Bethany N. Schols

Executive Director, Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity and Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Bethany Schols is the inaugural Executive Director of the Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity.

Prior to her employment at Penn State Law, Professor Schols was an accomplished litigator, practicing for over 20 years in Chicago in trial and appellate complex commercial litigation, as well as federal employment discrimination and harassment matters. She was a partner at Dykema Gossett, and then in 2010, joined Hardt Stern & Kayne as a partner to lead their litigation team. Among other accomplishments, Professor Schols obtained a rare Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversal involving the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. She is active as a volunteer advocate for women’s rights and gender equity, and has, throughout her career, volunteered as a mock trial judge and moot court judge for various programs.

Bethany Schols

Location: University Park

Email  bqs5768@psu.edu

Faculty Impact


Education
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, with high honors

B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Current Courses
Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity (“Manglona Lab”)


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.