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Penn State Law offers LSAT prep course in PhiladelphiaPenn State Law is offering individuals in the Philadelphia-area who plan to take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), a two-day course designed to help generate better results. he LSAT preparation course will be held at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 13th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, January 26 and Sunday, January 27, 2013.

Professor Catherine Rogers helps build capacity for ADR in SingaporeProfessor Catherine Rogers is a founding faculty member on the newly launched Singapore International Arbitration Academy. Established this year by the Centre for International Law and the National University of Singapore, the academy trains private sector and public sector lawyers and officials from Singapore, the ASEAN member states, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Spain, and Tanzania in an effort to build capacity in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration in the Asia-Pacific region.

ICTY Appeals Chamber upholds Lukic verdictsThe Appeal Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upheld the 2009 conviction of Milan and Sredoje Lukic for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a conviction pursued by Dermot Groome, senior ICTY Prosecutor and member of the Penn State Law faculty. In addition to prosecuting cases at ICTY, Professor Groome also supervises internships for Penn State Law students.

Clinic project helps unaccompanied immigrant childrenChildren are among the most vulnerable parties in the legal system and often lack legal counsel, especially in an immigration context. On behalf of client Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and as part of their work at the Center for Immigrants' Rights, Penn State Law students (now attorneys) Nick Quesenberry ’11 and Tayler Summers ’12 helped create training materials on U and T Visas. Their contribution became part of a recently finalized training manual for pro bono attorneys who take on cases through KIND.

International Competition Network gets Professor Farmer's helpAt the International Competition Network (ICN) Advocacy Workshop in Paris last month, Professor Beth Farmer worked with fellow panelists Seppo Reimavuo, director of the Finnish Competition Authority, and Shri S.L. Bunker, secretary of the Competition Commission of India and moderator Caldwell Harrop, Foreign Commerce Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, to help define the role of the ICN in competition advocacy.

Mark Polin '10: New life, new careerDr. Mark S. Polin ’10 has devoted his career to helping women. As an OBGYN in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he delivered about 2,000 babies and focused his practice on treating infertility and performing advanced laparoscopic surgery.

The Mad Mullah MythProfessor Flynt Leverett co-authored "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran." The book will be available in January and an excerpt is posted here with permission.

Philadelphia D.A. Seth Williams brings personal experiences to ethics classIn introducing Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to his professional responsiblity classmates, James Hendershot '14 said that Williams personifies the characterisitics of a professionally responsible prosceutor the class had been studying. "We have learned that a prosecutor is more than just an advocate for victims of crime, but a minister of justice. That is, a prosecutor is committed to the service of the public as a whole, and a prosecutor's ethical obligations reflect this," he said.

Civil Rights Appellate Clinic students await Supreme Court’s decision in harassment caseStudents in the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic are awaiting a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Vance v. Ball State University, which could have a widespread impact on how employment discrimination cases are handled throughout the country. At issue in the case is whether the person who allegedly harassed Vance qualifies as a "supervisor" under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Diversity of international student population a plus for LL.M. studentsInternational education exchanges are at all-time high, strengthening economies and societies around the world. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Penn State ranked 12th in the nation for its international student enrollment with a total of 6,075 international students enrolled at University Park and 6,621 University-wide. We caught up with a few international students in the LL.M. program who shared their impressions about Penn State Law.