Penn State Dickinson Law is spearheading a first-of-its-kind initiative. The initiative builds on the law school’s role as host of the 17th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop and Writing Retreat next year. The workshop is named after one of the world’s first Black woman law professors, a daughter of formerly enslaved parents. The workshop has supported current and aspiring Black women law faculty by helping them develop scholarly works, guiding them in attaining academic careers, as well as providing mentorship after.

It has become a tradition for the hosting law school to reserve space for the Lutie law faculty scholarship in a symposium issue. This year under Dean Conway’s leadership, we are excited to work with Pennsylvania law schools to publish Lutie law faculty scholarship in flagship and specialty law reviews across our schools. Dubbed the “Lutie Pennsylvania Collaboration Initiative,” this joint enterprise powerfully underscores the remarkable commitment to inclusive scholarship and the bond of collegiality among the faculty, students, and administrators of these law schools.

Photos (Clockwise): Participants attending the 16th Lutie Workshop Boston University School of Law hosted in 2022 (photo credit: Luguzy Atkins); participants brainstorming; Penn State Dickinson Law Dean Danielle Conway, Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop Founder and Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, and Dickinson Law Review Symposium Editor Minh Eric Le; Pennsylvania-wide law review student editors, faculty, and administrators.

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