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Third-year Dickinson Law student Olivia Phillips completed an internship at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, The Netherlands, last fall as part of Dickinson Law's International Justice Program.

Law students assist with cases involving crimes against Muslims and others

2/11/19

Many lawyers dream of one day working on a high-profile international criminal case. For two Penn State Dickinson Law students, that dream became reality last fall. Third-year Dickinson Law students Malcolm McDermond and Olivia Phillips completed internships at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, The Netherlands, as part of the Law School’s International Justice Program.

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Conway named dean of Dickinson Law

1/21/19

Danielle M. Conway, dean and professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, has been named the new dean of Penn State’s Dickinson Law after a national search. Her appointment is effective on July 1, 2019.

Dickinson Law Professor Dermot Groome

Dickinson Law professor appears in international documentary

11/29/18

It took more than five years after Ratko Mladic’s arrest for a judgment to be entered in the case of The Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladic, a case led by Dickinson Law Professor of Law Dermot Groome at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. A former senior trial attorney at the Office of the Prosecutor for ICTY, Groome led the prosecution against Mladic as well as other notable ICTY cases, including the Bosnia indictment against Slobodan Milosevic.

Dickinson Law’s ABA Moot Court Team 2018

Dickinson Law’s ABA Moot Court Team prevails as top advocates

11/1/18

John Carroll, 2020; Tara Giarratano, 2020; and Andrew Lindhome, 2019; defeated Sean Bacon, 2020; Brian Honness, 2020; and Nick Stobbe, 2020; during the championship round of the O’Savio Intraschool Moot Court Competition held at the Old Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Dickinson Law’s Business Law Society Co-Founder and President Kamron Abedi ’19

Dickinson Law students lead workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs

10/30/18

Second- and third-year law students in Penn State Dickinson Law’s Business Law Society and Assistant Professor of Legal Writing and Entrepreneurship Law Samantha Prince recently led a workshop to educate early-stage entrepreneurs and Penn State Berks engineering students about when to license an invention or start a company.

Dickinson Law Names Inaugural Public Interest Scholars

Dickinson Law names inaugural Public Interest Scholars

10/10/18

Recognizing a long history of public interest service by its students and alumni, and in conjunction with the 185th anniversary of its founding, Penn State’s Dickinson Law recently launched the Public Interest Scholars Program.

Dickinson Law's fourth annual Convocation keynote speaker Miriam Enriquez '05

Dickinson Law celebrates new students at fourth annual convocation

9/26/18

Throughout the fourth annual convocation at Dickinson Law on Sept. 21, every speaker returned to one word: community. The ceremony, which formally inducted the diverse, accomplished and ambitious class of 2021 and master of laws students into the law school during the 185th anniversary of its founding, emphasized the rewards of drawing together.

Dickinson Law hosts United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and clerkship panel

Dickinson Law hosts U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

9/21/18

A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims heard oral argument in the case of Batcher v. Wilkie at Dickinson Law on Sept. 14 The issue presented was whether and to what extent the terms of a separation agreement affect a spouse’s entitlement to special apportionment of a veteran’s disability compensation benefits.

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