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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.

panelists from cybersecurity and health data panel

Panel highlights legal, business side of using human health data in research

10/31/18

Data security, intellectual property, health research and technology transfer were key topics discussed by an interdisciplinary panel of experts from Penn State's Institute for CyberScience, Penn State Dickinson Law, Penn State Law, and the College of Engineering. The panel highlighted challenges for researchers working with human health data, as well as free resources available for researchers interested in taking products to market.

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.

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Oct. 11 panel to address human-data research concerns, commercialization

9/28/18

A panel of experts from Penn State's Dickinson Law, the Institute for CyberScience, Penn State Law and the College of Engineering will discuss data security, technology commercialization and privacy laws related to using human health, biometric or sensor data at an ICS CyberScience Seminar on Oct. 11.

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.

Dickinson Law student blogging

New Dickinson Law blog offers legal insights to entrepreneurs

9/17/18

A new blog called Inside Entrepreneurship Law allows Dickinson Law students to demonstrate their substantive knowledge, showcase writing and analytical skills, and stay top of mind with trends in their career path of choice while providing legal insights to entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

Anne Toomey McKenna Moderates Cybersecurity Panel

Cyber experts highlight most pressing cybersecurity issues during panel

9/17/18

In today’s digital world, how do we know our information is secure? What are the most pressing cybersecurity issues? What steps should be taken to tighten businesses cyber systems and cybersecurity? These questions and more were answered Sept. 12 during “Cybersecurity in Today’s Digital World,” a panel discussion moderated by Anne Toomey McKenna, distinguished scholar of cyber law and policy at Dickinson Law and Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience.

University Bulletins

Bulletin sites launch for graduate, law and medical schools

8/28/18

Following the successful launch of the updated Undergraduate Bulletin, new Bulletin websites are now live for the Graduate School, Dickinson Law, Penn State Law and the College of Medicine as well. The web-based bulletins — built on the CourseLeaf Catalog software — provide an improved interface that also performs better on mobile devices.

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Institute for CyberScience announces 2018-19 Seminar Series speakers

8/27/18

Business, language, deep learning, networks, health and cybersecurity — the 2018-19 CyberScience Seminar Series, which launches on Sept. 11, will feature researchers who use high-performance computing methods, including big data analysis, big simulations and complex modeling, to push the envelope and make advances in their fields.

Professor Anne McKenna | Penn State Law

Renowned cyber, privacy law scholar joins Dickinson Law, CyberScience Institute

5/31/18

Anne Toomey McKenna will hold a joint appointment as distinguished scholar of cyber law and policy at Dickinson Law and professor in practice in the Penn State Institute for CyberScience, effective July 1. The joint appointment supports Penn State’s strategic focus on interdisciplinary scholarship in the cyber and data privacy fields.

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