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Widener University Commonwealth Law School is recognizing students named to the spring 2026 dean's list for their academic excellence. To earn this distinction, students achieved a semester GPA that placed them among the top 20% of their class.Spring 2026 dean's list honorees are:Kelsie…

Three years of law school taught them the law. The weeks leading up to the bar exam taught them something else entirely: how to trust themselves under pressure, lean on community and keep moving forward even when exhaustion and doubt crept in. For members of the class of 2025 at Widener University…

Widener University Commonwealth Law School closed out the 2025–2026 academic year by recognizing the faculty and staff whose scholarship, teaching and service shaped the student experience well beyond the classroom.Dean andré douglas pond cummings presented the law school's 2026 faculty and staff…

More than a decade after serving as dean of Widener University School of Law, Dean Emerita Linda Ammons returned to Widener Law Commonwealth this summer to teach during the law school’s intersession program. Ammons, who served as dean from 2006 to 2014 when the Delaware and Harrisburg campuses…

At Widener University Commonwealth Law School, a reimagined student-run podcast is taking shape as both a creative outlet and a strategic storytelling tool, one designed to capture the realities of law school while pulling in broader audiences through timely legal conversations and high-interest…