Keith Elkin

Associate Dean for Academic Success and Professor of Legal Skills

Dean Keith Elkin is responsible for the overall leadership and administration of the Office for Academic Success (OAS). The main goal of the OAS is to develop and deliver programs to promote the academic success of J.D. students from matriculation, during law school, and as they prepare to enter the legal profession. This includes programming and support for students during orientation, the three years of law school, and for the bar exam.

Dean Elkin works with students individually as well as in small and large group settings to improve various academic skills, such as written legal analysis, exam taking, and time management. He provides feedback to students on practice exams, exercises, and other writing throughout their law school career. He also advises students on issues related to registration, academic progress, and bar administration.

Dean Elkin teaches Higher Education Law Practice each Fall and Fundamental Skills for the Bar Examination each Spring. He is the author of several books and articles on bar exam preparation.

 

 Keith Elkin

Location: University Park

Email  kue2@psu.edu

Phone  814-865-9035

Dean Elkin in the Media

Faculty Impact

Education
J.D., M.S. Ed., University of Miami

B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton

Current Courses
Fundamental Skills for the Bar Examination

Higher Education Law Practice
Elkin’s Publications

Your Guide to Taking the Bar Exam (Again), (Aspen, 2012). (with Rosemary La Puma, et al.)

MBE: Beginning your Campaign to Pass the Bar Exam (Aspen, 2011)

Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.