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.
An easy to build racing drone kit, a faster and easier way to mix infant formula, and a customer loyalty app were business ideas entrepreneurs pitched during the Mont Alto LaunchBox LION Tank Competition on March 15 in the University’s General Studies Building Auditorium.
Dickinson Law Professor Dermot Groome and Eberly College of Science Professor Thomas Parsons participated in one of the largest prosecutions in history at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. “The Trial of Ratko Mladic,” a 90-minute documentary featuring Groome, was broadcasted nationally at 9 p.m. on March 19 on "FRONTLINE" — PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series.
Penn State Dickinson Law students in the Children’s Advocacy Clinic and Community Law Clinic had the opportunity to collaborate with Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Fellows from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center during a mock hearing inside Dickinson Law’s clinic courtroom.
Data breaches and cyber hacks are a major concern for businesses, organizations and governments. Hacks disrupt operations, put sensitive information at risk, harm an organization’s reputation, jeopardize national security and cost the economy billions of dollars each year. If your organization was hacked, would you know what to do?
First-, second-, and third-year Dickinson Law students met members of the judiciary from across the state at the Law School’s 16th Annual Judges’ Night, hosted by Phi Alpha Delta – Burr Chapter on Tuesday, Feb. 19, inside Lewis Katz Hall.
Dickinson Law's Public Interest Law Fund will host its main fundraising event on March 28, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Comfort Suites Downtown Carlisle, 10 S. Hanover St., Carlisle.
For the second year in a row, a team of Penn State students will participate in the International Emory Global Health Case Competition in Atlanta.
Penn State's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2019.
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.
On March 15, Dickinson Law Review will present "Discretion and Misconduct: Examining the Roles, Functions, and Duties of the Modern Prosecutor" in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law.
Dickinson Law students are offering free tax preparation services to people with low and fixed incomes, people who have disabilities or special needs, and senior citizens aged 60 or older from Feb. 6 through March 28 at Dickinson Law, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Kendall D. Isaac, general counsel for Dickinson College, will deliver a keynote in honor of Black History Month on Monday, Feb. 25, at Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
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.
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.
