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 a myriad of elective courses, joint degree programs, and clinical offerings designed to meet the needs and aspirations of today’s law students.
We recently introduced legal clinics that focus on children’s rights, asylum and immigration, applied human rights research, and elder law and consumer rights, while sustaining our existing outstanding clinical, externship, and trial advocacy programs. 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, which means extraordinarily rich and 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 America’s most prominent corporate law and mergers and acquisitions scholars (Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr., who joined us from UCLA); the world’s preeminent scholar of the law of Russia and public international law (Professor William E. Butler, who joined us from the University of London); an acclaimed scholar of criminal law, civil rights and feminist jurisprudence (former U.S. Supreme Court clerk Professor Kit Kinports, who joined us from the University of Illinois); 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); one of the nation’s leading scholars of gay rights and political philosophy (Professor Carlos A. Ball, who joined us from the University of Illinois); a world-renowned expert in the law of arbitration (Professor Thomas E. Carbonneau, who joined us from Tulane University); and, although too numerous to name, internationally acclaimed scholars of antitrust, law and economics, labor law, tax, family law, reproductive rights, intellectual property, banking, health law, immigration law, and many other important topics.
The incredible depth of our faculty and program
of study will prepare you for your future, regardless
of the direction your career path may take you.
