ABA Legal Ed Council OKs Reunification Of Penn State Law School

Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Applications for Substantive Change (Nov. 2024):

The Council acquiesced in the application of Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law and Pennsylvania State University Penn State Law to merge into a unified law school with two locations.

PennLive.com, Penn State gets American Bar Association OK on Law School Reunification:

The American Bar Association has granted conditional approval of Penn State’s plan to reunite its two now-independent law schools under the Penn State Dickinson Law banner.

Approval by the ABA’s Section on Legal Education is a major step toward completion of the proposed reunification, albeit not the last. Final accreditation decisions still rest with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and U.S. Department of Education. ...

“Uniting the best of both of our existing programs into a single law school allows Penn State to continue ... empowering our law students, and fostering continued greatness in the study and practice of law,” Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi said in Tuesday’s release. ...

The unified school will retain Penn State’s two existing law campuses, with the current Penn State Dickinson Law campus in Carlisle as the primary location, and additional classes and programs offered at University Park. Danielle M. Conway will serve as dean. ...

The unified law school will actually be the fourth iteration for Penn State’s law school since it entered the legal education field by acquiring the then-independent Dickinson School of Law in 1997.

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Ten Years After Splitting Law School Between Two Locations, Penn State To Reunify In Carlisle (Oct. 22, 2024)

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