Accomplished Faculty

Sarah Williams

From leading practitioners to accomplished researchers and scholars, our faculty are some of the best legal minds in the country. Our faculty is engaged in a constant quest for knowledge and wisdom it can share with our students as well as with the legal profession, scholars, policy makers, and others, consistent with Penn State’s role as a world-class research university.

As engaged scholars, the Dickinson Law faculty believes that its scholarly and teaching missions should be complementary. Our professors teach here because they love the chance to shape the future of lawyering, and believe that having both a solid understanding of existing theory and the ability to develop new theories is indispensable to our students’ ability to operate as legal professionals in an increasingly global, diverse, and sophisticated legal environment. Learn more about the accomplishments of our faculty and their contributions to the University and to local, state, national, and international efforts to improve global understanding and the lives and well-being of our students and the worlds in which they will live.

Resident Faculty
Laura Ax-Fultz*
Larry Catá Backer**
Gopal Balachandran**
Susan Bardo**
William B. Barker*
Mandee B. Baumer**
Brendan Bernicker**
Stanley Brand*
William E. Butler*
Nicole Chong**
Jamison E. Colburn**
Lance Cole*
Danielle M. Conway*
Katrice Bridges Copeland**
Julie Tedjeske Crane*
Jonathan D’Silva**
Ylli Dautaj**
Angela R. Dean*
Jeffrey A. Dodge*
Keith Elkin**
Jill C. Engle**
Jeffrey Erickson**
Tonya M. Evans†
Michael Foreman**
Amy C. Gaudion*
Gary S. Gildin‡
Ronnie R. Gipson Jr.*
Patrick J. Glen*
Dermot Groome*
Jenny Ham**
Abi Hassen*
Christopher S. Havasy*
James W. Houck**
Titichia M. Jackson*
Lucy Johnston-Walsh*
Nicholas Kahn-Fogel*
Eileen M. Kane**		 Julia Y. Lee**
Daryl Lim†
John E. Lopatka**
Medha D. Makhlouf‡
Tiyanjana Maluwa**
Andrea J. Martin*
Jud Mathews**
Rebecca A. Mattson**
Andrea M. Matwyshyn**
Adam I. Muchmore**
Brent E. Newton*
Katherine C. Pearson†
Ross Pifer**
Samantha J. Prince*
James M. Puckett**
Mae C. Quinn**
Marie T. Reilly**
Megan Riesmeyer*
Victor Romero**
Stephen F. Ross**
Shaakirrah R. Sanders*
Bethany N. Schols**
Geoffrey R. Scott**
Richard G. Settgast**
Tom Sharbaugh**
Martin Skladany*
Sabrina Sondhi*
Emily Spottswood*
Theresa K. Tarves**
Samuel C. Thompson Jr.**
Michele Vollmer**
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia†
Sarah J. Williams*
Hannah Wiseman**
Samuel Wiseman**
Megan Wright‡
*Carlisle
**University Park		 † On Leave
‡ On Sabbatical
Adjunct Faculty
Hon. Meghan Adams*
Jennifer Allison*
Lyubomir Avdzhiyski*
Rebecca Bain**
Edward Beckwith**
Valerie Brown**
Jared S. Childers*
Crystal H. Clark*
Starlin Colon*
Darryl W. Cunningham*
Grace E. D’Alo*
Katie Dang*
Janene M. Druck*
Denise Elliott*
Ana Enriquez*
Kara M. Eshenaur*
Julie Farris**
John A. Feichtel*
Heidi Freese*
Hubert X. Gilroy*
Hon. Kuyomars "Q" Golparvar*
Ana Paulina Gomez*
Petra K. Gross*
Kristin Hayes**
Michael Helbing**
John D. Huh*
Neeka Jones*
Lindsey Kurtz**		 Robert Lapowsky*
Marissa S. LaWall*
Richard Laws**
Anna T. Levin*
Robert Lichtenstein**
Mala Malhotra-Ortiz*
Ronald S. McGlaughlin**
Timothy J. Nieman*
Tonya R. Noldon-Randall*
Ken O’Neill**
Tracy Ortega**
Melanie Reid*
Alxis Rodis*
Lora Rupert**
Andrew S. Rusniak*
Nilam Sanghvi*
Thomas B. Schmidt*
Katrina N. Shank*
Mark A. Smith*
John A. Snyder**
Jonathan B. Stepanian*
Rhodia D. Thomas*
Alexia C. Tomlinson*
Erin Varley*
Hon. Thomas C. Wheeler**
Derrick P. Williamson*
Stephanie Wilusz**
Samantha K. Wolfe*
*Carlisle **University Park
Advocacy Faculty
Brigid Q. Alford*
Francis T. Chardo*
James T. Clancy*
David A. Fitzsimons*
John W. Frommer*
Mary L. Klatt*		 John R. Ninosky*
Joshua G. Parsons*
Hon. Christylee L. Peck*
Dean Piermattei*
Lori J. Ulrich*
Jayson Wolfgang*
*Carlisle **University Park
Law Library Faculty
Laura Ax-Fultz*
Julie Tedjeske Crane*
Jenny Ham**		 Rebecca Mattson**
Sabrina Sondhi*
Theresa Tarves**
*Carlisle **University Park
Emeriti Faculty
Robert M. Ackerman*
Susan Beth Farmer**
James R. Fox*
Cecily A.H. Giardina*
Peter G. Glenn*
Steven D. Hinckley**
David H. Kaye**
Christine H. Kellett*
Kit Kinports**
Leslie M. MacRae*
Camille C. Marion*		 Michael Mogill*
Gail A. Partin*
Thomas Place*
Mark W. Podvia*
Mary Kaye Polacheck*
Robert Rains*
Jane Rigler*
Judy Swarthout*
Laurel S. Terry*
Panagiotis Takis Tridimas**
*Carlisle **University Park
Affiliate Faculty
Mohamed Rali Badissy*
Anthony M. Bertelli**
Daniel R. Cahoy**
William A. Calo**
Robert Frieden**
Charleen Hsuan**
Robert Lennon**
Flynt Leverett**		 Maria Lewis**
Jonathan H. Marks**
Chad Marzen**
Michele L. Mekel**
Michael J. Nelson**
Jennifer K. Wagner**
Christopher Zorn**
*Carlisle **University Park

Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.