Dickinson School of Law
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The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and is the law school of The Pennsylvania State University. It abuts Dickinson College, a private four-year liberal arts college. It was founded by John Reed in 1834, making it the fifth oldest law school in the United States and the oldest law school in Pennsylvania. Originally associated with Dickinson College, it was chartered as an independent institution in 1890. It remained so for over 100 years, until it became associated with Penn State University in 1997. The law school is home to over 600 law students, as well as a faculty and staff of over 100.
In 2005 a dispute over whether or not to move the Dickinson School of Law to Penn State's University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania led to a "dual campus" proposal being enacted. Under this proposal, Penn State plans to invest over $100 million in a law school that will operate out of both locations. The proposal was approved by the law school 's board of trustees before the 2005-2006 academic year. The Dickinson School of Law has now fully merged with Penn State. Starting in the fall of 2006, the law school will offer classes for the first time at its University Park location. Starting in the summer of 2006, the Carlisle location will be undergoing a massive renovation, while a new law school facility begins construction at University park.
U.S. News and World Report, in its 2007 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools, ranked Dickinson School of Law 87th among the nation's top 100 law schools.
Law Journals
- Penn State Law Review
- Penn State International Law Review
- Penn State Evironmental Law Review
- The Journal of American Arbitration
The law school’s Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice also publishes The World Arbitration and Mediation Report and the Smit-Carbonneau Guides to International Commercial Arbitration.
Student organizations
The Law School maintains an extensive roster of student organizations, including chapters of the Federalist Society, the Phi Alpha Delta, and the Saint Thomas More Society.Students at Penn State Dickinson are active in intramural sports program. Current intramural sports include indoor soccer, flag football, volleyball, basketball and bowling.
Several students are also members of a rugby and softball team. Each spring the law school sends a softball team to represent the law school at the University of Virginia Law School Softball tournament.
Notable alumni
- Andrew Curtin, Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania (1861 - 1867)
- Arthur Horace James, former Pennsylvania Governor (1939 - 1943)
- John Sydney Fine, former Pennsylvania Governor (1951 - 1955)
- Lewis Katz, owner of the New Jersey Nets Basketball Team
- Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania Governor (1995 - 2001), former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (2001–2003), first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2003 - 2005)
- Paul E. Kanjorski, United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Sylvia Rambo, first woman to serve as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania for the Middle District
- J. Michael Eakin, Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Pedro Cortés, current Pennsylvania Secretary of State
- Scott Paterno, 2004 Republican nominee against Congressman Tim Holden, son of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno
- D. Brooks Smith, class of 1976, is a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
- John E. Jones III, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who presided over the ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District which states that the teaching of Intelligent Design in public classrooms violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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