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3 unusual facts about University of Pennsylvania Law School


Burton Awards for Legal Achievement

The awards are selected, generally, by professors from Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Michigan Law School, and a judge, among others.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Abou El Fadl holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic law from Princeton University.

Salman A. Al-Ansari

Salman started lecturing at Qatar University College of Law directly after his graduation from University of Pennsylvania Law School for three years.


ALWD Citation Manual

It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed by the law reviews at Harvard, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

Natalie Wexler

She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), the University of Sussex (M.A. 1977), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1983), where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Wayne Dumont

After graduating, he became a minor league pitcher for the former St. Louis Browns but decided to study law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.


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Paul G. Haaga, Jr.

He has also served as President of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Director of NPR, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, President and Major Gifts Chair for Princeton’s Class of 1970 and a Trustee of the Princeton Rugby Endowment.