Dickinson Law News

September 26, 2019 — Every convocation at Penn State Dickinson Law reflects the excitement and promise of a new year. The 2019 edition boasted something more. It also marked the installation of the new dean of the law school, Danielle M. Conway, who also serves as Donald J. Farage Professor of Law.

September 25, 2019 — A joint physician legal issues conference brought lawyers and physicians from across Pennsylvania to Dickinson Law to collaboratively explore health law issues. Hosted by the Pennsylvania Medical Society and Pennsylvania Bar Association Sept. 13-14, 2019, the Pennsylvania Physicians’ Legal Issues Conference featured keynotes by Rachel Levine, M.D., Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Penn State Health, and Pennsylvania State Representative Bryan Cutler, Esq.

September 9, 2019 — Harvey A. Feldman ’69, beloved professor and academic administrator at Dickinson Law, died Wednesday, September 4 at the age of 74.  Feldman joined the Dickinson Law faculty in 1970. During his tenure, he taught property, real estate transactions, remedies, professional responsibility, appellate practice, environmental law, land use controls, and state and local government law. He also founded and taught for several years the Gender and the Law seminar course.

August 26, 2019 — Carrying a smartphone, using a wearable device, opening an app, entering a search query, or checking the weather — things many people do throughout the day — potentially may open the user's data to collection and cybersecurity risks. The National Security Agency (NSA), recognizing an urgent need for nationwide education about cyber technology, policy and law, has worked with a trio of Penn State professors to develop a comprehensive, online, and nationally offered cyber law and policy course.

August 2019 — Medha D. Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of Dickinson Law's Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, received a joint appointment as assistant professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine—part of central Pennsylvania’s only academic medical center that also includes Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Medical Group.

July 2019 — When Professor of Clinical Law Lucy Johnston-Walsh founded the Children’s Advocacy Clinic at Dickinson Law in 2006, her vision included taking on policy projects addressing systemic issues in the legal system that impact children. It took more than a decade, but one of the first things the Clinic advocated for—waiving college tuition for foster children at Pennsylvania colleges—has finally come to fruition.

July 2019 — Mohamed Rali Badissy and Sarah J. Williams have joined the full-time faculty at Penn State Dickinson Law as assistant professors of law. Badissy will teach Contracts, Corporate Finance, Energy Law and Policy, and International Law. Williams will teach Federal Securities Regulation, Financial Statement Fundamentals, Professional Responsibility, and Property.

June 5, 2019 — People who suffer from substance use disorder need effective treatments, however, 90 percent of those who need treatment do not receive it. One Penn State professor and his team are looking into the legal and financial barriers to treatment and how the law can be used to break down or build pathways through those barriers. 

May 16, 2019 — Second- and third-year Dickinson Law students were recognized for their service in public interest and pro bono programs throughout the 2018-19 academic year during a ceremony on Friday, May 10, at Lewis Katz Hall.

May 11, 2019 — Law School celebrates Juris Doctor and Master of Laws graduates.