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.
Penn State Outreach and Online Education will honor three people for their work and dedication to the University and the community. Patty Satalia, Sheila Gallucci-Davis and Jose Morales will receive awards at the Penn State OOE Appreciation Dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, in the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
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.
University leaders are renewing their plea to Penn Staters and others, asking them to urge Pennsylvania legislators to release the University's state funds. Without critical state funding, Penn State would be forced to make "dramatic cuts and raise tuition, perhaps even for the upcoming spring semester."
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.
Penn State Dickinson Law will host "Balancing the First Amendment with Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education," a two-day symposium on Nov. 17-18 at Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle. This symposium will bring together higher education administrators, law professors, lawyers and students to discuss the challenge of balancing the First Amendment with diversity and inclusion efforts on college campuses.
Christopher Harris, a third-year student at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, was the first recipient of the Louise Hoffmeyer-Overmiller Scholarship, presented by attorney William F. Hoffmeyer in Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle.
Carla Pratt, associate dean for diversity and inclusion, professor of law, and Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar at Dickinson Law, will present "Using Social Dominance Theory to Understand Why Anti-Discrimination Law Fails to Achieve Racial Equality" from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 11 in 217 Willard Building at University Park.
Run for the Law, a 5K run and fun walk benefiting the Public Interest Law Fund (PILF) at Dickinson Law, will take place the morning of Saturday, Sept. 23, at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Runners and walkers of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to register online.
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.
Penn State Dickinson Law’s Center for International Trial Advocacy conducted a training program on international trial advocacy earlier this month for more than 20 members of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Thirteen rising second- and third-year law students at Dickinson Law are spending their summers working for public interest organizations throughout the Commonwealth as Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Fellows and Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Martin Luther King Jr. interns. The students will advocate for underrepresented community members with limited financial means — providing a valuable public service and gaining a rewarding opportunity to give back.
