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.

Danielle M. Conway DEAN CONWAY PARTICIPATES IN PODCAST ABOUT BLACK WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

May 2021 — The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape recently hosted Dean Danielle Conway on its podcast that focused on the role of Black women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. This PA Centered podcast was part of PCAR’s History You Should Know mini-series, which celebrates and highlights stories of people who advanced the anti-sexual violence movement, particularly Black women. Full story

Conway, Gaudion, Saidman-Krauss, Groome 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

Danielle M. Conway IMPORTANT UNIVERSITY REPORT DEAN CONWAY CO-AUTHORED IS RELEASED FOR COMMENT

December 2020 — Danielle M. Conway, who is the Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law, serves as Co-Chair of the Select Penn State Presidential Commission on Racism, Bias, and Community Safety. On December 3, 2020, the University released for public comment the report prepared by this Presidential Commission. Full story

Danielle M. Conway DEAN CONWAY’S $125,000 SCHOLARSHIP GIFT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE OTHER LAW DEANS

November 2020 — Dean Danielle M. Conway’s $125,000 gift to the Dickinson Law Future Fund not only helps law students at Penn State Dickinson Law, but it has indirectly helped law students at other schools as well. Dean Conway’s gift has been cited as the inspiration for other five-figure gifts by U.S. law school deans. Full story

Danielle M. Conway DEAN CONWAY ACCEPTS CLEO EDGE AWARD ON BEHALF OF DICKINSON LAW

November 2020 — Dean Danielle M. Conway recently accepted, on behalf of Penn State Dickinson Law, the coveted Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. (CLEO) EDGE Award. The EDGE Award recognizes the recipient’s significant commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in legal education. Full story

Danielle M. Conway DEAN CONWAY TO RECEIVE THE AALS’ INAUGURAL 2020 IMPACT AWARD

October 2020 — The AALS has announced that Danielle M. Conway, who is the Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law, will receive the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) 2020 Inaugural Impact Award, along with four Black women law dean colleagues, for the creation of the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse ProjectFull story

Danielle M. Conway LAW DEANS ANTIRACIST CLEARINGHOUSE PROJECT

September 2020 — Following the launch of the Association of American Law Schools Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project, Dean Danielle Conway and Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig talk with Law.com legal education editor Karen Sloan about the initiative, the change they want to see in the legal academy, and the work ahead on this Legal Speak podcast. Full story

Danielle M. Conway DEAN DANIELLE CONWAY PARTICIPATES IN CONFERENCE PANELS TO HELP LAW SCHOOL DEANS PROMOTE EQUITY AND INCLUSIVENESS

September 2019 — Danielle M. Conway, who is Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law, has been heavily involved in efforts to ensure that law deans across the nation and, yes, around the globe, consider it their collective mission to promote equity and inclusiveness in the legal academy and in the legal profession. These efforts include speaking on this topic to her fellow deans at two Summer 2019 conferences. Full story

Danielle M. Conway A MESSAGE TO THE PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW COMMUNITY FROM DEAN AND DONALD J. FARAGE PROFESSOR OF LAW DANIELLE M. CONWAY

June 2020 — Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway shared a following message with the Penn State Dickinson Law community on Sunday, May 31, 2020. Full story

Danielle M. Conway DANIELLE M. CONWAY RECEIVES GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD AWARD

March 2020 — Danielle M. Conway, dean and Donald J. Farage professor of law, Penn State Dickinson Law, was named the 2020 recipient of the George Washington University Law School (GW Law) Belva Ann Lockwood Award from the GW Law Association for Women and the GW Law Alumni Association. Full story