As a unit of a world-class research university, Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law is able to offer students a rich and diverse academic program with elective courses, joint degree programs, and clinical offerings designed to meet the needs and aspirations of today’s law students.
We offer our students outstanding clinical, externship, and trial advocacy programs and the opportunity for experiential learning in legal clinics that focus on children’s rights, asylum and immigration, appellate civil rights advocacy, disability law, family law, and elder law and consumer rights. We have established student exchange programs with the University of Cape Town, the University of Maastricht, and other top foreign law schools. We administer Penn State’s new professional graduate School of International Affairs, creating unique classroom and joint degree opportunities for our law students.
The professors from whom you will learn at Penn State Dickinson now include one of the world’s leading authorities on international arbitration and professional ethics (Catherine Rogers, who joins us from Louisiana State University Law Center); the former deputy director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. (Michael Foreman); one of America’s most prominent corporate law and mergers and acquisitions scholars (Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr., who joined us from UCLA); a prolific scholar of the law of Russia and public international law (Professor William E. Butler, who joined us from the University of London); an internationally renowned human rights scholar who served as the first counsel to the African Union and later as counsel to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (Professor Tiyanjana Maluwa, who joined us from the University of Cape Town); and, although too numerous to name, acclaimed scholars of labor law, tax, family law, reproductive rights, intellectual property, banking, elder law, and many other important topics.
The incredible depth of our faculty and program
of study will help you prepare for life as a professional,
regardless of where your career path may lead you.
