ALT Large amount of rocks and sticks.

ALT Abstract for an article titled "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution," 133 Yale L.J. (forthcoming). Katie Eyer and Karen Tani. Key text of the abstract is as follows: "one important facet of this “new federalism” revolution has gone unappreciated: the load-bearing role of earlier disability-related cases. In the 1970s and 1980s, this Article shows, the Court used disability-related cases to revive the all-but-moribund Eleventh Amendment, even as it declined to embrace Eleventh Amendment arguments in cases involving school desegregation and sex discrimination. So, too, it was disability cases that established and entrenched federalism-grounded “clear statement” rules of statutory interpretation in the 1980s and early 1990s. Similarly, a disability case in the early 1990s provided the initial steppingstone toward the retrenchment of Congress’s authority under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment..."

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ALT Asian American woman with short black hair smiling and holding a brown casebook. Title: "Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions." Sixth Edition. A Free Law School Casebook. John Fabian Witt. Karen M. Tani.

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ALT Draft abstract for an article titled "The Lost Disability History of the 'New Federalism,'" 110 Calif. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2022), Karen M. Tani.

ALT Two women (Karen Tani and Sally Gordon) embracing and smiling at the camera in front of a white flower arrangement.

ALT Asian American woman with short black hair wearing red lipstick, a black blazer, and a black and white printed dress. She is holding a brown paperback Torts casebook.

ALT image of an Asian American woman wearing a brown suit sitting in a chair and holding a pen and paper. Nearby is a bouquet of orange and white flowers. Text reads: EVENT. 2024 Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.

ALT Image from the back of a program. It list "Past Roberts Lectures," starting in 1957 with The Honorable Felix Frankfurter and ending in 2022 with The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu. The footer text reads "Penn Carey Law University of Pennsylvania."

ALT Head shot of David Lieberman from his Berkeley Law webpage. He has kind eyes that crinkle at the corners, close-cropped gray hair, and a wide smile.

ALT Text of David Lieberman's profile from his Berkeley Law webpage. It reads (in part): "David Lieberman joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1984. Before coming to Berkeley, he taught at Cambridge University and was a fellow and director of studies in history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He served as associate dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program and chaired the undergraduate Legal Studies Program from 2000-04. In 2003, he helped found the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs, an international organization of law and society departments and undergraduate majors. He currently is president of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.Lieberman is a recipient of research fellowships and awards from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, the Institute of Historical Research, the American Bar Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. ..."

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ALT Asian American woman holding a copy of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 170, July 2022, no. 7.

ALT Table of contents for the July 2022 issue of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Symposium issue on The Disability Frame.

ALT Dedication page, reading: "In memory of George Elwick, who believed that hard work, family, and education could move mountains. Beloved father of Professor Jasmine Elwick Harris.

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ALT Screen shot of the title and epigraphs to a book chapter. "Chapter 10. Liberalism's Last Rights: Disability Inclusion and the Rise of the Cost-Benefit State," Karen M. Tani.

ALT Citation for "The George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award, March 31, 2023." The text explains that the award went to Kimberly White for a dissertation project that is "original, creative, and asks fresh questions about 'legality,' 'empire,' and 'precarity' for Black migrants in the late 20th century." The citation describes the project as focusing on "histories of West Indian migrants in New York from 1965 to 2000."

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ALT Red and black little free library with plants growing on top.

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ALT Photo of Penn Law legal historians Serena Mayeri, Sally Gordon, Karen Tani, Sophia Lee, and Shaun Ossei-Owusu.