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Visit https://virusinfo.psu.edu/back-to-state/ for more information on Penn State's coronavirus response. For information specific to the Penn State Law community, visit https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/back-to-state.
Penn State Law is focused on providing students with a legal education that will prepare them for success in the legal jobs of tomorrow.
No matter what area of law you specialize in, technology is constantly evolving in legal practice. At Penn State Law in University Park, we prepare our students to lead. Technology and globalization, and the need for cutting-edge technology, are foundationally changing the practice of law. For example, if you choose to practice criminal law, it looks radically different than it did 20 years ago—even discovery looks different. Now, the global pandemic has accelerated this transition and even the way people have learned to practice law online.
Penn State Law, located on Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania, offers all of the resources of a world-class, public research institution together with challenging and innovative classroom study and ample opportunities for learning by doing. A Penn State Law legal education comprises:
Interdisciplinary and collaborative partnerships are a core strategy in our mission of providing students with an innovative legal education at Penn State Law in University Park. Through our Legal-Tech Virtual Lab, we partner with leading legal technology companies to offer workshops to train Penn State Law students in groundbreaking technologies being implemented in today’s legal practice.
The Law, Policy, and Engineering (LPE) initiative, launched in 2019, takes a comprehensive approach to solving major societal challenges. A joint initiative between Penn State Law in University Park, the College of Engineering, and the School of International Affairs, LPE proposes an innovative and ambitious set of new degrees, certificates and courses, and interdisciplinary research and scholarly collaborations. Recent LPE symposia and guest speakers have focused on topics including election security, next-gen biodevices, aerospace engineering, law, and policy, and the interdisciplinary impact of COVID-19.
In 2020, in partnership with LegalSifter and Penn State’s Office of Sponsored Programs, we announced a strategic pilot project to explore a “combined intelligence” solution for the negotiation of sponsored-research contracts. The goal: to help the University’s negotiators review contracts more quickly and confidently, while in compliance with best practices.
Penn State Law provides opportunities to develop cross-cutting knowledge needed to solve problems and partners across the university to impact the world, including: