NEWS & EVENTS

Upcoming Events

  • Free Speech and Higher Education, 03/18

    The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy welcomes Judge Kyle Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to discuss free speech and higher education. The program will address constitutional protections and limitations on free speech, the rise of campus illiberalism and recent controversies about free speech and antisemitism.

  • Current Federal Court Challenges to LGBTQ+ Civil Rights, 03/18

    Join OUTLaw, If/When/How, Villanova Law Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Tufano Interdisciplinary Initiative on Poverty and Inequality on Monday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m. in room 302. This discussion will feature Zachary Strassburger, deputy city solicitor of the Philadelphia law department and Thomas Ude Jr., Esq., director of legal and public policy at the Mazzoni Center, in conversation with Janine Dunlap Kiah ’07, director of public service and pro bono initiatives at Villanova Law, regarding challenges to LGBTQ+ and civil rights, how to work towards safeguarding these rights as attorneys and how to best support impacted communities.

  • 2024 CARES Symposium, 03/22

    For its fourth annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will shed light on important legal issues immigrants face while navigating the immigration system, including legal topics that affect them while their immigration applications are pending or for those who do not have a pathway to legalization. The symposium, “Supporting Asylum Seekers and Immigrants: An Intersectionality of Immigration and State Law,” will examine how immigrants are affected by laws in health, family, labor and more.

  • 27th Annual Public Interest Auction, 03/23

    Join the Walter A. Lucas '88 Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) for our 27th Annual Public Interest Auction, benefitting Villanova Law students who dedicate their summers to public interest and public service legal work. Over the past 27 years, PIFP has funded 260 law students working at more than 140 public interest law organizations, raising over $1 million for Villanova Law’s public interest community.

    

News

  • Villanova University Graduate Tax Program Launches International Tax Certificate

    Beginning in fall 2024, Villanova University will offer a new certificate in International Tax, expanding upon the professional offerings within the Charles Widger School of Law and its Graduate Tax program. The certificate will provide an additional credential for advanced tax specialists to further their technical knowledge and skills in an evolving field.

  • Faculty Scholars: Preston Jordan Lim

    Preston Lim started his academic career at Villanova Law in fall of 2023, drawn in large part by the opportunity to help build out the international curriculum. Before joining the faculty, he held two clerkships in Canadian courts, and he also traveled widely in China before earning his law degree. He is interested in both China’s relationship to international law and Canada’s legal system and constitutional history.

  • Driven to Help, On and Off the Field

    Chandon Pierre ’25 found his path to Villanova Law thanks to two of his passions: a desire to create social change and his love of playing football. The Reno, NV native transferred to Villanova Law this past summer to continue his impressive simultaneous pursuits of being a full-time law student and proud member of the Villanova Wildcats football team.

  • Faculty Scholars: Ana Santos Rutschman

    When the FDA approves a new medicine, vaccine, or medical device, many assume it gets released into the marketplace and immediately begins helping people. But that is not always the case. In both her teaching and research, Professor of Law Ana Santos Rutschman examines what should happen and what actually does happen. “In order to think about social justice and economics, you have to understand ‘invisible things,’ such as FDA regulations and those that apply to the industry and medical professionals,” says Professor Santos Rutschman. “You must look at corporate structures and patents. You must look at financing mechanisms. I teach all of these invisible things to my students.”