Dickinson Law News

June 2020 — Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway shared a following message with the Penn State Dickinson Law community on Sunday, May 31, 2020. Full story

June 3, 2020 — Titichia M. Jackson, Esq., former director of bar preparation and support for North Carolina Central University School of Law, has joined the faculty of Penn State Dickinson Law as assistant professor of lawyering skills and director of academic success and bar passage.

June 3, 2020 — Penn State Dickinson Law students Myla Garcia ‘22 and Kendell Wilson ‘22 were recently named Student Fellows as part of the 2020 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship. Selected from an applicant pool of 446, Garcia and Wilson are two of the 35 law students who will serve in the 2020 class of Rural Summer Legal Corps and help address the effects of COVID-19 in rural communities across the nation.

June 2, 2020 — Together, in one voice, the Penn State Dickinson Law faculty is condemning the brutality and inequities we are seeing in our country and stating our resolve regarding how we will be part of the solution to these ongoing problems. 

May 20, 2020 — The global health pandemic may have resulted in the postponement of Dickinson Law’s traditional in-person commencement ceremony for the class of 2020, but it did not stop administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni from collectively recognizing the accomplishments of the Law School’s juris doctor and master of laws graduates.

May 2020 — Raff Donelson has been named assistant professor of law, Penn State Dickinson Law, effective June 1, 2020. Currently assistant professor of law and philosophy at Louisiana State University, Donelson will teach constitutional law, criminal procedure, and jurisprudence at Dickinson Law.

April 30, 2020 — Students enrolled in Penn State Dickinson Law’s Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Clinic focus on identifying and addressing the socio-legal causes of poor health in order to prevent negative legal, financial, and health consequences for their clients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities due to socioeconomic status have come into sharp focus.

April 2020 — The details are always in the fine print—and this lesson is being learned the hard way across Africa, challenging decarbonization efforts for the continent. Governments throughout Africa are pursuing renewable energy mandates, energy efficiency standards, and other decarbonization reforms, but they face implementation challenges under legacy agreements for thermal power that often have been in place for decades.

April 21, 2020 —The COVID-19 global health pandemic has forced institutions across the country to postpone in-person commencement ceremonies and other celebratory events recognizing the Class of 2020. While the need to postpone the in-person ceremony was disheartening, Dickinson Law’s administration, faculty, and staff seized the opportunity to creatively and compassionately plan celebrations and activities to recognize its graduates. In response, Operation Realizing the Dream was born.

April 6, 2020 — When people can’t leave their houses to attend an event, you bring the event to them. With residents across Pennsylvania sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State Dickinson Law’s Business Law Society is converting two upcoming entrepreneur pop-up clinics to virtual sessions, allowing people to participate from their homes. 
The pop-up clinics, which had been scheduled to take place at Penn State commonwealth campuses this month, include workshops designed to educate early-stage entrepreneurs about topics critical to launching, promoting, and sustaining new businesses.