Alumni and Reunion Weekend 2005 will be held Oct. 7 to 9 in Carlisle. The weekend registration fee includes Friday evening's welcome reception, Saturday breakfast, scholarship luncheon, keg in the Curtilage featuring family activities, Saturday evening's cocktail reception and awards ceremony, Sunday brunch and all CLE programs including an ethics session on "Ethical Issues in Use of Law Practice Technology."
Penn State Dickinson School of Law has established the Penn State University Institute of Arbitration Law and Practice. The purpose of the institute is to advance the study and scholarship of arbitration law and practice in domestic and international contexts. Thomas E. Carbonneau, the Elsie de Renzo and Samuel P. Orlando distinguished professor of law, is the faculty director of the Institute, and Jeanette Jaeggi is the executive director. The institute publishes The World Arbitration and Mediation Report, The Journal of American Arbitration and The Smit-Carbonneau Guides to International Commercial Arbitration.
The Penn State Dickinson School of Law continues to move forward with its highly anticipated $100 million building project with the announcement that Polshek Partnership of New York, architects for projects such as the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, will take the lead in designing and constructing the new and completely integrated law school facilities in Carlisle and University Park.
Geoffrey Scott, professor of law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, has authored "Football Rising to the Challenge: The Transition from College to Pro," published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
This book is designed to assist collegiate players with career potential as they pursue a career in professional football by helping them to meet and overcome certain challenges. It includes information on legal issues; financial career concerns; agent issues; mental and emotional preparation; dealing with the media; balancing personal goals with team interests; endorsement deals and much more.
The Penn State Dickinson School of Law, ranked as one of the top-ten alternative dispute resolution programs in the nation, will present the two-day symposium "Neutrality and Impartiality in Alternative Justice" on Sept. 9 and 10. The symposium will feature leading legal scholars and practitioners from the United States and Canada who will discuss the role that neutrality and impartiality plays in dispute resolution proceedings within the alternative justice system.
William E. Butler, formerly of the University of London, has joined the faculty of Penn State Dickinson School of Law as the John Edward Fowler distinguished professor of law. An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems.
Tiyanjana Maluwa, the H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague professor of law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, has been invited to join the inaugural international jury established to select the winner of the Stockholm International Prize in Criminology. The jury is composed of leading scholars from Australia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. The role of the jury is, among other things, to provide expert advice on, and proposals for, the nomination and prize-awarding processes, including the rules of procedure of the jury and criteria for the selection process.
More than a quarter of a million subscribers receive news about Penn State in their e-mail boxes through the Penn State Newswire, the companion Penn State Live Web site receives nearly 10,000 hits a day from people seeking information about the University, and RSS feeds deliver much of the same information directly to news Web sites and individual subscribers. Now, the Department of Public Information has launched the Penn State news widget. Anyone who uses an Apple computer loaded with the OSX 10.4 (Tiger) operating system can get Penn State news delivered right to the desktop with the new Penn State Live widget. Widgets, which are mini-applications that perform common tasks and provide fast access to information, run through the operating system's Dashboard feature. The Penn State Live widget gives users the most recent Penn State headlines automatically. The headlines then link directly to the full stories on the Penn State Live Web site.
Laurel S. Terry and Nancy A. Welsh, professors of law at The Penn State Dickinson School of Law, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2005-2006 academic year. As a Fulbright Scholar in Cologne, Germany, Terry will research the basis for, and response to, the European Union (EU) Commission's Report that concluded some regulation of lawyers in the EU (including Germany) may be anticompetitive. Welsh will carry out her work in the Netherlands, where the government is preparing to launch a significant initiative to offer mediation in all of the nation's courts and legal advice services.
