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SETH KREIMER
Seth Kreimer serves as the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
He graduated from Yale Law School in 1977, clerked for the Honorable Arlin Adams on the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit, and served as an associate at Fine, Kaplan and Black.
In 1981, Professor Kreimer joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has taught, written and
advocated in the areas of Pennsylvania and federal constitutional law for the last four and a half decades.
He received Penn Law’s Beacon Award for Exemplary Pro Bono Service, its A. Leo Levin Teaching Award, its Harvey Levin
Teaching Award and the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2023 he
received the Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award for his contributions to the pursuit of equal justice. He is a member of the
American Law Institute.
Professor Kreimer has written and lectured regularly on the independent development and jurisprudence of the
Pennsylvania Constitution. See, e.g., Seth F. Kreimer, Still Living After Fifty Years: A Census of Judicial Review Under
the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1968, 71 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 287, 355 (2018); Seth F. Kreimer, Protection of Freedom
of Expression and The Right to Privacy in the Pennsylvania Constitution in The Pennsylvania Constitution: A Treatise
on Rights and Liberties (Ken Gormley and Joy McNally eds., Second Ed. 2020); Seth F. Kreimer, The Pennsylvania
Constitution’s Protection of Free Expression, 5 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 12 (2002); Seth F. Kreimer, The Right to Privacy in the
Pennsylvania Constitution, 3 Widener J. Pub. L. 77 (1993).
