While most people tend to thinking of lynchings as something that mostly happened in the South, mob violence was widespread in the United States from 1883 to 1941, and its victims included nearly all races and ethnicities, according to researchers. An interactive map shows the extent of this particularly brutal form of violence.
General biases may be at work when people blame or criticize victims of crimes, including rape and robbery victims, according to criminologists. For example, about 80 percent of participants in two studies on the role biases play in victim blaming assigned some direct blame to victims of robbery, while about 43 percent of the participants leveled some direct blame at rape victims.
The Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society will sponsor a grant program this summer for undergraduate students interested in pursuing an interdisciplinary research experience.
A select group of public defenders from across Pennsylvania traveled to Penn State’s Dickinson Law Oct. 23 to participate in the inaugural Pennsylvania Defender Advanced Cross-Examination Training Program. Sponsored by Dickinson Law’s Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy and the Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania, the advanced cross-examination training was a highly interactive “bring your own case” program that taught cross-examination strategies and techniques that encourage attorneys to find the story and motivation behind each case.
Assistant Dean Matt Gardner is designing a videoconferencing platform for the Moldovan justice system based on Penn State Law’s technology in the Lewis Katz Building in University Park.
Undergraduate students in Pennsylvania are invited to apply now for Explore Law, a tuition-free five-day program in University Park that gives students the chance to meet attorneys, take classes and "reach a verdict" on the legal profession.
Air Force friends and former next-door neighbors Kate Boyd and Joshua Hanna are looking forward to seeing each other at Penn State’s fall commencement on Dec. 21. While living on Guam, both students earned their bachelor’s degrees online through Penn State’s World Campus.
Penn State Law is offering its first online program through the World Campus. The Professional Certificate in U.S. Business and Constitutional Law will prepare legal professionals trained outside the United States to understand the U.S. common law system, so they can practice law in the United States or work with U.S. clients or multinational companies.
Episode Two of World on Trial examines whether U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are a violation of international human rights law. The mock trial was filmed at Penn State Law in University Park on June 26. Presiding over the trial was Judge James E. Baker of the U.S.
Joseph Sestak, former congressman and retired U.S. Navy three-star admiral, has been named as the 2013-14 recipient of the General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership. While in residence, Sestak will conduct classes at Dickinson College, the U.S. Army War College and the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law and School of International Affairs.
The Law School celebrated 198 J.D. and 43 LL.M. graduates on Saturday, May 11. Commencement activities included ceremonies in University Park and Carlisle, Pa.
Penn State Law is hosting a screening of "The Memphis 13: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement's Smallest Pioneers" at 5 p.m. Feb. 11, in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, and the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, Pa. The public is welcome and a discussion will follow in both locations.
The film features interviews with 13 African-American students who, in 1961, walked into what had been an all-white school in Memphis, Tenn. The documentary also includes interviews with their families as well as students, teachers and leaders who lived through the experience.
What is the role judicial review when a party to arbitration seeks to vacate the arbitrator's award? What is the role of the courts when an unhappy party seeks to set aside a mediated agreement? Top scholars of dispute resolution will examine these questions and more on Feb. 22 at Penn State Law. "The Role of the Courts: Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards and Mediated Settlement Agreements" has been approved for 4 CLE credits and will be live in Carlisle, PA, and University Park, PA.
Children are among the most vulnerable parties in the legal system and often lack legal counsel, especially in an immigration context. On behalf of client Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and as part of their work at the Center for Immigrants' Rights, Penn State Law students (now attorneys) Nick Quesenberry, 2011 graduate, and Tayler Summers, 2012 graduate, helped create training materials on U and T Visas. Their contribution became part of a recently finalized training manual for pro bono attorneys who take on cases through KIND.
Liliana M. Garces, counsel of record for the amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Social Science Researchers in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, will speak at noon on Monday, Oct. 1, in the Garden Room of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Penn State's University Park campus.
