers do on a daily basis, through email and in face-to-face meetings. Through a series of exercises designed to simulate actual law practice, Legal Practice Skills also exposes you to a range of other practice skills, including negotiations, contract drafting, effective oral advice techniques, client interviewing, and other skills.
The course urges students to think broadly about how different assignments and tasks fit together and how they contribute to the ultimate goal of representing a client. Through this interactive and hands-on class, students are able to engage in deep analysis, advocacy, and problem-solving and put their developing lawyering skills to practice.
Internationally
Engaged
Study Abroad
PARTNERSHIPS FOR SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
Tsinghua University (Beijing)
Waseda Univerity (Japan)
YEAR-LONG DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS ABROAD
Sciences Po (France), Masters in Economic Law
Sciences Po (France), Master of Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement (LLM)
Summer Internships Abroad
GLOBAL LEGAL PRACTICE FELLOWSHIPS (GLPF)
GLOBAL JUSTICE FELLOWSHIPS (GLPF)
Other Programs Abroad
Global Research Seminar (GRS)
STUDENT-LED TRIPS
Global Coursework
INTERNATIONAL LAW COURSES
Or gain practical international experience through our Transnational Legal Clinic and externships.
BOK COURSES
JOINT DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES
Public Service
All students perform at least 70 hours of pro bono legal service before they graduate, and close to 90 percent exceed that requirement. TPIC ensures that students receive strong training, excellent supervision, and meaningful opportunities to make a positive impact locally, nationally, and globally. It’s a win-win: Students gain hands-on experience as early as their first semester of law school while helping non-profits and government agencies serve underrepresented causes and communities.
From public interest overnight retreats to alumni dinners in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, TPIC facilitates strong community connections at Penn Carey Law and across the U.S. thanks to a vibrant alumni network. TPIC partners with OCS, faculty, and alumni to offer unparalleled support for students committed to pursuing careers in the public interest. Generous funding for summer internships, postgraduate fellowships, and loan repayment helps students and graduates realize their goals.
Through the Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative, TPIC delivers wide-ranging programs that connect students to legislators, government attorneys, and policy makers.
Thanks to a monumental gift from the Robert and Jane Toll Foundation, Penn Carey Law offers greatly expanded tuition scholarship opportunities for public interest students and provides a wide array of justice and equity programs and service-oriented leadership training for all law students.
Whatever your path or passion, TPIC prepares you to experience the power of public service throughout your career.
2020-2021 academic year
environment to immigration
Sherrod Smith L’22
Catherine Kearney C’12, L’22
PRO BONO PROJECTS
SUPPORTING STUDENT ADVOCACY
Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Animal Law Project (ALP)
Environmental Law Project (ELP)
Civil & Political Rights
Democracy Law Project (DLP)
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
Trans Empowerment & Advocacy Project (TEA)
Criminal Justice
Criminal Record Expungement Project (C-REP)
Penn Carey Law Innocence Project
Pardon Project
Prison Legal Education Project
Youth Advocacy Project (YAP)
Domenic Powell L’20
Economic Justice
Employment Advocacy Project (EAP)
Financial Literacy Project (FLP)
Health Law & Policy Project (HeLPP)
Penn Housing Rights Project (PHRP)
Penn Carey Law’s Walk-In Legal Assistance (WILA)
Education
Youth Education Partnership (YEP)
Global
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Penn Carey Law Immigrant Rights Project (PLIRP)
A TRANSFORMATIVE GIFT
TOLL PUBLIC INTEREST SCHOLARS
TOLL PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWS
PIE AMBASSADORS
The Public Interest Network
Colleagues for Life
To continue the work of empowering low-wage workers who experience sexual violence, Alemzadeh co-founded HEALING TO ACTION, a non-profit that is using an innovative, survivor-centered community organizing model to end gender-based violence by building the leadership and collective power of the communities most impacted. Through it all, Alemzadeh says, the Penn Carey Law network has supported her work in instrumental ways.
Whether it’s talking through a program strategy, donating to our fundraiser, or giving me a pep talk when work is really demanding, I’ve gained so much strength from my alumni network,” she said. “I am so grateful for how my friends at Penn Carey Law champion my work and are so supportive of approaching legal systems and injustice in creative and unconventional ways.”
Penn Carey Law’s robust public interest network contains many others who also focus their work on fighting for justice in employment, including Nina Martinez L’15. As a Skadden Fellow at the NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP, Martinez developed the Employment Mediation Project, which provided mediation services and advocacy to low-income workers embroiled in employment disputes. Today, Martinez is an associate at leading plaintiff-side employment litigation firm OUTTEN AND GOLDEN LLP, where she focuses her practice on class actions.
“The Penn Carey Law network was an incredible source of support as I endeavored to build my career as a public interest attorney,” said Martinez. “Both during law school and after I entered the workforce, TPIC staff provided meaningful guidance, working with me to explore my career aspirations and discuss concrete strategies.”
Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative
Summer Fellowships
Policy Research Seminars
Policy Fellows
Career Support
Externship Travel
Postgraduate Fellowships
George Meggali L’19
Washington, DC
Frank Broomell L’19
Washington, DC
A Lasting Commitment to
Public Service Careers
TOLL PUBLIC INTEREST SCHOLARS AND FELLOWS PROGRAMS
Guaranteed Summer Funding for Public Sector Internships
Each year, close to 200 students take advantage of this opportunity. Over the last 10 years, the Law School’s guaranteed summer funding has supported substantive legal work done by students locally, nationally, and globally in over 1,600 unpaid public interest and government placements.
Postgraduate Fellowships
Recent host organizations have included:
- Community Legal Services, Philadelphia, PA
- Human Rights First, New York, NY
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Tacoma, WA
- Earthjustice, San Francisco, CA
- Cook County Public Defender’s Office, Chicago, IL
- National Health Law Program, Washington, DC
Toll Loan Repayment Assistance Program
Career Support
SERVICE ACROSS SECTORS
“Public service is part of my daily life,” she said. “Thanks to the guidance and support of Penn Carey Law faculty and staff, I’m proud to say that I’m a public interest attorney, fighting for social justice the way I’d always envisioned.”
Community
Cohorts
But your Legal Practice Skills course isn’t just an introduction to the profession of lawyering, it’s an introduction to life at Penn Carey Law. As part of the curriculum, you’ll be assigned to a cohort of 12 to 15 students who will share the same schedule of classes as you, participate in professionalism programming with you, and become your close colleagues as you progress through your first year. Your cohort is there to offer you support, advice, and community.
Inclusive Excellence
For example, E&I has launched a Law and Inequality series. This series highlights work that advances equity and the law. The series, which begins at Orientation, features Law School faculty and alumni in conversation with student moderators on the substantive law and practice skills essential for effective advocacy on critical topics.
Students can get involved by applying to join E&I’s Student Advisory Board (SAB). Members of the SAB help advise E&I on programs and community-related matters to ensure that they meaningfully promote diversity, equity, and inclusion at Penn Carey Law, in the profession, and in our world.
Philadelphia
We are a “City of Neighborhoods”
University City
ON-CAMPUS
Sansom Place is located at 36th and Chestnut Streets, just one block from the Law School. Sansom Place includes one-bedroom apartments, two-bedroom apartments, triple-bedroom apartments, and single rooms with a shared bathroom. All units are furnished.
OFF-CAMPUS
As you get started, it’s best to have a sense of which of Philly’s neighborhoods best suits your needs. If you can, visit and check out the areas for yourself.
Housing Search tools
Office of Off-Campus Services
The University of Pennsylvania Office of Off-Campus Services at 3702 Spruce Street will assist you at all stages of your off-campus living experience, from locating suitable housing, to finding roommates, to reviewing leases and assisting in landlord-tenant matters. You can access all of the office’s information, including an interactive housing search tool, online at www.upenn.edu/offcampusservices.
When you are in town, you can use the office as your base for your housing search. The user-friendly office has computer terminals for your searches and telephones to call and set up appointments.
AVAILABLE SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Interactive database of available rentals, updated daily, with several hundred available units at any given time. Listings include individual rental units (studios, one-, two-, three or more-bedroom apartments, and houses) furnished or unfurnished, as well as house share and sublet opportunities. Most of the rental listings are for University City and Center City areas. Suburban listings are also available. Available units can be either in high-rise or other types of apartment buildings, in converted University City Victorian homes, or Center City brownstones. You can run a customized search at www.upenn.edu/offcampusservices.
- If you are looking for a roommate, whether you already have a place or not, you can use the roommate search service to reach out to other graduate students who are also looking to share an apartment.
- The office maintains lists of apartment buildings and landlords/realtors for the main areas of the city, with contact information for each and links to websites, if available.
- The office organizes an annual rental housing fair every spring, at which time students can become familiar with the many housing options available, meet landlords, tour properties, and make informed decisions about housing.
- Consumer information about leases, landlord tenant law, housing code requirements, utilities, apartment rental costs, budgeting, safety, renter’s insurance, daycare and schools, transportation, temporary housing, finances, etc., is available in the office. All this information is also available online, under different menu options.
- The office reviews leases and offers counseling to tenants who have lease questions or are involved in landlord/tenant disputes.
- University of Pennsylvania students have access to University subsidized legal assistance in landlord and tenant matters. A referral from Office of Off-Campus Services must first be obtained.
www.upenn.edu/offcampusservices | 215.898.8500 | ocliving@exchange.upenn.edu
Housing Search tools
Office of Off-Campus Services
When you are in town, you can use the office as your base for your housing search. The user-friendly office has computer terminals for your searches and telephones to call and set up appointments.
AVAILABLE SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Interactive database of available rentals, updated daily, with several hundred available units at any given time. Listings include individual rental units (studios, one-, two-, three or more-bedroom apartments, and houses) furnished or unfurnished, as well as house share and sublet opportunities. Most of the rental listings are for University City and Center City areas. Suburban listings are also available. Available units can be either in high-rise or other types of apartment buildings, in converted University City Victorian homes, or Center City brownstones. You can run a customized search at www.upenn.edu/offcampusservices.
- If you are looking for a roommate, whether you already have a place or not, you can use the roommate search service to reach out to other graduate students who are also looking to share an apartment.
- The office maintains lists of apartment buildings and landlords/realtors for the main areas of the city, with contact information for each and links to websites, if available.
- The office organizes an annual rental housing fair every spring, at which time students can become familiar with the many housing options available, meet landlords, tour properties, and make informed decisions about housing.
- Consumer information about leases, landlord tenant law, housing code requirements, utilities, apartment rental costs, budgeting, safety, renter’s insurance, daycare and schools, transportation, temporary housing, finances, etc., is available in the office. All this information is also available online, under different menu options.
- The office reviews leases and offers counseling to tenants who have lease questions or are involved in landlord/tenant disputes.
- University of Pennsylvania students have access to University subsidized legal assistance in landlord and tenant matters. A referral from Office of Off-Campus Services must first be obtained.
www.upenn.edu/offcampusservices | 215.898.8500 | ocliving@exchange.upenn.edu
FIND TIME TO GO OUT AND
ENJOY PHILLY
PHILADELPHIA IS ALSO A GREAT PLACE TO PLAY
Philadelphia is one of the world’s most exciting cities — which may be why National Geographic named Philadelphia the “Next Great City” in the past and one of the best trips to take in 2021. Whether you’re here for just three years or for your entire life, make sure to take advantage of everything the city has to offer.
GETTING AROUND
Walking
Biking
The larger streets in Philadelphia have good, spacious bike lanes, and many Penn Carey Law students take advantage. One piece of indispensable advice: you need a high quality U-lock to protect your bike and a helmet, too! In September 2009, the City launched an “expressway” for bicyclists from river to river, eastbound on Pine Street and westbound on Spruce Street. (We’re only four blocks from the Schuylkill River.)
In Spring 2015, the city of Philadelphia launched a bike share program called Indego Bike Share. It is an inexpensive and convenient way to get around the city. Visit http://www.rideindego.com for further information.
You can also register your bike with Penn Police which will increase the chances of recovery should your bike ever be lost or stolen (https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/safety-initiatives/property-registration-2/).
Cabs
Subway/Trolley
Most students who ride the subway take the Blue Line (also known as the Market Frankford line, MFL, or just the El), which runs east-west (all the way from beyond 2nd & Market to 69th & Market). During rush hour, there’s a train every five minutes or so. At other times, the intervals range up to 10–15 minutes between trains.
Trolleys go right to 36th & Sansom Street. They are small — almost bus-like — and you must board the trolley immediately or they will take off without you.
Each ride costs a flat fee of $2.50 (if you pay by cash) or $2.00 (if you buy a Septa Key Card and add money to the Travel Wallet ahead of time). A weekly transpass costs $25.50, and a monthly costs $96. Alternatively, Penn students can also purchase a Penn Pass that’s good on SEPTA subway/trolley/buses for one semester, which gives unlimited rides within the City of Philadelphia as well as rides on the R1 line to the airport.
For more information about public transportation, see http://www.septa.org/.
Bus
Car-Sharing Services
See https://www.enterprise.com/en/home.html.
See also http://www.zipcar.com/.
Penn Shuttle Services (FREE!)
Penn Bus Services (FREE!)
LUCY (FREE!)
Trips out of town
Amtrak:
Only four blocks away at 30th Street, trains run on a regular basis. New York City is only one hour and 20 minutes away and Washington, D.C., is two hours away.
Philadelphia Boltbus and Megabus:
Greyhound:
Septa Commuter Trains:
Patco:
Health and Wellness
Where can I work out?
GYMS
Fox Fitness is at 219 S. 33rd Street and contains a fitness center, squash courts, and lockers.
More details about amenities, classes, and memberships are available at https://recreation.upenn.edu/.
Tennis and squash courts
Located at 3701 Walnut Street in Penn Park, Hamlin Tennis Courts are open daily and have great views of the city.
Penn Squash Center is at 219 S. 33rd Street, across from Penn Park. These courts are run separately from the gym and fitness complex and require separate membership; details can be found at https://pennracquetsports.com/
Outdoor running and biking
For more information about public parks and outdoor spaces, including the Schuylkill River Trail, visit https://www.visitphilly.com.
Student fitness groups
Are there wellness programs?
University services
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
Student Health Services
Law School services
Mental Health
Wellness Programming
The Clinton/Parker Wellness Suite
The Clinton/Parker Wellness Suite is named after two beloved members of the Penn Carey Law community who made student well-being the cornerstone of their work in the Law School. In 2017, the Dean of Students, Gary Clinton, was due to retire and the graduating JD class wanted to pay homage to him by naming the Wellness Suite after him. That same year, when the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Matthew Parker L’00 EdD’15 passed away, the LLM Class took up a contribution to add his name to the suite. The Clinton/Parker Wellness Suite recognizes the energy Clinton and Parker dedicated to student welfare by providing a space for students to give attention to their own well-being. You will find the Clinton/Parker Wellness Suite on the Law School campus in the Silverman Ground Floor.
JD Curriculum
COURSE LISTING
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND Regulatory Law
Administrative Advocacy
Administrative Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antitrust
Antitrust: Mergers, IP, and Vertical Restraints
Artificial Intelligence Law
Bankruptcy
Civil Practice Clinic
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Litigation
Disability Justice
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Energy Law and Climate Change
Environmental Law
Financial Regulation
First Amendment in the 21st Century
Gaming Law
Health Care Fraud: Investigation and Prosecution
Health Law and Policy
Immigration Law
International Trade Regulation
Internet Law
Intro to Law and Economics
Labor Law
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Society in Japan
Local Government Law
Money Laundering
Non-Profit Organizations Law, Governance, and Ethics
Pharmaceutical Regulation and Enforcement
Public Corruption and the Law
Refugee Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
SEC Enforcement
Securities Regulation: Law and Policy Seminar
Sports as Legal Systems
Torts
BUSINESS AND transactional law
Advanced Legal Research II: Transactional Corporate
Advanced Fundamentals for Corporate Lawyers
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antitrust
Bank Risk Management
Bankruptcy
Bok Course: Corporate Scandals
Broker-Dealer Law
Business Management
Bok Course: The Export of UCC Article 9
Commercial Finance
Commercial Litigation Strategy
Community and Economic Development
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Law
Contract Drafting
Contracts
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Corporate and M&A Litigation
Corporate Restructuring
Corporate Taxation
Corporations
Cross-Border M&A
Creative Disruption: Harnessing Entrepreneurship
Crisis Management
Deals: Economic Structure of Transactions & Contracting
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Economic and Behavioral Analysis of Contract Law
Empirical Approaches to Contract Law
Entertainment Law
Entertainment Law Transactions
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Fashion Law
Federal Income Tax
Finance, Economics, and the Law of Fiscal Crises
FinTech Challenge
Financial Regulation
History and Theory of Contract Law
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Insurance Law and Policy
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
International Bankruptcy
International Business Negotiations
International Business Transactions
International Law
Islamic Finance
Land Use Law
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Economics
Legal Drafting for Investment Management
M&A Bootcamp
M&A Litigation Seminar
M&A Through the Business Cycle
Mergers and Acquisitions
Money Laundering
Negotiations and Drafting in the Entertainment Business
Partnership Tax
Private Investment Funds
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Transactions
Regulatory Law and Policy
SEC Enforcement
Securities Bootcamp
Securities Regulation: Law and Policy
Shareholder Activism
Strategic Equity
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Structured Finance and Securitization
Topics in Law and Finance
Trade Secrets
Transactional Approach to M&A
Transactional Drafting
Transactional Drafting Bootcamp
Transactional Practice: Joint Ventures
VC Bootcamp
White Collar Crime
Clinical, Practitioner Skills, and Externships
Advanced Legal Research II: Human Rights
Advanced Legal Research II: International
Advanced Legal Research II: Litigation Research
Advanced Legal Research II: Transactional Corporate
Advanced Persuasive Legal Writing
Advanced Writing: Federal Litigation
Appellate Advocacy
Appellate Advocacy Clinic
Army War College: International Strategic Negotiations
Business Management for Lawyers
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Contract Drafting
Criminal Defense Clinic
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Externship: Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania
Externship: City of Philadelphia Law Department
Externship: Community Legal Services
Externship: Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance
Externship: Conviction Integrity Unit
Externship: District Attorney’s Office – Philadelphia
Externship: Environmental Protection Agency
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Externship: Federal Defender Death Penalty & Trial Unit
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
Externship: Penn Office of Audit, Compliance, & Privacy
Externship: Pennsylvania Innocence Project
Externship: Philadelphia Legal Assistance Unemployment Compensation Unit
Externship: Public Interest Law Center
Externship: Senior Law Center
Externship: U.S. Attorney’s Office – Civil and Criminal Division
Externship: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Externship: Women’s Law Project
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Innovation in Practice
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Keedy Cup Preliminaries
Legal Communication Workshop
Legal Interviewing and Client Counseling
Legislative Clinic
Mediation Clinic
Mediation Theory and Skills
Negotiations Bootcamp
Oral Advocacy
Public Speaking for Lawyers
Remedies
Research in Foreign and International Law
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Thinking Like a Litigator
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
Trial Advocacy
Venture Capitol Bootcamp
Writing for Practice
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Civil Rights, and civil liberties
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antidicrimination Law
Appellate Advocacy
Church and State
Community and Economic Development
Comparative Constitutional Law
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Constitutional Interpretation
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Litigation
Conviction Integrity: Errors in Criminal Justice
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Disability Justice
Discrimination in Education
Election Law
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Federal Courts
Federal Habeas Corpus
Federal Indian Law
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
First Amendment
Framing of the Constitution
Freedom Suits in Free States: Pennsylvania
Higher Education Law and Policy
History of Privacy and the Law
Immigration Law
Judicial Decision-Making
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Sexuality
Law and Society in Japan
Local Government Law
Mental Health Law
National Security Law
Political Authority and Political Obligation
Political Philosophy of the Founders
Public Corruption and the Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Right of Publicity
Right to Counsel
State Constitutional Law
Social Media Law
Thinking Like a Litigator
Topics in Defamation
Voting Rights Seminar
Courts and the Administration of Justice
Advanced Legal Research II: Litigation Research
Advanced Writing & Practice: Federal Civil Litigation
Advanced Problems in Federal Procedure
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antidiscrimination Law
Appellate Advocacy
Bankruptcy
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Civil Procedure
Commercial Finance
Complex Litigation
Conservative Political and Legal Thought
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Constitutional Litigation
Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure: Prosecution and Adjudication
Cybercrime
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice Discrimination in Education
Evidence
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Externship: Federal Defender Death Penalty
Externship: U.S. Attorney’s Office – Civil and Criminal Division
Federal Courts
Federal Indian Law
Federal Prosecution in Practice
Insurance Law and Policy
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Business Transactions
International Law
Judicial Clerkship Seminar
Judicial Decision-Making
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Law Reform Litigation
Law and Society in Japan
Legislation
Legislative Clinic
Litigation for Social Change
Private Action: Antitrust, RICO, & the Class Action
Recurring Issues in Complex Litigation
Refugee Law
Remedies
Remedies and Litigation Strategy
Right to Counsel
SEC Enforcement
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Tort Theory
Torts
Transnational Governance of Courts
Transnational Legal Clinic
Trial Advocacy
Criminal Law and Procedure
Appellate Advocacy
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Conviction Integrity
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Corruption, Fraud, and Corporate Crimes
Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Law
Criminal Law Foundations and Policy
Criminal Law Theory Seminar
Criminal Law Theory Seminar
Cybercrime
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Development and Diversity of American Criminal Law
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Evidence
Externship: District Attorney’s Office – Philadelphia
Externship: Women’s Law Project
Federal Prosecution in Practice
Freedom, Responsibility and Neuroscience
General Counsel
Health Care Fraud: Investigation and Prosecution
Intro to Law and Economics
Investigating and Prosecuting National Security Matters
Judicial Clerkship Seminar
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Money Laundering
National Security Law
Policing and Policy Reform in the 21st Century
Public Corruption and the Law
Right to Counsel
Sentencing
Trade Secrets
Visual Legal Advocacy
White Collar Crime
Employment Law and Employee Benefits
Analytical Methods
Employee Benefits
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Federal Income Taxation
Feminist Legal Advocacy in 20th Century
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Intro to Law and Economics
Labor Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Social Media Law
Trade Secrets
Workplace Equality
Environmental and Natural Resource Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Climate Change and the Energy Evolution
Energy Law and Climate Change
Environmental Law
Intro to Law and Economics
Land Use Law
Law and Society in Japan
Oil and Gas Law
Public Corporation Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Initiatives
Regulatory Law and Policy
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Disability Law
Discrimination in Education
Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Employment Discrimination
Equity & Justice Lab: Public Interest Capstone
Family Law
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
Gender and the Law
Immigration Law
Intro to U.S. Privacy Law: the Lens of Race
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Inequality
Law and Sexuality
Law, Technology, and Access to Justice
Torts
Leading Social Change
Litigation for Social Change
Local Government Law
Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Women, Law, and Leadership
Workplace Equality
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Inequality
Law and Sexuality
Law, Technology, and Access to Justice
Leading Social Change
Litigation for Social Change
Local Government Law
Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Workplace Equality
Family Law
Anatomy of a Divorce
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
Family Law
Federal Income Taxation
Feminist Legal Advocacy in 20th Century
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Law and Family
Intro to Law and Economics
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Health Law
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Comparative Health Systems and Law
Disability Justice
Drug Product Liability Litigation
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
FDA Law and Policy
Federal Income Taxation
Freedom, Responsibility, and Neuroscience
Health Care Financing
Health Law and Policy
Health Policy Regulation and Reform
Insurance Law and Policy
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Mental Health Law
Patent Law
Pharmaceutical Regulation and Enforcement
Plagues, Pandemics, and Public Health
Regulatory Law and Policy
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Torts
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Advanced Topics in Technology and Policy
Analytical Methods
Artificial Intelligence Law
Blockchain and the Law
Copyright
Cultural Heritage & the Law
Cybercrime
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Entertainment Law
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Fashion Law
FinTech Challenge
First Amendment in the 21st Century
GRS: Robot Revolution: Legal, Ethical and Policy Challenges of Robotics in the US and Japan
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
Intellectual Property Transactions
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value
Intellectual Property Scholarship
International Business Transactions
Internet Law
Intro to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Law of Autonomous Vehicles
Law, Technology, and Access to Justice
Lawyering and Technology
Patent Law
Patent Law – Appellate Advocacy
Patent Litigation
Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias
Privacy
Regulatory Law and Policy
Social Media Law
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Trade Secrets
Trademarks
International Corporate and Trade Law
Analytical Methods
China and International Law
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Cross-Border M&A
European Union Law
Federal Income Taxation
History of International Investment Law
International Business Negotiations
International Law
International Trade Regulation
Intro to Law and Economics
Litigation for Social Change
Refugee Law
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
International Law, Human Rights, and Immigration
Advanced Legal Research II: International
Army War College: International Strategic Negotiations
Bok Course: International Criminal Court and Africa
Bok Course: China and International Law
Bok Course: International Law and Pandemics
Borders and Boundaries in International Relations
Chinese Law
Comparative Law: Intro to the Civil Law Systems
Crimmigration
European Union Law
Foreign Affairs, Law, and the Executive Branch
Immigration Federalism
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
Intelligence Law Seminar
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Arbitration
International Human Rights and National Security
International Human Rights: Current Topics
International Investment Arbitration
International Law
International Law and International Relations
International Privacy Law
International Trade Regulation
International Women’s Rights
Islamic Finance
Jewish Law
Law and Morality of War
Law and Society in Japan
Litigating Across Borders
National Security Law
Refugee Law
Research in Foreign and International Law
Transnational Governance of Courts
Transnational Legal Clinic
Perspectives on the Law
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Appellate Advocacy
Borders and Boundaries in International Relations
Community and Economic Development
Comparative Health Systems and Law
Conservative Political and Legal Thought
Cultural Heritage & the Law
Discrimination in Education
Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Freedom, Responsibility, and Neuroscience
Gender and the Law
History and Theory of Contract Law
History of Privacy and the Law
Immigration Law
Innovation in Practice
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
International Law
International Trade Regulation
Intro to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Intro to Philosophy of Law
Intro to U.S. Privacy Law: the Lens of Race
Jewish Law
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Inequality
Law Firm Management in the New Normal
Law and Society in Japan
Leadership in Law
Legal Logic to Win at Daily Life
Litigation for Social Change
Political Authority and Political Obligation
Political Philosophy of the Founders
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Psychology of Legal Decision-Making
Public Corruption and the Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
SEC Enforcement
Tort Theory
Torts
Trade Secrets
Visual Legal Advocacy
What Perplexes Lawyers and Why
Writing About the Law
Professional Responsibility and Ethics
Appellate Advocacy
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Civil Procedure
Commercial Finance
Contract Drafting
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
E-Discovery
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Ethical Leadership for Lawyers
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Business Transactions
JD/MBA Capstone Seminar
Legislative Clinic
M&A Litigation Seminar
Professional Responsibility for Corporate and Securities Lawyers
Professional Responsibility for Prosecutors and Defenders
Professional Responsibility: Traversing the Ethical Minefield
Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Practice
Public Corruption and the Law
Social Media Law
Thinking Like a Litigator
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
Property and Real Estate Law
Community and Economic Development
Deals: Economic Structure of Transactions & Contracting
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Federal Income Taxation
Intro to Law and Economics
Land Use Law
Local Government Law
Oil and Gas Law
Practice of Land Use Law
Property
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Transactions
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Transactional Law Bootcamp
Public Interest Law
Administrative Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Advanced Torts
Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Constitutional Litigation
Disability Justice
Discrimination in Education
Employment Discrimination
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Equity, Equality, and Inclusion
Externship: Community Legal Services
Externship: Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Immigration Law
International Human Rights Post 9/11
Law and Candidacy
Law Reform Litigation
Legislative Clinic
Local Government Law
Power and Privilege in Public Service
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Public Corruption and the Law
Regulatory Law and Policy Seminar
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Transnational Legal Clinic
Visual Legal Advocacy
Voting Rights Seminar
Tax, Business Planning and Estate Planning
Corporate Taxation
Employee Benefits
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Federal Income Tax
Gift and Estate Tax in Practice
International Bankruptcy
International Business Transactions
International Tax
Intro to Law and Economics
Intro to Partnership Tax
Public Interest Law & Entrepreneurship
Structured Finance and Securitization
Structuring Venture Capital
Tax Policy Seminar
Trusts and Estates
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND Regulatory Law
Administrative Advocacy
Administrative Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antitrust
Antitrust: Mergers, IP, and Vertical Restraints
Artificial Intelligence Law
Bankruptcy
Civil Practice Clinic
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Litigation
Cultural Heritage & the Law
Disability Justice
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Energy Law and Climate Change
Environmental Law
Financial Regulation
First Amendment in the 21st Century
Gaming Law
Health Care Fraud: Investigation and Prosecution
Health Law and Policy
Immigration Law
International Trade Regulation
Internet Law
Intro to Law and Economics
Labor Law
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Society in Japan
Local Government Law
Money Laundering
Non-Profit Organizations Law, Governance, and Ethics
Oil and Gas Law
Pharmaceutical Regulation and Enforcement
Public Corruption and the Law
Refugee Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
SEC Enforcement
Securities Regulation: Law and Policy Seminar
Sports as Legal Systems
Torts
BUSINESS AND transactional law
Advanced Legal Research II: Transactional Corporate
Advanced Fundamentals for Corporate Lawyers
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antitrust
Bank Risk Management
Bankruptcy
Bok Course: Corporate Scandals
Broker-Dealer Law
Business Management
Bok Course: The Export of UCC Article 9
Commercial Finance
Commercial Litigation Strategy
Community and Economic Development
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Law
Contract Drafting
Contracts
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Corporate and M&A Litigation
Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice
Corporate Reorganization
Corporate Restructuring
Corporate Taxation
Corporations
Cross-Border M&A
Creative Disruption: Harnessing Entrepreneurship
Crisis Management
Deals: Economic Structure of Transactions & Contracting
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Economic and Behavioral Analysis of Contract Law
Empirical Approaches to Contract Law
Entertainment Law
Entertainment Law Transactions
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Fashion Law
Federal Income Tax
Finance, Economics, and the Law of Fiscal Crises
FinTech Challenge
Future of Finance
General Counsel
Great Cases in Modern Delaware Corporate Law
History and Theory of Contract Law
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Insurance Law and Policy
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
International Bankruptcy
International Business Negotiations
International Business Transactions
International Law
Islamic Finance
Land Use Law
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Economics
Legal Drafting for Investment Management
M&A Bootcamp
M&A Litigation Seminar
M&A Through the Business Cycle
Mergers and Acquisitions
Money Laundering
Negotiations and Drafting in the Entertainment Business
Negotiations Bootcamp
Partnership Tax
Private Investment Funds
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Transactions
Regulatory Law and Policy
SEC Enforcement
Securities Bootcamp
Securities Regulation: Law and Policy
Shareholder Activism
Strategic Equity
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Structured Finance and Securitization
Topics in Law and Finance
Trade Secrets
Transactional Approach to M&A
Transactional Drafting
Transactional Drafting Bootcamp
Transactional Practice: Joint Ventures
VC Bootcamp
White Collar Crime
Clinical, Practitioner Skills, and Externships
Advanced Legal Research II: Human Rights
Advanced Legal Research II: International
Advanced Legal Research II: Litigation Research
Advanced Legal Research II: Transactional Corporate
Advanced Persuasive Legal Writing
Advanced Writing: Federal Litigation
Appellate Advocacy
Appellate Advocacy Clinic
Army War College: International Strategic Negotiations
Business Management for Lawyers
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Contract Drafting
Criminal Defense Clinic
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Discovery Methods
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Externship: Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania
Externship: City of Philadelphia Law Department
Externship: Community Legal Services
Externship: Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance
Externship: Conviction Integrity Unit
Externship: District Attorney’s Office – Philadelphia
Externship: Environmental Protection Agency
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Externship: Federal Defender Death Penalty & Trial Unit
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
Externship: Penn Office of Audit, Compliance, & Privacy
Externship: Pennsylvania Innocence Project
Externship: Philadelphia Legal Assistance Unemployment Compensation Unit
Externship: Public Interest Law Center
Externship: Senior Law Center
Externship: U.S. Attorney’s Office – Civil and Criminal Division
Externship: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Externship: Women’s Law Project
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Innovation in Practice
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Keedy Cup Preliminaries
Legal Communication Workshop
Legal Interviewing and Client Counseling
Legal Practice Skills
Legislative Clinic
Mediation Clinic
Mediation Theory and Skills
Negotiations Bootcamp
Oral Advocacy
Public Speaking for Lawyers
Remedies
Research in Foreign and International Law
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Thinking Like a Litigator
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
Trial Advocacy
Venture Capitol Bootcamp
Writing for Practice
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Civil Rights, and civil liberties
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Antidicrimination Law
Appellate Advocacy
Church and State
Community and Economic Development
Comparative Constitutional Law
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Constitutional Interpretation
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Litigation
Conviction Integrity: Errors in Criminal Justice
Cybercrime
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Disability Justice
Discrimination in Education
Election Law
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Federal Courts
Federal Habeas Corpus
Federal Indian Law
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
First Amendment
First Amendment in the 21st Century
Freedom Suits in Free States: Pennsylvania
Higher Education Law and Policy
History of Privacy and the Law
Immigration Law
Judicial Decision-Making
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Land Use Law
Law and Candidacy
Law and Sexuality
Law and Society in Japan
Local Government Law
Mental Health Law
National Security Law
Oil and Gas Law
Political Authority and Political Obligation
Political Philosophy of the Founders
Public Corruption and the Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Right of Publicity
Right to Counsel
State Constitutional Law
Social Media Law
Thinking Like a Litigator
Topics in Defamation
Voting Rights Seminar
Courts and the Administration of Justice
Advanced Issues in Private Financing & Corporate & Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Advanced Legal Research II: Litigation Research
Advanced Writing & Practice: Federal Civil Litigation
Advanced Problems in Federal Procedure
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Appellate Advocacy
Bankruptcy
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Civil Procedure
Commercial Finance
Complex Litigation
Conflict of Laws
Conservative Political and Legal Thought
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Constitutional Litigation
Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure: Prosecution and Adjudication
Cybercrime
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice Discrimination in Education
Evidence
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Externship: Federal Defender Death Penalty
Externship: U.S. Attorney’s Office – Civil and Criminal Division
Federal Indian Law
Federal Prosecution in Practice
Insurance Law and Policy
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Business Transactions
International Law
Judicial Clerkship Seminar
Judicial Decision-Making
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Law Reform Litigation
Law and Society in Japan
Legislation
Legislative Clinic
Litigation for Social Change
Mediation Clinic
Private Action: Antitrust, RICO & the Class Action
Recurring Issues in Complex Litigation
Refugee Law
Remedies
Remedies and Litigation Strategy
Right to Counsel
SEC Enforcement
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Tort Theory
Torts
Transnational Governance of Courts
Transnational Legal Clinic
Trial Advocacy
Criminal Law and Procedure
Appellate Advocacy
Consent in Law & Morality
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Conviction Integrity
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Corruption, Fraud, and Corporate Crimes
Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Law
Criminal Law Foundations and Policy
Criminal Law Theory Seminar
Criminal Procedure: Prosecution and Adjudication
Cybercrime
Death Penalty in U.S.: Theory & Practice
Development and Diversity of American Criminal Law
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Evidence
Externship: District Attorney’s Office – Philadelphia
Externship: Women’s Law Project
Federal Prosecution in Practice
Freedom, Responsibility and Neuroscience
General Counsel
Health Care Fraud: Investigation and Prosecution
Intro to Law and Economics
Investigating and Prosecuting National Security Matters
Judicial Clerkship Seminar
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Law of Investigations
Money Laundering
National Security Law
Policing and Policy Reform in the 21st Century
Public Corruption and the Law
Right to Counsel
Sentencing
Trade Secrets
Visual Legal Advocacy
White Collar Crime
Employment Law and Employee Benefits
Analytical Methods
Employee Benefits
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Federal Income Taxation
Feminist Legal Advocacy in 20th Century
In-House Counsel/Corporate Generalist
Intro to Law and Economics
Labor Law
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Social Media Law
Trade Secrets
Workplace Equality
Environmental and Natural Resource Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Climate Change and the Energy Evolution
Energy Law and Climate Change
Environmental Law
Intro to Law and Economics
Land Use Law
Law and Society in Japan
Oil and Gas Law
Public Corporation Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Initiatives
Regulatory Law and Policy
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Disability Law
Discrimination in Education
Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Employment Discrimination
Equity & Justice Lab: Public Interest Capstone
Family Law
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
Gender and the Law
Immigration Law
Intro to U.S. Privacy Law: the Lens of Race
Law and Candidacy
Law and Inequality
Law and Sexuality
Law, Technology, and Access to Justice
Leading Social Change
Litigation for Social Change
Local Government Law
Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Women, Law, and Leadership
Workplace Equality
Family Law
Anatomy of a Divorce
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
Family Law
Federal Income Taxation
Feminist Legal Advocacy in 20th Century
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Law and Family
Intro to Law and Economics
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Health Law
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Comparative Health Systems and Law
Disability Justice
Drug Product Liability Litigation
Empirical Social Science Research and the Law
Externship: Lerner Child Welfare Policy
FDA Law and Policy
Federal Income Taxation
Freedom, Responsibility, and Neuroscience
Health Care Financing
Health Care Fraud: Investigation and Prosecution
Health Policy Regulation and Reform
Insurance Law and Policy
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
Mental Health Law
Patent Law
Pharmaceutical Regulation and Enforcement
Plagues, Pandemics, and Public Health
Regulatory Law and Policy
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Torts
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Advanced Topics in Technology and Policy
Analytical Methods
Artificial Intelligence Law
Blockchain and the Law
Copyright
Cultural Heritage & the Law
Cybercrime
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
Entertainment Law
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Fashion Law
Federal Income Taxation
FinTech Challenge
First Amendment in the 21st Century
GRS: High Tech Nation (Israel)
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
Intellectual Property Transactions
Intellectual Property and National Economic
International Business Transactions
Internet Law
Intro to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Intro to Law and Economics
Law of Autonomous Vehicles
Law, Technology, and Access to Justice
Lawyering and Technology
Patent Law
Patent Law – Appellate Advocacy
Patent Litigation
Policy Lab: AI and Implicit Bias
Privacy
Regulatory Law and Policy
Social Media Law
Strategic Transactions in the Fashion & Retail Industry
Trade Secrets
Trademarks
International Corporate and Trade Law
Analytical Methods
China and International Law
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Cross-Border M&A
European Union Law
Federal Income Taxation
History of International Investment Law
International Bankruptcy
International Business Negotiations
International Law
International Trade Regulation
Intro to Law and Economics
Litigation for Social Change
Refugee Law
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
International Law, Human Rights, and Immigration
Advanced Legal Research II: International
Army War College: International Strategic Negotiations
Bok Course: International Criminal Court and Africa
Bok Course: China and International Law
Bok Course: International Law and Pandemics
Borders and Boundaries in International Relations
Chinese Law
Comparative Corporate Governance
Comparative Law: Intro to the Civil Law Systems
Crimmigration
European Union Law
Foreign Affairs, Law, and the Executive Branch
Immigration Federalism
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
Intelligence Law Seminar
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Business Transactions
International Human Rights and National Security
International Human Rights: Current Topics
International Investment Arbitration
International Law
International Law and International Relations
International Privacy Law
International Trade Regulation
International Women’s Rights
International Women’s Human Rights
Islamic Finance
Jewish Law
Law and Morality of War
Law and Society in Japan
Litigating Across Borders
National Security Law
Refugee Law
Research in Foreign and International Law
Transnational Governance of Courts
Transnational Legal Clinic
Perspectives on the Law
Analytical Methods
Animal Law and Ethics
Appellate Advocacy
Borders and Boundaries in International Relations
Community and Economic Development
Comparative Health Systems and Law
Conservative Political and Legal Thought
Cultural Heritage & the Law
Discrimination in Education
Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
Freedom, Responsibility, and Neuroscience
Gender and the Law
History and Theory of Contract Law
History of Privacy and the Law
Immigration Law
Innovation in Practice
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation
International Law
International Trade Regulation
Intro to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Intro to Law and Economics
Intro to U.S. Privacy Law: the Lens of Race
Jewish Law
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Law and Commerce in American History
Law and Inequality
Law Firm Management in the New Normal
Law and Society in Japan
Leadership in Law
Legal Logic to Win at Daily Life
Litigation for Social Change
Political Authority and Political Obligation
Political Philosophy of the Founders
Positive Psychology in Legal Practice
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Psychology of Legal Decision-Making
Public Corruption and the Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
SEC Enforcement
Tort Theory
Torts
Trade Secrets
Visual Legal Advocacy
What Perplexes Lawyers and Why
Writing About the Law
Professional Responsibility and Ethics
Appellate Advocacy
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Civil Procedure
Commercial Finance
Contract Drafting
Corporate Governance, Ethics, and Compliance
Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
E-Discovery
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Ethical Leadership for Lawyers
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
International Business Transactions
JD/MBA Capstone Seminar
Judicial Clerkship Seminar
M&A Litigation Seminar
Professional Responsibility for Corporate and Securities Lawyers
Professional Responsibility for Prosecutors and Defenders
Professional Responsibility: Traversing the Ethical Minefield
Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Practice
Public Corruption and the Law
Social Media Law
Thinking Like a Litigator
Trade Secrets
Transnational Legal Clinic
Property and Real Estate Law
Community and Economic Development
Deals: Economic Structure of Transactions & Contracting
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Federal Income Taxation
Intro to Law and Economics
Land Use Law
Local Government Law
Oil and Gas Law
Practice of Land Use Law
Property
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Transactions
Regulatory Law and Policy
Remedies
Transactional Law Bootcamp
Public Interest Law
Administrative Law
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy
Advanced Torts
Antidiscrimination Law
Civil Practice Clinic: Fieldwork
Constitutional Litigation
Disability Justice
Discrimination in Education
Employment Discrimination
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Equity, Equality, and Inclusion
Externship: Community Legal Services
Externship: Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance
Externship: Federal Appellate Litigation
Feminist Legal Advocacy in the 20th Century
International Human Rights Post 9/11
Law and Candidacy
Law Reform Litigation
Legislative Clinic
Local Government Law
Power and Privilege in Public Service
Power, Injustice, and Change in America
Public Corruption and the Law
Regulatory Law and Policy Seminar
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Strategic Lawyering for Social Justice
Transnational Legal Clinic
Visual Legal Advocacy
Voting Rights Seminar
Tax, Business Planning and Estate Planning
Corporate Taxation
Employee Benefits
Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic
Federal Income Tax
Gift and Estate Tax in Practice
International Bankruptcy
International Business Transactions
International Tax
Intro to Law and Economics
Intro to Partnership Tax
Public Interest Law & Entrepreneurship
Structured Finance and Securitization
Structuring Venture Capital
Tax Policy Seminar
Trusts and Estates
First-year Curriculum Courses:
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Criminal Law
Torts
Legal Practice Skills (both semesters)
Two electives (Regulatory elective and General elective)
Samples of Recent Regulatory Electives:
Bankruptcy
Consumer Law
International Law
Internet Law
Samples of Recent General Electives:
Introduction to Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Judicial Decision-Making
Property
National Security Law
Reproductive Rights and Justice
Plagues, Pandemics, and Public Health Law
Second- & Third-year Curriculum Requirements:
Senior research and writing project
Professional responsibility course
Public service (70 hours minimum)
6 credits in experiential coursework
Learning Outcomes
Penn Carey Law’s program of legal education, combining our rich, interdisciplinary curriculum, varied co-curricular activities, and pro bono responsibilities, prepares our students for admission to the bar and to serve as effective, ethical, and responsible members of the legal profession. Each student will be able to do the following:
- Demonstrate a core knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law in a number of different subject areas;
- Engage in legal analysis and reasoning, conduct efficient and effective legal research, apply problem-solving skills, and present findings, analyses, and recommendations efficiently and effectively in both written and oral communication;
- Work collaboratively;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of law and the contributions and benefits to legal analysis and problem solving that other disciplines can make;
- Exercise proper professional judgment and fulfill ethical responsibilities to clients, the profession, and society in general; and
- Utilize a range of professional skills that facilitate active, competent, and ethical participation in the legal profession.
Financial Aid
Penn Carey Law offers one of the most generous and comprehensive financial aid programs in the country. Our mission is to help students achieve their educational goals by identifying practical solutions for financing a legal education.
This section contains a summary of our financial aid programs and application process, as well as a checklist to help keep you on track. Make sure that you complete each step by its indicated deadline. We strongly recommend that you complete each step as soon as possible so that you will receive a financial aid decision in a timely fashion.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Bonnie Baber, Associate Director of Financial Aid, at 215-898-7743 or finaid@law.upenn.edu.
We look forward to connecting with you in the near future!
Sincerely,
Assistant Dean for Financial Aid
financial aid opportunities
Merit-Based Awards
Need-Based Financial Aid Application Procedures
Law School Need-Based Grant Applicants
- Submit the 2022–2023 FAFSA to the U.S. Department of Education at https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa. Penn’s Federal School Code is 003378.
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Complete a financial aid application for the fall of 2022 through the CSS Profile Application website: https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/.There is a $24 fee. Need-eligible students who enroll at Penn Carey Law will receive a $24 tuition reimbursement for this fee at the time of matriculation. Penn Carey Law’s CSS Code is 2495.
Note: We strongly recommend providing your social security number (SSN) on the CSS Profile Application. Applications submitted without the SSN can experience significant processing delays.
Instructions and important tips for completing this application can be found at https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/. Please review this information thoroughly before you begin. For CSS Profile support, call 866-881-1167.
- Provide student’s, parents’, and spouse’s (if applicable) 2020 Federal Income Tax Returns & W2 forms (all pages and schedules). We recommend that you keep copies of tax forms for your records.
- Penn Carey Law provides the opportunity to include additional information that is relevant to the analysis of the applicant’s financial circumstances. We recognize that each applicant has a unique set of financial, personal, and economic conditions. We encourage you to complete the special circumstance section in the CSS profile or complete our Special Circumstances Form at https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/11245-special-circ-21-22. Please send the completed form to finaid@law.upenn.edu.
funding your public interest career
- Our public interest counselors guiding students and alumni through applications for postgraduate fellowships and loan repayment assistance. Our counselors also provide comprehensive support and access to resources for securing summer internships and public interest and government employment.
- The Toll Public Interest Center (TPIC), Office of Career Strategy (OCS), and a faculty committee providing consistent support and an unrivaled network for students seeking postgraduate fellowships. This includes personalized assistance during the rigorous application process for national fellowships, as well as postgraduate fellowships sponsored by Penn.
TOLL LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (TolLRAP)
Summer Public Interest Internship Funding Opportunities
Students work with counselors from the Office of Career Strategy and the Toll Public Interest Center to find the right program for their public interest placement and funding needs. Penn Carey Law’s guaranteed summer funding program provides financial support for public interest work in government, legal services, non-profit organizations, and NGOs.
Postgraduate Fellowships
- The Langer, Grogan and Diver Fellowship in Social Justice — Generously funded by Penn Carey Law alumni at Langer, Grogan & Diver P.C., this fellowship is a Delaware Valley-based fellowship that will fund one year of full-time work at a sponsoring public interest organization.
- The Penn Carey Law Public Interest FellowshipS — These fellowships fund one year of full-time work at a national or international sponsoring public interest organization.
- The Toll Public Interest Fellowship — This fellowship funds one year of full-time work at a national or international sponsoring public interest organization.
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review Public Interest Fellowship — This fellowship funds one year of full-time work at a national or international sponsoring public interest organization.
- Penn Carey Law Catalyst Fellowship — This fellowship funds one year of post-graduate volunteer attorney work in government, nonprofit, or international organizations.
In recent years, our graduates have launched their careers through fellowships with a wide range of organizations including the ACLU of Hawaii, the Brennan Center for Justice, the National Women’s Law Center, Earthjustice, Reprieve, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
TOLL PUBLIC INTEREST SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Toll Public Interest Fellows receive a half-tuition scholarship for their second and third years of study at Penn Carey Law. This program also offers a generous stipend of $10,000 for public interest employment for the summer bridging 2L and 3L, plus $10,000 for the summer following graduation. All students are welcome to apply to the Toll Public Interest Fellows Program. Interested students apply and are selected during the summer following their first year of study. Application instructions are sent out in late spring. Fellows are selected on the basis of their demonstrated commitment to public service, their engagement with the Law School’s pro bono and public interest communities during 1L, and their potential for leadership within the legal community.
https://www.law.upenn.edu/publicservice/funding-for-public-service/.
Student Loan Applicants
Financial Aid Application Checklist
- File a 2022-2023 FAFSA at https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsav.
- Include Penn’s Federal School Code: 003378.
- Submit a financial aid application at https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/ using the code 2495.
- Federal Income Tax Returns and W2 Forms: Please submit copies of your, your parents’, and, if applicable, your spouse’s 2020 Tax Returns, all pages and schedules. To expedite processing, attach a Tax I.D. Form to your returns. We prefer electronic copies of your tax forms via online submission at https://www.sfs.upenn.edu/forms/OnlineDocSubmitForm.php. If tax returns were not filed, you still need to submit the Tax I.D. Form and sign the Non-Filer section. If the date of your marriage is prior to June 1, 2022, a copy of your spouse’s 2020 Tax Return is also required. Please submit all corresponding W2 Forms. You can print off a Tax I.D. Form at https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/11113-tax-id-202122.
Notification and Billing Dates
- Incoming students are notified of their financial aid eligibility on a rolling basis beginning March 2022.
- Notification of fall 2022 tuition bills will be sent to your Penn Carey Law email address around July 1st and will be due late July 2022. More information can be found at srfs.upenn.edu/billing-payment.
- Monthly Budgeting Program — Pay educational expenses over five (5) months each term. The deadline to apply is typically in May. Go to srfs.upenn.edu/billing-payment/penn-payment-plan for deadlines and more details.
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