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Jessica L. Santiago, a May 2016 graduate, recently won an award for her article examining a legal question getting under people’s skin – whether or not tattoos should be subject to copyright law. Her article “Tattoos: Meaning of Tangible Medium in 21st Century” earned third place in the 2016…

The Law and Government Institute had a wonderful year.  Because of the efforts of our alumni, students and faculty, Widener Law Commonwealth was recognized as a top twenty school for public service by preLaw magazine.  We were the only law school in Pennsylvania to receive this…

Mark Smith, a second-year law student, admits that he is no Tom Cruise. During his time in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP) he failed to get his witness to tell him he couldn’t handle the truth, like in the famous trial scene in “A Few Good Men.” But Smith added that the hands-on…

Twenty-five years ago, Judge Susan E. Schwab stood on the stage of the Forum in the Capitol Complex for the first time and gave her valedictorian speech to the inaugural graduating class of the Widener University Law School Harrisburg Campus. On Sunday, a quarter-century later, as the Magistrate…

Nearly 100 active duty soldiers, veterans and lawyers gathered at Widener Law Commonwealth to discuss critical military law issues affecting soldiers and veterans. Panel participants included high-ranking military leaders, renowned military law experts and administrators of organizations offering…

Passion. Dedication. Perseverance. These are the values the Honorable Patrick J. Murphy used to describe today’s soldiers and veterans at the Military Law Symposium held at the Commonwealth Law School. “If you want to look at something good in America, look at the American soldier,” said Murphy,…

Boots, the therapy cat, lounged casually between two students as they studied for final exams on Monday in the Pit. Other dogs mingled with law students and faculty making sure to position themselves at the best vantage points for ear scratches and tummy rubs. Law school is tough. So, to help make…

Widener Law Commonwealth hosted a forum organized by the Pennsylvania Women’s Forum featuring all five of the candidates running for the office of Attorney General.  The office will be open because current Attorney General Kathleen Kane has decided not to run for re-election.  The two…

More than 85 runners recently took to the pavement for the inaugural Speedy Trial 5k held on the Widener Law Commonwealth campus.  The event was organized by the Phi Alpha Delta – Pepper Chapter, a law fraternity. The beneficiary of the race proceeds was MidPenn Legal Services and the…

The federal immigration court is located in a large cinder block building tucked away on a side road, in a quiet industrial park off Route 30 in York, PA.  A person looking at the building would have a hard time distinguishing it from the York County Prison.  The immigration court is…

Widener Law Commonwealth’s first-time bar test takers recently earned a 100 percent bar passage rate on the bar exam that was given in February. The law school was the only Pennsylvania law school to achieve this success rate among first-time test takers. "We are very excited about the…

Image  “Is all law technology law?” This was a question recently posed by Professor Joshua Fairfield, a speaker at the John Gedid Lecture Series at Widener Law Commonwealth. Professor Fairfield, of Washington and Lee University School of Law…