Dickinson Law News

November 24, 2021 — Penn State Dickinson Law will further recent faculty action to lead Antiracism efforts by creating an Antiracist Development Institute (ADI), a program offering organizations across the country systems design-based approaches to implementing antiracist practices, processes and policies throughout each of their functions. Read more

November 23, 2021 — Third-year Dickinson Law students Mitchell Snyder and Tyler Eckert won region 3 in The New York City Bar Association’s Seventy-Second National Moot Court Competition held virtually November 13-14, 2021. Read more

November 2, 2021 — It is an excellent illustration of the old axiom “great minds think alike.” When third-year Penn State Dickinson Law student Parham Golestanian (class of 2022) saw the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, he realized evacuees coming to Pennsylvania would require assistance. He reached out to International Service Center (ISC), a Harrisburg-based nonprofit providing social services. Read more

October 6, 2021 — The Penn State Dickinson Law community lost Joe Harenza last week. Joe passed away peacefully on September 29. Read more

September 23, 2021 — Third-year Penn State Dickinson Law student Ryan Marr believes in taking advantage of opportunities that come his way. From studying in Tanzania to traveling to Bermuda, he says “yes” to any chance to see the world or learn something new. So when he was invited to participate in a project mapping an unexplored patch of the ocean floor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Marr quickly signed up. Full story

September 22, 2021 — Second-year student Ezza Ahmed (Class of 2023) enrolled at Penn State Dickinson Law because she wanted to give back to her community by practicing law. When she learned of an opportunity to give back immediately, while she continues her education, she felt compelled to sign up. Ahmed is one of three students at Dickinson Law, along with fellow second-year law students Aranda Stathers (Class of 2023) and Aria Plants (Class of 2023), sworn in earlier this month as Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Cumberland County. Learn more

September 8, 2021 — Over the past 15 months, Penn State Dickinson Law led law schools across the country in creating and sharing antiracist scholarship and introduced a new antiracist curriculum. Encouraging more students of color to attend law school is a critical aspect of combating systemic inequality and promoting antiracism, and Dickinson Law is leading by example on this as well. Read more

August 30, 2021 — Second-year Dickinson Law students Anthony Fernando and Seth Trott were recognized as the third-place winners in the Center for Legal and Court Technology’s (CLCT) Fourth Annual Artificial Intelligence (AI) Writing Competition. Their co-authored article, “My Pet Car? Assigning Liability When Artificial Intelligence Causes Harm,” explains how the U.S. legal system might assign liability when a highly autonomous product causes harm. Learn more

August 30, 2021 — In 1844, Macon Bolling Allen became the first African American person licensed to practice law in the U.S. After passing the bar in Maine, Allen struggled to find clients in the predominantly white state. He later moved to Boston and became the nation’s first Black judicial office holder. Full story

August 4, 2021 — Pennsylvania is experiencing accelerating COVID-19 case counts across the state, and as of today, August 4, 2021, Penn State Dickinson Law is in an area of substantial (orange) transmission per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker. Effective immediately, masking will be required indoors for all vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals on the Dickinson Law campus in Cumberland county, in accordance with the latest CDC guidelines. Learn more