“My ultimate goal is to encourage and nurture every student to become a thoughtful, prepared, and ethical attorney,” says
Professor Robyn Meadows. For the past 17 years, she has followed that mandate. “I believe that the impact that I have on my students is ultimately the most important impact I have on the legal community. When I see my former students become contributing members and real leaders in the legal community, I hope I have had some small part in their success,” she adds.
In order to prepare students for a future as thoughtful, prepared, and ethical attorneys, Professor Meadows emphasizes real world problems. “In my classes, I use the problem method. We study the law in the context of real world problems. It is important to see the human side as well and to try to integrate the law, the real world, and ethical issues in the classroom,” she says in describing how she prepares her students for the future.
“I believe that we have a responsibility to the legal community and to our students,” says Professor Meadows, citing the difficulties of passing the bar as one particular example. “I ran the Bar Readiness program on the Harrisburg Campus this past year,” she notes with pride. Preparing students to take the Bar Exam is one of the final steps in teaching the next generation of lawyers.
In addition to her teaching duties, Professor Meadows makes the time to do scholarly research. “I write primarily about issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code,” she says, and teaching international commercial law during trips abroad has led her to think more about how international laws interact with domestic ones. As a scholar, she welcomes “the positive comments from professors at other institutions and practicing lawyers about articles” that she has written.