The National Security Agency, recognizing an urgent need for nationwide education about cyber technology, policy and law, has worked with a trio of Penn State professors to develop a comprehensive, online, and nationally offered cyber law and policy course.
Medha D. Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, received a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine — part of central Pennsylvania’s only academic medical center that also includes Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Medical Group.
Mohamed Rali Badissy and Sarah J. Williams have joined the full-time faculty at Penn State’s Dickinson Law as assistant professors of law. Badissy will teach contracts, corporate finance, energy law and policy, and international law. Williams will teach federal securities regulation, financial statement fundamentals, professional responsibility, and property.
Penn State police officers across Pennsylvania will host events for Penn State employees this summer featuring a variety of refreshments, from free coffee to pizza to ice cream and more.
A Penn State professor and his student-led legal resource team are looking into the legal and financial barriers to substance-use-disorder treatment and how the law can be used to break down or build pathways through those barriers.
Second- and third-year Dickinson Law students were recognized for fulfilling their ethical and professional responsibility of service throughout the 2018-19 academic year during a ceremony on Friday, May 10, at Lewis Katz Hall.
First U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Pennsylvania’s 43rd Governor Thomas J. Ridge ’72 told graduates of the class of 2019 that being a lawyer will be the most difficult, heart-wrenching, at times even perilous professional work of their lives during his commencement address on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Dickinson College, Carlisle.
Clinical Professor of Law Lucy Johnston-Walsh received the 2019 Achieving Women Award in the Faculty category from Penn State on Friday, April 26, during a luncheon in the President’s Hall at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
For the third year, Dickinson Law students, family and friends gathered inside the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium to celebrate their heritage, unity and academic achievements, as well as those who supported them throughout their educational journey, during the annual Donning of the Kente ceremony.
In recognition of his outstanding leadership, steadfast integrity and enduring contributions to Penn State and the LGBTQA community, second-year law student Robert “Bob” Gavin was named the 2019 recipient of the Dr. Susan R. Rankin Award during a ceremony held Apr. 12 at University Park. Staff and students from Penn State’s LGBTQA Student Resource Center and Advisory Board selected this year’s award winners.
Nine third-year Dickinson Law students were inducted into the Woolsack Honor Society during a ceremony held on April 3. Dean and Professor of Law Gary S. Gildin, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of Law Amy Gaudion, and Assistant Dean of Student Services Yolanda Ingram presented honorary plaques and pillows to recognize the students for their academic accomplishments during law school.
April 1, 2019, marked the 185th anniversary of the founding of Dickinson Law. Today, 185 years later, while much has changed in the world, the foundational approach of Dickinson Law has stayed largely the same.
With many competent and passionate advocates, this year’s 1L Mock Trial Competition was one to be remembered. First-year law students Mari Boyle and Rachel Tunney earned the win at Dickinson Law’s 1L mock trial competition on March 22 in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law.
Tom Ridge, a 1972 Penn State graduate, Pennsylvania’s 43rd governor and first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, will address the class of 2019 during Dickinson Law’s commencement on May 11.
President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Mary Hannah Leavitt, a 1978 Penn State Dickinson alumna, received the 25th Annual Honorable Sylvia H. Rambo Award Ceremony hosted by Dickinson Law’s Women’s Law Caucus at Lewis Katz Hall on March 14. The Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo, class of 1962, and Alana Goycochea, class of 2020, president of the Women’s Law Caucus, presented the award.
