A verdict was delivered for Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, following a more than five-year trial. Dermot Groome, professor of law, Penn State’s Dickinson Law, and former senior trial attorney at the Office of the Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), led the prosecution's case against Mladic.

Dickinson Law's Annual Charity Powderpuff Tournament raised funds for domestic violence services of Cumberland and Perry Counties.

Third-year law students Hanna Borsilli and Jordan Yatsko won Dickinson Law’s intra-school moot court competition after defeating the Law School’s ABA team comprised of second-year law students Bob Heary, Dominik Maida and Becca Marsnik during the final round in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall.

Medha Makhlouf, Penn State’s Dickinson Law assistant professor of law and director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, and Matthew J.B. Lawrence, assistant professor of law, were named 2017 Health Law Scholars at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics’ 2017 Health Law Professors Conference.

At the start of Penn State Dickinson Law’s third annual Convocation, Dean Gary S. Gildin reminded everyone what “convocation” means -- to assemble, to call together. With that summons, Dean Gildin brought forth the class of 2020 inside Lewis Katz Hall. Seventy-four students who hail from 26 states and five foreign countries were formally inducted into the Dickinson Law family.

Tiffany Jeffers, former assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore County, Maryland, has joined the faculty of Penn State’s Dickinson Law as assistant professor of legal writing. Jeffers, a 2008 Dickinson Law alumna, will teach Problem Solving II: The Lawyer as Writer and Problem Solving III: The Lawyer as Persuader.

Matthew J.B. Lawrence, an expert in the fields of health law and administrative law, has joined the faculty of Penn State’s Dickinson Law as assistant professor of law.