We also have welcomed several diverse and distinguished scholars to our already top-notch faculty. Our new appointments include the preeminent authority on the law of Russia, the first chief counsel to the African Union; a leading financial scholar who served recently as counsel to the presidency of the European Union; an experienced and internationally prominent labor law and civil procedure scholar; the co-author of two of the nation's leading tax textbooks; a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun; one of the nation’s top antitrust scholars and a former senior official of the Federal Trade Commission; a prominent bankruptcy and commercial law scholar; and one of the nation’s leading sports law, antitrust, and comparative Canadian law scholars.
Our successes also include the establishment of a semester-long Washington, D.C. externship program, the Children’s Advocacy Clinic, the Refugee Clinic, the Penn State Institute of Arbitration Law and Practice and the Penn State Institute for Sports Policy and Research. Together with our existing excellent faculty and academic offerings, these new programs and faculty promise a legal education for you as practical, creative and excellent as any in the United States.
Additionally, because of the $110 million investment that we are undertaking in new law school facilities, we soon will enjoy signature buildings in Carlisle and University Park that will attract the attention of people worldwide and simultaneously express the dignity of the legal profession and of The Dickinson School of Law. Designed by world-renowned Polshek Partnership Architects, both facilities will feature state-of-the-art courtrooms, classrooms, conferencing facilities, hearing rooms, reading rooms, gathering spaces, and an auditorium designed for law school as well as public use, and the buildings will be pervasively interconnected to enable the real-time delivery to each location of the classes and programs of the other.
Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law is establishing exciting new dimensions of legal education. I encourage you to browse our Web site to learn more about our exciting programs and faculty. Please don’t hesitate to call our Admissions Office at (717) 240-5207 or our toll free switchboard number (1-800-840-1122) to discuss your application concerns and to find out how we can tailor a legal education that’s fit for you.
Dean Philip McConnaughay
