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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GILDIN PUBLISHES ON-LINE OPEN-SOURCE CIVIL LIBERTIES LITIGATION TEXTBOOK September 2021 — Professor Gary S. Gildin has published Civil Liberties Litigation: Cases and Materials as an on-line, open-source textbook. The book addresses the layers of procedural and substantive doctrines that are triggered when a citizen files a civil action seeking to recover damages or equitable relief for deprivation of a right secured by the United States Constitution. The book can be accessed at https://psu.pb.unizin.org/introcivliblit/. Full story |
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PROFESSOR GILDIN CO-DIRECTS STATEWIDE PUBLIC DEFENDER TRIAL SKILLS TRAINING August 2021 — Professor Gary S. Gildin recently co-directed and served on the faculty of the week-long Trial Skills Training. This program was co-sponsored by the Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania (PDAPA) and Penn State Dickinson Law. Full story |
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PROFESSOR GARY S. GILDIN SPOKE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW’S ONLINE ADVOCACY TRAINING CONFERENCE ON RHETORIC, PERSUASION, AND IMPLICIT BIAS July 2021 — Professor Gary S. Gildin recently spoke at the Training Conference on Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Implicit Bias hosted by Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Professor Gildin addressed the imperative of teaching law students a model of persuasion that incorporates recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Full story |
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TO STAUNCH THE PANDEMIC, WE MUST FIRST DIVEST POLICE OF THEIR IMMUNITY June 2020 — The American populace now finds itself under siege by two contagions—a global virus and an epidemic of killings of black citizens at the hands of police. For the former, herd immunity is an indispensable element of the cure. Tragically, for the latter, immunity is a nefarious spreader of the disease. Full story |