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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PROFESSOR GARY S. GILDIN PUBLISHES AN UPDATED PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TAKING AND DEFENDING DEPOSITIONS October 2024 — Professor Gary S. Gildin’s article, “An Updated Practical Guide to Taking and Defending Depositions,” has been published in Volume 129, Issue 1 of the Dickinson Law Review. Full story |
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BRENNAN CENTER STATE COURT REPORT PUBLISHES TWO ARTICLES BY PROFESSOR GILDIN June 2024 — The Brennan Center’s State Court Report has published two articles by Professor Gary S. Gildin that offer avenues to preclude the qualified immunity defense in actions to recover damages for invasions of rights guaranteed by a state constitution. Full story |
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PROFESSOR GARY GILDIN'S ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE’S STATE COURT REPORT March 2024 — Professor Gary S. Gildin’s article, “A Primer on Advocating Independent State Constitutional Remedies,” has been published in the Brennan Center for Justice’s State Court Report. Full story |
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ARTICLE BY PROFESSOR GARY GILDIN TO BE PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY February 2024 — Professor Gary S. Gildin has written the short article, “KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid) 2.0: TOTS (Tell Only the Story),” which will be published in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Collective Wisdom: One Bit of Advice forthcoming compilation on Opening Statements. Full story |
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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. 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 |