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Two professors from 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s have been named to the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights—an independent agency developed by Congress in 1957 to focus on matters of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability or national origin. There are advisory boards in all 50 states.

Associate Professor (left) and Professor have been appointed to the panel for a four-year term. They will consult with members of the commission and offer advice and recommendations on the areas they have studied.

Allen, a civil rights advocate, teaches courses on jurisprudence, legal ethics and property. She writes in the area of legal theory including a long-running series of essays on the work of William Blackstone, some of which appear on her blog . Prior to her position at 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ, Allen was a staff attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where her practice focused on challenging state laws that bar voting because of criminal conviction.

Crossley, a widely respected scholar in disability and health law, has studied pressing legal issues presented by advances in medical science. Those topics include discrimination in the treatment of infants with HIV infection and newborns with disabilities as well as the ramifications of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Crossley is director of 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ Law’s Health Law Program and teaches courses in health law, bioethics and law, and family law, among others. She served as the dean of 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ Law from 2005 to 2012.