Penn State’s Danielle Conway Appointed President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools

Danielle M. Conway, the Donald J. Farage Professor of Law and dean of Penn State Dickinson Law, has been named president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Conway has led Pennsylvania State University’s law school since 2019. Over the past six years, she has worked to unify the university’s two law schools under the combined name, Penn State Dickinson Law, which recently earned approval from the American Bar Association. During her tenure, she also launched Penn State’s Antiracist Development Institute, an initiative aimed at dismantling systemic racial inequality.

Prior to her career at Penn State, Professor Conway served as dean of the University of Maine School of Law for four years. Earlier, she spent 14 years on the faculty of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her career in academia began with a stint as a full-time lecturer with the Georgetown University Law Center, followed by a faculty position with the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. In 2016, she retired from the U.S. Army after nearly three decades of service.

In her scholarly work, Professor Conway specializes in procurement law, entrepreneurship, intellectual property law, and licensing intellectual property. An author or co-author of numerous case books, book chapters, articles, and essays, Dr. Conway’s next book, Building an Antiracist Law School, Legal Academy, and Legal Profession is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

Professor Conway holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and international business from New York University, a juris doctorate from Howard University, and a master of laws degree in government procurement law and environmental law from George Washington University.