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Portrait of Odalys Penhallow

Odalys Penhallow

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer

School of Settled Matters

Dr Penhallow spent nine years in the registry of a state appellate court, indexing its judgments and answering the profession's questions about which of them still stood. Her research concerns the settled point: how a question of law comes to be treated as closed, how many decisions it takes before counsel stop arguing it, and what becomes of the cases decided while it was still open. She teaches the School's course on precedent and keeps its working set of annotated law reports.

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