Faculty Impact

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.

Amy C. Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION ORGANIZES WORKSHOP ON TEACHING NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

November 2023 — In her role as chair of the AALS Section on National Security Law, Professor Amy C. Gaudion organized a Workshop on Teaching National Security Law which was held in November 2023. The workshop brought together a variety of legal educators to identify the difficulties and challenges involved when teaching national security law and related topics, and then to share pedagogical tools, analytical frameworks, and skills designed to support and equip national security law teachers as they navigate and explore these important topics with their students. Full story

Amy Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION ORGANIZES NATIONAL SECURITY LAW WORKSHOP

November 2023 — In her role as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on National Security Law, Professor Amy C. Gaudion recently facilitated a workshop she organized on “Teaching National Security Law.” Full story

Sign PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL SECURITY SIMULATION

November 2023 — In early November, Professor Amy C. Gaudion and eight Penn State Dickinson Law students traveled to Ohio State University to participate in the OSU National Security Simulation, sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and led by Professor Dakota S. Rudesill of OSU’s Moritz College of Law. Full story

Amy C. Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION CONTRIBUTES CHAPTER TO HOMELAND SECURITY TEXTBOOK

November 2023 — Professor Amy C. Gaudion has contributed a chapter to the third edition of Foundations of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Law and Policy (Martin J. Alperen ed., 3d ed. forthcoming 2023) (Wiley). Full story

Amy C. Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION PARTICIPATES IN PROGRAM CONSIDERING HOW RACE MANIFESTS IN NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

October 2023 — In her role as chair of the AALS Section on National Security Law, Professor Amy C. Gaudion participated in a program on How Does Race Manifest in National Security held in October 2023. Full story

Building PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW WELCOMES NEW FACULTY

June 2023 — Penn State Dickinson Law is pleased to welcome Christopher S. Havasy, Nicholas Kahn-Fogel, Amy C. Gaudion, and Andrea J. Martin to its full-time resident faculty beginning July 1, 2023. Full story

Amy C. Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION PRESENTS WORK AT 2023 PRIVACY LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCES

June 2023 — Professor Amy C. Gaudion presented her work-in-progress, “Auditing the U.S. Government’s Cyber Stockpile” at the 2023 Privacy Law Scholars Conference held at the University of Colorado Law School from June 1-2, 2023. Full story

Amy C. Gaudion PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION’S WORK SELECTED FOR THE 2023 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCE

March 2023 — Professor Amy C. Gaudion presented her work-in-progress, “Tattooed Servicemembers and the Pentagon’s Watch Dog: Countering Violent Extremism in the U.S. Military” as part of the lightening round sessions of the 2023 National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, hosted by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law on March 23-24, 2023. Full story

Amy Gaudion PROFESSOR GAUDION’S STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN JOINT CYBERSPACE EXERCISE WITH THE U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE

February 2022 — Professor Amy Gaudion’s students recently participated in the 2022 Joint Cyberspace Law & Policy Simulation, an annual collaboration between Penn State Dickinson Law and the U.S. Army War College. In this simulation, now in its fifth year, teams of Dickinson Law and U.S. Army War College students work on interdisciplinary teams to resolve an international cyberspace dispute. Full story

Amy Gaudion PROFESSOR GAUDION PRESENTED AT 2022 AALS ANNUAL MEETING ON “THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION: DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS”

January 2022 — Professor Amy C. Gaudion presented with Darin Johnson, Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law, Sandra Hodgkinson, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Leonardo DRS, and Liam O’Melinn, Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law on the topic of “The January 6 Insurrection: Domestic Terrorism and National Security Issues” at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) on January 6, 2022. Full story