PENN LAW — The following is an excerpt of “Presidential Accountability and the Rule of Law: Can the President Claim Immunity if He Shoots Someone on Fifth Avenue?” written by Claire O. Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, and Richard W. Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, and published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Finkelstein is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC). She is a distinguished research fellow at APPC and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Her current research addresses national security law and policy and democratic governance with a focus on related ethical and rule of law issues.