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Third-year law student Gene “Tucker” Anderson spent a semester abroad at The University in Bergen (UiB) in Bergen, Norway.

The world is your classroom

5/12/16

Early last year, Tucker Anderson, a third-year student at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, made the decision to spend a semester abroad. While contemplating which legal studies program to pursue, he thought about his interest in international and elder law, and how a semester abroad would complement the courses that he’d already taken in law school.

Dickinson Law students selected as IOLTA summer fellows

5/9/16

Penn State’s Dickinson Law is committed to providing students with many opportunities to participate in public interest lawyering during their law school careers. They serve the public and advocate for underrepresented community members with limited financial means through transactional work, policy making, and administrative and judicial proceedings.

New Woolsack Society Members Inducted

New Woolsack Society members inducted

4/25/16

Interim Dean James W. Houck presented plaques and pillows to third-year students at Dickinson Law, Carlisle, as part of the Woolsack Society induction ceremony and luncheon on Friday, April 1.

Stephen C. Howard and Nicholas Gallion

Penn State Dickinson Law holds 1L mock trial competition

4/11/16

First-year students Stephen Howard and Nicholas Gallion took the championship round to win Dickinson Law’s 1L mock trial competition March 28 at the Old Cumberland County Courthouse. Open to all first-year students, the competition drew 36 students who formed nine prosecution teams and nine defense teams, each consisting of two students.

Robert E. Rains

Rains named editor of PA Bar Association Quarterly

3/21/16

Professor Emeritus Robert E. Rains is the new editor of The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, the PBA’s scholarly journal. Rains succeeds his late colleague and friend, Dickinson Law Professor Emeritus Louis F. Del Duca, who served as editor for 47 years.

Dickinson students

Dickinson moot court team named finalist and awarded for best written brief

3/9/16

Dickinson Law’s moot court team was named a finalist in the Philadelphia Regional American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition held Feb. 18 to 20 at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia. The team, composed of second-year law students Christian Burne, Francesca Kester and Tara Burns, also won the award for best written brief in the region, and ranked first throughout the entire competition as a result of their brief score and first oral argument score.

child rainy window

Better definition needed for reasonable medical certainty in child abuse cases

2/10/16

Physicians use different definitions of "reasonable medical certainty" when testifying as expert witnesses in child abuse cases. The variability is troubling because it could result in flawed rulings, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. In court cases involving alleged child abuse, expert medical witnesses are asked to testify if abuse has occurred and when. Attorneys commonly ask expert witnesses to express their opinions in terms of reasonable medical certainty. However, there is no clear legal definition for the term.

Invent Penn State at Harrisburg

Penn State Harrisburg launches Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2/4/16

Penn State President Eric Barron and University officials joined with David Black, president and CEO of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and CREDC, to launch the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State Harrisburg. The center will enhance the entrepreneurial environment in Central Pennsylvania and encourage students, faculty and community members to transform their intellectual property and creative works into local businesses and industries.

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