Megan Riesmeyer

Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Law Clinic

Professor Megan Riesmeyer is the director of Dickinson Laws Community Law Clinic, where she focuses litigation on family, disability, and poverty law. She chairs Dickinson Law’s Diversity and Educational Equity Committee, is a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission on Domestic Relations Matters, and sits on the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Ethics Committee.

Professor Riesmeyer serves as a board member for the Community Justice Project (a statewide legal service agency) and as a board member for UPMC Carlisle Hospital.


Select Publications by Professor Riesmeyer

“How Can Pennsylvania Protect Itself From Its Own Measles Outbreak?” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, April 2020, Volume 91 , No. 2.

“A Practitioner’s Guide to New Developments In Pennsylvania’s Child Protection Laws,” with Lucy Johnston-Walsh, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, April 2015, Volume 86, No. 2

Megan Riesmeyer

Location: Carlisle

Email  mam941@psu.edu 

Phone  717-243-2968

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Education

J.D., Dickinson Law

B.A., University of Delaware


Research Interests
Poverty and the treatment that people living in poverty receive in the court system, specifically the family court system.

Current Courses
Advanced Clinic
Community Law Clinic

 


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.