A new book by Penn State Law Associate Professor of Law Jud Mathews explores how constitutional rights reshape legal relations among private parties in different jurisdictions. "Extending Rights’ Reach: Constitutions, Private Law, and Judicial Power" was published this month by Oxford University Press.
To honor Anna Griswold, retired assistant vice president for undergraduate education and executive director for student aid, Tom Sharbaugh and his wife, Kristin Hayes, created the Anna M. Griswold Open Doors Scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Penn State undergraduate students Brendan Bernicker, Fanta Condé, and Alice Greider have been honored for leadership and advocacy as recipients of the Rock Ethics Institute’s 2018 Stand Up Award.
Learn more about each honoree and their extraordinary experiences in the 2018 Stand Up video.
Only 7 percent of the U.S. firefighter workforce is female, and they make $10,000 less than men, on average, even though they are the same average age. Penn State researcher Lorraine Dowler has spent the past decade interviewing women firefighters about their challenges and thinking about ways to improve opportunities for women.
For the second time in three years, the Penn State Law Vis Moot Court Team advanced out of the General Rounds and into the Round of 64 — the start of the elimination rounds — of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition, held last month in Vienna.
When Ilias Ghandour, a 2017 graduate of Penn State Law, left his home and family in Iraq to continue his education by earning a law degree in 2012, he had every intention of returning to Iraq and seeking employment in the legal field there.
A global task force of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London will release its report on third-party funding in international arbitration at the ICCA Congress on April 17 in Sydney, Australia. The task force is co-chaired by Catherine A. Rogers, professor of law and Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law.
The Center for Agricultural and Shale Law at Penn State Law at the University Park campus has taken on the responsibility of administering the Pennsylvania Agricultural Mediation Program, providing another avenue by which it can serve and assist the state’s farmers and producers.
Earth Day will be internationally recognized on April 22, but at Penn State, Earth Day(s) will be celebrated throughout the month of April. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are invited to attend the events. Show your Earth Day spirit on social media by using #PSUEarthDays and visit the Earth Day(s) 2018 website to learn how to get involved.
Chief Judge Wilma A. Lewis of the District Court of the Virgin Islands will deliver the 2018 commencement address for Penn State Law on May 12 at University Park.
The Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic has been involved in two high-profile employment cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this term: Janus v. AFSCME and Encino Motorcars v. Navarro.
The Spring Creek Watershed Commission will hold a "Forum on Understanding and Stewarding Water Quantity and Quality in the Spring Creek Watershed” at 6:30 p.m. on April 18 at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science.
After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Mohammad Abdulla had distinguished himself with his knowledge and experience enough to earn a teaching position at his alma mater, the University of Sharjah, but he’d need a doctoral degree in order to achieve his goals — making Penn State Law’s S.J.D. program the perfect choice for him to take his career to the next level.
Heather A. Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture titled “The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russia’s New Generation Warfare” at 4 p.m. March 29 in Room 116 of the Lewis Katz Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
