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.
|
PROFESSOR BADISSY JOINS ENERGY FOR GROWTH HUB AS ADVISOR May 2020 — Professor Mohamed Rali Badissy recently was invited to join the nonprofit organization Energy for Growth Hub as an advisor on energy finance. The Energy for Growth Hub is comprised of scholars and advocates from leading universities, think tanks, and other organizations around the world, including Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Michigan, UC-Berkeley, Rice, Colorado School of Mines, and Chicago, the World Bank, and think tanks in Abuja, Accra, Bangkok, Cape Town, Jakarta, Nairobi, New Delhi, and Washington. Full story |
|
DICKINSON LAW WELCOMES LEGAL SCHOLAR TO FACULTY May 2020 — Raff Donelson has been named assistant professor of law, Penn State Dickinson Law, effective June 1, 2020. Currently assistant professor of law and philosophy at Louisiana State University, Donelson will teach constitutional law, criminal procedure, and jurisprudence at Dickinson Law. |
|
PROFESSOR PRINCE IS AWARDED GRANT TO CREATE OPEN-SOURCE COURSE MATERIALS FOR HER ENTREPRENEURSHIP LAW: COMPANY CREATION COURSE April 2020 — Professor Samantha Prince has been awarded a grant from the Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology Innovation and University Libraries to undertake an Affordable Course Transformation for her Entrepreneurship Law: Company Creation course. Full story |
|
DICKINSON LAW PROFESSOR MOHAMED RALI BADISSY EARNS PRESTIGIOUS IEE SEED GRANT April 2020 — The details are always in the fine print—and this lesson is being learned the hard way across Africa, challenging decarbonization efforts for the continent. Governments throughout Africa are pursuing renewable energy mandates, energy efficiency standards, and other decarbonization reforms, but they face implementation challenges under legacy agreements for thermal power that often have been in place for decades. |
|
PROFESSOR MAKHLOUF COMMENTS ON IMMIGRATION POLICIES FOR COVID-19 LAW AND POLICY BRIEFINGS April 2020 — Professor Medha Makhlouf recently presented a live briefing about the impact of immigration policies on pandemic response at the invitation of Public Health Law Watch, a collaborative initiative that provides expert legal analysis of legislative and regulatory changes that have the potential to impact public health. Full story |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
PROFESSOR SAMANTHA PRINCE’S ARTICLE ON FACILITATING DISTINCTIVE AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE WITHIN U.S. LAW SCHOOLS FEATURED IN THE TAXPROF BLOG April 2020 — Pepperdine Dean Paul Caron’s TaxProf Blog is one of the “go to” blogs for those who are interested in legal education issues. On April 8, 2020, the TaxProf Blog featured an article co-authored by Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Samantha Prince. Full story |
|
PROFESSOR JOHNSTON-WALSH HELPS CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY STUDENTS DEVELOP A BLOG TO ADDRESS IMPACT OF PANDEMIC April 2020 — As the pandemic spread across our country, Children’s Advocacy Clinic students buckled down to analyze the impact of the pandemic on their clients, as well as foster youth across the state. Professor Lucy Johnston-Walsh determined that one of the best ways the clinic could respond was to haves clinic students create blog posts in which they shared information about the impact of the pandemic. Full story |
|
PROFESSOR JOHNSTON-WALSH DISCUSSES COVID-19 IMPACT ON FOSTER YOUTH April 2020 — Clinical Professor Lucy Johnston-Walsh presented on the topic of “COVID-19’s Impact on the Legal Rights of Youth in the Foster Care System” during the University of Oklahoma Law’s Fifth Mini-Conferences on Coronavirus and the Law. Full story |