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Professor honored with research award

9/23/05

Victor Romero, professor of law, is the first recipient of the Penn State Dickinson School of Law's Maureen B. Cavanaugh Research Professor Award Endowment. The award was established to honor Maureen B. Cavanaugh, who died last April, and recognizes "exceptional scholarly accomplishment, creativity and promise of a faculty member of Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law." The endowment for the award was created by Cavanaugh's husband, Chris Plum, and several of her friends, colleagues and admirers to honor her "gifted scholarship, teaching and outstanding service to her students, to the legal profession and to The Pennsylvania State University."

Penn State selects acclaimed architect for building project

9/23/05

The Penn State Dickinson School of Law continues to move forward with its highly anticipated $100 million building project with the announcement that Polshek Partnership of New York, architects for projects such as the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, will take the lead in designing and constructing the new and completely integrated law school facilities in Carlisle and University Park.

Scott publishes book on transition from collegiate to professional football

9/23/05

Geoffrey Scott, professor of law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, has authored "Football Rising to the Challenge: The Transition from College to Pro," published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

This book is designed to assist collegiate players with career potential as they pursue a career in professional football by helping them to meet and overcome certain challenges. It includes information on legal issues; financial career concerns; agent issues; mental and emotional preparation; dealing with the media; balancing personal goals with team interests; endorsement deals and much more.

Russian law expert joins law faculty

8/12/05

William E. Butler, formerly of the University of London, has joined the faculty of Penn State Dickinson School of Law as the John Edward Fowler distinguished professor of law. An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems.

Professor joins jury for Stockholm International Prize in Criminology

8/12/05

Tiyanjana Maluwa, the H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague professor of law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, has been invited to join the inaugural international jury established to select the winner of the Stockholm International Prize in Criminology. The jury is composed of leading scholars from Australia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. The role of the jury is, among other things, to provide expert advice on, and proposals for, the nomination and prize-awarding processes, including the rules of procedure of the jury and criteria for the selection process.

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Penn State news widget launched; more widgets on the way

8/9/05

More than a quarter of a million subscribers receive news about Penn State in their e-mail boxes through the Penn State Newswire, the companion Penn State Live Web site receives nearly 10,000 hits a day from people seeking information about the University, and RSS feeds deliver much of the same information directly to news Web sites and individual subscribers. Now, the Department of Public Information has launched the Penn State news widget. Anyone who uses an Apple computer loaded with the OSX 10.4 (Tiger) operating system can get Penn State news delivered right to the desktop with the new Penn State Live widget. Widgets, which are mini-applications that perform common tasks and provide fast access to information, run through the operating system's Dashboard feature. The Penn State Live widget gives users the most recent Penn State headlines automatically. The headlines then link directly to the full stories on the Penn State Live Web site.

Two Penn State Dickinson faculty receive Fulbright Scholar Awards

7/21/05

Laurel S. Terry and Nancy A. Welsh, professors of law at The Penn State Dickinson School of Law, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2005-2006 academic year. As a Fulbright Scholar in Cologne, Germany, Terry will research the basis for, and response to, the European Union (EU) Commission's Report that concluded some regulation of lawyers in the EU (including Germany) may be anticompetitive. Welsh will carry out her work in the Netherlands, where the government is preparing to launch a significant initiative to offer mediation in all of the nation's courts and legal advice services.

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