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.

Medha Makhlouf PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF CONTRIBUTES TO NEW VOLUME EXAMINING THE PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMING OF DISABILITY

April 2020 — This month, Cambridge University Press published Disability, Health, Law and Bioethics, an edited volume based on the 2018 annual conference of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The volume examines how different frameworks for understanding disability can affect medical, legal, and social structures. Professor Makhlouf’s chapter in the volume analyzes the treatment of disability within U.S. immigration law. Full story
Workshop MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP CLINIC DELIVERS NATURALIZATION WORKSHOP FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

March 2020 — Law students in the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic participated in a citizenship forum organized by International Healthcare Professionals Program (IHPP). Through an innovative collaboration, the Clinic is providing representation to IHPP participants in selected immigration and public benefits matters. To kick off the collaboration, students Mark Lingousky and Jasmine Sandhu joined Professor Medha Makhlouf to deliver a workshop titled, “Naturalization 101.” Full story
Medha Makhlouf DICKINSON LAW PROFESSOR NAMED ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY

February 2020 — Medha Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Dickinson Law, and assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine has been named to the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to create a global network of committed leaders working across societies and nations to promote health equity.
Medha Makhlouf PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF NAMED ATLANTIC FELLOW FOR HEALTH EQUITY

February 2020 — Professor Makhlouf recently began her tenure as an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, a one-year, non-residential fellowship program that aims to create a global network of committed leaders working across societies and nations to promote health equity. The program’s two-week initial convening in January brought twenty new fellows and several senior fellows to Washington, D.C., from around the world. Full story
Medha Makhlouf PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF PRESENTS AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM ON EMERGING ISSUES IN BIOETHICS

January 2020 — Professor Medha Makhlouf presented her research on the ethics of DNA testing in the U.S. immigration context, at the invitation of the editorial board of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. The Symposium, titled “Emerging Issues in Bioethics,” explored bioethical legal issues in new and developing areas of health care. Full story
Medha Makhlouf JOINT APPOINTMENT AWARDED TO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW AND CLINIC FOUNDING DIRECTOR MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF

August 2019 — Medha D. Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of Dickinson Law's Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, received a joint appointment as assistant professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine—part of central Pennsylvania’s only academic medical center that also includes Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Medical Group.