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 TERRY AUTHORS JOTWELL REVIEW REGARDING LAWYER ADMISSIONS AND COMPETENCIES August 2021 — Professor Laurel Terry, who is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and Professor of Law Emerita, recently published a JOTWELL review entitled Rethinking Admissions Requirements: It’s A Global Phenomenon. Her review of Jordan Furlong’s 2020 Report entitled Lawyer Licensing and Competence in Alberta noted global interest in the issue of lawyer admissions and competency, as demonstrated by initiatives such as the NCBE’s NextGen Bar Exam of the Future and the UK’s forthcoming solicitor SQE “super-exam.” Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY TRANSITIONS TO LIFE AS AN EMERITUS PROFESSOR July 2021 — After 36 years at Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Laurel S. Terry has retired. Effective July 1, 2021, she is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law Emerita and Professor of Law Emerita. Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY PARTICIPATES IN 2021 CAN-AM REGULATORS’ ROUNDTABLE June 2021 — Professor Laurel S. Terry recently participated in a virtual gathering of U.S. and Canadian lawyer regulators. Although Professor Terry is not a legal regulator, she was invited to attend the 2021 Can-Am Roundtable because of her role in helping convene the first Can-Am Roundtable meeting. Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY SPEAKS AT NCBE ANNUAL BAR ADMISSIONS CONFERENCE April 2021 — Professor Laurel S. Terry recently participated in a panel session entitled “Measuring Competence: Global Developments and Comparisons” at the annual bar admission conference sponsored by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Professor Terry spoke about developments around the world, as well as Penn State Dickinson Law’s required 1L Contexts & Competencies course, which was inspired in part, by domestic and global discussions about the competencies that new lawyers need. Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY SPEAKS ABOUT RULE 5.5, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, AND COVID AT ABA VIRTUAL SESSION March 2021 — Professor Laurel S. Terry recently served as one of three panelists on an ABA webinar entitled Remote Border Crossing: Covid 19, Changes in Lawyer Mobility, and International Trade in Legal Services. The live version was held March 24, 2021 and the recorded version will be available for three years on the ABA’s website. Full story |
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PROF. TERRY INVITED TO SPEAK AT THE ANNUAL NCBE BAR ADMISSIONS CONFERENCE March 2021 — Professor Laurel S. Terry has been invited to speak at the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ annual Bar Admissions Conference. She will participate in a panel entitled Measuring Competence: Global Developments and Comparisons. Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY SPEAKS ABOUT PMBR AT NOBC MIDYEAR MEETING February 2021 — Professor Laurel S. Terry, along with lawyer regulators from Colorado, Illinois, and Nebraska, recently spoke about the topic of proactive regulation or PMBR at the 2021 Midyear Meeting of the National Organization of Bar Counsel. The NOBC is the professional organization for individuals who “enforce the ethics rules that regulate the professional conduct of lawyers who practice law in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries around the world.” Full story |
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PROFESSOR TERRY PUBLISHES NEW ARTICLE ON GLOBAL NETWORKS AMONG LAWYER REGULATION STAKEHOLDERS November 2020 — Professor Laurel Terry recently published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics an article on the global networks among lawyer regulation stakeholders. Her article, which is entitled Lawyer Regulation Stakeholder Networks and the Global Diffusion of Ideas is available at this link. Full story |
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NEW EDITION AND MATERIALS FOR PROFESSOR TERRY’S PROREP CASEBOOK PUBLISHED August 2020 — West Academic published teaching materials that Professor Laurel S. Terry and her co-authors prepared to support the Spring 2020 publication of the 4th edition of their Professional Responsibility casebook. The supplemental materials included a lengthy teacher’s manual, teaching slides, and Professor Responsibility questions for West’s Casebook Plus bank of questions. Full story |
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COVID-19 HIGHLIGHTS THE RELEVANCE OF PROFESSOR TERRY'S NEW ARTICLE ON GLOBAL LEGAL PROFESSION NETWORKS April 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic hit just as Professor Laurel Terry was making the final edits on her article entitled Global Networks and the Legal Profession. The pandemic reinforced the thesis of Professor Terry’s article, which was the importance of recognizing the broad impact that global networks can have. Full story |