Notable Faculty
Penn Law's faculty is selected to match the School's inter-disciplinary orientation. Seventy percent of the standing faculty hold advanced degrees beyond the JD, and more than a third hold secondary appointments in other departments at the University. The School is particularly well known for its corporate law group, with professors William Bratton, Jill Fisch, Edward Rock, David Skeel, and Michael Wachter being regularly included among the best corporate and securities law scholars in the country. The School has also built a strong reputation for its law and economics group (professors Howard F. Chang, Tom Baker, David S. Abrams) and its criminal law group (professors Stephanos Bibas, David Rudovsky). Some of the notable Penn Law faculty members include:
- Anita L. Allen, deputy dean and expert on privacy law and contemporary ethics
- Tom Baker, deputy dean and insurance law scholar
- Stephanos Bibas, criminal law scholar
- Stephen B. Burbank, civil procedure scholar
- Howard F. Chang, scholar of the economic analysis of law
- Cary Coglianese, scholar of government regulation and regulatory policy
- Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., legal ethics and civil procedure scholar, former Director of the American Law Institute (1984–1999)
- Leo Katz, criminal law theorist
- Jonathan Klick, empirical law and economics scholar
- Jody Kraus, contracts expert
- Curtis R. Reitz, commercial law professor, and Pennsylvania representative to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
- Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law scholar and novelist
- David Rudovsky, civil rights and criminal defense attorney
- Chris William Sanchirico, expert on tax policy, evidence, tax law
- Tobias Barrington Wolff, civil procedure and constitutional law scholar
- Christopher Yoo, authority on law and technology
The School's faculty is complemented by renowned international visitors in the frames of the Bok Visiting International Professors Program. Past and present Bok professors include Juan Guzmán Tapia (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet), Armin von Bogdandy (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (President of the Centre for Policy Research in India) Michael Trebilcock (Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto) and others.
Some of Penn's former faculty members have continued their carriers at other institutions, e.g. Bruce Ackerman (now at Yale), Lani Guinier (now at Harvard), Michael H. Schill (now at Chicago), and Myron T. Steele (now at Virginia).
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