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.
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GROOME SPEAKS AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENN CAREY LAW January 2024 — Professor Dermot Groome spoke on a panel addressing the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in Ukraine. Full story |
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GROOME SPENDS SUMMER WORKING WITH UKRAINIAN WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS August 2023 — Professor Dermot Groome spent this past summer working with prosecutors in the War Crimes Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine. He trained 76 prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes and advised them on current investigations. Full story |
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GROOME MAKES SUBMISSION TO THE PROSECUTOR OF THE ICC REGARDING HIS POLICY ON CHILDREN June 2023 — This month, Professor Dermot Groome submitted a proposal for changes to the Office of the Prosecutor’s 2016 Policy on Children. Groome’s submission proposes that child soldiers be reconceptualized within the legal framework of international humanitarian law to ensure that they have maximal protections when they are unlawfully incorporated into an armed formation. Full story |
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GROOME GIVES SPEECH TO BALTIMORE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS April 2023 — Professor Dermot Groome was recently invited to address the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs. His speech, “Closing the Impunity Gap for War Crimes in Ukraine” considered how the international legal principle of universal jurisdiction might be used to facilitate greater accountability for international crimes committed in Ukraine. Full story |
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GROOME CONTRIBUTES CHAPTER ON THE 1904 GENOCIDE OF THE NAMA AND HERERO PEOPLES OF PRESENT-DAY NAMIBIA March 2023 — T.M.C. Asser Press, a division of Spring Books, recently published Contemporary International Criminal Law Issues — Contributions in Pursuit of Accountability for Africa and the World. Professor Dermot Groome contributed a chapter which considers the atrocity crimes committed against the Herero and Nama peoples of Southern Africa (modern-day Namibia) between 1904 and 1907 by German colonial forces. Full story |
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SEVERAL SENIOR UKRAINIAN PROSECUTORS COMPLETE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW COURSE AT DICKINSON LAW November 2022 — This fall, several senior prosecutors from the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine completed Dickinson Law's International Criminal Law course over Zoom. Full story |
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PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW PROFESSOR DERMOT GROOME RECEIVES THE 2022 PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIC INTEGRATION FROM PENN STATE UNIVERSITY April 2022 — Dermot Groome, professor of law and Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Penn State Dickinson Law, has been awarded the 2022 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. Read more |
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DICKINSON LAW PROFESSOR DERMOT GROOME OFFERS RESOURCES ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW March 2022 — Penn State Dickinson Law launched Justice for Ukraine, a webpage where those working for justice in Ukraine can come to access important resources and information they will need. Read more
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U.N. APPEALS CHAMBER AFFIRMS CONVICTION OF RATKO MLADIC, WHOSE PROSECUTION WAS LED BY PROFESSOR GROOME June 2021 — On June 8, 2021, the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia affirmed the trial judgment of General Ratko Mladić convicting him of inter alia Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Professor Dermot Groome led the prosecution of the trial. In addition to prosecuting General Mladić for the crime of Genocide, Groome also prosecuted the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević. Full story |
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DEAN CONWAY AND MULTIPLE FACULTY TO PARTICIPATE IN RUTGERS LAW ANTIRACISM SYMPOSIUM AS PART OF DICKINSON LAW’S COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING SYSTEMIC RACISM March 2021 — Deans Danielle M. Conway, Amy Gaudion, and Bekah Saidman-Krauss, and Professor Dermot Groome will participate in Rutgers Law School’s April 2021 Race and the Law Review Symposium entitled Building an Anti-Racist Curriculum and Law School. Their remarks and multiple law review articles explain how Dickinson Law’s faculty is operationalizing its unanimous resolution to develop an antiracist curriculum. Full story |