Honored to join Dean Danielle Conway in representing Penn State Dickinson Law at the Fourth 21st Century International Forum of Law School Deans and Jurists at Renmin University of China in Beijing.

Dean Conway joined fellow deans from around the world in the Deans’ Forum: Legal Education in the Era of AI, while I contributed to the International Forum on Emerging IP Issues in the Age of AI. These conversations highlighted how legal education and research can meaningfully engage with the transformative challenges of artificial intelligence.

The forum brought together an extraordinary group of leaders, including:

John Armour (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Louise Gullifer (Cambridge Faculty of Law), William Alford (Harvard Law School), Guobin Cui (Tsinghua University), Ignacio Tirado, Secretary-General of UNIDROIT – International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, senior representatives of UNESCO.

It was a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues we met earlier this week in Chongqing and Beijing, including the President of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Lin Wei, and the Dean of Beijing Foreign Studies University Law School, Ding Xiaochun. We were also delighted to meet Singapore Management University School of Law Dean Pey Woan Lee at the event. Dean Lee and her colleagues hosted the Penn State delegation when we visited Singapore last year.

Events like these reinforce Penn State Dickinson Law’s commitment to advancing global legal education and ensuring that our students and scholarship remain at the forefront of debates on AI, intellectual property, and the future of the rule of law.