This Spring, six University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students joined students from law schools around the world to participate in a weeklong virtual workshop hosted by Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The theme of this year’s workshop, “Same Sex Marriage: Comparative Legal Issues,” not only brought together a number of leading gender and family law scholars from six countries, but also proved to be exceptionally timely. Just days after the program’s conclusion, a Japanese District Court reached a landmark decision ruling that the government’s failure to recognize same-sex marriages violates the Japanese constitution. Read more at the link in our profile. #pennlaw #pennlawlife