Retired Navy Admiral Michael S. Rogers, former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, will speak at Penn State as a guest of the Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) on Nov. 13.
Penn State Law graduates who took the Pennsylvania Bar Exam for the first time in July passed at the second-highest rate among Pennsylvania law schools—about 89 percent. Only the University of Pennsylvania Law School had a higher pass rate.
Paul Clement, the 43rd solicitor general of the United States, will visit Penn State Law on Nov. 9 for a conversation about the 2017-18 Supreme Court term—a term during which Clement himself argued six cases before the court.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark will deliver a talk on U.S. national security on Oct. 22 on Penn State’s University Park campus. Clark’s talk is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in the Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Building. The event is free and open to the public.
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.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment and the Hamer Center for Community Design will be hosting a workshop on flooding and community resilience on Monday, Sept. 24.
Steven Rich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning database editor for the investigations unit at The Washington Post, will present a free public lecture at 5 p.m. Oct. 2 in 112 Kern Building.
A panel of experts, including media members and faculty, will address the potential impact of legalized sports gambling on the landscape of athletics during a free public session at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 in 121 Sparks Building.
New legal developments affecting the rule of capture — a common law doctrine that establishes nonliability and ownership for captured natural resources, including oil, gas and groundwater — will the subject of a web-based seminar offered by Penn State Extension on Sept. 20.
Bringing with them strong academic credentials and an impressive list of professional accomplishments, the 127 members of the Penn State Law class of 2021 set foot on Penn State’s University Park campus for the first time as law students on the morning of Aug. 13.
Master of law students Bhargavi Kannan (left) and Sanya Kishwar (right) earned the top individual honor at the 2018 SAARC Moot Court Competition, a yearlong tournament that attracts thousands of talented law students from across India and south Asia.
Frum, a senior editor at the Atlantic and author of “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” will present a lecture on what he describes as the “guardrails of democracy” at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in the Lewis Katz Building auditorium. The lecture is presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy in the College of the Liberal Arts.
The Center for Security Research and Education at Penn State is announcing its 2018-2019 Seed Grant Program to support security-related scholarship and educational programs at Penn State.
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.
Penn State Law is delighted to welcome to the faculty Assistant Professor of Law and Medicine Megan Wright, Assistant Professor of Law Ben Johnson, and Professor of Legal Research Jenny Ham, all of whom will advance the law school’s efforts to collaborate across the University to impact the world.
