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According to World Health Organization estimates, COVID-19 has killed nearly seven million people worldwide and over one million people in the United States alone. In May of 2021, President Biden ordered a 90-day intelligence review to determine the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. While numerous possible origins were considered, according
The creation and deployment of super soldiers raises serious ethical, legal, and technological questions for military researchers, private contractors, and most of all the soldiers charged with using their newfound powers responsibly. These include: Is the creation of super soldiers in the best interest of U.S. strategic defense, or does it risk worsening a global arms race? To what extent is soldier
In a moderated conversation with CERL's Prof. Claire Finkelstein, Michael W. McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, discussed his book The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution.
In a moderated conversation with CERL's Prof. Claire Finkelstein, award-winning national correspondent for The New York Times David Philipps discussed his book Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs.
CERL hosted Ira Shapiro to discuss his book The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America. Joining the panel were Dr. John Lapinski of the University of Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Vale of IntraFi Network, as panelist and moderator, respectively.
The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Perry World House of the University of Pennsylvania hosted a panel discussion with Mr. Robert Kelner of Covington & Burling LLP, and the CERL Executive Board, Prof. Mary McCord of Georgetown University, and Mr. Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League. The event took place on September 29, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Prof.
The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Perry World House of the University of Pennsylvania hosted a conversation with Secretary Jeh Johnson on September 28, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. CERL's Prof. Claire Finkelstein moderated.
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Secretary Jeh Johnson
Jeh Johnson is a partner in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Twenty-one years after the 9/11 attacks, the Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba remains in operation at an annual cost of $540 million. The delay in shuttering the prison has deferred justice for the families of the 9/11 victims and the detainees alike. A site of torture and degrading treatment of detainees, GTMO continues to tarnish the real and perceived commitment
On April 27, 2022, Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law co-hosted “Reclaiming the Rule of Law: Guantánamo’s Forever Prisoners and the Fate of Liberal Democracy." The event presented new revelations about the origins of America’s post-9/11 torture program and the shocking lawlessness and lapses in professionalism that made it possible.
The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at Penn, together with the Department of Russian and East European Studies of Penn Arts and Sciences, is pleased to host Wojciech Sadurski to discuss his book Poland's Constitutional Breakdown. Prof. Sadurski is the Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney.
Moderating the talk are Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the issuance of Military Commission Order No. 1, which was promulgated by Donald Rumsfeld on March 21, 2002, the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law convened a panel on the failed military commissions process at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO).
The hybrid in-person/virtual panel on March 23, 2022, from 3-4:30pm Eastern Time was moderated by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Steve
A conversation with experts from the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law on the moral, legal, and tactical issues in the war in Ukraine. This event took place on Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 2pm Eastern Time.
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Professor Claire Finkelstein (@COFinkelstein) is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. She is the
National security correspondent and author Spencer Ackerman discusses his book Reign of Terror in conversation with Prof. Claire Finkelstein
This CERL Forum was the culmination of CERL’s blog exploration of the Goldwater Rule and the rule’s controversial place in the psychiatry profession and American society
The campaign and presidency of Donald J. Trump triggered vigorous debate among psychiatrists about the Goldwater Rule. Set by the American Psychiatric Association, the rule prohibits statements by psychiatrists about a public figure’s
