Scholarly Dialogues

Scholarly Dialogue: Stephanie Jirard (January 2012)

February 1, 2012

Advocacy of Death Eligible Offenders Stephanie Jirard Penn State Law Review hosted a Scholarly Dialogue on January 30, 2012 featuring Professor Stephanie Jirard as she presented her work, “Advocacy of Death Eligible Offenders.” Professor Jirard is a former Navy Judge Advocate General, Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Division, and [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Kit Kinports (Apr 2010)

April 9, 2010

Penn State Law Review hosted a Scholarly Dialogue on April 12, 2010 featuring Kit Kinports, Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, as she presented her work, “Veteran Police Officers and Three-Dollar Steaks:  The Subjective/Objective Dimensions of Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.”  This Article addresses two issues surrounding probable cause and reasonable suspicion that test the line [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Stephen F. Ross (Apr 2010)

March 27, 2010

Penn State Law Review hosted a Scholarly Dialogue with Stephen F. Ross, Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law, and Director, Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy and Research, on April 7, 2010. [watch video] Professor Ross presented his work, “Judicial Review of NCAA Decisions: Evaluation of the Restitution Rule and a Call for Arbitration.”  This article analyzes the oft-distinct strands  of private associational law and remedies to [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Donald C. Langevoort (Mar 2010)

February 25, 2010

Penn State Law Review hosted the distinguished guest Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, on Wednesday, March 24, 2010.  Professor Langevoort presented his working paper Reading Stoneridge Carefully:  A Duty-Based Approach to Reliance and Third Party Liability under Rule 10b-5. [watch video] Following Professor Langevoort’s presentation, Dominic Rupprecht, Penn [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Nancy Welsh (Feb 2010)

February 8, 2010

Penn State Law Review hosted a Scholarly Dialogue with Professor of Law Nancy Welsh on Thursday, February 25, 2010.  Professor Welsh, of the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, presented her forthcoming article “What Is ‘(Im)Partial Enough’ in a World of Embedded Neutrals?”   Professor Welsh’s work discussed the role of “embedded neutrals” who may have an affiliation with [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Zachary A. Kramer (Feb 2010)

January 29, 2010

Penn State Law Review held a Scholarly Dialogue with Professor Kramer on Monday, February 8, 2010. This Dialogue featured Zachary A. Kramer, Assistant Professor of Law, as he presented his work, “Heterosexuality and Military Service.” Professor Kramer’s work makes two distinct contributions to the scholarly literature. First, it provides a new way of approaching the [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Victor Romero (Jan 2010)

January 17, 2010

Penn State Law Review held a Scholarly Dialogue on Thursday, January 28 with Victor C. Romero. This Dialogue featured Victor C. Romero, Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, as he presented his work, “Of Hope and Humility:  Christian Realism, Immigration Reform, and Executive Leadership.”   Drawing upon President Barack Obama’s admiration of [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Carla Pratt (Nov 2009)

November 10, 2009

The program featured a recent article titled “Way to Represent:  The Role of Black Lawyers in Contemporary American Democracy” by Carla Pratt, professor of law at Penn State University, the Dickinson School of Law.  Professor Pratt‘s article, which was published earlier this year in Fordham Law Review, argues that black lawyers perform a unique role [...]

Scholarly Dialogue: Larry Catá Backer (Oct 2009)

October 8, 2009

Professor Backer presented the inaugural event in the Scholarly Dialogues Series. The program featured a recent article by Professor Backer, Professor of Law at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law. The article is entitled “The Party as Polity, the Communist Party, and the Chinese Constitutional State: A Theory of State-Party Constitutionalism.” Professor Backer’s article, which [...]