Penn State Dickinson School of Law
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| Motto | Practice Greatness |
| Parent school | Pennsylvania State University |
| Established | 1834 (as the Dickinson School of Law) |
| School type | Public law school |
| Dean | Gary S. Gildin |
| Location |
Carlisle, PA 40°11′58″N 77°11′50″W / 40.1994°N 77.1973°WCoordinates: 40°11′58″N 77°11′50″W / 40.1994°N 77.1973°W |
| Enrollment | 184 |
| Faculty | 33 |
| Website | dickinsonlaw.psu.edu |
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| Official name | Dickinson Law |
| Designated | October 20, 1949 |
Penn State Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is one of two separately accredited law schools of The Pennsylvania State University.
U.S. News & World Report, in the 2018 edition of its law school rankings, ranked Penn State Dickinson Law 65th among 197 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association.
According to Penn State Dickinson Law's 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 59.6% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
The Law School offers J.D. and LL.M. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars. The law school was opened by Judge John Reed in 1834 as the law department of Dickinson College, named for Founding Father John Dickinson. It received an independent charter in 1890 and ended all affiliation with the college in 1917.
In 2000, Penn State and The Dickinson School of Law merged. Until 2014, Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law operated as a single law school with two campuses – one in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and one in University Park, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 2014, Penn State received approval from the ABA to operate the two campuses as two distinct law schools (now known as Penn State Law and Dickinson Law), both of which share the history and achievement of The Dickinson School of Law.
Lewis Katz Hall, named in honor of philanthropist and businessman, Lewis Katz, for his $15 million gift to the Law School as the principal donor to the construction and renovation project that began in January 2008. Completed in January 2010, the transition marked the end of a two-year, $52 million construction project which included the addition of the elegant, new Lewis Katz Hall which leverages advanced high-definition, digital audiovisual telecommunications systems to connect Dickinson Law to not only Penn State's University Park campus but to locations around the world.
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