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Penn Carey Law Centers and Institutes records

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Call Number:
BLL.001.002
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
21.00 linear feet (28 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Penn Carey Law Centers and Institutes records, BLL.001.002, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Date:
1983-2022 (inclusive)
Creator:
University of Pennsylvania. Law School and Biddle Collections
Abstract:
This collection documents the formation and work of the Public Service Program, the Center for Professional Responsibility, the Institute for Law and Economics, the Criminal Law Research Group, and the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition. This collection is not a complete record of the activities of these centers. Included are annual reports, newsletters, correspondence, and audiovisuals.

The law school has established several centers and institutes, including the following:

The Public Service Program was created in the spring of 1990 to coordinate public services activities for students. The year prior, the faculty adopted a Public Service requirement for graduation. Judith Bernstein-Baker was the program's first director and worked to establish connections with legal advocacy work in Philadelphia and to tie public service into the law school curriculum. The program has hosted pro bono and public interest events, including the annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium and Public Interest Week. In 2000, the program received the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Public Award.

The Center for Professionalism was established in 1987 to study, teach, and find practical applications for professional responsibility and legal ethics. The first faculty members were Edmund B. Spaeth, Curtis Reitz, and Douglas Frenkel. The center developed multi-media instructional programs for law students and the legal profession, including Professional Responsibility for Lawyers: A Guided Course published by Commerce Clearing house, a two-week course "Professional Responsibility and the Legal Profession" which was required for all first-year students, and a program for summer associates.

The Institute for Law and Economics (ILE) was established in 1980 by Professor Michael L. Wachter to advance cross-disciplinary research and bring academics into discussion with practitioners. The institute held public lectures, workshops, and conferences with business leaders, lawyers, judges, and regulators. The ILE collaborated with the Wharton School and the Department of Economics.

The Criminal Law Research Group was established in the fall of 2004 to give students a chance to work on real-world projects related to criminal law. The Maldivian Penal Code Project was led by Professor Paul Robinson. From 2004 to 2005, law school students drafted a collection of rules of criminal procedure and sentencing guidelines for the international Maldives Criminal Justice Project.

The Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition (CTIC) was established in 2007 to enhance research, publications, and events related to law and technology. The CTIC focuses on six areas of law: competition, intellectual property, internet and privacy law, emerging technologies, health care and life sciences law, and entertainment and media law.

This record group consists of the following sub-groups that document the work of centers and institutes at Penn Carey Law. Note that this collection is not a complete record of the activities of these centers.

BLL.001.002.001 The Public Service Program documents the program's creation through annual reports, newsletters, memos, and handbooks. Also included are programs and videotapes from events hosted by the Public Service Program such as the annual Edward V. Sparer Conference and Public Interest Week.

BLL.001.002.002 The Center for Professional Responsibility includes memos, schedules and programs for events hosted by the center. Also included are teaching handbooks and videos from guided courses that the center created as well as videos of lectures given by center faculty.

BLL.001.002.003 The Institute for Law and Economics contains annual reports, lecture programs, and video/audio tapes from the institute's symposiums.

BLL.001.002.004 Criminal Law Research Group consists of files from the Maldives Project. This sub-group has been minimally processed at a Series/Box level only. A preliminary folder level inventory is available, please contact the archives for more details.

Series I, Correspondence and Project Notes, contains Professor Paul Robinson's correspondence, notes, agendas from his trips to the Maldives, report requests, and correspondence related to press releases.

Series II, Drafts from Web Pages, contains web page drafts created by Professor Robinson and other team members for the project.

Series III, Drafts from John Lin, contains drafts on procedures, notes, commentaries, and announcements created by John Lin, a law school student involved in the project.

BLL.001.002.005 Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition contains the center's published journals and newsletters.

    The Penn Carey Law Centers and Institutes' records are arranged into the following sub-groups:
  1. Public Service Program (BLL.001.002.001)
  2. Center for Professionalism (BLL.001.002.002)
  3. Institute for Law and Economics (BLL.001.002.003)
  4. Criminal Law Research Group (BLL.001.002.004)
  5. Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition (BLL.001.002.005)

The Institute for Law and Economics Annual Reports are available on the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School website .

Records were transferred to the archives on a periodic basis from Penn Carey Law departments and staff. The Criminal Law Research Group records were transferred in 2005.

Processed by Jeremiah Eagen in 2010, Christian Grippe and Jordon Steele in 2011, and Elizabeth Wittrig in 2024.

For more records from the law school, see the finding aid for the Penn Carey Law School Collection.

For archived websites related to the law school's institutes & centers, see the Penn Carey Law School website collection and social media collection on Archive-It. For more information on how to search and use web archives, click here.

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University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
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The archives follow the access policies of the University Archives and Records Center which were adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1990 and revised in 2022. This means that all administrative records of the University are closed for twenty-five years from their date of creation. More information on these protocols is available on the University Archives website.

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Collection Inventory

American Bar Association Pro Bono Committee award "Growth Through Protection" trophy, 2000.
Box 001007
Annual Reports, 1991-1994, 1999-2000.
Box 001001 Folder 1
Handbooks, placement procedures, and manuals, 1992-1993, 1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2001.
Box 001001 Folder 2
Memos to students and staff, 1990-1998.
Box 001001 Folder 3
Newsletters, 1992-1999.
Box 001001 Folder 4
"Opportunity Knocks: Education Through Service at Penn Law School" guidebook, 1996-1997.
Box 001001 Folder 5
"Public Interest Life at Penn" guidebook, circa 1990.
Box 001001 Folder 6
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Programs, 1984, 1994-1997, 2000-2002.
Box 001001 Folder 7
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Memorial VHS, 1983.
Box 001004 Item 1
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Debate "Is Affirmative Action Good Policy?" VHS, 1990.
Box 001004 Item 2
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Ralph Neas keynote address VHS, 1990.
Box 001004 Item 3
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Patricia Wald keynote address VHS, 1993 March 27.
Box 001004 Item 4
Edward V. Sparer Conference: Religion and America's Public Schools parts 1-4 VHS, 1996 March 22.
Box 001004 Item 5-8
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Civil Rights in the 21st Century Opening Remarks, Introduction and Keynote Speaker Andre Dennis" audiocassette, 1998 March 27.
Box 001003 Item 1
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Civil Rights in the 21st Century Panel A Environmental Justice" audiocassette, 1998 March 27.
Box 001003 Item 2
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Civil Rights in the 21st Century Panel B The Future of Affirmative Action" audiocassette, 1998 March 27.
Box 001003 Item 3
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Civil Rights in the 21st Century Panel C Sexuality and Civil Rights" audiocassette, 1998 March 27.
Box 001003 Item 4
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Parts 1 and 2" VHS, 1999 April 8-9.
Box 001004 Item 9-10
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Unlock America: Prisons and Policing in the 21st Century Conference Highlights" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 11-12
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Legal Activism: Pushing the Limits of the Law" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 13
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Criminalization of the Mentally Ill" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 14-15
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Tactics to Combat the Prison and Policing Hype" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 16-17
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "The Politics of Prisons and Policing" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 18-19
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Restorative Justice: Community Generated Alternatives" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001004 Item 20 Box 001005 Item 1
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "The Globalization of Oppression and Q&A" VHS, 2000 April 7-8.
Box 001005 Item 2-3
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Ed Rubin and Stephen Loffredo" VHS, 2001 March 2.
Box 001005 Item 4-5
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Seth Kreimer" VHS, 2001 March 2.
Box 001005 Item 6-7
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform by Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Gordon" VHS, 2001 March 2.
Box 001005 Item 8-9
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Fran Ashley and Catherine Powell" VHS, 2001 March 2.
Box 001005 Item 10-11
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Susan Sturm and William Forbath" VHS, 2001 March 3.
Box 001005 Item 12-13
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talk by Adrienne D. Davis" VHS, 2001 March 3.
Box 001005 Item 14-15
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Reva Siegel and Ian F. Haney Lopez" VHS, 2000 March 3.
Box 001005 Item 16-17
Edward V. Sparer Conference: "Social Movements and Law Reform talks by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse and William Eskridge" VHS, 2001 March 3.
Box 001005 Item 18-19
Public Interest Week buttons and pins, 2013, 2015-2019.
Box 001002 Item 4-11
Public Interest Week t-shirts, 2015, 2017, 2021 .
Box 001002 Item 1-3
Public Interest Forum VHS, 1989.
Box 001006 Item 1
Public Service Fair programs, 1990-1997.
Box 001001 Folder 8
SSI Training for the Public Service Program by Jim Lafferty from Community Legal Services VHS, 1987 October 7.
Box 001006 Item 2

Course syllabi and memos to students, 1988-1995.
Box 002001 Folder 1
"Professionalism Day Guide" created for the class of 2020, 2017 September.
Box 002001 Folder 2
"Conflict and Confidentiality: Trouble at Upper Black Eddy" participant study materials, discussion leaders guide, and box originally used to house materials, 1990, 1997.
Box 002001 Folder 3 Box 002006 Item 1
"Counseling and Negotiation: The Settlement of Lancer v. American Steel" participant study materials, 1997.
Box 002001 Folder 4
"In Jason's Best Interest: The Responsibilities of Lawyers in Custody Disputes" participant study materials, 1997.
Box 002001 Folder 5
"Representing the Corporate Client: The Saga of Albinex" participant study materials and discussion leaders guide, 1990, 1997.
Box 002001 Folder 6
"The Case of the Silent Alarm: Entire Program of 7 Vignettes" by the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism VHS, 1993.
Box 002002 Item 1
"DNA, Scientific Evidence and Ethics: Parts One-Four" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002002 Item 2-5
"Ethics and Professionalism for the Practicing Lawyer Series: Lawyers at Risk, Lessons from the Savings and Loan Crisis (Parts 1 and 2)" videocassettes, circa 1996.
Box 002006 Item 2-3
"The Frank Armani Story" VHS, circa 1990.
Box 002002 Item 6-7
"Harrington Divorce/Conflicts Short ABA Ethics" VHS, 1990 January 4.
Box 002002 Item 8
"Impaired Lawyer: John Rogers Carroll, John Duffy, and Richard Levandowski" VHS, 1988 January 14.
Box 002002 Item 9-10
"Impaired Lawyer: Richard Levandowski, John Rogers Carroll, and Stephen Morse" VHS, 1989 January 19.
Box 002002 Item 11
"Judge's Three Worlds: A Judicial Ethics Course" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002002 Item 12-13
"Judicial Ethics" VHS, 1995 April 2.
Box 002002 Item 14
"Judicial Ethics" VHS (2 copies), circa 1996.
Box 002002 Item 15-16
"Judicial Ethics Part 3: Fortas Segment" VHS and Betacam, 1996 December 11.
Box 002002 Item 17-19
"Judicial Ethics Part 3: Fortas Segment (Fortas Bio on CBS)" VHS and videocassette, 1969 April 15.
Box 002003 Item 1-2 Box 002006 Item 4
"Judicial Ethics: Mercy and Justice" VHS, circa 1996.
Box 002003 Item 3-4
"Matt's Case" VHS and videocassette, circa 1997.
Box 002003 Item 5 Box 003006 Item 5
"Professional and Business Ethics with Edmund Spaeth, Jacob Abel, Douglas Frenkel, Thomas Dunfee and David Asch" for University of Pennsylvania 250th VHS, 1990 May 19.
Box 002003 Item 6
"Professional Responsibility for Lawyers (PRFL): A Guided Course" complete guided course VHS, circa 1990.
Box 002003 Item 7-8
PRFL "Conflict and Confidentiality: Trouble at Upper Black Eddy" VHS and videocassettes, 1990, 1997.
Box 002003 Item 9-11 Box 002006
PRFL "Conflicts and Confidentiality: Trouble at Upper Black Eddy - Teaching by E. Myers in Allentown" VHS, 1993 January 7.
Box 002003 Item 12-13
PRFL "Conflicts of Interest in Corporate Transactions: The Buyout of the Harris Chemical Company" VHS and videocassette, 1996 March 12.
Box 002003 Item 14-15 Box 002007 Item 1-2
PRFL "In Jason's Best Interest: The Responsibilities of Lawyers in Custody Disputes" VHS and videocassette, circa 1997.
Box 002003 Item 16-18 Box 002007 Item 3
PRFL "Professional Responsibility in Pretrial Litigation: The Morgantown Civic Center Collapse" Betacam and videocassette, 1996.
Box 002004 Item 1 Box 002007 Item 4
PRFL "Representing the Corporate Client: The Saga of Albinex" VHS and videocassettes, 1990, 1991, 1996.
Box 002004 Item 2 Box 002007 Item 5-6
PRFL "The Saga of Albinex: Conflict Between Professional Duty and the Public Good with Edmund Spaeth, Jacob Abel, Thomas Dunfee, Douglas Frenkel, and David Asch" for the University of Penn 250th Anniversary VHS, 1990 May 19.
Box 002004 Item 3
PRFL "The Sage of Albinex teaching by Edmund Spaeth in Allentown" VHS, 1993 January 7.
Box 002004 Item 4
"Professional Responsibility in Practice: State v. One Late Model Auto" videocassette, circa 1996.
Box 002007 Item 7
"Professional Responsibility in Practice: The Resort Investment" videocassette, circa 1996.
Box 002007 Item 8
"Seaside Resort: Ethical Issues in Corporate Representation Seaside Resort Development" VHS and videocassette, circa 1996.
Box 002004 Item 5 Box 002007 Item 9
"Stress and Impaired Lawyers University of Penn Law School" VHS , 1992 January 14.
Box 002004 Item 6
"Substance Abuse Program by John Duffy and Sharon Eakes" VHS, 1991 April 18.
Box 002004 Item 7
"Trial Skills for Public Defenders Part One: Voir Dire" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002004 Item 8-9
"Trial Skills for Public Defenders Part Two: Opening Statement" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002004 Item 10-11
"Trial Skills for Public Defenders Part Three: Cross Examination" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002004 Item 12-13
"Trial Skills for Public Defenders Part Four: Closing Argument tapes 1 and 2" VHS, circa 1995.
Box 002004 Item 14-17
"The Truth About Flexallory: Discovery in the Adversary System" VHS, Betacam, and videocassette, circa 1996.
Box 002004 Item 18 Box 002005 Item 1 Box 002007 Item 10
Untitled "Tape #2 and #4" VHS, 1994 February 14.
Box 002005 Item 2-3
"Valdez: Dilemmas in Legal Ethics Negotiation and Incompetent Lawyer ABA" VHS, circa 1988.
Box 002005 Item 4-5
"Valdez, Litvin Teaching Visitor's Day: Spaeth, Reitz, Dean" VHS, 1988 April 12.
Box 002005 Item 6
"Who's In Charge/Teaching/Spaeth/Board of Visitors" VHS, 1988.
Box 002005 Item 7
"Who's In Charge? The Lawyer as Counselor: Process and Ethical dimension" VHS, 1988.
Box 002005 Item 8-9

Annual reports for academic years, 1984-1989 Spring.
Box 003001 Folder 1
Annual reports for academic years, 1989 Fall-2011 Spring.
Box 003002 Item 1-25
Annual reports for academic years, 2011 Fall-2019 Spring.
Box 003003 Item 1-9
Announcements and flyers, 1988-2001.
Box 003001 Folder 2
Dinner VHS, circa 1994.
Box 003005 Item 1
Justice Scalia lecture VHS, 1994 April 13.
Box 003005 Item 2-3
Brian Roberts Law & Entrepreneurship lecture audiocassette, 1997 October 23.
Box 003004 Item 1-2
Donna Gallagher lecture audiocassette, 1998 February 12.
Box 003004 Item 3-4
Untitled lecture audiocassette, 1998 November 12.
Box 003004 Item 5-6
Anita DeFrantz "Ethics in Sports" lecture audiocassettes, 1999 November 18.
Box 003004 Item 7-8
Charles A. Heimbold Law & Entrepreneurship lecture "Perspectives on the Health Care Revolution," audiocassettes, 2000 March 2.
Box 003004 Item 9-10
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Introductions" by Edward B. Rock & Michael Wachter and "Norms and Organizations" by R.D. Cooter & M.A. Eisenberg" audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 8.
Box 003004 Item 11 Box 003005 Item 5
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "The Human Nature of Corporate Boards" by Donald C. Langevoort audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 8.
Box 003004 Item 12 Box 003005 Item 6
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Competing Norms and Social Evolution: Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?" by P.G. Mahoney & C. Sanchirico audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 8.
Box 003004 Item 13 Box 003005 Item 7
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Shaming in Corporate Law" by David Skeel and "Puzzling Stock Options and Compensation Norms" by Saul Levmore audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 8.
Box 003004 Item 14 Box 003005 Item 8
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Dinner Address" by the Honorable E. Norman Veasey VHS, 2000 December 8.
Box 003005 Item 9
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Islands of Conscious Power: Law, Norms, and the Self-Governing Corporation" by E. Rock & M.L. Wachter audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 9.
Box 003004 Item 15 Box 003005 Item 10
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations" by Margaret Blair & Lynn Stout and "Norms, Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm" by Oliver Hart audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 9.
Box 003004 Item 16-18 Box 003005 Item 11
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Economics and Law, Networks and Norms" by Marcel Kahan and "The Shareholder Wealth Maximization Norm" by Mark Roe VHS, 2000 December 9.
Box 003005 Item 12
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Dinner address" by the Honorable William B. Chandler III VHS, 2000 December 9.
Box 003005 Item 13
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "Do Corporate Governance Norms Matter: A Crude Test Using Russian Data" by Bernard S. Black audiocassette and VHS, 2000 December 9.
Box 003004 Item 19-20 Box 003005 Item 14
Norms in Corporate Law Conference "On the Evolution of Japanese Corporate Law Norms" by Curtis Milhaupt audiocassette, 2000 December 9.
Box 003004 Item 21
"Why Do People Get Married and Have Kids?" debate by the ILE and Federalist Society VHS, 2000 March 8.
Box 003005 Item 4
Paul Levy lecture audiocassette, DVCAM, and VHS, 2001 February 21.
Box 003004 Item 22-24 Box 003005 Item 15
Ed Rendell Law & Entrepreneurship lecture audiocassette and VHS, 2001 October 25.
Box 003004 Item 25 Box 003005 Item 16-17
Honorary Jack B. Jacobs lecture VHS, 2001 November.
Box 003005 Item 18-19
Untitled lecture VHS, 2002 April 9.
Box 003006 Item 1
Robert M. Potamkim Law & Entrepreneurship lecture VHS, 2002 September 26.
Box 003006 Item 2
Pete Peterson Law & Entrepreneurship lecture VHS, 2002 November 6.
Box 003006 Item 3
"Session 1-3" VHS, 2003 February 8.
Box 003006 Item 4-6
"Session 1 and 4" VHS, 2003 February 9.
Box 003006 Item 7-9
James E. Nevels Law & Entrepreneurship lecture VHS, 2003 October 30.
Box 003006 Item 10
Untitled lecture VHS, 2003 November 18.
Box 003006 Item 11
Distinguished Jurist lecture VHS, 2004 March 4.
Box 003006 Item 12
Val Ackerman Law & Entrepreneurship lecture VHS, 2004 March 24.
Box 003006 Item 13
Steele lecture VHS, 2005 March 3.
Box 003006 Item 14

Arrangement

This sub-group has been minimally processed at a Series/Box level only. A preliminary folder level inventory is available, please contact the archives for more details.

Correspondence and project notes, 2004-2005.
Box 004001
Drafts from web pages, 2005.
Box 004002 Box 004003
Drafts from John Lin, 2005 Spring and Summer.
Box 004004 Box 004005 Box 004006 Box 004007 Box 004008 Box 004009 Box 004010 Box 004011 Box 004012

Law and Technology at Penn journal issue, 2016-2017.
Box 005001 Item 1
Law and Technology at Penn journal issue, 2017-2018.
Box 005001 Item 2
Law and Technology at Penn journal issue, 2021-2022.
Box 005001 Item 3

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