Dean Danielle M. Conway presents at Penn Carey Law seminar

CARLISLE, Pa.— In late October, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Former Dean and John H. Chestnut Professor of Law Theodore W. Ruger invited Penn State Dickinson Law Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway to present in his Higher Education Law and Policy Seminar on the topic "Mergers, Consolidations and Bankruptcies in Higher Education."

Seminar students and participants were especially interested in organizational structures and processes in the context of mergers, accreditation standards and regulations governing mergers in higher education, and contractual and financial obligations—such as endowments—that are impacted by mergers.

Dean Conway also got a chance to visit with current Penn Carey Law Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law Sophia Z. Lee.

Danielle M. Conway is the Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. A leading expert in procurement law, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property law, Dean Conway joined Penn State Dickinson Law after serving for four years as dean of the University of Maine School of Law and 14 years on the faculty of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law. Dean Conway’s scholarly agenda and speeches have focused on, among other areas, advocating for public education and for actualizing the rights of marginalized groups and promoting systemic equity in legal education and the profession. Under her leadership, Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) was created to facilitate the dismantling of structures that scaffold systemic racial inequality by using a systems design approach focused on implementing antiracist practices, processes, and policies throughout organizations.

Dean Conway is the current president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). She is the co-recipient of the inaugural AALS Impact Award, which recognized her work in co-curating the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project, a webpage for law deans, faculty, staff, and the public that contains resources and information related to addressing systemic racism in law and legal education. Dean Conway is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the AALS Executive Committee, a director of the AccessLex Institute, and a 27-year veteran of the United States Army, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.