Three new faculty members join Penn State Dickinson Law for 2026-’27

CARLISLE AND UNIVERSITY PARK, PA— Penn State Dickinson Law has added two new assistant professors of law and one law librarian to the resident faculty for the 2026-’27 academic year.

Patrick J. Glen and Jenny Kim join the Law School in the Carlisle location as assistant professors of law, teaching courses in legal writing. Erin Seeton joins the faculty as a law librarian and professor of legal research in the University Park location.

“The experience of the faculty joining Penn State Dickinson Law for 2026-27 meaningfully adds to our student-centered program of legal education. I’m especially excited for them to share their impressive knowledge and background in the classroom. Our community looks forward to welcoming these colleagues as we start our new academic year,” said Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Jeffrey A. Dodge.

Additionally, three faculty members earned promotions on July 1. Amy C. Gaudion and Samantha Prince were elevated to full professor with tenure, while Dodge rose to associate professor of law.

“We congratulate our accomplished faculty members on their promotions. Their remarkable dedication to legal education inspires our students and elevates our entire academic community,” said Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Michele Vollmer.

Faculty joining Penn State Dickinson Law

Patrick J. Glen

Glen joins Penn State Dickinson Law following two decades of practice as an appellate litigator with the United States Department of Justice. He handled seven merits cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, dozens of en banc proceedings, and hundreds of petitions for review of agency action in the federal courts of appeals.

He has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. Additionally, Glen served on details in the Office of General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, and Executive Office of the President.

He spent years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught immigration law and policy and law and literature. In 2024-’25, Glen was a visiting assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law. The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times have all published his opinion writing, and he’s published scholarly articles in Duke Law Journal Online, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and Hofstra Law Review.

Jenny Kim

Kim comes to Penn State Dickinson Law from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she served as assistant clinical professor of law teaching research and writing; interviewing, counseling, and oral advocacy; and negotiation. She also served as a clinical fellow in the Immigrant Rights Clinic and a supervising attorney for the DACA Renewal Project and Afghan Asylum Project at Duke University School of Law.

Prior to entering academia, Kim worked for the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (formerly CAIR Coalition) Immigration Impact Lab, where she rose from staff to senior to managing attorney.

She has litigated impact immigration cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits that involved issues regarding the constitutionality of the detention of noncitizens and the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Her article proposing relief for deportable noncitizen veterans was recently published in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties.

Erin Seeton

Before joining Penn State Dickinson Law, Seeton served as a staff attorney at Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, representing clients in housing, probate, and family cases. In that position, she represented clients in housing, family, and probate cases. Additionally, Seeton provided legal advice to hundreds of low-income clients per year on all types of civil case matters and participated in community outreach and trainings related to common legal issues for the rural, indigent client population.