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.

Daryl Lim PROFESSOR DARYL LIM HOSTS WEBINAR ON CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PRIVACY

October 2022 — Professor Daryl Lim organized and moderated a webinar on “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: What Every Lawyer Should Know.” The program provided a forum for legal professionals to learn about the latest developments in cybersecurity and data privacy. Full story

Sarah Williams PROFESSOR SARAH WILLIAMS WRITES FOR THE COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG

October 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams accepted an invitation from Columbia Law School’s blog on corporations and the capital markets to submit a conversational summary of her upcoming article, “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB.” Full story

Daryl Lim in class DEAN DARYL LIM JOINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SOCIETY FOR LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE

October 2022 — Dean Daryl Lim joined the Intellectual Property Law Society members for a lunchtime dialogue that Professor Martin Skladany moderated. Full story

JOTWELL PROFESSOR EMERITA TERRY AUTHORS JOTWELL REVIEW REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAWYER REGULATION

October 2022 — Professor Emerita Laurel Terry recently published a JOTWELL review entitled, “Is Climate Change Really A Lawyer Regulation Issue?” She reviewed Professor Victor Flatt’s law review article entitled, “Disclosing the Danger: State Attorney Ethics Rules Meet Climate Change.” In doing so, she drew upon her work with an International Bar Association committee that prepared a paper entitled “Legal Services and Climate Change.” Full story

Medha Makhlouf MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP CLINIC STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN INAUGURAL “HEALTH EQUITY IMMERSION” WITH PENN STATE HEALTH MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE STUDENTS

October 2022 — An interdisciplinary group of Penn State students, faculty, and medical residents boarded a bus in Hershey to embark on the inaugural Health Equity Immersion — a five-hour experience designed to teach participants about the social and political determinants that contribute to health disparities. Among the participants were students in the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic and Professor Medha D. Makhlouf, who co-developed the experience with colleagues at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health. Full story

Daryl Lim PROFESSOR DARYL LIM PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN INDIANA UNIVERSITY MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW'S IP THEORY JOURNAL

October 2022 — Professor Daryl Lim published an article in Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s IP Theory journal. Full story

Andrea Martin PROFESSOR ANDREA MARTIN TO PRESENT AT THE 2023 AALS ANNUAL MEETING

October 2022 — Professor Andrea J. Martin will present her article on recent constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the broader implications for tribal and state family courts at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting as part of the Newer Scholars’ Writing Workshop program. Full story

Daryl Lim ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION DARYL LIM ORGANIZES TWO EDUCATIONAL EVENTS

October 2022 — Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Daryl Lim organized two events with guests Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen, professor at the University of Washington School of Law, Elizabeth Rowe, professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Peter Yu, professor at Texas A&M University School of Law. Full story

Sarah Williams PROFESSOR SARAH WILLIAMS’ SECOND WORK IN THE AREA OF AUDITOR REGULATION TO BE PUBLISHED BY ST. JOHN’S LAW REVIEW

October 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams has accepted an offer from St. John’s Law Review to publish her recent article, “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB.” Her article will appear in print in the fall of 2023. Full story

building PROFESSOR DARYL LIM PARTICIPATES IN THE MARCUS EVANS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) LAW SUMMIT

September 2022 — Professor Daryl Lim participated in the Marcus Evans Intellectual Property (IP) Law Summit on September 18-20, 2022, in Las Vegas. The IP Law Summit is an invitation-only event bringing leading IP executives and innovative suppliers and solution providers together. Full story