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11/08/2011

Professors Bravo and Magliocca Named Associate Deans

Professor Karen E. Bravo, a well-known international law scholar and an expert in the study of human trafficking, has been named Associate Dean for International Affairs at the IU School of Law - Indianapolis. She will collaborate with law school administration and faculty to identify and prioritize goals for international programs and initiatives, and to raise awareness of the school’s international initiatives among internal and external constituencies.

Professor Gerard N. Magliocca was appointed Associate Dean for Research. In that capacity, Professor Magliocca will advise faculty on research and article placement, promote and market the scholarly output of the faculty, and organize scholarly presentations, by our faculty and by visitors from other schools as well. He was also named a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law in July of this year.

11/03/2011

Professor Roisman Speaks and Writes on Issues of Economic Social Justice

On September 24, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman participated in a conference at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. The conference, co-sponsored by UC Davis School of Law and the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, was called “ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality.” Professor Roisman spoke on a panel entitled “Brick by Brick: Understanding Systems of Domination in the Core Curriculum.”

She has also published an article in the Rutgers Law Review (Spring, 2011), a Festschrift issue for Professor John M. Payne, a leading actor and scholar in the fair housing and fair land use areas of legal scholarship, particularly with respect to the “Mount Laurel” doctrine in New Jersey. Roisman’s article is entitled “Thirteen Principles for Effective Advocacy” (63 Rutgers L. Rev . 985).

11/02/2011

Professors Katz and Klein Provide Expert Analysis on Indiana State Fair Disaster Claims

In a recent article in The Indianapolis Star, Professor Andrew Klein, a tort law expert, commented on the state’s liability limits. Professor Rob Katz, a charity law expert, also commented on the system devised by officials to distribute donated funds to victims. (“Adding insult to injury for victims of State Fair stage collapse?” Indianapolis Star, October 30, 2011) http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110300358

10/21/2011

New Environmental and Natural Resources Law Concentration Now Available to Students

Wind Turbines The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis will offer a new Concentration in Environmental and Natural Resources Law (ENR) for eligible J.D. graduates starting in December 2011. Students completing the concentration will study legal frameworks for managing environmental and natural resource challenges facing policymakers, businesses, and the public – challenges that feature in headlines and in public policy debates daily. The ENR Concentration will serve as a gateway for students wishing to work in the growing fields of environmental or natural resources law as well as those interested in future work concerning property law, real estate development and transactions, corporate acquisitions, land use, energy policy or regulation, urban planning, transportation, agriculture, conservation, public health, or occupational safety. The Concentration will also benefit students interested more generally in public policy, public interest advocacy, or government at the local, state, national, or international level.

“It is difficult to imagine a more compelling issue facing our country – indeed our planet – than the question of how to protect human life and conserve vital resources even as we secure long-term prosperity,” noted Professor Eric Dannenmaier, who directs the school’s ENR Program. “Managing development in a way that balances economic growth with broader societal needs is a complex and critical task, and it is at the heart of environmental and natural resources law. The new ENR Concentration recognizes our school’s commitment to preparing our students to address these difficult issues. The concentration will provide academic grounding and analytical tools necessary to compete and lead effectively whether our graduates work at the state, local, national, or international level.”

A Concentration in Environmental and Natural Resources Law will be awarded to J.D. candidates who complete at least six approved courses totaling at least 15 credit hours in Environmental and Natural Resource Law and closely-related subjects while maintaining a minimum grade point average of 3.0. Courses that meet the ENR requirement include:

Environmental Law
Natural Resources Law
Administrative Law
Animals and the Law
Climate Law and Policy
Energy Law and Regulation
International Environmental Law
Land Use
Toxic Tort and Environmental Law
Utility Law
Water Law

A new course in Agricultural Law and the Environment is also being offered in the spring semester, 2012, and new courses on Environmental Justice and Environmental Compliance and Enforcement and are in the planning stages for the 2012-13 academic year.

In addition, ENR Concentration students will complete a research or experiential “capstone course” that may include externships, law and state government placements, supervised research, and advanced field research. Full details on the concentration can be found at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/ENR/Concentration.htm

The ENR Concentration is one part of IU School of Law – Indianapolis’ broader ENR Program, which is a curricular and co-curricular program designed to prepare students for practice in the private sector, government, and public interest organizations. The ENR Program is an important and growing part of our educational mission. More information is available at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/ENR/

10/13/2011

Professor Adams Advises Kenya Law School on Advocates Training

Professor Cynthia Adams visits Kenya Law School

At the invitation of the Kenya School of Law, Professor Cynthia Adams made a presentation on clinical skills curriculum development at the school’s Midterm Review, held in Nairobi on September 21-23, 2011. Those attending included the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Justices of the Kenyan High Court, the Secretary of Kenya’s Council of Legal Education, the Deans from Moi University School of Law and Strathmore University School of Law, as well as administration and law faculty from the Kenya Law School, Moi University, the University of Nairobi, and Strathmore University.

The Kenya Law School is consulting with Professor Adams on enhancing its Advocates Training Programme. Kenya Law School, founded in 1963 as the country’s first law school, began its one-year Advocates Training Programme in 2008 upon recommendation from the Ministerial Taskforce on the Development of a Policy and Legal Framework for Legal Education in Kenya. The Advocates Training Programme provides clinical skills training to prepare students for admission to the Roll of Advocates and to become officers of Kenya’s High Court. Admission to the programme requires, among other criteria, that the applicant hold a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B.) from a recognized university. Successful completion of the Advocates Training Programme results in a post-graduate diploma.

Pictured above, seated left to right: Emily Chweya (MOJNCCA), Florence Kajuju (Vice Chair LSK), Henry Lugulu (Member CLE), Prof. Cynthia Adams, William Cheptumo (Asst. Min. MOJNCCA), Prof. Kulundu Bitonye (Director/CEO KSL), Roselyn Odede (Member CLE), Prof. Tom Ojiende (Member CLE). Standing: Stakeholders, KSL Management, CPD and ATP staff

10/10/2011

Professor Edwards Hosts Yemeni Women's Rights Advocates and Journalists

Professor George E. Edwards and the Program in International Human Rights Law will be hosting five women’s rights advocates and journalists from Yemen on Tuesday, 11 October 2011, at Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis.

Professor Edwards will discuss International Human Rights Law Education, Research, and Advocacy for Women’s Right to Freedom of Expression and Political Participation with the delegates. Professor Edwards tackled the role of international education in promoting international human rights law in his recently published book entitled LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (Wolters Kluwer Law and Business Publishing, 624 pages, publication date 16 September 2011).

The visitors include Ms. Thuraya Ameen Qasem Dammag, project manager, International Federation of Journalists in Yemeni Syndicates; Ms. Arwa Ibrahim Mohammed Al Shawafi, executive assistant and financial assistant, Academic for Education Development (AED); Ms. Altaf Shaher Ali Mohammed Al Yousefi, coordinator, Civic Democratic Initiative Support Foundation; Ms. Samia Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Saif, journalist, al Thori Newspaper; and Maha Naji Yahya Salah, author and human rights activist.

Simultaneous interpreters Mr. Abdulhalim Rijaal and Ms. Hala Salman will be accompanying the visitors. The U.S. Department of State is sponsoring the Yemeni women’s visit under its International Visitor Leadership project on “Young Leaders: The U.S. Political Process.” Maryvonne Kerzabi, director of the International Visitor Programs of The International Center coordinates the visit.

The discussion will be held at the Faculty Lounge, room 351, from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. at Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis, IN 46202. Faculty, students, staff, and members of the public are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Boyet Caparas at pcaparas@iupui.edu.

10/07/2011

Professor Edwards’ LL.M. Roadmap Now Available in Print

Professor Edwards’ LL.M. Roadmap launched at Harvard Law School and in Paris, France

Cover of LL.M. Roadmap book Professor George E. Edward’s new book, LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs , held its official U.S. launch at Harvard Law School on September 16, 2011. The event took place as part of “Harvard Literati: Celebrating the Works of Alumni Authors,” which was attended by numerous well-known authors including Harvard Law School Professor Annette Gordon-Reed (a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and Pulitzer Prize winner, pictured below with Professor Edwards), Professor Randy Kennedy, and New York Times Best-Selling author and CBS drama series CSI:NY actor Hill Harper.
Professor George E. Edwards and Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School

The European debut for the 624-page LL.M. Roadmap was in Paris, France on September 26, 2011. The event was an “LL.M. Workshop” sponsored by the U.S. Department of State/Franco-American Commission, along with the Fulbright Commission. Professor Edwards introduced the book to the 75 French prospective LL.M. students, and presented on the topic of U.S. legal education for international and domestic J.D. and LL.M. students.

Professor Edwards says, “The LL.M. Roadmap is a comprehensive guide to assist students from around the world in choosing, applying to, and succeeding in an American LL.M. program, and to assist them in reaching their personal, professional and career goals upon graduation.”

Meredith McQuaid, President and Chair of the Board of Directors, NAFSA – Association of International Educatiors wrote, “LL.M. Roadmap….will motivate law schools to reflect critically on the LL.M. programs they offer.” McQuaid is also a Dean and the Associate Vice-President of the University of Minnesota.

The November 2011 issue of the National Jurist is scheduled to reprint excerpts of LL.M. Roadmap’s Chapter 6, which focuses on LL.M. program ranking and reputation.
Professor Edwards’ article entitled, “International Students and Master of Laws (LL.M.) Programs in the U.S.: What U.S. Law Schools Will Not Tell You About Choosing the ‘Best’ School, Getting Admitted, Succeeding in Their LL.M. Programs, and Getting a Good Job Post-Degree” will appear in the Fall 2011issue of the Journal of the International Law Students Association.

Professor Edwards, the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, established and supervised the law school’s LL.M. Track in International Human Rights Law from its inception until the Spring of 2011. He is also the former executive chair of Graduate Programs at the school.

Professor Edwards is the founder and director of the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL), a program which has sent international human rights law interns, both from the J.D. and LL.M. programs, to at least 168 placements in 50 countries worldwide since the program began in 1997. The PIHRL is accredited with a special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Professor Edwards is Affiliated Faculty of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University in Bloomington, and he has received numerous teaching, research and civic engagement awards since 1999.

Professor Edwards has presented on the topic of U.S. Legal Education for International Students and other international issues in over two dozen countries.

Professor Edwards is donating all of his profits from this edition of the LL.M. Roadmap to the International Law Students Association (ILSA), which is the parent organization of International Law Societies at law schools across the U.S.

The LLMRoadMap.com web site has received visits from 279 different individual cities in close to 70 countries and has more than 300 Twitter followers @LLMRoadMap. For more current information about the book and activities related to it, see the web site: www.LLMRoadMap.com.

09/21/2011

Law School Launches Health Compliance Program with Major Conference

The Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis is launching a major initiative in biomedical and health industry compliance law.

To launch the program, the Hall Center is convening an Inaugural Biomedical and Health Industry Law and Compliance Conference on September 21, 2011 at the law school. The focus of the conference is law and compliance, with special emphasis on emerging compliance trends, fraud and abuse, enforcement and pharmaceutical and manufacturing issues. The event offers 6.0 hours of Indiana Continuing Legal Education Credit (including 1.0 hours of Ethics Credit).

Dean Gary R. Roberts says, “The school has the expertise to provide outstanding education to the growing group of health lawyers and professionals pursuing careers in health care compliance law.”

This initiative will offer expanded courses and clinical education offerings in the compliance field and develop a certificate program in health law with a specialty in biomedical and health industry compliance law by 2012. This specialty curriculum will be established within the existing Health Law Curriculum and the existing track in the law school’s LL.M. for Health Law, Policy and Bioethics.

NBC journalist Jonathan Alter will speak at noon and Joyce R. Branda, Director of the Fraud Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch at the U.S. Department of Justice, will give the morning keynote on “Health Care Reform and Health Care Fraud Enforcement.” Branda supervises civil fraud matters and federal litigation under the False Claims Act and other laws. She has lectured extensively and appeared on panels on health care fraud, procurement fraud and on the False Claims Act and civil enforcement.

Professor Emeritus and former co-director of the Hall Center, Eleanor DeArman Kinney will be honored at the reception in the Conour Atrium following the conference.

09/16/2011

Professor Tom Wilson Leads Brazilian Program

Guests from Brazil visited the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis From September 4 through 10, the law school was the site of the third annual Program in American Law for professors and students from the Faculdades Espirito Santenses Law School (FAESA), which is located in Vitoria, Brazil. Professor Lloyd T. "Tom" Wilson founded the Program and is its director.

The program consists of classroom instruction each morning and field trips each afternoon. Classroom instruction is on a topic chosen each year by the FAESA professors. In 2011, the subject of the program was “The Common Law in Principle and Practice.” This topic allowed the participants to gain a better understanding of the common law and to compare it to the civil law system of their home country.

The program included visits to:

the United States District Court, where the FAESA group met with judges Sarah Evans Barker and William T. Lawrence (IU-Indianapolis School of Law, Class of 1973), who spoke about the role of federal courts in a federalist system
the Indiana Supreme Court, where Justice Frank Sullivan spoke to the group in the Supreme Court Courtroom about the state court system
the Indiana Senate, where the group heard from Senator Phil Boots and Senator Brandt Hershman (IU-Indianapolis School of Law, Class of 2013) about matters ranging from state government finance to the top issues on the legislative agenda
the Office of the Indiana Attorney General, where they met with Attorney General Greg Zoeller who spoke about his duties and his relationships with attorneys general of other states
the Baker & Daniels law firm, where Brita A. Horvath (IU-Indianapolis School of Law, Class of 2002) spoke about the pro bono and civic engagement activities of lawyers in the state and about specific initiatives in which the firm’s lawyers are involved

In addition to the law school, the FAESA group also visited Wabash College, where they met with students enrolled in a course on the Culture and Social Issues of Brazil, and spoke with students and faculty at an open forum.

Professor Wilson will host another group of faculty and students from FAESA in September 2012.

09/11/2011

Law Review Dedicates Issue to Memory of Professor Mitchell

The Indiana Law Review dedicated Issue 3 of Volume 44 as a special tribute to the memory of Professor Mary Harter Mitchell who passed away in 2009. ILR Editor-in-Chief for Volume 44, Kate Mercer-Lawson, says, “The articles were specifically solicited for this issue because we thought the authors shared Professor Mitchell’s passion for certain topics.” In addition to articles about prisoners’ rights and women lawyers, there are also several tributes by faculty colleagues. Mercer-Lawson says, “We were even fortunate enough to publish some of Professor Mitchell's poetry.” To order a copy of this special publication, please contact the Indiana Law Review.

09/11/2011

Law School Welcomes New Faculty

Joining the law school’s faculty this Fall are two scholars and one familiar face.

Fran Quigley, ’87 rejoined the Clinical Law Faculty after several years working as the Executive Director of the Indiana chapter of the ACLU and spearheading the AMPATH and the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE) programs in Kenya. He will be leading the school’s newest clinical course in the area of Health and Human Rights. More about Professor Quigley…

Associate Professor Lahny R. Silva comes to the law school from Wisconsin Law School in Madison, where she was the William H. Hasite Fellow. She is an expert in Criminal Law and will teach Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Criminal Procedure: Investigation. More about Professor Silva….

Associate Professor Margaret Tarkington is a graduate of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where she also taught for four years. She has also taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Her areas of specialty include Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure, and Federal Courts. More about Professor Tarkington…

Welcome to the IU School of Law - Indianapolis family!

09/08/2011

CLH Scholar to Speak at Seton Hall Symposium

Priscilla Keith, '93 Priscilla D. Keith, ’93, Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects for the Hall Center for Law and Health, was asked to present at the Seton Hall Law Review’s 2011 Symposium, “Implementing the Affordable Care Act” on October 28 in Newark, NJ. The Seton Hall Law Review will publish the article in Fall, 2012. Dr. Jeff Brenner is the keynote speaker for the Symposium. Keith was also appointed to serve as a member of the ABA’s Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness.

09/07/2011

Law Degree? Medical Degree? Why Not Both? Indiana University Has a Plan

Indiana University students can graduate with medical and law degrees through a new joint degree program offered at the IU School of Medicine and the IU School of Law- Indianapolis.

The joint degree program is yet another opportunity for students seeking to expand their career options.

“We are actively seeking opportunities that would benefit our students and many are interested in joint degrees,” said Paula Wales, Ph.D., interim associate dean for undergraduate medical education at the IU School of Medicine.

“The schools of law and medicine at IU have a long tradition of collaboration,” said Gary R. Roberts, Dean of the IU School of Law – Indianapolis. “The idea of combined degrees in law and medicine makes great sense for individuals interested in pursuing careers in public health, health policy and life sciences to name a few of the increased options.”

The J.D./M.D. degree program is available to IU students this fall. Students must complete national admissions tests for law and medical school and be admitted to each school individually. If the course work is completed in optimal time, the dual degrees can be awarded within six years of enrollment.

For additional information on the program, contact the law school’s Hall Center for Law and Health.

08/31/2011

Professor Waterhouse Speaks and Writes on Issues Surrounding Slavery, Reparations and Diversity

Professor Carlton Waterhouse recently organized and participated in panels at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) in Hilton Head South Carolina on July 29 and the 86th Annual Convention of the National Bar Association in Baltimore Maryland on August 3. Professor Waterhouse spoke at SEALS about a recent Ninth Circuit Court decision suggesting that a CIA torture victim seek a reparations claim for abuses he experienced. Professor Waterhouse, who serves as the Vice Chairperson of the Law Professors Division of the NBA, organized a panel addressing diversity in law school admissions for the conference that featured Kent Lollis, the Executive Director for Diversity Initiatives at the Law School Admissions Counsel, Leroy Pernell, the Dean of the Florida A&M University School of Law and Professors Carla Pratt and Dorothy Evenson of Penn State University who recently completed a joint study on the subject. Professor Waterhouse also participated on an NBA panel examining the relationship between religion and reparations for human rights abuses and historic injustices.

Professor Waterhouse wrote a text that appeared in The Indianapolis Star on Sunday, August 21 entitled, “Beyond Guilt and Shame” regarding the debate surrounding a proposed sculpture of a freedman to be installed near the City-County Building in Indianapolis. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011108210304

08/25/2011

Professor Chestek Examines the National Health Care Reform Litigation from a Storytelling Perspective

Professor Ken Chestek made a presentation to the Third Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law on Sunday, July 10. His presentation, entitled “The National Health Care Reform Litigation: A Case Study of Story in Action,” focused on the numerous lawsuits filed over the past year challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Some of these cases ended with findings by different trial courts that the law was unconstitutional, but others found the law constitutional, despite the fact that the facts and the law are identical in each case. Professor Chestek says, “The mainstream media attributes the different results to differing political mindsets of the judges, but I think there is more to it than that: the plaintiffs chose to tell different stories. Only one story was successful; the rest failed.”

Professor Chestek is the current President of the Legal Writing Institute, an organization of more than 2,700 legal writing professionals in the United States and around the world. He joined the Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC) team at the IU School of Law – Indianapolis in the Summer of 2003 after working as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. He graduated cum laude from University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review.

He has extensive practice experience and has worked as the managing attorney for Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin's Erie office and as a partner in both his own firm (Chestek and Bax) and at Agresti & Agresti, in Erie, Pennsylvania. While in practice, he also served for 18 years as Chief Civil Counsel to Erie County, Pennsylvania.

He has published and given lectures on a wide variety of subjects, including persuasion, teaching methods, tax exemption policy, hospitals and the uses of computers in law offices.

08/25/2011

IP Center Adjunct Professor Bruce Schelkopf Receives International Recognition in the IP Field

The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation is proud to announce that Adjunct Professor Bruce Schelkopf, Chief Counsel and Executive Director of Intellectual Property at Cummins, Inc., was recognized with the coveted international Gold Award as the Best Global Intellectual Property Director 2011 at the International General Counsel Awards hosted by the International Legal Alliance Summit on June 23. A jury of over 80 general counsel from Fortune 500 companies, selected Professor Schelkopf based on his ability to innovate in finding new solutions, maintain the highest standards in the IP profession, and his everyday practice, experience, management and strategy in IP. Professor Schelkopf beat out other IP leaders from around the world including those from ABB and BMW, who both took Silver Awards.

On June 16, in a separate competition for the 2011 International Law Office Global Counsel Awards, Professor Schelkopf was recognized in a heavily contested category as one of the top six worldwide Intellectual Property leaders for his IP achievements across a spectrum of in-house responsibility and successful achievements. IP Representatives from BMW, True Religion Brand Jeans, Leviton Manufacturing Company Inc and Sasol Synfuels International (Pty) Ltd were also among those shortlisted for the Intellectual Property Award.

The Global Counsel Awards, co-hosted by the International Law Office and the Association of Corporate Counsel, recognize individuals and legal teams in the following areas: Competition, Employment, General Commercial, M&A, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Regulatory (Financial and Non-financial). In all, the Global Counsel Awards received more than 3,300 individual nominations from corporate counsel and law firm partners from around the world.

"The IP Center's adjunct professors, a group of world class IP practitioners with extensive experience and highly focused expertise, provide our IP students with unsurpassed practical education on current cutting edge intellectual property issues. The IP Center is extremely proud of Professor Schelkopf's extraordinary accomplishments that led to much deserved international recognition," remarked Professor John Schaibley, Executive Director of the IP Center. Professor Schelkopf has taught the Seminar on Law and Technology at the IU School of Law – Indianapolis since 2005.

08/22/2011

Timothy J. Kennedy Memorial Moot Court Fund Established at the Law School

Founding members of the firm Montross, Miller, Muller, Mendelson & Kennedy LLP with Dean Gary R. Roberts Today the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, together with Mike Miller, John Muller and Tilden Mendelson, founding partners of Montross, Miller, Muller, Mendelson & Kennedy, LLP, announced the establishment of the Timothy J. Kennedy Memorial Moot Court Fund. The endowed fund is being created with a $50,000 gift to the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis to honor Kennedy’s contributions to the practice of law and in support of the newly-created National Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition, which will be organized and hosted by the school for the first time on March 9-10, 2012.

Dean Gary R. Roberts, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, says, “We are very proud that Montross, Miller, Muller, Mendelson & Kennedy has decided to continue Mr. Kennedy’s legacy by supporting the law school’s first national moot court competition, on professional responsibility, in Kennedy’s name. ‘Here we advocate with integrity’ is not just a slogan at our school. It is a cornerstone of our mission to produce ethical members of the legal profession. This gift will further that cause for many years to come. And because this competition is a national event, the impact will reach very far.”

Mike Miller, ‘75 said of the late Tim Kennedy, “Tim was not only our partner for more than 30 years, but was a colleague and friend.”

“Tim was an active volunteer in moot court and trial advocacy programs at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis,” said John Muller.

“For over twenty years Tim chaired one of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s grievance committees, quietly working to preserve the integrity of the legal profession. We could not think of a better way to honor Tim than with a gift which will support a national moot court competition involving cutting edge professional responsibility concerns,” added Tilden Mendelson.

Kennedy was a founding partner of the firm and practiced in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury. He also found time to give back to law students and fellow lawyers by volunteering at the law school.

Pictured above: John Muller, Dean Gary R. Roberts, Mike Miller, and Tilden Mendelson.

08/19/2011

Law School Program Receives Special Consultative Status at the United Nations

On 25 July 2011, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC) officially granted UN-ECOSOC Special Consultative Status to the Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL) of Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis.

The Program in International Human Rights Law has officially designated its individual accredited representatives to the United Nations.

Professor George E. Edwards has been officially accredited as the PIHRL “Main Representative” to United Nation World Headquarters in New York. He has also been officially accredited as the PIHRL “Main Representative” to United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Perfecto “Boyet” Caparas has been officially accredited as the PIHRL “Main Representative” to United Nations Headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Caparas is also accredited to the UN in New York and the UN in Geneva as PIHRL “Additional Representative”.

Professor Edwards and Mr. Caparas will travel to New York during the United Nations General Assembly, collect their United Nations Credentials, and continue their work to promote the human rights work of the United Nations. More information on the Special Consultative Status of the PIHRL

08/19/2011

Professor Edwards Named American Bar Foundation Fellow

Professor George E. Edwards has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In July 2011, the Board of the Foundation welcomed Professor Edwards, who joins the rank of distinguished research faculty who are selected to participate in activities that advance justice through research and work to address changing needs of the system of justice and the legal profession.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis. He is author of "LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student's Guide to U.S. Law School Programs" (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer, 2011) (556 pages) (www.LLMRoadMap.com). Professor Edwards served as the Director of the school’s LL.M. Track in International Human Rights Law from its inception until 2011.

07/22/2011

Professor Wilson Leads International Forum for Law Students

Professor Tom Wilson led law students from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and nine other schools in the 2nd International Forum for Law Students, held on June 5, 2011, at the Renmin University of China Law School, in Beijing. The title of the Forum was Pro Bono, Experiential Learning & the Law School Curriculum. The Forum, initiated in 2010 by Professor Wilson and Renmin University law professor Ding Xiangshun, provides a platform for law students from China and the U.S. to express their ideas for improving legal education. Students select a topic, prepare a paper, and present the paper to an audience of professors, graduate students, and peers. A panel of experts comments on each presentation. This year’s panel included law professors from China, Japan, and the U.K. as well as managing partners in Chinese private firms and public sector law departments.

The day-long Forum featured student presenters and moderators from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and from Albany, Arkansas, Boston College, Loyola of Maryland, Notre Dame, Southwestern, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and William & Mary. The students’ papers will be published in China later this year in a book edited by Professor Ding.
The International Forum for Law Students is sponsored by the Comparative Law Program at Renmin University of China Law School and the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, a partnership of Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and Renmin University. The Forum is held in conjunction with the Chinese Law Summer Program, which the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis holds each summer on the campus of Renmin University.

07/22/2011

Professor Wilson Invited to Speak at the National Judges College of the PRC

Professor Tom Wilson was an invited speaker at the International Forum on Judicial Training, held on June 8 & 9, 2011, in Beijing, China. The Forum was sponsored by the National Judges College of the Peoples Republic of China, the United Nations Development Program—China, and the European Union-China Project of Governance for Equitable Development. The Forum was convened to enable China to analyze its judicial training procedures and to learn about methods used in other nations to train judges and maintain judicial competence. Professor Wilson joined speakers from Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and Korea. Professor Wilson’s presentation focused on both the informal and non-systematic path to the bench in the U.S. and the formal and systematic training mechanisms available after election or appointment.

07/19/2011

Professor Wilson Directs Sino-U.S. Law Conference

Graphic for Joint Center for Asian Law Studies Professor Tom Wilson directed the 2nd Sino-U.S. Law Conference, held on June 11, 2011, at the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing, China. The title of the Conference was The Changing Face of the Real Estate Finance Marketplace: Two Perspectives on Reform. The principal expression of reform considered at the Conference was the Dodd-Frank bill, formally known as the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. As the organizer of the Conference, Professor Wilson recruited three nationally-known authorities to join him as presenters: Cristeena G. Naser, Associate General Counsel of the American Bankers Association Securities Association and Senior Counsel in the ABA’s Center for Securities, Trust & Investment Group; Reginald T. O’Shields, General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta; and Jason H.P. Kravitt, Senior Partner, Mayer Brown LLP and co-founder of the American Securitization Forum. Professor Wilson’s presentation, entitled “What Reform” begins with “Reform What,” framed the Conference agenda by placing reform measures in the context of assumptions about the causes of the foreclosure and credit crises and about housing policy.

Professor Wilson and Renmin University law professor, Ding Xiangshun ( LL.M. 2006) initiated the annual Sino-U.S. Law Conference in 2010. The Conference is sponsored by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, a partnership of Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis and Renmin University of China Law School.

07/13/2011

Professor Carrie Hagan Presents at Conference in Spain

On July 13, Professor Carrie Hagan presented a paper on "Marginalizing Discrimination: How Social Justice, Advocacy and LGBT Awareness on a Clinical Level Can Make Equality More of a Reality," at the 6th Global Alliance for Justice Education Worldwide Conference in Valencia, Spain. The conference, which hosts approximately 285 delegates from 43 countries, this year was held in partnership with the 9th International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference. It was hosted by the Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Valencia. The conference is an opportunity for law teachers, law students, legal practitioners, jurists and social activists to acquire new ideas, models, and skills for the use of education to promote social justice.

Professor Hagan's talk points out that clinical students, through training regarding LGBT issues, can make a difference for a vulnerable population that may not otherwise obtain assistance.

Carrie Hagan earned her B.A. from the University of Kansas and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the law school, where she directs the Civil Practice Clinic. Previously, she directed a family law/domestic violence clinic in Rhode Island, and was supervising attorney for a domestic violence clinic in Ohio. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary partnerships between law and social work.

07/11/2011

Professor Gerard Magliocca quoted in The Washington Post

On July 6, IU Law-Indianapolis Professor Gerard Magliocca was quoted in The Washington Post in an article related to the constitutionality of the debt ceiling. The article quotes law professors, Democratic senators, and commentators on the possibility of citing the 14th Amendment to argue that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional.
» Read the Washington Post Article

07/06/2011

Alumnus Patrick Shoulders, '78, Re-elected to IU Board of Trustees

Patrick Shoulders ('78) On June 30, IU graduates re-elected law school alumnus, Patrick A. Shoulders, '78, of Evansville, Indiana, to a fourth three-year term on the IU Board of Trustees. Shoulders, a member of the law firm of Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders in Evansville, was initially appointed as an IU trustee in 2002, and then was elected by alumni to serve on the board again in 2005 and 2008.

"I'm honored that the alumni have given me the opportunity to serve our beloved alma mater for another three years. IU is on a great path right now, and I pledge to work hard to continue its success," Shoulders said. "I want to thank my opponents and encourage them to stay connected to IU and encourage all of our alumni to stay involved with the university."

In addition to his law degree, Shoulders earned a B.A. from IU Bloomington. He chaired the IU Alumni Association in 2000, and has served on the Varsity Club and IU Foundation Board of Directors. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has played a leadership role in a number of professional organizations. He received the Hine Medal from IUPUI in 2005, a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1996, and the Herman Wells Leadership Award from Sigma Nu Fraternity in 2005.

In accordance with state law, the annual trustee election is conducted by the Dean of University Libraries on the Bloomington campus, with assistance from the IU Alumni Association. Library staff and students undertook the task of counting nearly 16,500 ballots.

IU has nine trustees, three of whom are elected. Law school alumna, MaryEllen Kiley Bishop, '82, was elected in 2010. Her term expires in 2013.

06/29/2011

Law School’s Counter-Terrorism Simulation Documentary Wins Emmy Award

Graphic for Documentary A documentary made about the 2009 anti-terrorism simulation exercise hosted by the law school won an Emmy ® Award on June 18 in the category of Public/Current/Community Affairs. The show entitled, “Tough Decisions: Defending the Homeland,” was produced and directed by WFYI TV 20, in conjunction with the Indiana University Schools of Law – Indianapolis and Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA).

“Tough Decisions,” which aired several times in 2010, chronicles the minute-by-minute response as law and SPEA students role-played government and civilian officials attempting to deal with sometimes faulty or incomplete information in an unfolding terrorist attack. (View the documentary via this link.)

The 2009 simulation was planned by Associate Professor of Law Shawn Boyne, along with SPEA professors Jim White and William Foley.

WFYI has been serving the Indianapolis area since 1970, broadcasting PBS and local programming.

The 42nd Annual Emmy® Awards Gala (Lower Great Lakes Chapter) took place at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The Emmy® is an international award that recognizes excellence in the industry. This is the highest award given in television.

06/14/2011

Student Joins ABA Business Law Section Leadership

SBA Vice President, Mauricio Benavides (3L), was recently appointed to an American Bar Association (ABA) leadership position as a national Division Liaison to the Business Law Section. In his role, he will represent the interests of over 36,000 members (attorneys and law students) in the United States. Benavides will provide leadership and administrative support to eight major business groups (Business Organizations, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Specialty Practices, Professional Development, and Outreach) that encompass 62 active committees. Additionally, he will attend four annual (domestic and international) ABA business meetings to assist in the development, execution, and marketing of substantive CLE programs; participate in Division Assembly meetings; and lobby the Section on resolutions presented to the ABA House of Delegates. He will report to the Section Director and Division Chair on membership outreach initiatives, and actively liaise with all national and local bar associations. He will assume his post at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, in August.

06/08/2011

Professor Roisman to Present on Fair Housing and Human Rights

On June 15, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman will give two presentations at a training event in Ann Arbor, MI for legal services lawyers from Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. She will present a plenary session on “The Use of Fair Housing and Other Human Rights Laws in Legal Services Practice,” as well as a plenary closing session, “A Call to Advocacy.” The event is sponsored by the tri-state CORT – Committee on Regional Training.

06/03/2011

Law School Program Will Have Special Consultative Status at the United Nations

Mr. Boyet Capras at UN Headquarters in New York City

The United Nations recommended the Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL) at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis for UN “Special Consultative Status.” After a 5-year application process, the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations rendered its referral on May 18, 2011 during an open hearing at which PIHRL program manager Perfecto “Boyet” Caparas, LL.M. ’05, answered a series of questions by official governmental representatives of several countries.

The PIHRL is joining a select group of approximately 2,000 organizations from 200 countries that have this status (an average of only 10 organizations per country). This new permanent status cements the informal relationship the PIHRL has had with the UN since the program’s founding in 1997. This status reflects the UN confidence in the PIHRL as an organization that will provide reliable information to the UN on a consultative basis.

The extensive and lengthy accreditation process began in 2006. Over the past five years, government representatives of over 50 countries have had the opportunity to review the PIHRL submission, which included membership information, financial records, the program’s many projects, staff and student credentials, goals and mission, structure and organization. It also contained documents that traced the law school’s history and its relationship with Indiana University.

Professor George E. Edwards, founding director of the PIHRL says, “This is the equivalent of the UN telling the PIHRL, ‘We have vetted your organization extensively and have determined that you and your members possess special expertise. We trust you and your expertise.’ The UN is telling us we can freely provide them with research, position papers, reports, and briefs in written form. We can also participate by making speeches or ‘interventions’ on the floor at UN proceedings.”

The accreditation process was spearheaded by Mr. Caparas, the PIHRL program manager. Professor Edwards says, “Mr. Caparas led the charge in preparing the application, including gathering all of the information for it, submitting it, following up, tracking the NGO Committee proceedings through the years, overseeing our replies to Committee queries, and appearing at the Committee several times, lobbying behind the scenes, and most significantly, appearing before the Committee in May of this year where he handled the Committee’s questions expertly in open session.”

The PIHRL’s many projects, including numerous “shadow reports” to the UN, were part of the extremely detailed dossier submitted to the Committee. “Shadow reports” are detailed, carefully researched and documented descriptions of human rights violations in different countries or related to a specific subject matter. Edwards, Caparas, and many Indiana University-Indianapolis law students have prepared shadow reports and submitted them to different UN bodies. The students have also traveled to the UN in Geneva and New York, disseminated the shadow reports within the UN system, and made oral presentations on the reports on the floor of official UN proceedings. On several occasions, the students have hosted luncheons in Geneva and New York for UN committee members at which students were able to engage the members in dialogue about the human rights situation in the countries that were the subjects of the shadow reports. The shadow reports submitted by the law school’s team have tackled a variety of issues including sexual orientation discrimination in the U.S. and Chile, freedom of expression in Zambia, discrimination based on caste in Nepal, discrimination against women in Chad and Australia, indigenous rights in Panama, and many other issues. A link to the PIHRL shadow reports is on the program’s web site: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/humanrights/UNshadow.html

Of the special status, Caparas says, it “will enhance the prestige in the international community not only of Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, but of the entire IU system, with its nine campuses, as well.” Caparas says, “With this, we hope to see more aspiring lawyers and human rights defenders trailblazing, assuming leadership roles, and making a real life impact and difference in the field of international human rights law and its broad cross-section of various other important disciplines, notably environmental protection and climate change.”

Special Consultative Status will open many doors for Edwards, Caparas and the students working with them. According to the UN press release, IU’s PIHRL was recommended for UN Special Consultative Status along with 38 other organizations on May 18 at UN headquarters in New York City. Those groups will have official, permanent UN status that permits them great access to the UN human rights system to which they only had ad hoc access before. Edwards explains, “Groups without permanent status have to request ad hoc permission to participate, have their people stand in a queue for special passes, or ask another group that has status if it will let them enter under the other group’s name.” Faculty and students working with the PIHRL will have more open access to the UN facilities, as well as standing to participate as NGO representatives in treaty negotiation sessions, Human Rights Council sessions, and other activities within the UN system. Edwards and Caparas will possess permanent UN NGO badges, which will permit them entry to UN facilities around the world, ensuring easier access to the UN diplomats and staff they need to encounter as they advocate for human rights.

Many of the PIHRL students who have participated in UN advocacy work have been overseas students enrolled in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) program at IU-Indianapolis. Professor Edwards’ new book, titled LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer Law Publishers, 2011) (www.LLMRoadMap.com) provides information about law schools supporting their LL.M. students in getting involved in UN and other experiential work that not only supplements the students’ education, but also promotes human rights.

Jonathan Bashi at his UN office in New York with Boyet Caparas The PIHRL began sending student interns to work at the UN in 1997, the year that the PIHRL was founded. During the 2010-11 academic year, a record number of seven current and former interns were working at the UN in various sites around the world:

1. Sean Monkhouse (J.D. , ‘06) (UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Hague)

2. Tuinese Amuzu (LL.M., ‘06) (UN Commission, Nigerian/Cameroon border)

3. Shalva Tskhakaya (LL.M., ‘08) (UN Electoral Officer, Monrovia, Liberia)

4. Jonathan Bashi (LL.M., student) (UN Intern, UN Headquarters New York)

5. Ntsika Fakudze (LL.M., student) (UN Intern, UN Headquarters New York)

6. Samantha Sledd (J.D., student) (UN Intern, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Arusha, Tanzania)

7. Kristen Hunsberger (J.D., student) (UN Intern, UN Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland)

More information about the PIHRL is available on the law school’s web site: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/humanrights/

» An article on the PIHRL's Special Consultative Status was published by the Indiana Lawyer (June 7, 2011).

» An article on the PIHRL's Special Consultative Status was also published by the National Law Journal (June 23, 2011).

06/02/2011

Campus Recognized for Internationalization

On June 3, 2011, the IUPUI Campus is receiving a Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. The award, named for the late Senator Paul Simon (D-IL), goes to outstanding and innovative efforts in campus internationalization.

Professor George E. Edwards, the founding director of the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL) will also attend the ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, where IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz will accept the award. According to a university press release, “IUPUI capitalized on strong international exchange partnerships to create a campus-wide strategic partnership model. With a largely non-traditional student population, IUPUI has created a culture on its Indiana campus that allows the campus and wider community to engage the world.”

Named for the late Senator Paul Simon, (D–Ill.), the award goes to outstanding and innovative efforts in campus internationalization. Sen. Simon was well known as a strong supporter of international education and foreign language learning.

05/26/2011

Professor Huffman Presents Research in Europe

Professor Max Huffman presented his research on "Behavioral Exploitation and Antitrust" by invitation at a seminar at the Tilburg Law and Economics Institute, Tilburg, Netherlands, on May 20, 2011. The seminar also featured Dr. Mark Armstrong, an economics professor at University College London. On May 23, Professor Huffman gave a lecture on the same topic to faculty and students of the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim, in Heidelberg, Germany.

Max Huffman joined the faculty in 2008 as an associate professor, after teaching at the law colleges at the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University. He teaches antitrust, bankruptcy, and other consumer and commercial law subjects. His scholarly interests lie primarily in the areas of competition and consumer law.

05/26/2011

Three Trailblazing Women Faculty Retire

Retiring professors Mary Wolf, Susie Mead and Eleanor Kinney When exams ended in May, it marked the close of an era. Three faculty members---all women-- who have left their indelible marks on the law school in their long tenure have officially retired. Professor Mary T. Wolf actually retired in January of this year, and Professors Susanah M. Mead and Eleanor DeArman Kinney are doing the same this Spring. (Pictured: Professors Wolf, Mead and Kinney)

Professor and former Interim Dean, Susanah M. Mead, graduated from the IU School of Law – Indianapolis in 1976, when women students were by far the minority. After graduation she clerked for the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr., chief judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, from 1976 to 1978. After clerking, she joined the law school faculty as a lecturer in the legal writing program, which she directed from 1980-81. In June 2005, Mead became the first woman and the first graduate to lead the school, serving as Interim Dean until 2007. Her previous experience in administration was as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, a post she held from 1997 to 2004. Her articles examining issues in constitutional tort law and products liability law have appeared in national law journals. She was honored as Outstanding Alumna of the Year by the law school’s Alumnae Network in 2007.

Her colleague and friend, Professor Andrew R. Klein, says, “Susie became a role model to a generation of law students and faculty. Indeed, it is impossible to find a person whose path she crossed who doesn’t admire her. Talk to someone who knows Susie Mead, and you will hear about her honesty, her judgment, and her discretion. You will hear that she is a terrific teacher and scholar, but an even better person.”

Arriving at the law school a few years after Mead, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney joined the faculty in 1984 and has guided the law school’s nationally recognized Hall Center for Law and Health since she pioneered its establishment in 1987.

The Hall Render Professor of Law, she has taught at the IU School of Law – Indianapolis for 27 years. In addition to health law, she has taught administrative law, law and public health, comparative EU and U.S. regulation of pharmaceuticals and medical technology, insurance law, torts, and law and social science. As co-director of Hall Center for Law and Health and the co-director of the Consortium for Health, Policy, Law & Bioethics, she has created many opportunities for students to work on cutting-edge health law issues, such as malpractice reform.

Professor David Orentlicher, who has co-directed the Hall Center with Kinney since he joined the faculty in 1990, says of his colleague and friend, “Professor Kinney has made substantial contributions in the field of health care law. She has published important scholarship on medical malpractice, administrative processes for resolving concerns of patients, access to health care for the working poor, and the basic human right to health care. Her leadership as a scholar has been matched by her leadership as a mentor of health care lawyers. The top echelons of the health care law bar in Indianapolis, as well as health care lawyers at hospitals, drug companies and governmental agencies have been mentored by Professor Kinney, and the development of the law school’s certificate program in health care will ensure that the law school continues its role developing skilled health care lawyers for generations to come.”

A commemorative brick from the former law school building Like Professor Kinney, Professor Mary Wolf arrived at the law school in 1984 as a visiting assistant professor in the newly-created Civil Practice Clinic. She served as director of all clinical programs and externships from July 1987 to December 2010. After earning her J.D. degree, she was clerk to Judge Robert Downing of the Illinois Appellate Court, and then worked as an attorney for the Flood Relief Center and for the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. In 1979, she joined the staff of Prairie State Legal Services, where she became the managing attorney. During the spring of 2001, Professor Wolf was a visiting professor at TC Beirne School of Law in Australia. In addition to the clinic, her areas of expertise include teaching law and poverty, interviewing and counseling. (Pictured: a comemorative brick from the former law school building where all three professors taught for most of their law school careers)

Fellow Clinical Professors of Law, Joanne Orr and Fran Watson, describe Wolf as the “heart and soul of the law clinic.” They say, “Mary and her students served as co-counsel to low-income clients referred from Indiana Legal Services in matters of general civil litigation, including family law, landlord tenant, and consumer law litigation….Within the live-client model, Mary and student co-counsels provided much needed access to the legal system to thousands of real-world clients, benefiting clients, students, and the pursuit of justice for all.” They also point out, “Professor Wolf’s continuing service contributions included membership on the Indiana Supreme Court Pro Bono Commission, and participation in the Juvenile Justice Project and the Domestic Violence Protective Order Pro Bono Project. “ Her colleagues say, “Mary Wolf was not only an exemplary teacher and lawyer, she was a law school colleague in the truest sense of the word.”

Professors Mead, Kinney and Wolf have devoted the better part of the last three to four decades to our law school community and we wish them well in the next phase of their lives. They have earned a special place in the law school family.

05/20/2011

Second-Year Student Todd Hassee Selected as Schweitzer Fellow

Albert Schweitzer Fellowship logo On April 29, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) announced the selection of its inaugural class of Indiana Schweitzer Fellows--one of whom is second-year student Todd Hassee. Over the next year, Hassee will join apporximately 260 other 2011-12 Schweitzer Fellows across the country in conceptualizing and carrying out service projects that address the health needs of underserved indivuduals and communities. Specifically, Hassee will address the legal needs of low-income individuals by working to establish a medical-legal partnership [MLP] at the Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic, a free clinic that operates weekly on Saturdays. The IU-SOC is a non-profit student-run clinic dedicated to providing free medical care and other services to the underserved and uninsured of Indiana. The clinic fulfills this mission through the work and dedication of Indiana University students and faculty, as well as the generosity of donors.

Upon completion of his initial year, Hassee will become a "Schweitzer Fellow for Life" and join a vibrant network of over 2,000 individuals who are skilled in, and committed to, addressing the health needs of underserved people throughout their careers as professionals.

05/05/2011

Hall Render Gift Supports Health Law Education

By Alicia Dean Carlson

John Render, ‘71, confesses that a recent gift to the law school from his law firm
has an element of self-interest.

“We do have a slightly ulterior motive,” Render says. “We want to be able to continue to
recruit the very best graduates.”

William Thompson and John Render Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, based in Indianapolis and with more than 150 attorneys and offices in Wisconsin, Kentucky and Michigan, is one of the nation’s top health care law firms. Hall Render partners made the $200,000 gift to the law school’s $12 million dollar IMPACT Campaign to benefit the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health intended to support the center’s excellence in research initiatives and health law education.

The Hall Center for Law and Health—already a top-ranked program—should continue
to attract top law students and scholars. The law school’s strength in health law is one more important factor in building Indiana’s reputation as a major player in the biomedical field with a respected medical school and major industry muscle from companies like Eli Lilly and Co. and several major hospital corporations, according to William Thompson ‘87 the firm’s president.

“We would like to see it continue to grow into a destination program,” Thompson says.

But the gift also reflects a legacy of support and loyalty that began with the late William
S. Hall ‘51, whose work as general counsel to the Indiana Hospital Association led to the
firm’s founding in 1971.

Hall—along with Render, Thompson and scores of other attorneys in the firm—are
grateful for the law school’s commitment to providing an evening program.

“I would not be here without that opportunity,” says Render, who taught high school
English and history during the day before rushing off to law school classes in the evening.
“Many of us can say that.”

Pictured left to right: William Thompson, ‘87, and John Render, ‘71.

05/04/2011

Active Months Ahead for Joint Center for Asian Law Studies

Graphic for the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies The months of May and June are filled with lots of activity for the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies. Here are some highlights:

On June 5, the Joint Center sponsored the Second International Law Student Forum at the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. The Forum provides an opportunity for law students from China, Japan, Korea, and the U.S. to engage in peer-to-peer discussions about the current state of legal education in each country and to offer insights from their unique perspective as students and as consumers of legal education. A panel of legal educators from each country will offer responses.
Also on June 5, following the Forum, the Joint Center sponsored a reunion of Chinese alumni of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Since 2003, over 100 Chinese nationals have been awarded J.D., LL.M. or SJD degrees from IU-Indy.
On June 8 and 9, Joint Center Co-Directors, Tom Wilson and Ding Xiangshun, participated in a judicial training conference in Beijing.
On June 11 and 12, the Joint Center will sponsor the Second Sino-U.S. Law Conference. Day one of the Conference, moderated by Professor Wilson, will feature presentations by leading U.S. authorities on banking and real estate finance reform. Day two of the Conference, moderated by Professor Ding, will feature presentations by Chinese authorities on real estate financing in China.

The Joint Center for Asian Law Studies is a partnership of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. The co-directors are Professor Tom Wilson and Professor Ding Xiangshun.

05/04/2011

Professor Tom Wilson Invited to Speak in China

Professor Tom Wilson Professor Lloyd T. "Tom" Wilson was an invited speaker at the Second 21st Century International Forum of Law School Deans and Jurists, held from October 3 to 5, 2010, in Beijing, China. The International Forum is held once every ten years and serves as a platform for formulating and announcing the major policy initiatives that will guide legal education in China for the next decade.

The International Forum was held in conjunction with festivities celebrating the 60^th Anniversary of Renmin University of China Law School, the first institution of higher legal education in the People’s Republic of China.

Attendees at the Second 21^st Century International Forum included 347 deans, judges, and scholars from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as 100 invitees from 25 other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Professor Wilson was invited to speak on “Legal System in Transformation: China and the World International Forum.” The title of his presentation was “Missions and Markets: Charting the Course of the Law School Curriculum in Changing Times.”

05/02/2011

LL.M. Students Host Lunar New Year Celebration

A group of LL.M. students and faculty gather for the Lunar New Year celebration
On Friday, February 4, students in the law school’s LL.M. program, in cooperation with the Office of Student Affairs, hosted a celebration of the Lunar New Year in the faculty lounge. Approximately 30 students and faculty attended the event, which served as a welcome to new LL.M. students who started the program with the spring 2011 semester.

Attendees were treated to an authentic Chinese meal and traditional Chinese music. All participants received New Year’s gifts of small red envelopes called Hong Bao. Two students, dressed in traditional New Year attire, gave presentations. Ying Chen talked about Lunar New Year celebrations in China and Tuan Nguyen discussed Lunar New Year practices in Vietnam.

LL.M. student Weiwei Fan commented, “As a Chinese student, it’s really nice to celebrate our most important holiday with classmates and professors. I really thank all of the people involved in this celebration, and we had a very nice night.”

(photo) Attending the Lunar New Year Celebration on February 4 were, front row: Professor Tom Wilson, Professor Cynthia Adams, Alimi Ali-Yerima, Pom Thaiprasithiporn, and Jeong Phil Joo; second row: Weiwei Fan, Mohamed Mohamedain, Ying Chen, Azalea Assaf, Yifan Wang, Tuan Nguyen, Ersin Yesil, In Cheon Kim, Zulfiye Ugur, Chayada Polpun, Angelica Cely, Intisar Fidhin, Professor Frank Emmert, and Salma Talman; third row: Marcela Rivera, Hossein Fazilatfar, Voy Singsuwan, Ibrahim Garba, Dean Jim Nehf, Xing Liu, and Anthony Masseria.

04/28/2011

Professor Roisman Speaks at Human Rights Event in Baltimore

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke at the "Advancing Human Rights and Justice For All" Symposium Celebrating legal Aid's 100th Anniversary. The event took place on April 28 in Baltimore and was jointly prsented by the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law. Professor Roisman was a panelist speaking on "Using Enforceable Human Rights to Represent Poor People."

04/28/2011

Professor Adams Speaks in China

At the invitation of the Shanghai International Studies University, Professor Cynthia M. Adams presented a series of lectures and workshops on negotiations and drafting international contracts in legal English at the Institute’s Law School, Songjian campus, from April 18 to April 29, 2011.

04/27/2011

Celebration to Honor Graduates and Alumni

If anyone needs proof that the IU School of Law – Indianapolis has a deep talent pool and broad influence, they need only look at the roster for this year’s alumni gathering, the annual Evening of Celebration, which honored a bank president, a former dean, a seasoned law partner, as well as two human rights activists, one from Chicago and the other living in the Netherlands.

On May 13, 2011 at Inlow Hall the law school held its combined alumni reunion, awards ceremony and welcome to the graduating class. This year’s festivities were hosted by the Indiana University Alumni Association and took place the night before Commencement (May 14 at the Indiana Convention Center). Activities for alumni included a two-hour CLE program, an alumni reception honoring three Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) winners and two Early Career Achievement award recipients, followed by class reunion dinners.

DAA winners included former Interim Dean and Professor of Law, Susanah M. Mead, ’76; Stephen A. Stitle, ’70, Regional President of PNC Bank, Indiana and a member of the Board of Visitors; and John R. Maley, ’88, Partner at Barnes & Thornburg and former president of the Law School Alumni Association Board.

Mead, who has taught tort law at her alma mater for over 33 years, is retiring from the law school this summer. She was the first woman and the first graduate of the school to lead the school when she served as Interim Dean from 2005-2007.

Stitle, a cum laude graduate, held a variety of executive positions for Eli Lilly and Company for nearly 25 years before retiring from the pharmaceutical company in 1995 to lead National City Corporation, acquired by PNC in 2008. An active community member, he serves on numerous boards, including the Indiana University Foundation and the law school’s Board of Visitors.

Maley, a summa cum laude graduate who was executive editor of the Indiana Law Review, clerked for the Honorable Larry J. McKinney in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis for two years after graduation. A partner at Barnes and Thornburg, he practices litigation, employment law, and appellate practice. A past-president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, as well as the Law School Alumni Association, Maley has also taught as an adjunct professor at the law school.

Early Career awards were given to Emily Benfer, ’05 and Sean Monkhouse, ’06. Benfer is a Clinical Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and Director of Health Justice Project, a group that improves health outcomes for low-income residents. Monkhouse, who is Associate Legal Officer for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) located in The Hague, was unable to attend the ceremony, and Professor George E. Edwards accepted the award on Monhouse's behalf.

The evening’s celebration also included a Salute to the Class of 2011, welcoming them into the alumni family. Following the reception, members of several reunion classes attended a dinner at the JW Marriott.

04/25/2011

Law School Launches New Concentration in Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Beginning in the Fall of 2011, students at IU Law – Indianapolis will have the option of taking a new Concentration in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. The ENR Concentration will be awarded to students who complete a minimum of 15 credits in at least six environmental and natural resources courses, including three core classes (Administrative Law, Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law) as well as at least two upper level electives and an ENR-related “capstone” writing or experiential course.

Interested students should review the ENR Concentration Fact Sheet posted at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/courses/ENRConcentration.pdf (also available in the Office of Student Affairs). A notice of intent form available from the Assistant Director of Student Affairs must be filed by any student wishing to pursue the ENR Concentration.

Because of the core class requirements, students are encouraged to register for relevant foundation courses in the Fall – in particular Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law.

Questions may be directed to Professor Dannenmaier at edan@iupui.edu or Professor Waterhouse at cmwaterh@iupui.edu.

04/22/2011

Quayles’ Gift Makes an Impact on Law Students

Former Vice President Dan Quayle and Marilyn Quayle Students planning to pursue a law degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis will have a new opportunity to obtain scholarship support thanks to a generous gift to the school from Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn Quayle.

The Quayles have created a scholarship for students at IU School of Law-Indianapolis through an endowed gift of $200,000. This gift is part of the law school’s “Impact Campaign,” a major fund-raising effort aimed at increasing resources for student scholarships, faculty development, centers of excellence and experiential learning programs.

“A legal education prepares students for the practice of law and also prepares students for leadership positions in government, business and non-profits,” Vice President Quayle said. “This is our contribution for the next generation of students at Indianapolis,” Marilyn Quayle explained.

The Quayles earned their J.D. degrees from IU School of Law-Indianapolis in 1974. They both practiced law in Indiana prior to Dan Quayle’s election to the United States Congress in 1976. He served in Congress from 1977 – 81, the U.S. Senate from 1981- 89, and as Vice President from 1989 – 1993. He is currently the chairman of Cerberus Global Investments. Marilyn Quayle, an attorney, author and philanthropist, also is a sculptor. She was a partner with the Indianapolis-based firm Krieg DeVault from 1993-2001.

“Dan and Marilyn have been loyal supporters of the law school since they graduated. This generous gift provides much-needed scholarship support for students, which is essential in today’s economy and will help us educate individuals that will assume leadership positions in various aspects of society,” says the law school’s dean, Gary R. Roberts.

04/21/2011

Grant Will Fund New Practicum Course in Social Work Through Law School Clinic

Clinical Associate Professor Carrie Hagan of the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and Dr. Stephanie Boys, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor at the law school received a Curriculum Enhancement Grant from IUPUI’s Center for Teaching and Learning. The grant will help the schools of law and social work enhance the joint JD/MSW program which already exits, as well as the experiences of students in both programs. The project will develop a social work practicum course option to be offered at the law school through the Civil Practice Clinic, open to both social work and law students. The course would serve as a practicum setting for MSW students, and serve as an interdisciplinary clinical course offering for law students. Professor Hagan says, “This course will allow for effectiveness through adapting pedagogies of engagement, most notably through problem-based and peer-led interdisciplinary team learning.” Online components will be developed, as will materials that provide experiential learning for both sets of students. Investigators will use survey assessment tools to gauge the students’ learning throughout each semester. Professor Hagan says, “Currently there is a great movement for interdisciplinary partnerships between schools of law and social work, and for IUPUI to implement one would allow for the development of a national reputation in this area, as well as the ability to apply for further funding to grow and enhance each program.”

04/20/2011

IU School of Law – Indianapolis Professor to Become Dean of Loyola in New Orleans

Professor Maria Pabon Lopez On April 15, 2011, Dean Gary R. Roberts announced that IU School of Law – Indianapolis professor, María Pabón López, had accepted a position as dean of Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans.

A native of Puerto Rico and an expert on immigration law, Professor López will assume her new duties as Dean beginning this summer.

Dean Roberts said, “Loyola has a strong focus on Latin America and on social justice, two areas that fit perfectly with her interests and background. So I am excited and very happy for her, although as the dean of this law school I am distraught over losing her. I know all of us here feel the same way. She will be missed terribly and she will always be welcome back here at IU-Indianapolis.”

López joined Indiana University in the Fall of 2002 as Assistant Professor. She was then promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and has been Professor of Law since 2008.

A prolific writer, she also received many awards during her tenure in Indianapolis, including the 2008 Diversity Attorney in Practice Award from the Indiana Lawyer and the 2007 Rabb Emison Diversity Award from the Indiana State Bar Association. López received the 2006 Trustees Teaching Award from Indiana University.

04/19/2011

Professor Bravo Participates in Symposium on Human Trafficking

Professor Karen E. Bravo participated in the symposium Which Way Home, organized by the Law Review of the Northern Illinois University College of Law. Held on April 14-15, 2011 at the Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois, the symposium explored global and local aspects of human trafficking, including analysis of various types of trafficking, methodologies employed to combat it and to counteract its effects, as well as policy implications for the future. Professor Bravo discussed her research on Legal Constructions of Personhood: Their Nexus with the Trafficking of Human Beings as a participant on the panel on Policy Implications.

04/15/2011

Professor Edwards Elected to Executive Committee of AALS Section for Foreign Lawyers

George Edwards Professor George E. Edwards was elected on January 7, 2011 to serve a term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). On January 6, Professor Edwards was asked to speak at the Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers Section luncheon, whihc was held at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, where he highlighted his forthcoming publications on U.S. graduate legal education for foreign students.

In summer 2011, Professor Edwards’ book will be released, titled LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs. The 420-page book will be published by Aspen / Wolters Kluwer Law and Business. LL.M. Roadmap is available for pre-order through LLMRoadMap.com or through Aspen.

04/13/2011

Professor Roisman Named to a Chancellor’s Professorship

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman was selected by IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz to receive the campus’ most distinguished appointment for an individual faculty member. The Chancellor’s Professorship recognizes senior faculty members who display a record of extensive accomplishment and leadership in teaching, research, and campus service. Professor Roisman will be honored at the Chancellor's Academic Honors Convocation on April 29, 2011.

04/13/2011

Professors Lopez and Wilson Receive Prestigious External Award Recognition

Professors María Pabón López and Lloyd T. (Tom) Wilson will receive the 2011 Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR) at the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation on April 29, 2011, a campus-wide event to recognize faculty and student achievements on the IUPUI campus. Professor López receives the PEAR in honor of her having been inducted in to the American Law Institute (ALI). Professor Wilson’s PEAR comes after he was named a Neil MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law.

04/12/2011

Professor Watson and Students from the Wrongful Conviction Clinic Attend International Innocence Network Event

On April 8-10, Kathy McKinney and Jessica Vandivier, students from the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis’ Wrongful Conviction Clinic, joined Professor Fran Watson at the 2011 Innocence Network Conference: An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction, held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Wrongful Conviction Clinic is a founding member of the Innocence Network.

Professor Watson moderated the session on” Federal Habeas Corpus: Timelines and Pitfalls,” a panel focusing on the law which impacts federal review on the merits of a constitutional claim, including matters of exhaustion, procedural default, and the statute of limitations.

Professor Watson’s years in practice have involved work as a deputy state public defender at the trial and appellate levels and representation of the police department and elected officials as an assistant corporation counsel for Indianapolis/Marion County. She is a member of the Federal, Indiana, and Indianapolis Bar Associations and a master of the American Inns of Court.

She is a member of the Committee on the Civil Rights of Children for the Indiana State Bar Association. She also is a member and officer of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the Craine House, a correctional facility for women. Professor Watson serves on the Board of the IUPUI Forensic Science Initiative.

04/08/2011

Drug Law Expert Delivers Lecture and Receives Award

Professor Eleanor Kinney, Professor Alta Charo, and Professor David Orentlicher On March 24, Professor Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin delivered the Annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham (MMK) Award Lecture. The lecture on “Challenges for Drug Safety” was part of the Indiana Health Law Review Symposium which also included a panel discussion on the same topic. Professor David Orentlicher, Rosen Professor of Law and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health moderated the panel which included Dean D. Craig Brater, M.D. of the IU School of Medicine; Dr. Paul Helft, M.D., Director of the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics; Professor Emily Morris, J.D.. Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at IU School of Law – Indianapolis; and Professor Ralph Hall, J.D., Visiting Professor of Law at IU School of Law – Indianapolis, Teaching Specialist at the University of Minnesota School of Law, and Counsel to the law firm of Baker & Daniels in Indianapolis.

Co-directors of the Hall Center for Law and Health, Professors Eleanor Kinney and David Orentlicher presented Charo with the MMK Award. Kinney says, "Dr. Charo’s talk clearly explicated the challenges to drug safety today. In health care, this is a crucial issue as more and more new and promising medicines come onto the market."

In conjunction with the Indiana University School of Medicine, the law school sponsors the annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Lectureship and Award for Excellence in Law and Medicine. Supported by a bequest to the two schools, this lectureship and award began brings leading scholars and policy makers in the fields of law and medicine to the Indianapolis campus for the benefit of students, faculty, the bar and the medical community. First held in 1994, articles from the lectures have been published in both the Indiana Law Review and the Indiana Health Law Review (established in 2003).

04/06/2011

Professor Bravo Leads National Group on Teaching International Law

Professor Karen E. Bravo was elected as incoming co-chair of the Teaching International Law Interest Group at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (Harmony and Dissonance in International Law), held in Washington, D.C., March 23 - 26, 2011. Established in 1906, the American Society of International Law's mission is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice. The Teaching International Law Interest Group provides a forum for those involved in or interested in teaching international law to discuss approaches, methods, and new techniques taking place both in the United States and abroad. Professor Bravo's 3-year term commenced at the annual meeting.

04/03/2011

Law School Moot Court Team Advances to National Round in Chicago

Moot Court Board 2010-2011

After winning at the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition’s regional round held in Boston, one of the law school’s two moot court teams will advance to the national round in Chicago on April 7-9.

Moot Court Advisor, Professor Allison Martin, says “Our teams have been diligently preparing for this competition since last semester when the brief-writing stage first started, and have had oral argument practices at least twice per week. Due to the superior writing skills of our students, we entered the oral advocacy portion of the competition with high scores.”

The first team was comprised of Aaron Bentley, Emily Shrock and Leeann Pels. This team had one of the top ten briefs in the regional competition and went 3-0 in the preliminary rounds. Due to this excellent performance, they advanced to the knockout rounds of the tournament which were reserved for the top teams in the competition. Unfortunately, they were eliminated in the semifinals round by South Texas University. Jenai Mehra, Student Coach to the teams, says, “South Texas is notorious for being the top powerhouse in this particular tournament and in moot court competitions across the country every year. They won the National Tournament last year and are one of the four teams advancing out of the Boston Regional along with us.” Nevertheless, the first team had a praiseworthy round and only lost by 2 points.

The second team included Alex Berger, Macon Jones and Lara Langeneckert. This team went 2-1 in the preliminary rounds and fought an uphill battle against 3-0 teams to clinch one of the coveted four spots in the National Tournament, a level the law school team has not achieved in 8 years. In addition, Alex Berger was named the fifth best overall oral advocate in the competition.

Professor Martin, Faculty Advisor Professor Jim Dimitri and Jenai Mehra, and other faculty are collaborating closely with both teams to prepare them to represent our school, competing as one of the top 24 teams in the country.

Professor Dimitri says, “We have every reason to be very proud of our advocates!”

04/01/2011

Class of 2011 Seeks to Strengthen Legal Education at the Law School

This year’s Class Action Campaign for graduating students has a challenge attached to it. When the Class of 2011 took the “Oath to the Profession” during their law school orientation, they promised to be committed members of a learned profession – one that cultivates “knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients” and to “employ that knowledge in reform of the law and to work to strengthen legal education.” As they now prepare to graduate and join that profession the Class, like others before it, is being challenged to continue to help build the tradition of accomplishing that goal in a variety of ways, one of which is supporting their soon-to-be alma mater financially through a class graduation gift and pledge.

All alumni of the Law School are asked to contribute to the school’s Annual Fund and to stay as active partners in the school in a variety of ways. Through the Class Action Campaign, graduating law students are educated about the importance of philanthropic giving and are then encouraged and asked to make a gift and contribution as a part of the Campaign to the Student Affairs Fund. The reason for this is simple. Private support of legal education is vital to our school’s success! Staying involved, in this capacity, even with a small annual gift helps strengthen our school and fulfills the commitment made to being part of a noble and learned profession.

MaryEllen '82 and Michael '80 Bishop This year, alumni supporters of the law school, Michael ’80 and MaryEllen ’82 Bishop, are challenging the graduating class to increase participation in the Campaign through a matching gift challenge. Both MaryEllen and Michael are partners at the firm of Cohen Garelick and Glazier. Both are long-time supporters of their alma mater---not only financially but, as volunteers as well. The funds raised by the graduating student Class Action Campaigns will impact the everyday life of students at the law school. Funds from prior years have been used to refurbish student lockers, to purchase a TV for the student lounge, and to support other programs for the entire student body.

Members of the Class of 2011 are encouraged to give their tax deductible gifts online by April 21^st. Graduating students can contact Jacob Manaloor ’03 in the Office of Development with any questions. He can be reached by e-mail at jmanalor@iupui.edu or by phone at 317-278-9745. Students can make their gift online by clicking here or by visiting the law school’s home page and clicking the Bishop Challenge link! Gift and pledge forms can be obtained in the Office of Student Affairs or Development Office or online.

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03/31/2011

Professor Edwards Hosts North African and Middle Eastern Legal Experts

International visitors meeting with the Program in International Human Rights Law

“Nations have obligations to their citizens, and obligations to the international community,” remarked Professor George E. Edwards during a panel discussion with North African and Middle Eastern legal luminaries, who visited Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis last March 25, 2011.

Professor Edwards hosted the panel discussion of judges, parliamentarians and legal officers from Iraq, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the West Bank. Participants discussed a wide range of issues involving the rule of law in the U.S. and in other countries from different regions of the world. The visiting dignitaries also spoke about their observations over the previous two weeks as they toured the U.S., meeting with government officials, academicians, and private citizens.

Professor Edwards shared stories about numerous projects sponsored by the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL), which he directs. He mentioned that the Program has sponsored over 100 internship placements in over 50 countries on six continents since 1997. Interns receive scholarship funding for air fare, housing, food, and other expenses associated with working for 10 – 12 weeks at host organizations. Interns have worked at non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental bodies (such as the United Nations), and governmental bodies. Former interns spoke at the panel discussion, as did students who had prepared shadow reports for the UN reporting on human rights violations in different countries. Students spoke about how they had made oral presentations on their shadow reports on the floor of the UN meetings in Geneva and New York.

The delegates were in the U.S. through the U.S. Department of State’s International Leadership Visitor Program, and were sponsored by the International Center of Indianapolis. They included Ms. Nafaal Nn Danon Al-Taee , president, Mosul Bar Association (Iraq); Ms. Amal Yousef Al Rfooh , member of parliament (Jordan); Ms. Awour Moyak Deng Koul , judge, Southern Sudan Judiciary (Sudan); and Mr. Raed Theeb Naji Asaf , judge (West Bank).

The event was titled “Rule of International Human Rights Law: North African & Middle Eastern Issues, Advocacies & Perspectives” . It was co-sponsored by several law student organizations, including the Black Law Students’ Association, International Human Rights Law Society, International Law Society, Human Rights Students’ Association, and the Master of Laws Association. Also co-sponsoring the event were two Indianapolis not-for-profit organizations that were founded by law school graduates, the Center for Victim and Human Rights, as well as Human Rights Works. Mr. Perfecto Boyet Caparas, PIHRL program manager, was the primary organizer. Ms. Maryvonne Kerzabi, director of the International Visitor Programs of the International Center of Indianapolis, coordinated the visit.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law. His recent research projects include LL.M. Roadmap to U.S. Law Schools: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Master of Laws Degree Programs (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer Law and Business Publishing, 380 pages, spring 2011 expected release date). Professor Edwards served as the Director of the school’s LL.M. Track in International Human Rights Law from its inception until 2011.

[Shown in the photo above, standing from left (last row): Abdelhafid Missouri, Maryvonne Kerzabi, Judge Awour Moyak Deng Koul, Raio Krishnayya, Syed Liaquat Ali, Leontiy Korolev, Ibrahim Garba
Standing from left (2nd row): Ali-Yerima Alimi, Evalyn Aruasa, Zulfiye Ugur, Intisar Fidhin, Edye Taylor, Marcela Rivera, Azalea Assaf, Judge Raed Theeb Naji Asaf, Perfecto Boyet Caparas
Seated from left (front row): Mohamed Mohamedain, Nafaal Nn Danon Al-Taee, Professor George Edwards, Amal Yousef Al Rfooh, Rana Raad, Kevin Greene]

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03/28/2011

Students’ Choice of 'Best' Faculty at Barristers Ball

The Student Bar Association presented several awards to faculty at this year's Barrister's Ball, held on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at Crowne Plaza Union Station in downtown Indianapolis. The Best New Professor Award went to Max Huffman, who joined the law school in 2008. After only one year at the law school, Carlota Toledo, Associate Director of Student Affairs, received the White Cane award for Best Administrator.

This year’s Black Cane Award for Outstanding Professor went once again to Professor Andrew R. Klein . Klein is currently serving as Chief of Staff to IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz. He has not only received the Black Cane award on several occasions in the past, he has also received the Red Cane award when he first joined the faculty, as well as the White Cane award when he served as the law school’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

03/27/2011

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman to Receive Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award

On March 29, 2011, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman will receive the Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award “for the leading role she has played in the successful development and implementation of policies that have made a positive and lasting difference in the world of low income housing.” The award comes from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) at their 29th Annual Housing Leadership Awards Reception in Washington, D.C.

The Dolbeare Award, named after NLIHC’s founder, goes to an individual who has demonstrated an unyielding commitment to achieving safe, decent and affordable homes for low income people over a long period of time. Florence Wagman Roisman has spent a lifetime working to improve low income housing policy. One of the signers of NLIHC’s original articles of incorporation, she now is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. Her career, which has spanned decades, has been devoted to legal services advocacy and teaching on low income housing, homelessness, housing discrimination and segregation.

03/22/2011

Charlotte Van Horne Squarcy '77 Stars in Popular Dutch Reality Series

Charlotte Van Horne Squarcy is a celebrity …in Holland! Fifteen generations after her Dutch ancestors sailed to Nieuw Amsterdam (better known as New York City) Charlotte Squarcy became a modern-day spokeswoman for the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch colony.

Charlotte Van Horne Squarcy, Class of 1977, on the Brooklyn Bridge After her initial success promoting the anniversary event in 2009, the Dutch Reality show “Man Bijt Hond” (Translation: “Man Bites Dog”) invited her to Holland for live commentary of Queen’s Day celebrations and 17 additional episodes in other Dutch towns and villages.

Squarcy’s humorous, off-the-cuff remarks have earned her a following in Holland, where, she says, she has been asked for autographs or pictures by a wide variety of people. Squarcy, who used the stage name Charlotte Van Hoorn, also writes a blog for her fans.

She is proud of her Hoosier roots, as well as her Dutch heritage. Having taken the bar exam prior to finishing her law degree, she was sworn in as Deputy Attorney General of Indiana the week after commencement in 1977. “It was a genuine thrill to have litigated 50 trials and administrative hearings while serving the people of Indiana,” she says. “Service in the AG’s Office is terrific trial experience.”

After leaving Indiana, she spent over three decades in corporate and private practice in product liability and environmental law, as supervising litigator for outside counsel at General Motors and Olin Corporation. She also founded the American Bar Association’s Warning and Labeling (now Preventative Law) Committee of the Litigation Section. “My legacy was communication across the language barrier about safe product usage through the use of pictographs,” she states.

In semi-retirement she continues to trace her mother’s family’s roots which relate to one of the founding families of the Dutch colony in America. She is a member of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames and the Dutch Settlers of Albany. She also serves on the board of the Wyckoff Farmhouse museum, a 17^th century Dutch farmhouse that is the oldest landmark building in New York, and her ancestral home (a Wyckoff granddaughter married one of her Van Horne ancestors in America). She says, “That was a ‘wow’ moment when I saw the hand-hewn timbers inside the house’s walls and realized my ancestors had touched them.”

By all accounts the Dutch television series was a hit! Squarcy received a formal letter from the Private Secretary of HRH Queen Beatrix congratulating her on the TV series. Previously, she had met Crown Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maxima of The Netherlands.

Squarcy says she would love to do another series in the U.S. on sites influenced by Dutch culture. As for her future in show business, she laughs, “I hope to get a hair care commercial out of this!”

Check out her Dutch escapades on the web: http://www.manbijthond.nl (and search on Charlotte).

UPDATE: Charlotte Van Horne Squarcy is embarking on the voyage of a lifetime on April 3, 2011. She will be on the HAL flagship MS Nieuw Amsterdam sailing the Spanish Main to the Old World (the same route her ancestors sailed to the New World). Follow Charlotte's Blog
She also has a blog on the Dutch TV site (click here).

03/21/2011

Hall Center for Law and Health Awarded Grant to Help County with Emergency Plan

Priscilla Keith and Professor Eleanor Kinney Professor Eleanor Kinney and Adjunct Professor Priscilla Keith will receive a grant from the Marion County Health Department to write an “All Hazards Emergency Operations Plan.”

Kinney is co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and a widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America’s health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and issues in administrative law.

Keith joined the law school's Hall Center for Law and Health in 2010 and serves as Director of Research and Projects, as well as adjunct professor. As Director she will manage the legal and policy research projects of the Center. She is also responsible for the development of the curriculum and other arrangements for the graduate law degree program (LL.M.) in health law, policy and bioethics.

03/21/2011

Professor Kinney Honored with Women’s Leadership Award

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney was selected as the Outstanding IUPUI Woman Leader in the “veteran” faculty category for the 2011 Women's History Month Leadership Awards on March 29.

Kinney is the Hall Render Professor of Law and founded the law school’s Hall Center for Law and Health in 1987. She has taught at the IU School of Law – Indianapolis for 27 years, starting as an adjunct professor in 1984. In addition to health law, she has taught administrative law, law and public health, comparative EU and U.S. regulation of pharmaceuticals and medical technology, insurance law, torts, and law and social science. As co-director of Hall Center for Law and Health and the co-director of the Consortium for Health, Policy, Law & Bioethics, she has created many opportunities for students to work on cutting-edge health law issues, such as malpractice reform.

IU School of Law – Indianapolis Dean, Gary R. Roberts, says, “Professor Kinney has been able to use her academic and professional experience in health law to forge a key interdisciplinary partnership between our law school and the Indiana University School of Medicine—a partnership which has given rise to nationally renowned research projects, peer-reviewed scholarship, and many successful careers in health law for our graduates.”

Professor Kinney has taken the Center’s expertise and reputation around the nation and the world, including Fulbright Grant projects in Argentina, a collaboration with the European Union, and numerous trips to Asia and other countries.

03/17/2011

Professor Bravo Discusses Human Trafficking and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Professor Karen E. Bravo discussed her research on human trafficking and the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the University at Buffalo Law School (SUNY) on March 10, 2011. Held at the law school's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Professor Bravo's lecture was hosted by the University's Institute of Research and Education on Women and Gender's Feminist Research Alliance and co-sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. The lecture, "The Role of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Discourse," discussed the superficial and exploitative references to and uses of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in contemporary anti-human trafficking discussions. Professor Bravo identified trends in the uses of analogies to the prior period of exploitation, and suggested that more thoughtful analyses would reveal structural similarities and lead to the identification of more effective anti-trafficking methodologies.

03/16/2011

Professor Orentlicher Makes Presentations at National Conferences

On February 18 at the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor David Orentlicher, co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, presented a paper entitled “Controlling Health Care Costs Through Public Transparent Processes: The Conflict Between the Morally Right and the Socially Feasible” at the Annual Symposium of the Journal of Corporation Law, which plans to publish the papers. He also presented the same paper at the Legal Theory Workshop Speaker Series on March 4 at the University of Miami School of Law.

On February 26, he presented a paper at Boston University School of Law for the 2011 Symposium of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. The title of the symposium was “Marketing Health: The Growing Role of Commercial Speech Doctrine in FDA Regulation.” His paper at that symposium was entitled “The Commercial Speech Doctrine in Health Regulation: The Clash Between the Publish Interest in a Robust First Amendment and the Public Interest in Effective Prevention of Harm.”

David Orentlicher is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine.

03/15/2011

Dean Gary Roberts Serves as NFL Network On Air Legal Analyst

Dean Gary R. Roberts in front of Downtown Indianapolis Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Dean, Gary R. Roberts, has been selected to be the on air legal analyst for the NFL Network with respect to the current labor dispute that is threatening the 2011 professional football season. He taped his first segment for the network on Friday, March 4.

One of the foremost experts on sports law and antitrust law in the country, Roberts has been quoted in numerous media outlets regarding the NFL strike, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He has also been quoted on a variety of legal issues in the Associated Press, Forbes, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times The National Law Journal, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today and has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, ABC's Nightline, CBS Evening News , ESPN's Sportscenter and Outside the Lines, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News, and NBC Today Show. He has testified nine times before Congressional Committees.

Dean Roberts joined the Indiana University School of Law- Indianapolis in 2007. Prior to being named Dean, he was a faculty member and director of the Sports Law Program at Tulane University Law School, where he also served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs (1990-95) and Deputy Dean (2001-07).

Dean Roberts formerly practiced at the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., working with Paul Tagliabue and Jeff Pash, where he engaged in antitrust, sports, labor, contract, and trademark litigation.

He co-authored the leading casebook in sports law (Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems, now in its 4^th edition) and has published several articles and book chapters on antitrust, labor, and other issues in the sports industry. Dean Roberts has served as president of the Sports Lawyers Association and chairman of the AALS Sports Law Section. He is currently an officer and board member of The Sports Lawyers Association and is editor-in-chief of its monthly on-line newsletter, The Sports Lawyer.

He has served for many years on committees for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), including the Academics, Eligibility & Compliance Cabinet (2004-07) and Student Review Group (2006 -07). Dean Roberts is a certified commercial and sports arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association (2005 - present). He is also a founding member and member of the board of directors for the International Association of Sports Professionals and Executives (2004 - present).

03/10/2011

Law School Professor, Student and Alumnus Appear on “Indiana Lawmakers” This Week

Professor Pitts on Indiana Lawmakers (WFYI) On the Friday, March 11 episode of Indiana Lawmakers with Jon Schwantes , a law school professor, alumnus and current student of Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis joined other experts to discuss the issue of redistricting the Hoosier State.

Several of the questions addresed were how the current walkout by House Democrats affects the General Assembly's ability to draw new maps for the Indiana House and Senate and for Congress; if lawmakers will be able to deliver on the promise to redistrict based on geographic boundaries and citizens' shared interests as opposed to partisan politics; and what will the latest population shifts mean to the makeup of the General Assembly?

Sen. Brandt Hershman, R – Lafayette and a first-year evening student; Sen. Tim Lanane, D – Anderson, a 1977 graduate of the law school; Dave Crooks of the Indiana Citizens Redistricting Commission; and Michael Pitts, Professor at the law school joined the debate on what gerrymandering could mean to Hoosier voters and how lobbying interests could affect the outcome.

See a podcast of the show on WFYI.

03/10/2011

Priscilla Keith Participates in Joint ABA-CDC Program on Public Health Emergency Preparations

What is the role of law and the courts in public health emergency response? That was the topic of a program co-sponsored by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Priscilla D. Keith was a panelist at the program which took place on February 12 in Atlanta, GA. Keith, a 1993 graduate of Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, is Adjunct Professor and Director of Research and Projects for the Hall Center for Law and Health.

The ABA’s Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness and the CDC’s Public Health Law Program presented the special program at the ABA Midyear meeting.

Although disaster preparedness plans have the potential to protect at-risk populations from harm and maintain or quickly restore the routines or functions of civil society, even the most thorough and prescient plan will fall short if it does not reach across professional jurisdictions and agencies. To help leaders better understand the issues, legal experts representing emergency preparedness in two sectors—public health and the judiciary---discussed balancing federal, state, and local power and responsibilities; balancing the common good with safeguarding of individual liberties; preserving the rule of law; and building on existing emergency response coordination mechanisms and structures wherever possible.

Other panelists at the event with Ms. Keith included Jean O’Connor, CDC (moderator); George B. Huff, Jr., Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; James Hatten, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; Denise Chrysler, University of Michigan Regional Center of the Public Health Law Network; Dana R. Wise, Marion County Health Department.

03/04/2011

Professor Kinney Delivers Inaugural Health Care and Law Lecture at Oklahoma City University

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney delivered a lecture entitled “The Real Truth About Death Panels: Comparative Effectiveness Research and Health Reform Legislation” at the inaugural health care and law lecture series at Oklahoma City University (OCU) School of Law on February 22. The series was made possible by a grant from INTEGRIS Health. Professor Kinney is Hall Render Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

OCU LAW Dean Lawrence K. Hellman points out the importance of bringing “leading thinkers like Eleanor Kinney to our community to stimulate consideration of these important issues.”

See the lecture on the OCU web site.

03/02/2011

Student-run Legal Aid Services Looking for Volunteers

Believing that actions speak louder than words, law students at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis are putting their education to use even before graduation, providing free legal service to the local communities of Indianapolis. The recently founded Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic Legal Services (IU-SOC) harnesses the volunteer power of students from the law school, as well as the Indiana University School of Medicine, Butler College of Pharmacy, and Indiana University School of Social Work.

Professor Fran Quigley who supervises the group says, “"I have never been more proud of our university than I am when watching medical students and law students working side by side to serve our neighbors who struggle for access to health and justice. The fact that this is a student-initiated and student-led program just makes it all the more special."

The group’s mission statement says, “ Law is about more than statutes or rules. Law is about people, our daily life, and our society. Law serves no one but us. The reason why we decided to pursue a career in the legal profession and to come to law school varies from one to another. However, the common stake we all have in one another is our calling in life: a sincere wish to dedicate ourselves to people and society. We realize that practicing law is more than just a job, but a privilege which provides us the capacity to make a difference in another’s life, an opportunity to help people who need help, and a prospect to make someone’s life better.”

Beginning in the Fall of 2010, law students Todd Hassee, Kim Opsahl, Laramie Paras, Jay Parks, Yen-Chia Chen, Eric T. Hom and Jennifer M. Rosser formed a steering committee for IU-SOC Legal Services and prepared to launch legal service under the supervision of Professor Quigley. “We have a good team,” said Rosser, “this clinic is going to be a huge resource to this area.” After a whole semester of preparation, the steering committee was ready and excited to launch IU-SOC Legal Services in the spring of 2011. “I’m glad to see the group taking concrete steps to begin to organize and launch the clinic into action,” said Parks.

By providing free legal service to the underserved of Indiana, IU-SOC Legal Services hopes to build up and develop a strong and long lasting connection with local Hoosiers. Through this pro bono opportunity, IU-SOC Legal Services also helps law students gain more hands-on experience of the law in the real world. “This is an exciting opportunity for us to develop an important community resource while developing our skills,” Opsahl said.

Not only are more student volunteers needed, alumni and friends are needed as supervising attorneys. “ Volunteering is a fundamental part of the legal profession,” says Chen. “IU-SOC Legal Services provides every law student an opportunity to give back to our society and a practical education on how to apply what is learned in the classroom to the real world. Most important of all, the real joy of the legal profession is to share and utilize our expertise to help people in need. “

IU-SOC Legal Services will launch their next outreach service on March 5, 2011 from noon to 2 p.m. Volunteers are welcome! Students participating in IU-SOC Legal Service will receive pro bono hours. If you would like to join or have any question about IU-SOC Legal Services, please contact: iulawsoc@iupui.edu.

03/01/2011

Denise K. LaRue, ’89 Selected as Magistrate by Federal District Judges in the Southern District

On February 28, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana announced that Denise K. LaRue had been chosen as the newest magistrate judge, filling a new position created to help with the court’s heavy case load. La Rue graduated cum laude from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis in 1989. A named partner at Haskin & LaRue, she has worked at the firm since 1994, practicing employment law. Previously, she worked for the Indiana Civil Rights Commission.

“We are very pleased that Denise LaRue, with her strong background in litigating civil matters in federal court, will be joining our court family,” Chief Judge Richard Young said in a news release. “We are certain that she will be a valuable addition to the bench.”
LaRue’s eight-year term is set to begin April 1. She would be eligible for reappointment after completing her first term.

02/25/2011

IU Law - Indianapolis and Boston College Law School Team Up for Chinese Law Summer Program at Renmin University in Beijing

Chinese Flag The Chinese Law Summer Program at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis has entered into a collaboration agreement with the China Summer Program at Boston College Law School. Students in Boston College’s China Summer Program will participate in the summer study abroad program that the IU-Indianapolis law school operates at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Both IU Law – Indianapolis and Boston College Law School have on-going relationships with Renmin University. The Indiana University program has operated a summer program in China since 1987 and has conducted classes at Renmin University since 1998. The relationship between IU and Renmin is the longest-running international relationship for both schools. In 2010, the Ministry of Education in China identified Renmin University of China School of Law as the top ranked law school in that nation. The Chinese Law Summer Program at IU Law – Indianapolis is directed by Professor Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr., and the China Summer Program at Boston College Law School is directed by Professor Judith McMorrow. Speaking about the collaboration, Professor Wilson said, “Professor McMorrow and I began planning this collaboration when we met at a conference at Renmin University last October. We both recognize the many benefits students receive from the opportunity to study abroad, and we see contemporary China as an especially exciting place to study a legal system in the process of transformation. We look forward to a long relationship between our programs.”

02/21/2011

Professor Bravo Participates in Symposium on State Sovereignty in Today's World

Professor Karen E. Bravo participated in the symposium Sovereignty in Today’s World, organized by the Journal of International Law of the Michigan State University College of Law. Held on February 17 – 18, 2011 at the College of Law in East Lansing, Michigan, the symposium explored the effects of concepts of state sovereignty on human rights law, intellectual property law, and trade and international economic law, among other modern legal developments. Professor Bravo discussed her research on Challenges to Caribbean Sovereignty in a Globalizing World as a participant on the panel The Surrender of Economic Sovereignty.

02/18/2011

Members of Law School Community Join Forces at Public Interest Event Focusing on Leadership in the Fight for Social Justice

Emily Benfer, ’05 spearheaded planning for this year’s Amaker Public Interest Retreat, hosted by Loyola University School of Law in Chicago where she teaches as Clinical Professor. The retreat took place on February 18-20, 2011.

The theme of this year’s retreat is “Building Public Interest Leaders to Overcome Social Injustices.” Sixty law students from the Midwest, including six to eight students from IU School of Law – Indianapolis, joined professors and practitioners at the weekend retreat.

The Law – Indianapolis chapter of Equal Justice Works worked with Benfer in planning the retreat, and helped select the Midwest schools invited to send participants to the retreat.

On Saturday, Benfer spoke on “Leadership in Overcoming Social Injustice: The Dignity in Social Protest” on Friday and Professor Florence Wagman Roisman, the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, spoke on “Peace and Social Change.”

02/16/2011

Professor Cole Quoted on the Need for Climate Change Measures

Professor Dan Cole was recently quoted in The Daily Climate, a publication of Environmental Health Sciences. His comments appeared in an article entitled, “ Revised data show feds understate climate costs: Preliminary analysis suggests impacts from climate change could run twice as high as previous estimates, potentially giving regulators more firepower to justify emissions-cutting regulations.” (January 27, 2011, http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/01/climate-impact-increase)
Professor Cole says, “A precise determination of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is, at present, not as important as introducing institutions that will start moving greenhouse gas emissions in the right direction. That’s not to say that the SCC is not important; only that, when we are spending next to nothing to mitigate climate change, it hardly matters whether the SCC is $21/ton, $35/ton, or $50/ton.”

The article states, “ Enough is known about the impacts of climate change to warrant a precautionary approach no matter where economic impact lands, added Daniel Cole, a law professor at Indiana University who studies environmental policy.

‘There seems little chance of rolling the ball too far - the risk of spending too much in the near term on climate change seems remote,’ he said.

When the federal government first started regulating conventional air pollutants in the 1970s, he noted, policy makers had little information on the cost of pollution's impact.

‘But we had a strong sense they were costing us too much, and we needed to do something,’ Cole added. “
Professor Cole is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and a member of the law school’s Environmental Policy Forum. He is also Affiliated Faculty of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU-Bloomington. He teaches and writes in the areas of Property, Natural Resources Law, Land Use, Environmental Protection, and Law & Economics. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law.

02/15/2011

Prof. Magliocca's New Book on William Jennings Bryan Debuts in May

Cover of Book entitled The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In his latest book, Professor Gerard N. Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional law. The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash will be available in May 2011 from Yale University Press.

Responding negatively to the Populist agenda, the Supreme Court established a host of new constitutional principles during the 1890s. Many of them proved long-lasting and highly consequential, including the "separate but equal" doctrine supporting racial segregation, the authorization of the use of force against striking workers, and the creation of the liberty of contract. The judicial backlash of the 1890s—the most powerful the United States has ever experienced—illustrates vividly the risks of seeking fundamental social change. Magliocca concludes by examining the lessons of the Populist experience for advocates of change in our own divisive times.

“This book tells a story about constitutional transition that is especially relevant in the midst of the debate between President Obama and the Tea Party about the direction of the country,” says Professor Magliocca.

Gerard N. Magliocca joined the faculty of the law school following two years as an associate with Covington & Burling and one year as a clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit. He received the Best New Professor Award from the student body in 2004 and the Black Cane (Most Outstanding Professor) Award in 2006. In 2007, his book on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span's "Book TV." In the Fall of 2008, Professor Magliocca held the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands. He is also a regular blogger on Concurring Opinions and Balkinization.

02/15/2011

Professor Boyne Participates in Comparative Law Event at Yale

The American Society of Comparative Law selected Associate Professor Shawn Boyne's paper "The Many Faces of Objectivity: A Look at German Sexual Assault Cases" as one of six papers discussed at the Sixth Annual Comparative Law Workshop held February 11-12, 2011 at Yale Law School. Professor Boyne uses an interdisciplinary lens to investigate the links between law, politics, and culture. Her current paper is based on a period of extensive ethnographic research in Germany in which Dr. Boyne interviewed over 100 German prosecutors and visited 15 different prosecution offices.

Shawn Boyne joined the faculty in the summer of 2008 as associate professor of law, teaching evidence, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Prior to joining IU she was a DAAD Post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, as well as a graduate fellow with the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She has also been a visiting fellow with the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.

02/13/2011

Professor Hill Speaks at Black History Month Program on the Role of Courts in Our Democracy

On February 15, Professor John L. Hill participated in a panel discussion moderated by Marion Superior Court Judge David Dreyer on judicial independence – is it “we the people or we the courts”? The other panelist were Judge Sarah Evans Barker, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana. An afternoon program devoted to black history and the role of courts in our democracy allowed participants to learn, reflect on and discuss important judicial branch topics. The program was a partnership between the Indiana Supreme Court’s Legal History Lecture Series, Martin University and the American Bar Association. The two-part event included a panel discussion and a free continuing legal education seminar. The program, which took place at Martin University (2171 Avondale Place, Indianapolis) began with a welcome by American Bar Association Judicial Division Chair, Mike Witte, '82 and Martin University Acting President, Dr. Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow.

More information about the event is available on-line: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Indianas-Least-Understood-Branch/181048511917643

01/31/2011

Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program in Egypt Temporarily Suspended

Pyramid in Egypt The law school’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) program has suspended classes in Egypt due to the protests taking place in that country.

Professor Frank Emmert, who recently returned from teaching in Egypt, says, “At the present time all faculty and IU Law - Indianapolis staff associated with the program have left Egypt and are safe. We will suspend our activities for the time being but hope to be able to resume in the not too distant future, as soon as the situation has stabilized.”

Professor Emmert says, "Please continue to keep our local staff and students and their families, as well as the entire country and its warm and friendly people in your prayers!"

Professor Emmert directs the law school's LL.M. program in Egypt, which began on the campuses of Alexandria University and Cairo University in 2008. Emmert is the John S. Grimes Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law.

Law school staff memebers, Jake Manaloor, '03, Associate Director for Contracts, Grants & Fundraising, and Terri Cuellar, Director of Technology Services, returned from working on the program in Egypt earlier in January of this year.

01/22/2011

Recent Law Graduate Sworn in as Deputy Attorney General for Victim Assistance Program

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller issued the oath of office to Deputy Attorney General Michelle Bumgarner, ‘10 during a ceremony held at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis on January 21, 2011. Bumgarner joined the office as the Director of Victim Advocacy Programs which serves victims during the criminal appeal process. In this role, she will help crime victims understand what to expect when their offender appeals a conviction and keep victims and their families informed throughout the appellate process.

The Attorney General's office offers a variety of support and services to crime victims. Beyond keeping victims updated on cases on appeal, the Appellate Victim Program works to provides victims and their families with resources and referrals to other service providers. The AG's Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) allows victims of domestic violence who have moved away from their abusers to register for a confidential P.O. Box that can be used in place of a physical address. Bumgarner will work to identify ways to expand these and other services while meeting the requirements of the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant which funds the state's programs.

"The combination of Michelle's experience with the criminal justice system, legal education and enthusiasm for public service makes her uniquely qualified to advocate for victims," Zoeller said.

"As a domestic violence survivor, I have experienced the criminal justice system first hand and recognize how fortunate survivors and their families are in Indiana to have the support of the Attorney General's Office, the Legislature and Judiciary," Bumgarner said. "It is my honor and pleasure to join the office and continue that commitment to public service and develop programs with the goal of serving the needs and dignity of survivors."

A Wisconsin native, Bumgarner moved to Indiana in 1993. She graduated from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis in 2010. She also received an M.A. in English Literature from Butler University and a B.A.r in English Literature from IUPUI.

01/14/2011

Professor Page's Scholarship Cited in Mass. Supreme Court Case on First Amendment Rights and Securities Regulation

On January 6, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard Bulldog Investors General v. Secretary of the Commonwealth. The case concerns whether a particular securities regulation violates the First Amendment. Leading constitutional law expert, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, argued on behalf of the defendants. At oral argument he cited Professor Antony Page's article (Taking Stock of the First Amendment's Application to Securities Regulation, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1051101 ) in which Page argued that the First Amendment should fully apply to securities regulation, and that most would survive such scrutiny. The oral argument can be viewed at http://www.suffolk.edu/sjc/archive/2011/SJC_10756.html

An expert in international securities and business law, Professor Page graduated with Distinction from Stanford Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also served as articles editor on the Stanford Law and Policy Review. Prior to arriving in Indiana, he worked in mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in both their London and Los Angeles offices. He also clerked for the Honorable A.L. Alarcon, of the Ninth Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals and the Honorable H.L. Hupp of the U.S. District Court, C.D. CA. From 1990 to 1994 he worked for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving as Second Secretary & Vice Consul in Thailand, Laos and Burma; Trade Commissioner in the Asia-Pacific South Division; and Assistant Trade Commissioner in the European Union Trade and Economic Relations Division.
His publications include official Canadian government reports and guides such as Foreign Investment in Thailand and An Exporter’s Guide to Sri Lanka. He has also published articles in a variety of law journals and his work has been cited by U.S. courts including the Supreme Court.

01/05/2011

Law Faculty Gather in San Francisco, Professor Lopez Presents on Diversity at the AALS

Professor Maria Pabon Lopez When law school faculty from around the country convened in January 2011 in San Francisco for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, Professor María Pabón López spoke on January 7 on Law School Diversity in a Post-Racial World. Professor López is an expert in immigrants’ rights (including the education of immigrant children), immigration law and diversity/multicultural matters in the legal profession, focusing on issues concerning Latinos, race and the law, and the status of women lawyers. Her latest book is Persistent Inequality: Contemporary Realities in The Education of Undocumented Latino/a Children (with Gerardo R. López), published by Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group in late 2009.

Professor George E. Edwards also attended the Annual Meeting as the IU School of Law- Indianapolis representative to the AALS House of Representatives. Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and the founding Director of the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL). Since its founding in 1997, the PIHRL has facilitated more than 119 summer internship placements for 82 students at the United Nations and other human rights organizations in nearly 50 countries around the world.

Professor Andrew R. Klein attended the AALS Torts & Compensation Section meeting, of which he is a member of the executive committee. The section’s proceedings, “ Vaccines and Drugs: A Brave New Tort World,” will be published by the Indiana Health Law Review in 2011. Professor Klein is the Paul E. Beam Professor of Law and is currently serving as Chief of Staff to IUPUI’s Chancellor Charles Bantz.

12/14/2010

Professor Waterhouse Participates in White House Forum on Environmental Justice

Logo of the White House in Washington, D.C. Professor Carlton Waterhouse was invited to attend the White House Forum on Environmental Justice on December 15. The event will brought together environmental justice community leaders, state, local and tribal government officials, Cabinet members, and other senior Federal officials. Nancy H. Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality says the discussion will focus on "creating a healthy and sustainable environment for all Americans."

Professor Waterhouse says, "It is good that the Obama administration is returning attention to this important issue. My hope is that by bringing all of the stakeholders together the administration can develop a meaningful plan to achieve real progress."

Professor Waterhouse is nationally recognized for his work on environmental justice and is known internationally for his research and writing on reparations for historic injustices and state human rights violations. His views have been published in the Wall Street Journal online and his articles have appeared in prestigious law journals including the Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Fordham Environmental Law Review, and the Rutgers Law Review. In addition to teaching courses on property law, administrative law, and environmental law, Professor Waterhouse teaches seminars on environmental justice and on political reconciliation and reparations that address the unique relationship between law and social ethics.

12/10/2010

Professor Dannenmaier Speaks at Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders

Professor Eric Dannenmaier Principals from every high school in Indiana selected two junior students to attend the Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders at the University of Indianapolis on December 11, 2010.

Professor of Law, Eric Dannenmaier, was asked to participate in this year's event and addressed the group on the topics of food and energy security . Professor Dannenmaier spoke on questions such as “How does the growing global demand for food and energy resources impact our economic and national security? Why should you, as an individual, be concerned about food shortages and what impact do they have on the global community both now and in the future? What role will the availability of petroleum play in global diplomacy? What role can Hoosier farmers, as well as farmers around the world, play in a comprehensive food and energy security strategy?”

Professor Dannenmaier researches water and energy security topics, and delivered a paper on water security in Marrakesh, Morocco, at a NATO sponsored scientific workshop in spring of 2010. He is currently finishing work on a co-authored paper addressing “Energy Security as a National Security Challenge” funded by the Pew Charitable Trust.

12/03/2010

Experts from the Hall Center for Law and Health to Participate in Washington Healthcare Summit

ABA Health Law Section 2010 Washington Healthcare Summit December 6-7

At the American Bar Association’s Washington Healthcare Summit in the nation’s capital on December 6-7, 2010, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Professor David Orentlicher participated in a panel discussion on “Health Care Reform Litigation: Its Impact and Response to State Challenges.” Priscilla D. Keith, ’93, Director of Research and Projects for the law school’s Hall Center for Law and Health moderated this same panel.

The Summit session focused on H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Act, signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. Shortly thereafter, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum filed a complaint on behalf of the State of Florida and twelve other states challenging the constitutionality of the new law. The challenge asserts that the health care reform bill violates the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, and is therefore, unconstitutional. Moreover, it is argued that the health care reform bill violates the Commerce Clause, and as a result, Congress cannot require every person to purchase health insurance from a private company or face a penalty if they do not purchase the requisite insurance. The panel discussed the current status of health care reform litigation and its impact and response to state challenges. The panel also addressed the impact of state’s nullification statutes and the ability of the states to carry out current federal programs.

Professor Orentlicher is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at IU Law – Indianapolis and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. A nationally recognized expert on bioethics, he is also an adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Before coming to IU, he served as director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association for six-and-a-half years. While there, he led the drafting of the AMA’s first patients’ bill of rights, guidelines for physician investment in health care facilities that were incorporated into federal law, and guidelines on gifts to physicians from industry that have become the industry standard and a standard recognized by the federal government. He helped develop many other positions—on end-of-life matters, organ transplantation, and reproductive issues—that have been cited by courts and government agencies in their decision-making.

Keith returned in 2010 to work for her alma mater, after serving as General Counsel of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her primary focus was litigation and risk management. She is also an adjunct professor at the law school.

For more information about the Hall Center for Law and Health, visit the law school’s web site.

11/29/2010

Professor Waterhouse travels to South Africa to Present Research on Reparations

Professor Carlton Waterhouse will travel to South Africa where he will present his current research on Rights and Reparations: Remedying the Past without Wrecking the Future to the law faculty of the University of Cape Town on December 9, 2010. While in Cape Town, Professor Waterhouse will also participate in the Conference on Law, Culture, Constitutionalism, and Governance being held jointly with the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch on December 10 - 11. Professor Waterhouse will present his research as part of a conference panel on Law and the “Post-Racial/Ethnic State.” The conference will include speakers from a variety of countries across the globe including Germany, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and South Africa. During his trip, Professor Waterhouse will also conduct research and meet with South African government officials and business leaders regarding the government’s efforts to rectify economic harms caused by apartheid.

11/12/2010

Professor George Edwards Speaks at Chatham House Event

Professor George Edwards was invited to present at London's Royal Society of International Affairs - Chatham House, which is the U.K sister organization of the prestigious U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Professor Edwards' spoke as part of the Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law co-sponsored by Chatham House and the Atlantic Council. Professor Edwards' presentation was titled "Efficacy of International Law in Protecting Human Rights: Hong Kong, the U.S., the U.K., and Transnational Legal Education." Professor Edwards was one of two dozen participants invited to join the dialogue, with other participants being officials of the U.S. government (Department of State), UK government (Foreign Office), and the European Union, along with representatives of academia and civil society from the U.S., the U.K., and continental Europe. The panel on which Professor Edwards spoke was chaired by William H. Taft, IV (former US Deputy Secretary of Defense and Legal Advisor to the Department of State). The Atlantic Council, based in Washington, DC co-sponsored the Dialogue, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 and 11 November 2010. The Atlantic Council traces its roots to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and to government officials and voluntary organizations interested in political, economic and security issues, with its programs “based on the conviction that a healthy transatlantic relationship is fundamental to progress in organizing a strong international system”. The High Level Dialogue was held pursuant to the “Chatham House Rule”, which provides that "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed". The world-famous Chatham House Rule is invoked to encourage openness and the sharing of information.

11/05/2010

Professor Bravo Travels to Prague to Participate in Conference on Bullying

Professor Karen E. Bravo will present her current research on human trafficking, Legal Constructions of Personhood and Their Nexus with the Traffic in Human Beings, at the Second Global Conference on Bullying and the Abuse of Power: From the Playground to International Relations. Organized by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, a U.K-based forum for the exchange and interaction of ideas, research, and points of view that address a wide range of issues of concern and interest in the contemporary world, the conference is scheduled for November 8 through 10 in Prague, the Czech Republic. Professor Bravo will join an international group of attendees from the United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Taiwan, Iran, and South Africa, among other countries, in examining the nature, role and impact of bullying in various spheres of human endeavor. In addition to presenting her current research during the session on Bullying and Personhood, she will also chair the session on Bullying and Politics.

11/03/2010

Dan Coats, '72 Leads Wave of GOP Alumni Who Won Big in Fall 2010 Legislative Races

U.S. Senator Dan Coats, '72 Speaking at the law school in 2006 Dan Coats, '72 (pictured) easily won the U.S. Senate seat he held from 1990-1998, defeating his democratic challenger Brad Ellsworth on November 2, 2010. Coats also served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany and has practiced law in Washington, D.C.

Current Indiana Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, '95 won Indiana’s 4th District race and Republican Mike Pence, '86 won his sixth term in the 6th District against Democrat Barry A. Welsh. Pence announced on November 3 that he is stepping down as his party's Conference Chairman, a position he has held since 2008.

Political newcomer and recent graduate, Todd Young, '06 beat incumbent Democrat Baron P. Hill in the 9th District.

11/01/2010

Chasity Q. Thompson '02 Receives ISBA Presidential Citation at Annual Meeting

ISBA President Roderick M. Morgan and Chasity Q. Thompson at the 2010 Annual Meeting Ms. Chasity Q. Thompson's exceptional contributions to the profession of law and the citizens of Indiana were recognized at the Indiana State Bar Association’s annual meeting on Thursday, Oct. 14, where she received a presidential citation from Roderick H. Morgan, outgoing president of the ISBA (pictured presenting Thompson with the award).

Thompson is the Assistant Dean of the Office of Professional Development at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. She graduated magna cum laude from Alabama State University with degrees in English and business administration. She received her MBA from Auburn University and her J.D. from the IU School of Law - Indianapolis in 2002. Thompson served for two years as a judicial clerk for Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court immediately following graduation. She is a member of the Indianapolis (Law Student Executive Committee), Marion County, Indiana State (Young Lawyers Section; Diversity Committee) and National bar associations. She also serves on the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Advisory Board. She is a member of the Julian Center Development Board, Junior League of Indianapolis and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (executive committee member).

10/26/2010

Professor Karlson Passes Away at Age 67

The Late Professor Henry C. Karlson Professor Emeritus Henry C. Karlson passed away on Monday, October 25, 2010, after a battle with cancer. Karlson taught criminal law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis for over 30 years, and was a frequent commentator for local media outlets. He joined the law school faculty in 1977 and retired in 2008. Even after retiring, however, he continued to teach part-time.
Vice Dean Paul Cox, the Centennial Professor of law, says, “Henry Karlson was an important fixture at this law school for many years. He was a teacher passionately dedicated to his students and passionately intent upon instilling in them dedication to the rule of law. He loved the law school, greatly contributing to its development and success.” Professor Cox added, “He loved the law, greatly contributing both to its advancement and to the continuing education of the practicing bar. He was highly principled, and fearless in defending his principles. He was equally fearless in defending those he thought wronged. Henry's passing is tragically premature. He will be greatly missed by his colleagues and his former students.”
Professor Karlson served for eight years in the United States Army where he was appointed a Trial Judge as a member of the U.S. Army Trial Judiciary and served as a Trial Judge in Vietnam.
Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, he taught at the University of Illinois College of Law. Over the years, he taught not only criminal law, but evidence, trial practice, and a seminar dealing with child abuse. A noted expert on child abuse, he not only co-authored a book on the subject, he also wrote articles that appeared in the APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, the Indiana Law Review, the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect, the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Defense Law Journal. In addition, he delivered papers at more than one hundred continuing legal education programs.
Professor Karlson was a qualified expert witness on the issue of the proper methods for questioning very young children, and on the issue of lawyer competency. He was a member of the Association of Counsel for Children, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Order of the Coif and a former member of the Indiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Evidence and the Board of Examiners of the National Board of Trial advocacy.
He received his A.B., J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the University of Illinois.
Professor Karlson is survived by his wife, Nancy; daughter, Elizabeth M. Karlson,’00 (Chris); son, Henry C. Karlson III; and one grandson.
UPDATE: The viewing and funeral will take place on Friday, October 29, 2010 at Crown Hill Cemetery. The viewing will start at 11:00 a.m., followed by the funeral service at 1:00 p.m..

The family requests that donations in Professor Karlson's honor be made to the Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation (HVAF) or your favorite cancer charity in lieu of flowers.

10/19/2010

Veteran Health Law Attorney Joins Hall Center

Priscilla Keith, Class of 1993 Priscilla D. Keith, '93 has joined the law school's Hall Center for Law and Health where she serves as Director of Research and Projects, as well as adjunct professor. As Director she will manage the legal and policy research projects of the Center. She will also be responsible for the development of the curriculum and other arrangements for the graduate law degree program (LL.M.) in health law, policy and bioethics. She is already working to develop proposals for external funding from government agencies, foundations, corporations and private individuals.

The Center's co-director, Professor Eleanor Kinney, says, "We are thrilled to have Priscilla Keith join the Hall Center. She brings immense talent and a wealth of experience in public health, pharmaceutical and device law among other fields."

Before returning to work for her alma mater, Keith served as the General Counsel of Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, in Indianapolis, Indiana, including Wishard Health Services, the Marion County Health Department, and Environmental Services. Her primary focus was litigation, corporate transactions, advisory, and risk management and serving as the counsel for the Marion County Health Department's Ryan White HIV AIDS Legal Project.

Prior to her appointment as General Counsel, she served as Assistant Counsel to Governor O'Bannon. She also served as an Executive Assistant to the Department of Insurance, State Board of Accounts, Utilities and Telecommunications, and the Women's Commission. She was also Chief Counsel of the Advisory Section under Attorneys General Jeff Modisett and Karen Freeman-Wilson. Keith also worked for Eli Lilly and Company in discovery research, environmental and medical plans prior to her legal career. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section, and serves on its Council and is the Interest Group Leader. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis, Visiting Nurses Service, the State of Indiana Ethics Commission and St. Mary's Child Center.

Keith earned her J.D. from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, her M.S. in Anatomy from Atlanta University, and her B.S. from Spelman College. She is admitted to the Indiana Bar.

10/16/2010

Professor López Named to National Conference of Bar Examiners and Elected to the American Law Institute

Professor María Pabón López, of Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
The Editorial Advisory Committee reviews and comments on articles for publication in The Bar Examiner, which is published quarterly, and is the only national publication related to bar admissions.

Professor Maria Pabon Lopez Professor López has been the secretary of the Board of Law Examiners (BLE) since 2008. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

BLE Executive Director Linda Loepker is pleased to have Professor López dedicate her time to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners, “María’s appointment to the Editorial Advisory Committee of the NCBE is a wonderful acknowledgement of her academic achievements and her knowledge in many areas of law.”

The 10-member Board of Law Examiners is responsible for ensuring that individuals admitted to practice law have met the requirements specified in the Admission and Discipline Rules of the Indiana Supreme Court. This includes the duty of writing and grading the essay portion of the examination given to applicants seeking admission to the Indiana Bar.
Professor López was also elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). The ALI selects its members based on significant professional achievements, demonstrated leadership and promise. Members are chosen to carry out the ALI’s mission “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work.” Election is considered one of the highest honors in the legal profession.

"The National Conference of Bar Examiners could not have chosen a better person for the Editorial Advisory Committee," said Dean Gary R. Roberts of the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. "Professor Maria Lopez is a prolific author, as well as an award-winning teacher, and a dedicated proponent of public service. She is an invaluable asset to our school, and certainly deserves national recognition for her accomplishments."

Professor López has served as a staff attorney and team leader of the Family Law Group of the Legal Aid of Central Texas, an assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, District of Puerto Rico in San Juan and staff attorney and director of the Family Violence Legal Line, Women’s Advocacy Project, in Austin, Texas. She also serves as an appointed member of the Supreme Court’s Court Interpreter Certification Advisory Board and is an inaugural member of the Latino Affairs Committee of the Indiana State Bar.

10/13/2010

Professor Boyne Speaks on the Law School's Counter-Terrorism Simulation to Germans

Two students being filmed by a documentary crew while participating in the 2009 Counter-Terrorism Simulation On Wednesday, October 27th, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis associate professor Shawn Boyne will deliver a presentation entitled "Law in Action: Training Law Students using a Counter-Terrorism Simulation" at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. The presentation will highlight the Counterterrorism Simulation held at the law school last fall in which students from the law school and SPEA responded in role to a series of simulated terrorist attacks. Professor Boyne will discuss the importance of using cutting edge teaching methods to teach decision-making skills. She will also the lessons learned from the simulation and how she hopes to incorporate that new knowledge into future simulation exercises. Professor Boyne is in residence at the Max Planck Institute this Fall as she completes work on a book project entitled, The Many Faces of Prosecutorial Decision-Making: The German Way of Justice.

In October 2009 students in Professor Boyne’s Seminar in Comparative National Security Law, along with students from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affiars (SPEA), participated in a groundbreaking counter-terrirism simulation that placed them in the vortex of terrorist attacks and in the position of having to develop coordinated and cohesive responses. Approximately 50 studetns played various roles from the President, to governmental staffers, to reporters covering the story as it unfolded. With help from realistic news broadcasts, as well as “top secret” intelligence injects supplied by Professor Boyne and real-life national security experts, the students were forced to make split-second decisions regarding events as they happened. The action was recorded in sevent distinct areas of the law school and each room’s activities were broadcast via a simulation “dashboard” that was live on the law school’s website.

WFYI, the Indianapolis affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), filmed and aired a documentary about the simulation exercise entitled "Tough Decisions: Defending the Homeland." Copies of the program may be obtained from WFYI (contact ctaylor@wfyi.org).

10/12/2010

Law School Hosts Colleagues from Brazil for Second Visit

Dean Roberts with Professor Wilson and colleagues from Brazil
From August 30 through September 3, the law school once again hosted colleagues from the Faculdades Espirito Santenses (FAESA) law school in Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil . This was the second year for the "Program in U.S. Law" conducted by Professor Lloyd T. "Tom" Wilson.

In 2009 the focus of the program was the common law and the jury system. This year the Brazilians requested an emphasis on the U.S. Constitution. The program included four half- days of class at the school. Two classes addressed the commerce clause and incorporated pleadings and briefs from cases in Florida and Virginia in which 22 states attorneys general challenged the national health care law. A third class focused on the 14th Amendment and included a lecture by Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Paul D. Mathias and public attorney Anna Onaitis Holden '05 on emerging due process rights for persons who face criminal charges but lack the mental capacity to assist their counsel. The final class considered immigration issues and the birth citizenship clause of the Constitution and included a lecture by Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr.

The program also included law-related field trips. The Brazilian delegation visited the Indiana State Senate, where they met with Senators Phil Boots (R) and Mike Delph (R) (a third-year student at the law school who will graduate in December 2010). The students and faculty members from FAESA also met with Justice Frank Sullivan in the Indiana Supreme Court courtroom, where they learned about the history and role of the state’s highest court. At the offices of Baker & Daniels, Partner Jackie Simmons, spoke about the firm’s international practice, and law school alumna Brita Horvath '02, described the firm’s diversity & pro Bono activities.

Cultural tourism was also a part of the program and included a Brazil-U.S. Student Forum at Wabash College, as well as the Colts v. Bengals game at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Professor Wilson, who left immediately after the Brazilian's departure for his semester fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said, "This year’s visit by our FAESA colleagues was productive and enjoyable. It also provided an opportunity to further strengthen the law school’s ties with a law school in one of South America’s most dynamic countries." Professor Wilson will conduct the third annual program in American law for the Brazilian law school in early September 2011.

10/05/2010

Law School's Annual CLE Features Experts in IP, Antitrust, and Employment Law

This year's Annual Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program features a host of experts from academia as well as the public and private sectors who will convene on October 12th at the law school to focus on "Confronting Change in a New Healthcare Economy: Patents, Antitrust and the Workplace."

Image of a gavel and a stethoscope Presenters will include Eli Lilly & Company Senior Vice President, Robert Armitage, who was recently chosen by The American Lawyer as one of the 25 most influential people in Intellectual Property Law. He will discuss patent reform legislation. June Im, counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, will focus on pharmaceutical patents and antitrust law from a Washington perspective, while Tom Barnett, a partner at Covington & Burling in Washington, will present a view from the bar, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to manufacturers of generic pharmaceutical products. IU School of Law - Indianapolis professors Max Huffman and Emily Morris will present a version of an article they are co-authoring in a presentation entitled "A Patent Policy Approach to Hatch Waxman Gaming."

Indianapolis attorney Ellen Boshkoff, a partner at Baker & Daniels, will add an employment law perspective when she talks about issues relating to outsourcing.
The CLE program also included one hour of Ethics Credit in the form of a "Professional Responsibility Update" presented by G. Michael Witte, '82, Indiana Disciplinary Commission Executive Secretary and IU School of Law - Indianapolis Professor María Pabón López .

The all-day program costs $250.00 for 6.0 Hours of Indiana CLE credit and includes lunch. This year's lunch is sponsored by Ice Miller LLP who is underwriting this event as part of the firm's centennial celebration. Proceeds from this annual event are awarded as scholarships to students at the law school. These programs have raised over $130,000 in scholarship funds since the Fall of 2001.

See the law school’s web site for a complete agenda and online registration: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/news/events.cfm?eid=359

09/27/2010

Professor Roisman Speaks on Right to House at Two Events in Baltimore

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke on "Implementing the Right to Housing" at an event organized by the Homeless Persons Representation Project on Monday, September 27, 2010. The event was one of a four-part series with national experts on the importance of housing in our society. Following the speaker’s presentation, a local panel of experts discussed possibilities for implementation.

Professor Roisman also spoke at a faculty workshop at the University of Baltimore School of Law on the same day. The topic of her presentation was “Teaching About the Right to Housing.”

The substantive focus of Professor Roisman's practice, teaching, and writing has been on low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation. She teaches property, housing discrimination and segregation, the civil rights movement, administrative law and real estate finance.

She is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

09/17/2010

Law School Program to Focus on Public Entrepreneurship

Drawing of Canal Walk in Downtown Indianapolis On October 1, 2010, the Program on Law and State Government (PSLG) at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis will host its 10th Annual Fellowship Symposium. This year the symposium will focus on Public Entrepreneurship and State Government. Two student fellows, Erin Albert and Melissa Stuart, will be joined by experts from Indiana and around the nation who will examine innovative business models used by state governments in providing public services. Following an assessment of state governments' current systems, the Fellows have identified successful, real-world examples of service coordination and delivery from Indiana and other states.

Albert says, "During one of the panel sessions we will focus on entrepreneurial education across the spectrum. One fantastic local example is that of Lemonade Day, where in May of 2010, over 7,400 kids signed up to run their own lemonade stands. This opportunity is a nationwide movement by a serial entrepreneur who grew up in Indiana, Michael Holthouse. Michael began the program in Houston, TX and contacted Cha Cha founder and entrepreneur Scott Jones to head Lemonade Day locally in Indianapolis in 2010. This is just one example of what we are exploring in terms of entrepreneurial education and even social business through this fellowship year." Albert's Fellowship address is entitled "Social Entrepreneurship: Can State Law Achieve Balance Between Social Cause and Profit?"

“This year's candidates for the Program on Law and State Government fellowship were phenomenal, and both fellows are passionate about the topic of entrepreneurship as it relates to state government and governance," said Professor Cynthia Baker, PLSG Director at the law school. "With the current economic climate, it is an exciting time to better understand how entrepreneurial thinking and habits are, or could be, impacting how state governments carry out their myriad responsibilities."

A panel discussion on Entrepreneurship in Education will include Mark Need, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, and Mark Steward Long, M.S., Instructor in the Entrepreneurship and Management program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

Another panel discussion will center on Business Models and Social Entrepreneurship, featuring Robert Lang, CEO of the Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Mannweilier Foundation Inc., CEO of L3C Advisors L3C; John Tyler, Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; and Elizabeth Minnigh, attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.

The luncheon keynote speaker will be Doug Chapin, Director of Election Initiatives at the Pew Center on the States, who will present "90-Degree Walk: The Role of Election Data in a New Approach to Reform."

Stuart’s Fellowship address is entitled "Legal Framework for Performance-Driven Government," and she will moderate a panel entitled "Is Law an Obstacle to Data-Based Governing in Indiana?," featuring David Griffith Staff Attorney with the Indiana Supreme Court's Division of State Court Administration, Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC); Becky Selig, Director of the Bureau of Quality Improvement Services in the Division of Disability, Aging, and Rehabilitative Services, Family and Social Services Administration; Molly Chamberlin, Ph.D., Director of Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting, Office of Learning Choices, Department of Education; and Gary Huff, Town Manager of Fishers, Indiana.

"One of the highlights of my research is the success the Town of Fishers has had in using data and performance metrics to help inform service delivery to its citizens," says Stuart. "With Gary Huff, the Town Manager, spearheading the mission, Fishers has won numerous awards and recognitions for its high performance. Unfortunately, the Town of Fishers is currently the only municipality in the state with such a comprehensive and useful data system. I am excited, however, that Indiana has embraced the use of data to promote accountability and efficiency at both the state and local level with its development of the Indiana Transparency Portal. The web site will provide information like agency budgets, local government finances, state contracts and agency performance and also demonstrates the state's commitment to using our tax dollars effectively and efficiently."

5.5 Hours of Indiana CLE credit are available for attending this program. Registration and other information is available on the law school’s web site: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/law_state_gov/fellowships.htm.

The goals of the Program on Law and State Government are to foster study, research, and education on critical legal and regulatory issues facing state governments, to enhance students' education by providing opportunities for participation in Program-sponsored research initiatives, educational programs, and internships within all branches of state government, to enrich and broaden the dialog between the academic legal community and state governments by promoting and disseminating contemporary scholarship on issues confronting those governments. Through program-sponsored scholarly papers, research, and educational seminars, the Program encourages the development of nonpartisan, critical perspectives on state government decision-making. By marshaling resources to promote the use of contemporary scholarship, the Program facilitates state governments' use of that scholarship to address and resolve legal issues. Ultimately, the Program serves as a vehicle to bring students, the law school, and the community of state government policy makers together in an academic forum for public debate and analysis of the legal issues facing state governments. For more information, logon to the PLSG website at: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/law_state_gov/

About Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis

With an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, IU School of Law - Indianapolis is the largest law school in the state of Indiana. Occupying a spacious, new, technologically advanced building, the school is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has enjoyed great success for more than 100 years in preparing students for legal careers. The success of the school is evidenced by the prominent positions graduates have obtained in the judiciary and other branches of government, business, positions of civic leadership, and law practice. The school’s nearly 10,000 alumni are located in every state in the nation and several foreign countries.

For more information on the Program on Law and State Government or this year’s symposium, please contact Professor Cynthia A. Baker at cabaker@iupui.edu.

09/17/2010

Law School Alumnus Steven David '82 Chosen as Indiana Supreme Court Justice

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced on September 17, 2010 that Boone Circuit Court Judge Steven David was his choice to serve as the next Indiana Supreme Court justice.

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, Class of 1982 A 1982 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, Judge David has served on the Boone Circuit Court since 1995. Before that he worked as corporate counsel for Mayflower Transit (Carmel, Indiana) and in private practice at the Columbus firm of Cline King King & David. He began his career in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

David will succeed Justice Theodore R. Boehm who will retire from the State Supreme Court at the end of September. He will be the second alumnus of the law school to serve on the current court. Justice Brent E. Dickson, ’68 was appointed to the court in 1986.

Judge David was one of three finalist candidates for the Supreme Court, all three of whom were alumni of the law school. The other two finalists were Marion Superior Judge Robyn Moberly, ‘78 and Karl Mulvaney, ’77, partner at Bingham McHale.

09/15/2010

Professors Karen E. Bravo, Maria Pabon Lopez and Carlton Waterhouse Participate in the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference

Professors Karen Bravo, María Pabón López and Carlton Waterhouse participated this weekend in the Third Annual People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference which took place at the Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey on September 9 – 12, 2010. The theme of the conference was Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era.

Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Logo Professor Waterhouse’s involvement included serving as a member of the executive planning committee (the chairperson of the conference communications committee). He also organized a plenary session examining the scholarship of Professor Derrick Bell. In addition, he organized and moderated a panel on reparations that featured the foremost scholars on slavery- and Jim Crow-based reparations. Professor Waterhouse also participated as a panelist on the Social Justice and the Regulatory State panel where he presented a paper on the relevance of race in environmental regulations.

Professor Bravo participated on a panel on the role of black women in international law: Towards an International Law of Black Women: New Theory, New Praxis, presenting her work: Black Female “Things” in International Law: A Meditation on Saartjie Baartman and Truganini. She also presented her research on the nature of personhood: When Humanity is Not Enough: On the Legal Construction of Natural, Juridical and Quasi-Persons.

Professor López organized an immigration panel that examined the contemporary challenges posed by immigration and race. Her panel presentation addressed the issue of the increasing commission of hate crimes against immigrants in the United States.

The National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences fulfill the commitments of the six regional People of Color legal scholarship conferences – Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Western – to come together approximately every five years to examine and support the role of faculty of color in the teaching of law.

09/03/2010

Professor Wilson Receives Scottish Fellowship

Professor Tom Wilson has been named a Neil MacCormick Fellow by the University of Edinburgh School of Law. The Fellowship is named in honor of Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, Professor Emeritus and formerly Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations. Up to five MacCormick Fellows are named each year, and Professor Wilson will join scholars from Victoria University of Wellington, Queens University, Canada, the University of Montreal, and the University of California. Professor Wilson will be in residence at the University of Edinburgh for the Fall 2010 semester.

Professor Tom Wilson Professor Wilson began his teaching career in 1997 at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business--Bloomington. In 1999 he joined the faculty of the School of Law - Indianapolis, where he teaches Contract Law, Sales, and Real Estate Transfer, Finance & Development in the J.D. program and American Legal Systems in the LL.M. program. Wilson is Director of the Law School’s LL.M. program in American Law for Foreign Lawyers, Director of the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies—in partnership with Renmin University School of Law in Beijing—and Co-Director of the Chinese Law Summer Program, which is held at the Renmin University of China School of Law. Wilson has received awards for teaching excellence at both the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis and at the Indiana University Kelly School of Business—Bloomington.

Professor Wilson’s scholarship focuses on real estate finance and mortgage foreclosure law. In 2009, he was Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Real Estate Transactions. Wilson regularly engages in international law-related activities, including teaching courses at law and business schools in China, Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, Lithuania, and Romania.

08/18/2010

Law School Named to “Greenest Law Schools” by Pre-Law Magazine

Green leaf image In their Back to School 2010 Issue, The National Jurist's Pre-Law Magazine featured a list of “Top Green Schools,” including the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis among the top 15 (in the “Cum Laude” category). The magazine collected information about law schools' curriculum, campus environment and building trends. Additional weight was given to schools with a strong green focus in their classes, faculty and other academic offerings, such as externships, legal journals and summer programs.

One of the chief “green” components of IU School of Law - Indianapolis is the Environmental Policy Forum, which is a research and educational initiative seeking to examine legal and institutional frameworks for the environment, and support leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector in their efforts to reform and strengthen those frameworks. The group engages in research and fosters public dialogue (through workshops, roundtables, and symposia), advancing cooperative solutions to public environmental concerns.

The Environmental Law Society (ELS) at the law school is also an active student group, co-sponsoring the Environmental Policy Forum’s annual Spring Symposium. Past topics of the symposium include Water Law, Energy Policy, and Climate Change. The ELS and the Forum have also sponsored a University-wide campus carbon footprint workshop, a film series, and periodic environmental career forums.

Law school faculty Dan Cole, Eric Dannenmaier, Andrew Klein, and Carlton Waterhouse are recognized scholars on environmental law issues, participate in the forum, and teach a variety of courses on environmental law.

» Visit the Environmental Policy Forum site

08/17/2010

Law School Professor Leads ‘Energy Security’ Initiative by Lugar Center for Renewable Energy

Professor Eric Dannenmaier will Chair a new Working Group on Policy, Economics, and Law established by the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy on Indiana University’s Indianapolis campus. The Lugar Center supports renewable energy research (including hydrogen generation, fuel cell technology, and bio-fuels) and has created a Policy, Economics, and Law Working Group to expand its contributions to the social sciences and to bring expertise associated with science and engineering research to policymakers at a state and national level.

The new Working Group is already engaged in a research project funded by the Pew Charitable Trust to prepare a white paper on “Energy Security as a National Security Issue” which will inform a series of workshops with legislators and other policy leaders in 2010 and 2011. The Working Group is also developing a project that compares E.U. and U.S. state adoption of renewable energy policies, and exploring collaboration with a new Great Lakes regional initiative on sustainable energy policy.

Professor Dannenmaier's research often concerns national security and national energy policy issues, and he is actively engaged in efforts to frame a more sustainable national energy policy. In June, for example, he was a key speaker at a National Security and Clean Energy Roundtable sponsored by Repower America and other national energy policy groups.

Dannenmaier is also engaged with energy experts within the Indiana University system. In addition to chairing the Lugar Center’s new Working Group, he has been asked to join the Lugar Center’s Executive Committee. He has also agreed to serve on the Executive Committee of the Indiana University Energy Institute, a new University-wide initiative to strengthen IU’s research and educational contributions to addressing national and international energy challenges.

More information on the Lugar Center can be found at http://www.lugarenergycenter.iupui.edu/index.shtml?menu=about

More information on the new IU Energy Institute can obtained through the office of the Vice President for Research at http://research.iu.edu/

More information on Repower America can be found at http://www.repoweramerica.org/

08/16/2010

Professor Andrew Klein to Serve as Chancellor’s Chief of Staff

Professor Andrew R. Klein has joined the office of IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz as part-time chief of staff. “Andy Klein’s experience as associate dean, his commitment to public service and Professor Andrew Klein IUPUI, his professional skills, and sound judgment will work together well in the varied responsibilities typically handled by a chief of staff,” said Chancellor Bantz. Professor Klein will take over the duties of Roger Schmenner who returns to the full-time faculty of the IU Kelley School of Business. Professor Klein joined the IU School of Law–Indianapolis faculty in 2000 where he is the Paul E. Beam Professor of Law. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the law school from 2004-2007. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of tort and environmental law. As chief of staff, he will have day-to-day oversight of intercollegiate athletics, act on the Chancellor’s behalf in service on major projects, and handle other duties as assigned. He will continue teaching half time at the law school.

08/03/2010

The Next Justice Appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court will be an Alumnus of IU School of Law-Indianapolis.

On Friday, July 30, the seven-member Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission selected Boone Circuit Judge Steven David, ’82, Marion Superior Judge Robyn Moberly, ’78, and Indianapolis attorney Karl Mulvaney, ’77, as finalists for the upcoming opening on the Indiana Supreme Court. The three finalists all share our law school as their alma mater.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will make the decision regarding who will be the next Indiana Supreme Court Justice. This will be Governor Daniels’ first appointment to the state’s highest court, the first new justice since 1999, and he or she will succeed Justice Theodore R. Boehm following his retirement on September 30.

Governor Mitch Daniels also attended the IU School of Law-Indianapolis during the 1970s. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1979.

07/29/2010

Two IU School of Law-Indianapolis Professors Quoted

Two IU School of Law-Indianapolis Professors have been quoted by national and international media outlets:

Professor Maria Pabon Lopez was quoted in USA TODAY on July 27, in an article related to new immigration laws. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-27-immigration27_ST_N.htm
Professor Andy Klein was quoted in Herald de Paris on July 7, in an article that addressed compensation for personal injury claims stemming from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.heralddeparis.com/for-claims-of-bodily-injury-no-payments-from-bp-yet-2/97339

07/08/2010

Six Semi-finalists for Indiana Supreme Court are IU School of Law-Indianapolis Alumni

Six of the nine semi-finalists chosen by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Indiana Supreme Court are graduates of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. Following interviews on July 6th and 7th, the commission selected the nine after roughly two hours of deliberation. Alumni semi-finalists are: Boone Circuit Judge Steven H. David, ‘82; Johnson Superior Judge Cynthia Emkes, ‘85; Marion Superior Judge Robyn Moberly,‘78; Indianapolis attorney Karl Mulvaney,’77; Hamilton Superior Judge Steven R. Nation, ‘75; and Sen. Brent Steele,’72 (R-Bedford). The other three semi-finalists are Indianapolis attorney Ellen Boshkoff; Bloomington attorney Kiply S. Drew; and Indiana Solictor General Thomas Fisher. Interviews for the semi-finalists will be July 30th.

07/07/2010

IU School of Law-Indianapolis Professor Leads International Conference

IU School of Law-Indianapolis professor Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr. organized and lead an international conference at Renmin University of China School of Law in Beijing. The three-day Sino-U.S. Conference on Real Estate Law featured two days of lectures by real estate law professors from the U.S., followed by a day of lectures by Chinese professors, finance officials, and government regulators.

The U.S. professors and their topics were:

Daniel B. Bogart, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Administration, Chapman University School of Law—The Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Commercial Leases
Carol N. Brown, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law—The Impact of Subprime Mortgage Lending on Minority Borrowers
R. Wilson Freyermuth, Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law—A Case Against the Enforceability of Private Transfer Fee Covenants
Gregory M. Stein, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Tennessee College of Law—Comparative Real Estate Finance: China and the U.S.
Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr., Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis—Community Land Trusts in the Context of Foreclosure and Property Abandonment

The U.S. speakers are the current (Freyermuth-2010), past (Wilson-2009, Bogart-2008, Stein-2007) and in-coming (Brown-2011) Chairs of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Real Estate Transactions.

The Chinese speakers included:

Ding Xiangshun, Assistant Dean and Professor of Law, Renmin University of China School of Law
Luo Chuanwei, Senior Partner, Beijing Bastion Law Firm
Li Xianming, Senior Partner, All Bright Law Firm
Chen Yupeng, Secretary General, China Trustee Association
Shen Weixing, Professor of Law and Vice-Dean, Tsinghua University School of Law;
Wang Yong, Professor and Director of the Commercial Law Institute, China University of Political Science & Law;

According to one Chinese official who attended the Conference, real estate development in China is occurring at a “tremendous pace,” which raises diverse issues ranging from displacement of low-income residents to concerns about the stability of the real estate market. Wilson noted that “many of the issues facing the real estate industry in China are similar to issues we face in the U.S.” He added, however, that “our responses to those issues take different forms given the public ownership of all land in China’s cities.” “The interplay of commonality and difference made for a fascinating conference,” Wilson concluded.

A similar Sino-U.S. conference is planned for early June 2011. The 2010 Conference was sponsored by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, a partnership of the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis and the Renmin University of China School of Law.

07/07/2010

Law School Students Participate in Sino-U.S. Forum in Beijing

Professor Tom Wilson (center) with students and faculty from Renmin University of China Students at the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis participated in the inaugural Sino-U.S. International Forum for Law School Students on June 6, 2010 at the Renmin University of China (RUC) School of Law in Beijing. The Forum was organized by IU School of Law—Indianapolis Professor Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr. and RUC School of Law professor Ding Xiangshun. The Forum was sponsored by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies—a partnership of IU School of Law—Indianapolis and the RUC School of Law—and was held in conjunction with the IU school’s Chinese Law Summer Program.

At the Forum, six RUC law students and nine U.S. law students made presentations concerning various aspects of their legal education. Eight of the U.S. presenters are students at IU School of Law—Indianapolis: Erin Albert, Michael Carter, Michael Gabelman, Melinda Mains, Jeremy Parker, William Singer, Mark Shope, and James Zinger.

An international panel of experts led discussions relating to each student’s presentation. In addition to Wilson and Ding, the panelists were: Niu Wenjie, Director, China Securities Depository & Clearing Corp. Ltd.; Xue Haibin, Solicitor and Partner, Zhonglun W D Law Firm; Stephen Leonard, British international law expert and adjunct professor at RUC School of Law; Keith M. Brandt, Senior Partner, Beijing Office of Hommonds Law Firm (U.K.); Andrew Lin, Partner of Blacklaw LLP, Irvine, California; and Charles Wharton, Harvard Law School.

The Forum was “a terrific opportunity for our students,” Wilson said. He explained that “at the beginning of the summer program, RUC and IU students were paired in mentor/mentee relationships, which enabled them to make friendships and engage in informal conversations about their legal education.” In addition, “the students’ presentations were videotaped and their transcribed remarks will be published by Professor Ding and made available to law schools throughout China.”

IU School of Law - Indianapolis student Mark Shope added, "The Sino-U.S. International Forum for Law School Students at Renmin University was a wonderful opportunity for students from both sides of the Pacific to learn about the similarities and differences in ideas and experiences of aspiring legal professionals. For those of us who want to enter the workforce as an attorney with a nuanced approach to matters of international interest, these types of exchanges are priceless. For those who may choose a career that does not include international elements, these types of exchanges are important so that we may learn to see the world through different eyes. These exchanges helped me personally become more well-rounded, open-minded and culturally aware."

A second Sino-U.S. International Forum for Law School Students is planned for June 5, 2011.

07/07/2010

IU School of Law-Indianapolis Announces Formation of Joint Center for Asian Law Studies

Dean Roberts and Dean Han shaking hands The Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis announces the formation of a Joint Center for Asian Law Studies in partnership with Renmin University of China School of Law in Beijing. IU School of Law—Indianapolis Dean Gary R. Roberts and Renmin University of China (RUC) School of Law Dean Han Dayuan signed the agreement establishing the Joint Center at a ceremony in Beijing on June 17 (pictured). While in Beijing, Dean Roberts also delivered a lecture at a conference held in conjunction with the law school’s summer study abroad program at RUC.

Dean Roberts praised the formation of the Joint Center as an important way for the two law schools to expand existing ties. The twelve-year partnership between IU School of Law—Indianapolis and RUC School of Law is “the longest continuous international relationship for both law schools,” he said. He added that the Joint Center will provide a unique opportunity for IU Law-Indianapolis professors to engage in scholarly activities with professors at RUC, which is the number one ranked law school in China.

In Indianapolis, the Joint Center will be directed by Professor Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr., who also co-directs the law school’s Chinese Law Summer Program. The director at RUC is Professor Ding Xiangshun, who earned his LL.M. degree from the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis in 2006. According to Wilson, “the Joint Center will promote the exchange of research and will allow U.S. and Chinese professors to engage issues from different perspectives.” He added that these goals were realized at the Joint Center’s first formal activity—a three-day Sino-U.S. Conference on Real Estate Law. In addition to facilitating exchanges of faculty, the Joint Center will benefit law students as the two schools plan to hold student-to-student forums via videoconferencing.

07/02/2010

Professor Kinney Receives National Recognition as Health Law Expert

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney is currently featured in the Member Spotlight on the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) web site. Professor Kinney, the founder and co-director of the school’s internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law.

In June she received the Jay Healey Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Annual ASLME Conference in Austin, Texas. (Read more about the event and the Healey Award).

Professor Kinney is a widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America’s health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and issues in administrative law.

06/30/2010

MaryEllen Bishop '82 Elected as Indiana University Trustee

MaryEllen Bishop, Class of 1982 Indiana University graduates today (June 30) elected MaryEllen Bishop, '82 of Carmel, Ind., to succeed Sue Talbot, who chose not to run for another term on the IU Board of Trustees.

Bishop, a graduate of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis and the Kelley School of Business, is an attorney with Cohen, Garelick & Glazier in Indianapolis and served as national chair of the IU Alumni Association in 2007-08.

Gary R. Roberts, dean of the law school, says, "MaryEllen Bishop's election to the board of trustees is a truly exciting development. MaryEllen is smart, experienced, accomplished, energetic, and passionate about Indiana University. Furthermore, with her bachelor's degree from IU Bloomington and her law degree from IU Indianapolis, as well as her service as the head of the IU Alumni Association, MaryEllen brings a broad perspective of the entire university that will enable her to help the trustees make all of IU a better place for education and research. Her election is wonderful news for all who love IU."

Bishop's involvement at IU also has included serving on the steering committee for the Colloquium for Women of IU, on the board of visitors for the IU School of Law-Indianapolis and as alumni representative on the IU Athletics Committee. Her husband, Michael, also is a graduate of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, and her two children also are IU graduates.
She received 3,773 of the 14,444 total votes cast, finishing ahead of Kent E. Agness, a retired attorney from Indianapolis, who received 2,963 votes.

"Three years ago, serving as the national chair for the IU Alumni Association made me realize how much I love this university," Bishop said. "I am honored to be representing the alumni of this university, knowing the incredible things that the university is doing right now, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

"I would be very remiss if I didn't say thank you to Dr. Sue Talbot for everything that she's done for IU over so many years," Bishop added. "She left big shoes to ever try to fill on the board."

With Bishop's election, it is ensured that the IU Board of Trustees will continue to include a woman member for the next three years, in addition to student trustee Abbey R. Stemler of New Albany, Ind., who was appointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels last year.

This was the third year that alumni could vote online, and 12,889 ballots were cast in that manner. There were 1,555 valid paper ballots. Alumni had to return a postcard in order to receive a paper ballot. Due to a lack of signatures, 37 paper ballots were declared invalid and just two paper ballots or envelopes were voided for other reasons.

IU has nine trustees, three of whom are elected by alumni. The other two alumni trustees are Patrick A. Shoulders, Evansville, Ind., who was elected in 2005 and re-elected in 2008; and Philip N. Eskew Jr. of North Webster, Ind., who was elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2009. Shoulders, a 1978 graduate of IU School of Law - Indianapolis, will reach the end of his current term in 2011, and Eskew's term expires in 2012. The remaining trustees are appointed by the governor.

06/22/2010

Professor Roisman Speaks at AALS Meeting on Housing Issues

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) midyear meeting which took place in New York City on June 8-12, 2010. She spoke first at the Workshop on “Post Racial” Civil Rights Law, Politics & Legal Education: New and Old Color Lines in the Age of Obama. She discussed housing issues during the plenary session entitled “The Legal (Re)production of Inequality.”

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman Professor Roisman also participated in the AALS Workshop on Property Law on June 12, focusing her remarks on “Tenants and the Foreclosure Crisis.”

The substantive focus of Professor Roisman's practice, teaching, and writing has been on low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation. She teaches property, housing discrimination and segregation, the civil rights movement, and comparative housing law.

06/16/2010

Professor Kinney Receives Top Honor in Health Law

On June 3-5, 2010 at the 33rd Annual Health Law Professors Conference of the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics in Austin, Texas, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney received the Jay Healey Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor David Orentlicher who co-directs the law school’s Hall Center for Law and Health with Kinney, gave a short presentation about her work.

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney Eleanor D. Kinney, founding director of the school’s internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law. After graduating from law school, she practiced law for four years, then worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center for two years. After earning her master’s degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to joining the faculty in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association.

A widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America’s health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and issues in administrative law, Professor Kinney is author or co-author of numerous law review articles, book chapters and book reviews.

The Healey award is named in honor of Joseph (Jay) M. Healey who was Professor and Head of the Division of Humanistic Studies at the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine. In his dedication of a symposium edition of the American Journal of Law and Medicine to Prof. Healey, Prof. George Annas with Boston University’s School of Public Health described Prof. Healey as ”the most respected health law teacher of his generation” and "the spiritual leader of the nation's health law teachers." Prof. Healey received the Health Law Teachers Award in 1990, and it was renamed in his memory after his death in 1993.

06/09/2010

Hon. Jane Magnus-Stinson '83 Unanimously Confirmed as Federal Judge

Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson On Monday, June 7, 2010 the United States Senate voted unanimously to confirm Jane Magnus-Stinson, '83 as a Federal Judge for the District Court of the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Magnus-Stinson is only the third woman to ever be named to the Federal bench in Indiana. She became U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2007, after having served for twelve years on the Marion County Superior Court. Before moving to the bench, she served as chief legal counsel for Evan Bayh who was then Governor of Indiana.

“Having worked with her in a variety of capacities, especially in her role as a leader and ambassador for our law school during the time she headed up our Board of Visitors, I know her to have that rare combination of qualities that makes for an exceptional judge – great intelligence, balance, temperament, and empathy,” says Dean Gary R. Roberts of the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. “I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have on the bench dispensing justice than Judge Magnus-Stinson.”

Judge Magnus-Stinson has served on the law school’s Board of Visitors since 1992 and served as President of that body in 2009.

05/19/2010

President Obama Nominates John Pistole, '81 as TSA Chief

John Pistole, '81 On May 17, President Obama announced his intent to nominate John S. Pistole, '81, to lead the Transportation Safety Administration. Pistole has served as Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2004 and has been with the agency since 1983. In his announcement, President Obama said, “The talent and knowledge John has acquired in more than two decades of service with the F.B.I. will make him a valuable asset to our administration's efforts to strengthen the security and screening measures at our airports. I am grateful that he has agreed to take on this important role, and I look forward to working with him in the weeks and months ahead."

Pistole received the law school’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009 and delivered the law school’s Commencement address that same year [read more about John Pistole...]

05/19/2010

Alumni Secure GOP Nominations for Fall 2010 Legislative Races

Following Indiana's May 4th primary election, Dan Coats, '72 is poised to regain the U.S. Senate seat he held from 1990-1998. Coats also served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany and has practiced law in Washington, D.C. He will face democratic nominee Brad Ellsworth in November.

Todd Rokita, '95 won the GOP nomination for the state's 4th District. Rokita, who has served as Secretary of State for seven years, was one of more than a dozen candidates for the position after Rep. Steve Buyer announced he would not seek re-election. Rokita will face Democrat David Sanders in the Fall election.

Republican Mike Pence, '86, who has served as his party's Conference Chairman since 2008, will be running for his sixth term in the 6th District against Democrat Barry A. Welsh. Political newcomer and recent graduate, Todd Young, '06, will be the Republican facing Democrat Baron P. Hill in the 9th District.

05/12/2010

Appellate Clinic Goes 3 for 3

Seal of the Court of Appeal of Indiana Although the Indiana Court of Appeals reverses approximately 15% of the criminal cases it hears, the Appellate Clinic at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis obtained reversals in all three appeals litigated by students during the spring semester. Certified Intern Laura “Katie” Boren obtained a new trial for her client, Regina Jackson, because the trial court refused to grant a continuance to allow the defendant’s late-disclosed witness to testify. Read the opinion. The Court of Appeals reversed Manuel Hopson’s conviction for operating a vehicle while intoxicated because the state failed to prove Hopson operated the vehicle, which he had started to keep warm but never moved after being asked to leave his girlfriend’s apartment. Read the opinion. Certified Intern, Steve Simcox, argued the Hopson case at Oakland City University, where Judges Najam, May, and Brown heard oral argument. Finally, Certified Intern Jordan Stover secured a reversal for Byron Helms because the state failed to prove Helms recklessly possess paraphernalia. Read the opinion.

Suzy St. John, ’09 is a former appellate clinic student who now works as an appellate attorney at the Marion County Public Defender Agency. She says, “ The Appellate Clinic exemplifies the importance of students having the opportunity to learn practical skills in law school, aside from the typical classroom experience.”

“ Each student learned what it takes to be an excellent appellate advocate,” says Ruth Johnson, appellate administrator at the Marion County Public Defender Agency. “The appellate division appreciates the dedication and enthusiasm of the students in the clinic and the service they provide to the Marion County community in representing indigent clients on direct appeal.”

05/12/2010

Congratulations to Top Local Employers

The law school congratulates our many alumni who work in the firms recognized in The Indianapolis Star's "Top Workplaces in Central Indiana":

Barnes & Thornburg (No. 1, Large Companies)
NCAA (No. 4, Large Companies)
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman (No. 4, Midsize Companies)
Lewis & Kappes (Top Work Places, Small Companies)
Lewis & Wagner (Top Work Places, Small Companies)

05/10/2010

Law School Alumnus, G. Michael Witte, '82, Selected to Lead Disciplinary Commission

The Indiana Supreme Court has chosen former Dearborn Superior Judge G. Michael Witte, '82, as the newest executive secretary of the Disciplinary Commission.

The court made its decision Friday and announced the selection today, about six months after the nine-member commission began searching for someone to succeed longtime executive secretary Don Lundberg. Lundberg left the post to join Barnes & Thornburg at the start of the year.

As the state's first Asian-American trial judge, Witte served on the Dearborn County bench from 1985 through 2008 and has continued serving in temporary and senior judging positions since then. He begins as Indiana's newest chief of lawyer discipline in mid-June.

05/07/2010

Professor Pitts Participates in NYU Symposium on Election Law

On April 1, 2010, Professor Michael Pitts participated in the symposium entitled "Helping America Vote: The Past, Present, and Future of Election Administration," hosted by New York University School of Law.

The 2008 election season brought an unprecedented level of attention to the system of election administration in this country. Fraudulent voter registration, registration list purges, provisional voting, ballot design issues, and oversight by partisan officials all became hotly debated topics. As we move into the 2010 election cycle, these issues will again be at the forefront of public debate.

This symposium focused on legislative reforms to improve the current system of election administration, including voter registration, voting technology, ballot design, voter ID laws, and the selection of election officials.

Professor Pitts participated in the panel on the “Mechanics of Elections.”

Professor Pitts’ scholarly work focuses on the law of democracy, particularly voting rights and election administration, and his work has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals. He frequently provides commentary about election law issues to the media and has been quoted by The Associated Press and The New York Times, and has appeared on CNN.

05/06/2010

Law Students Urge UN to Ask U.S. to Stop Jailing Children for Life

The International Human Rights Law Society (IHRLS) of Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis submitted on April 19, 2010 a universal periodic review (UPR) report to the United Nations Human Rights Council assailing the sentencing to life imprisonment without parole of children in the United States.

The following students authored the report: LL.M. candidates Evelyn Aero and Ntsika W. Fakudze, J.D. candidates Ann Marie Judson-Patrick, Leontiy V. Korolev, Saira N. Latif, Bobby Y. Lydon-Lam, Kalli Dee McBride, Javaneh Nekoomaram, Samantha K. Sledd, James R. Smerbeck, and John L. Tao. Professor George E. Edwards, director of the Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL), endorsed it.

The students provided the Council with their chart showing that 27 US states mandated the imposition of life sentences without parole upon persons who were below 18 at the time of their alleged commission of the crime. The students urged the Council to call upon the U.S. to eliminate the practice and to “emphasize rehabilitation and education in judicial treatment of juveniles” instead.

The report was submitted as part of the Council’s mandatory review of the U.S., in a process known as “Universal Periodic Review” (UPR), in which the Council will hold hearings on human rights law compliance in each country of the world. The U.S. is a member of the Council, and thus will have an early hearing on whether the U.S. complies with international human rights law. The U.S. hearings will be held in Geneva in November or December 2010. IU School of Law–Indianapolis students may travel to the Geneva hearings, and may raise the issue orally with member states of the Council and with other states observing the proceeding.

The IHRLS, in cooperation with PIHRL, previously submitted shadow reports to different UN human rights treaty bodies on a wide range of human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by some governments. These reports are called “shadow reports” because they ordinarily “shadow” or follow the government report and expose violations that governments omit from their report. The students have made oral presentations at the UN in New York and Geneva on these violations.

The students’ shadow reports had focused on many issues, including freedom of expression, indigenous people’s rights, women’s and children’s rights, discrimination based on sexual orientation, Roma people’s rights, and racial discrimination against Muslims, Arabs, Middle Easterners, and South Asians. Students had exposed violations in Zambia, Chile, Panama, the United States, Chad, Philippines, Nepal, and Australia.

J.D. and LL.M. students had participated in shadow reporting at the law school.

A list of the law school’s shadow reports can be found at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/humanrights/UNshadow.html.

More information about the Human Rights Council can be found here: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/.

Student and other individuals interested in working on shadow reports may contact Perfecto “Boyet” Caparas (pcaparas@iupui.edu).

05/06/2010

Professor Roisman Honored as 'Servant of Justice'

At the Legal Aid Society of the Distirct of Columbia’s 21st Annual Servant of Justice Dinner on April 27, 2010, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman was honored as a “Servant of Justice” along with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

Professor Florence Roisman with colleagues at the Servant of Justice Award dinner The Servant of Justice award carries the following inscription: “for faithful dedication and remarkable achievement in ensuring that all persons have equal and meaningful access to justice.”

The substantive focus of Professor Roisman's practice, teaching, and writing has been on low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation. She teaches property, housing discrimination and segregation, the civil rights movement, and comparative housing law.

Pictured above at the Servant of Justice event are (left to right) Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Professor Florence Wagman Roisman, IU School of Law - Indianapolis; Kristi Matthews, Fair Budget Coalition and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless; Randall A. Brater, Arent Fox LLP.

05/05/2010

Legendary Washington Lawyer Dick Thornburg to Deliver Law School’s Commencement Address

On Saturday, May 8, Dick Thornburgh will give the commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. The law school’s dean, Gary R. Roberts, says, “We are very honored to have Mr. Thornburgh speak to the graduating class of 2010. His work over the past three decades in both the public and private sectors is an excellent example to our graduates of the many ways in which a legal education can be used to serve our country and society.”

Identified by Washingtonian magazine recently as one of “ten legendary Washington lawyers who will forever leave their mark on the District’s legal landscape,” Dick Thornburgh is currently counsel to the international law firm of K&L Gates LLP, resident in its Washington, D.C. office. He previously served as Governor of Pennsylvania, Attorney General of the United States under Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, during a public career which spanned over 25 years. Elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1978 and re-elected in 1982, Thornburgh was the first Republican to serve two successive terms in that office. As Governor, Thornburgh balanced state budgets for eight consecutive years, reduced both personal and business tax rates, cut the state’s record-high indebtedness and left a surplus of $350 million.

After his unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate, Thornburgh served three years as Attorney General of the United States (1988-1991) in the cabinets of Presidents Reagan and Bush. He mounted a vigorous attack on white-collar crime as the Department of Justice obtained a record number of convictions of savings and loan and securities officials, defense contractors and corrupt public officials. Thornburgh established strong ties with law enforcement agencies around the world to help combat drug trafficking, money laundering, terrorism and international white-collar crime. During his tenure as Attorney General, he twice argued and won cases before the United States Supreme Court. The Legal Times noted that Thornburgh as Attorney General “built a reputation as one of the most effective champions that prosecutors have ever had.” An honorary Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he currently chairs a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration examining the FBI’s post-9/11 transformation process and is a member of the FBI Director’s Advisory Board.

As Attorney General, Thornburgh played a leading role in the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2002, he received the Wiley E. Branton Award of The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs in recognition of his “commitment to the civil rights of people with disabilities.” He also took vigorous action against racial, religious and ethnic “hate crimes,” and his office mounted a renewed effort to enforce the nation’s antitrust and environmental laws.

During his service as Under-Secretary General at the United Nations (1992-1993), Thornburgh was in charge of personnel, budget and finance matters. He also has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on efforts to battle fraud and corruption.

In 2006, Thornburgh received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from The American Lawyer magazine for “important contributions to public life while building an outstanding private practice.” He currently chairs the Legal Advisory Board of the Washington Legal Foundation and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on the Attorney-Client Privilege.

A native of Pittsburgh, Thornburgh was educated at Yale University, where he obtained an engineering degree, and at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he served as an editor of the Law Review. He has been awarded honorary degrees by thirty-two other colleges and universities.

Thornburgh served as director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (1987-1988), lectured on more than 125 other campuses, debated at the Oxford Union and has frequently appeared as a guest commentator on network news and talk shows.

Thornburgh is a Life Trustee of the Urban Institute. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Visitors at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He previously served as a member of several boards, including Merrill Lynch Incorporated, Rite-Aid Corporation, ARCO Chemical Corporation and Élan Corporation. He was the founding Chairman of the State Science and Technology Institute and serves as Vice-Chairman of the World Committee on Disability. He also is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation. Thornburgh was an elected delegate to Pennsylvania’s historic Constitutional Convention (1967-1968) where he spearheaded efforts on judicial and local government reform. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (1966) and the U.S. Senate (1991).

Born July 16, 1932, he is married to Ginny Judson Thornburgh, director of the Interfaith Initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities, based in Washington, D.C. The Thornburghs have four sons and six grandchildren.
The law school’s commencement will take place in the Sagamore Ballroom in the Indiana Convention Center on Saturday, May 8 at 4 p.m.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Allington, Director for External Affairs, at 317-278-3038 or eallingt@iupui.edu.

05/04/2010

The Political Centrist by Professor John L. Hill Featured on C-SPAN’s BookTV

Professor John L. Hill's book The Political Centrist (2009, Vanderbilt University Press) was The cover of Prof. John Hill's book The Political Centrist featured on C-SPAN’s Book TV recently. In it Professor Hill examines the decline of "liberal" and "conservative" ideology and the growth of a "centrist" approach to contentious contemporary political and social issues such as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay marriage, illegal immirgration, judicial activism, and other key issues.
The episode will air on Sunday, May 9th at 1 p.m. and 10 p.m. and Monday, May 10th at 4 a.m. http://www.booktv.org/Program/11527/The+Political+Centrist.aspx
Read more about Professor Hill's book.

05/01/2010

Professor Dannenmaier to Help Lead NATO Workshop on Water Scarcity and Security

Professor Eric Dannenmaier has been working with Italy’s National Research Council, Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, as part of the Scientific Committee responsible for designing and moderating the workshop, “Environmental Security: Workshop on Water Security, Management and Control,” which took place in Marrakech, Morocco, May 31-June 3, 2010.

Professor Dannenmaier’s participation in the Workshop grew out of his longst Professor Eric Dannenmaier anding research in the area of natural resource scarcity and environmental security. He has taught and written about water scarcity and water law in particular, and this issue is central to countries in the Southern Mediterranean.

The workshop convened Northern African and European government representatives and scientists to examine emerging risks to regional water resources and the potential for scarcity to generate conflict. Participants discussed new approaches to the strategic assessment of critical factors (including land use practices, deforestation, water scarcity, and water quality) as a means to prevent domestic and international conflict. It was sponsored by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme and co-hosted by Morocco’s Ministry of Higher Education.

Professor Dannenmaier chaired a 2-part simulation among participants to deepen their understanding of institutional roles in facing and defusing water scarcity crises. He also presented a paper in the Workshop’s opening session on “Identifying Stakeholders and Engaging Policymakers,” which examined the emerging concept of environmental security and its relevance for water scarcity and degradation concerns in the Southern Mediterranean region. Dannenmaier stressed the importance of coordinating the work of policymakers and the scientific community to assess resource threats and address priority concerns to protect populations which are uniquely water-dependent.

Dannenmaier was also invited to review his research at a lecture sponsored by the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy on Wednesday on April 14, 2010. Dannenmaier’s Lugar Center lecture, “Natural Resources and National Security,” examined the increasing relevance of environmental security for the United States. It was sponsored by the Lugar Center’s new Policy, Economics, and Law Working Group, which Professor Dannenmaier has recently joined.

More information regarding the Lugar Center lecture can be found at http://www.lugarenergycenter.iupui.edu/index.shtml?menu=about

04/28/2010

Scholarship from Hall Center Focuses on Medical Legal Partnerships

In a recent article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney and Heather A. McCabe explore the topic of medical legal partnerships. Their article “Medical Legal Partnerships: A Key Strategy for Addressing Social Determinants of Health” can be read on line.

Professor Kinney is co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, while Ms. McCabe is Executive Director for the center and also teaches at the law school.

"Social determinants of health have high costs, both in quality of life as well as dollars, and interdisciplinary teams are having a positive influence on lowering these costs and improving the quality of health, “ says Heather McCabe. “The Journal of General Internal Medicine is to be applauded for publishing on the important topic of interdisciplinary teams in improving social determinants of health."

Eleanor D. Kinney, founding director of the school’s internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law. After graduating from law school, she practiced law for four years, then worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center for two years. After earning her master’s degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to joining the faculty in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association.

Heather A. McCabe practiced Social Work at Riley Hospital for Children before entering law school. After graduation, she was Executive Director of the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death, a public health research project at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Clarian Health, and Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health as well as the Director of the Public Health Law Program. Her primary areas of research are public health law and vulnerable populations.

04/26/2010

Professor Cole Tackles Benefit-Cost-Analysis in Joint Committee with the MacArthur Foundation

Professor Dan Cole Professor Daniel H. Cole has been named to the “Scientific Committee” for a joint project of the MacArthur Foundation and the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis to develop principles and standards for benefit-cost-analysis. Other members of the Committee include Kenneth Arrow (Nobel Prize ,1972), John Lott, Kerry Smith, Richard Zerbe, Robert Haveman, Lisa Robinson, Kip Viscusi, Bruce Kobayashi, Arnold Harberger, and John Graham.

Professor Cole is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU-Bloomington. He teaches and writes in the areas of Property, Natural Resources Law, Land Use, Environmental Protection, and Law & Economics. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law.

04/23/2010

Law School Publications Lauded

Cover of Fall 2009 Alumni Magazine The IU School of Law-Indianapolis has received a Gold award in the 25th annual Educational Advertising Awards competition, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report. The school received the award for its winter 2009 alumni magazine/dean’s report, IU Law-Indianapolis. This award is the fourth such national award the law school’s publications have received in the last 18 months. The publication is edited by Jonna Kane MacDougall, Assistant Dean for External Affairs and Alumni Relations, and Elizabeth Allington, Director of Communications and Creative Services.

The law school dean, Gary R. Roberts, said, “These awards bode well for the strong positive impact our publications have on those who read them.”

The Educational Advertising Award Competition is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the country. More than 2,000 entries were received from more than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schools, from all 50 states and several foreign countries. Gold awards were granted to 218 schools.

04/20/2010

Law School Unveils Strategic Plan for the Future

Lawrence W. Inlow Hall Following an extensive planning process involving input from alumni, faculty, staff and other stake holders, the IU School of Law - Indianapolis is unveiling the strategic plan that will pave the way for increased programming, faculty and student support, and the commensurate fundraising efforts to support these changes.

The law school’s mission was defined as follows:
“The Mission of the IU School of Law -Indianapolis is to be a premier public law school that: –advances understanding of the law;
– prepares students to be excellent, ethical professionals and leaders;
–provides service to society at a local, state, national, and international level; and
–promotes a diverse, humane, and supportive community of persons engaged in influential scholarship, teaching, and service.”

The strategic plan focuses on five themes or visions and identifies priorities and goals, including strengthening existing centers of excellence and developing others.

Professor Andrew R. Klein sees the strategic plan as an opportunity for "continued integration with the community." Klein says, "We have so many faculty members working at the leading edge of their disciplines. To lay out a plan that allows us to share our work with students and alumni – as well as government and business leaders – is a real privilege and opportunity.”

Professor Susanah Mead who is an alumna as well as a former interim dean at the law school says "The faculty know that we are an excellent school that could, with adequate resources, be an even better one. The strategic plan is a document that will help us to achieve our goals."

“This strategic plan charts an optimistic vision and direction for the law school that will enable us to target our efforts and resources and take us to the next level of excellence,” says Gary R. Roberts, the Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law and dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. “This is an exciting blueprint for our future.”

Read the Strategic Plan.

04/20/2010

International Jurist in Indianapolis

The Honorable Patrick Lipton Robinson, President of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, will be honored at a reception on May 14, 2010 at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. The event will begin at 4:00 pm in room 267 at the law school and members of the legal and international communities and the public are invited to attend.

Hon. Patrick Lipton Robinson, President ICTY President Robinson, originally from Jamaica, has had a long and distinguished career in international law on the bench and in government service. He currently is principal advisor to the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and has served on the International Bioethics Committee, Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and several world and regional bodies including the Commission of Truth and Justice – Haiti.

Following introductory remarks, President Robinson will accept questions from those attending at the reception. Admission is without charge but attendees are requested to make reservations at davismf@iupui.edu or 317-274-1917.

“We are honored to host President Robinson, whose international law career has inspired law students around the globe,” says Professor George E. Edwards, the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and founding director of the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL). “Our law school has sent numerous law interns to work in The Hague, The Netherlands at the ICTY— an institution now headed by Judge Robinson. Our graduate and former ICTY intern Mr. Sean Monkhouse, ‘06 has returned to The Hague as an ICTY Judicial Officer.” Professor Edwards says, “Following in this tradition, one of our students, Ms. Samantha Sledd, will intern this summer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)– the ICTY’s sister organization, based in Arusha, Tanzania.”

This summer Professor Edwards will also lead a delegation of PIHRL law student interns to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda in May and June. The ICC Review Conference will assess proposed modifications of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court which was concluded in 1998 (in Rome). The ICC also sits in The Hague.

President Robinson was invited to Indianapolis by Christian Theological Seminary where he will receive an honorary doctorate degree at the seminary commencement exercises.

This event is co-sponsored by the following law school groups: PIHRL, International Human Rights Law Society, Amnesty International Law Chapter, Master of Laws Association, as well as the following organizations: Human Rights Works and the Center for Victim and Human Rights.

For more information contact Professor Karen Bravo kbravo@upui.edu or 317.278-9117 or Professor George E. Edwards gedwards@indiana.edu or 317.274.1917.

04/16/2010

Professor Roisman Speaks About Foreclosure Prevention at SALT Conference

Professor Florence Roisman with colleagues at the SALT conference Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke at a conference co-sponsored by Golden Gate University School of Law and the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) on March 19-20, 2010. The conference was entitled Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Teaching and Prof. Roisman's topic was "Teaching About Foreclosure Prevention for Homeowners and Tenants."

Pictured above at the SALT conference are Drucilla Stender Ramey, dean of Golden Gate University School of Law; Honorable Thelton Henderson, U.S. District Judge; John Payton, Keynote Speaker, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc; Professor Florence Wagman Roisman.

04/15/2010

Professor Drobac and Landis Receive Distinguished Teaching Awards on Founders Day

President McRobbie applauding the Teaching Awards & Faculty Honors As the university marks its founding 190 years ago this spring, President Michael A. McRobbie will present IU's Distinguished Teaching Awards in honor of Founders Day at a dinner on April 16.

"The passion and dedication that Indiana University faculty members bring to the classroom every day is truly remarkable," said IU President Michael A. McRobbie. "They ensure that our graduates are prepared for success in the world outside of the classroom. These awards honor our most exceptional faculty, their devotion to their students and their strong commitment to our fundamental missions of excellence in education and research."

Jennifer Drobac, professor of law and director of the Central and Eastern European Law Summer Program in the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, will receive the Sylvia E. Bowman Award. Established in 1994, the Sylvia E. Bowman Award honors exemplary faculty members in areas related to American civilization. This teaching award commemorates Sylvia E. Bowman (1914-1989), a respected scholar and author who gave 34 years of service to IU as a professor, academic administrator, and chancellor for regional campus administration.

Professor Jennifer Drobac's law courses address a range of topics, including family law, juvenile law, sexual harassment law, HIV/AIDS law, professional responsibility, and women and law. And while the courses differ, each ends the same way, with Drobac's "Annual Gerald López Lecture."

Professor López, an influential legal theorist on lawyering and problem-solving, deeply impressed Drobac when she was a law student, and he was her instructor at Stanford University, where López co-founded the Lawyering for Social Change Program. Drobac delivers her modified López lecture at the end of each course, to inspire students just as he inspired her. The principles expressed -- duty to community, duty to profession, and duty to self -- make up the very fabric of her courses and her teaching career.

"After tenure and promotion, professors occasionally lose their enthusiasm for and dedication to teaching," writes Gary Roberts, dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, and Joel Schumm, clinical law professor. "Not Professor Drobac. If anything, she has taken her teaching 'mission' to the next level. By integrating diversity issues and ethics into all of her classes, Professor Drobac is preparing a new class of lawyers to serve Indiana, this nation, and even our global community."

Drobac practiced law in California from 1992 to 2001, focusing on employment law issues and litigation. From 1997 to 2000 she served as a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where she also was pursuing her doctorate. During this time, she realized she could find a balance for what was important to her -- her family, acquiring knowledge, and service to her profession and community -- through work as a law professor. She joined the law school faculty at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis in 2001.

As part of her scholarship, she has worked to make sexual harassment law a distinct academic field rather than a component of employment discrimination law or feminist jurisprudence. This work began when Drobac was asked to teach a semester-long course on sexual harassment but realized she would need to write the course material because it was such a new area. She set to writing the necessary casebook, which would become Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Theory, published in 2005. For the American Bar Association (ABA) she co-authored Sex-Based Harassment: Best Practices for the Legal Profession, 2002, and it remains a prominent ABA guide to sexual harassment law.

Her focus on sexual harassment legal theory eventually narrowed to a particularly vulnerable population, teen employees. Her work in this area includes journal articles, an amicus brief, conference presentations, and even boot camp. Drobac was one of 30 academics invited to the University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Boot Camp, a summer institute on neuroscience for professionals in law, ethics, education, and other fields.

Her amicus brief, filed at the request of the National Employment Lawyers Association, and other writings about legal change for sexually harassed adolescents and their employers, are just a few of the examples of how she incorporates community service into her work. In her classes, she urges her students to take pro bono cases to help the law work for "people who really need it." She encourages students to volunteer while still students. She encourages political action -- in whatever way students feel comfortable.

Drobac uses a variety of teaching techniques to engage students, including simulated in-chambers hearings, online video feeds of Indiana Supreme Court oral arguments, practicums in mediation and negotiation, PowerPoint presentations for every lecture, and weekly discussions of family law current events.

Peers describe her as having an energetic and engaging teaching style. She received the 2005 IU Trustees' Teaching Award, and she was named a John S. Grimes Fellow in 2006 and 2009 and a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in 2005-2006. Drobac serves as vice chair and trustee of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Board.

"I teach law, and I love my job. How many other lawyers can say that they love their job?" writes Drobac. "Life is short, I tell my students. Question who you are and what you value; then, pursue what you value."

At the Founder’s Day Teaching Award Ceremony, a Part-time Teaching Award will go to Larry A. Landis, adjunct professor in the IU School of Law-Indianapolis.

Adjunct Professor Larry Landis Nearly 30 years ago, as a law student in Larry Landis's Trial Practice class, John Trimble figured there was no way he could mess up his very first approach to a witness on the stand, especially on a topic that was so straightforward. "Sir, please state your name," recalls Trimble of his confident approach that was soon to be rebuked.

"Larry jumped up and admonished me that even the simplest questions in a courtroom should be interesting," Trimble says. "From that day I have always asked the same question as follows, 'Sir, would you please introduce yourself to the jury?'"

For 28 years Landis has taught the essential law school course Trial Practice on Saturday mornings in Indianapolis, requiring students to wear suits as if appearing in court, and for 28 years, "our students have benefited tremendously because of his thoughtful, patient, and dynamic approach to teaching," says School of Law Dean Gary Roberts.

Student after student, having gone on to become judges, federal magistrates, and, as in Trimble's case, an Indiana Defense Lawyer of the Year, give credit to Landis for transforming them from law students with a knowledge of law to law students who can confidently practice law.

"It is of great value to know the law, but unless one is able to place that knowledge into practice, the knowledge is of no value. That is what Mr. Landis accomplished through his class," says Indiana State Senator R. Michael Young. "It is quite possibly the most important class that I took while at the law school."

Those sentiments reverberate through the years from graduates like Trimble, who was in Landis' first edition of the class in 1981, to more recent graduates like Class of '08 alumna Deborah Markisohn. Markisohn agrees that Landis's class "did more to prepare me for the actual practice of law than any other course in law school."

A two-time winner of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the IU School of Law-Indianapolis on the merits of his Saturday morning class, since 1980 Landis has been executive director of the Indiana Public Defender Council (IPDC), a state agency responsible for providing training and technical assistance to approximately 1,050 practicing Indiana attorneys who are appointed to represent indigent defendants in criminal and juvenile delinquency cases. Prior to his current position, he was the IPDC's director of training and its state deputy public defender.

So what is it that makes Landis such an irrepressibly effective instructor? A self-described "performance coach" rather than teacher, Landis says his philosophy of teaching is grounded in his own 10 Principles of Learning and Training, the most complex of which is a mere 18-word instruction that "Adults learn better when they are active and engaged in applying new knowledge to solve a specific problem."

Other principles that resound in the course are simpler: "Adults learn skills by trial and error, and they learn more from failure than success," "Training is a process, not an event," "Adults need to be responsible for their own learning," and "Learning can and should be fun." These principles have created lasting results.

"Young lawyers who have worked with Larry are better advocates, well prepared, respectful, and competent," says U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, who taught with Landis for more than 10 years. "The hundreds of quality trial lawyers who have taken his class are a testament to his dedication and the value to the legal profession he provides."

"As full-time members of the faculty, it is humbling to review the remarkable work of Professor Landis," say Roberts and Joel Schumm, a clinical professor of law. "Although Professor Landis has taught a course with the same title for 28 years, he has constantly engaged in a reflective process to assess and improve that course. Our students have benefitted tremendously because of his thoughtful, patient, and dynamic approach to teaching."

Those students, in evaluations of Landis, recognize what Roberts and Schumm are talking about: "Best class in law school. Finally learning what I came to school to learn," and "Excellent practical experience; put 'book learning' into play," and finally, "In my 4 years of law school, this is the most valuable and interesting class I have taken. I have recommended and will continue to recommend that all law students take this class."

04/15/2010

Law School's LARC Program Ranks 5th Nationally

Professor Cynthia Adams with LARC students IU School of Law - Indianapolis' legal writing program, known as Legal Analysis, Research and Communications (LARC), was ranked 5th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2010.

"The increase in the ranking of our legal writing program to fifth in the nation is a tribute to the excellent quality of our legal writing faculty and their dedication to preparing our students to be superb lawyers from the day they graduate," said Gary R. Roberts, the Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law and dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis.

The law school’s LARC program has a core of required courses focusing on research and predictive analysis and communication, persuasive writing, giving oral arguments to a court, and drafting. Many of the full-time law professors teaching in the legal writing program are actively involved in the legal community, both nationally and internationally. In 2008, the IU School of Law – Indianapolis hosted the 13th national biennial conference of the Legal Writing Institute, bringing more than 600 legal writing faculty members from 13 countries to Inlow Hall.

U.S. News & World Report added legal writing programs to its annual rankings of special law school programs in 2005. The rankings are based on a survey submitted to those law professors across the nation teaching in their schools’ legal writing programs. In 2009, the IU-Indianapolis legal writing program ranked 8th.

The school’s program has gained national attention through research and writing by faculty on legal writing issues. Faculty members have also given multiple presentations at regional, national, and international conferences, taken on board memberships and chairmanships with national and international committees, and brought the spotlight to the law school by hosting conferences.

03/30/2010

Professor Mitchell Honored Posthumously

On March 30, 2010, Professor Mary Harter Mitchell, who passed away in November, 2009 was awarded the 2010 IUPUI Inspirational Woman Award from the Women’s Leadership Awards Selection Committee. On April 16, 2010 she will also posthumously receive the 2010 Alvin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring by a faculty member at the Chancellor’s Honors Convocation. Professor Mitchell was also selected by the graduating Class of 2010 as a J.D. hooder for the commencement ceremony. She will be represented by her friend and colleague Professor Florence Wagman Roisman.

All are invited to attend a Celebration of the Life and Work of Professor Mary Harter Mitchell on May 16, 2010 in the Wynne Coutroom of Inlow Hall. See the event listing for more details.

Professor Mary Harter Mitchell passed away on November 4, 2009, at the age of 56.

Professor Mitchell, who was named the Alan H. Cohen Professor of Law in 2004, was well loved by everyone in the law school family. She joined the school’s faculty in 1980 and taught contracts, as well as courses in elder law, law and religion, and prisoners’ rights. During her nearly 30-year tenure at the school, she served on virtually every faculty committee, including the Executive Committee. She has served as the faculty advisor for five student organizations, including Law Students Against Capital Punishment; Women’s Caucus; Lambda Law Society; Society on Law and Conscience and the Dean’s Tutorial Society. She is the author of Legal Reference for Older Hoosiers, a book on legal issues of special concern to older citizens in Indiana. She was the recipient of an IU Trustees’ Teaching Award in 2003.

On March 30, 2010, Professor Mitchell received the 2010 IUPUI Inspirational Woman Award from the Women’s Leadership Awards Selection Committee. On April 16, 2010 she will also posthumously receive the 2010 Alvin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring by a faculty member at the Chancellor’s Honors Convocation. Professor Mitchell was also selected by the graduating Class of 2010 as a J.D. hooder for the commencement ceremony. She will be represented by her friend and colleague Professor Florence Wagman Roisman.

“Mary was a beloved member of our family who will be missed in ways that cannot be described. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers are certainly with Mary’s husband Frank and her daughters Sally and Clara,” said law school Dean Gary R. Roberts.

Mitchell, a 1975 Butler University graduate, earned her law degree from Cornell Law School.

03/29/2010

Professor Boyne Participates in Symposium on Prosecutorial Power at Washington and Lee

Professor Shawn Boyne will present at the Washington & Lee Law School's "Prosecutorial Power: A Transnational Symposium" set to take place April 1st and 2nd. The title of her paper is "The Many Faces of Objectivity: A Look at German Rape Cases." The workshop brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic who study the role of the prosecutor from a comparative and international perspective. The workshop participants will address common themes such as prosecutorial power, prosecutorial independence, and the role of international and transnational prosecutors.

Professor Boyne's paper is the culmination of research conducted while she was in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Criminal Law.

03/27/2010

Professors Bravo and Huffman Sign Amicus Brief in British American Tobacco Case

Professor Karen E. Bravo and Professor Max Huffman of Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis both signed a professors’ amicus brief filed March 24 in the Supreme Court in relation to BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS ) LIMITED v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , et al ., with Professor Huffman serving as counsel of record on the brief. They join other professors in urging the Supreme Court to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. That court held that an effect felt in the United States is, in and of itself, sufficient to apply the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 to conduct that takes place overseas. According to Professor Huffman, “the brief stresses the far-reaching ramifications of applying RICO extraterritorially without considering international comity ramifications or even Congress’s intent to reach overseas conduct in RICO. The D.C. Circuit has long been an outlier in the extraterritoriality arena, and this decision is in conflict with approaches to extraterritoriality followed by other courts, including the Supreme Court.” Read the amicus brief.

03/10/2010

ILR Symposium to Focus on Election Law

The Indiana Law Review will host "The Law of Democracy," a Symposium focusing on election law, on April 8-9 at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. The keynote speech will be given by Professor Heather Gerken of Yale Law School on Thursday, April 8^th, in the Wynne Courtroom. Three panels over the two days will feature twelve leading election law scholars discussing campaign finance, election administrating, and voting rights.

“This symposium is a major event that will bring many of the brightest academic minds in the country into one room to discuss topics of immediate interest to the way American democracy is structured,” says Associate Professor Michael J. Pitts , an expert on Election Law. “The issues tackled, such as how our polling places are run and how our election campaigns are financed, have implications for both how the State of Indiana and the United States as a whole conduct elections.”

There is no cost to attend the Symposium, and 5.0 hours of Indiana continuing legal education credits are available (approval pending). For more information and registration, please visit http://indylaw.indiana.edu/ilr/symposium2010.htm or contact Ann Harris Smith at akharris@iupui.edu.

About Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis

With an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, IU School of Law - Indianapolis is the largest law school in the state of Indiana. Occupying a spacious, new, technologically advanced building, the school is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has enjoyed great success for more than 100 years in preparing students for legal careers. The success of the school is evidenced by the prominent positions graduates have obtained in the judiciary and other branches of government, business, positions of civic leadership, and law practice. The school’s nearly 9,000 alumni are located in every state in the nation and several foreign countries. More information about the law school is available at indylaw.indiana.edu.

03/08/2010

Professor Karen Bravo Participates in Roundtable on International Law of Black Women

Professor Karen E. Bravo participated in a roundtable discussion entitled "Towards an International Law of Black Women: New Theory, New Praxis" held at Florida A&M University College of Law on March 4, 2010. The event was co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the Henry J. Richardson III, International Law Student Association (HJR-ILSA).

Professor Karen E. Bravo An Associate Professor of Law, Karen E. Bravo joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis in the summer of 2004. A Columbia Law School Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, from 1997-2001 she practiced corporate law with international law firms in New York and Massachusetts. Her practice areas included venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and emerging and public company representation. Following her law firm tenure, she joined the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) in the Republic of Armenia, where she worked with domestic judiciary and advocates, and local and international NGOs on legal reform and education programs and strategies. While at Columbia Law School she was a staff member and articles editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. In 2004, she received the Jerome Lipper Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of international law from NYU. Professor Bravo's research interests include regional integration, democratization and the rule of law and human trafficking.

Professor Bravo is a former Chair (2007-2009) of the American Association of Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and a member of the planning committee for the 2008 Workshop for New Law Teachers and 2008 Workshop on Retention of Minority Law School Teachers.

03/02/2010

Law School Program to Focus on Public Entrepreneurship

The 2010 Program on Law and State Government (PSLG) Fellows will examine innovative business models used by state governments in providing public services. The PSLG at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis announced the two recipients of the 10th annual PSLG Fellowship. The $5000 one-year fellowship supports research and a live seminar on a topic relevant to law and state government. Ms. Melissa Stuart and Dr. Erin Albert, both 2L JD candidates at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis will receive the awards to study public entrepreneurship during the 2010 calendar year.

Painting of the Indiana State House and the White River Canal “This year's candidates for the fellowship Program on Law and State Government were phenomenal, and both fellows are passionate about the topic of entrepreneurship as it relates to state government and governance,” said Prof. Cynthia Baker, PLSG Director at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. “With the current economic climate, it is an exciting time to better understand how entrepreneurial thinking and habits are, or could be, impacting how state governments carry out their myriad responsibilities."

Following an assessment of state governments' current systems, the Fellows will identify successful, real-world examples of service coordination and delivery from Indiana and other states. Examples such as privatization, revenue generation beyond taxation, and social entrepreneurship will be explored. State governments' use, or potential to benefit from modern research, including intrinsic motivation and commons research will also be examined. A broad range of government efforts toward service delivery, from providing services to children with disabilities to education to judicial reform, will be considered. Additionally, the Fellows will consider what changes to Indiana laws and procedures at each level of government would be needed to move toward more successful models for providing public services. Information on the topic and the Fellowship program is located at: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/law_state_gov/fellowships.htm.

The Fellows’ research will culminate in a fall symposium on the topic of public entrepreneurship, with experts in the arena of innovative programs in law and state government. The Fellows are also hosting a national poster session open to all graduate schools in the United States. More information about the fall symposium and poster session will be posted on the law school's web site: indylaw.indiana.edu.

The goals of the Program on Law and State Government are: To foster study, research, and education on critical legal and regulatory issues facing state governments, to enhance students' education by providing opportunities for participation in Program-sponsored research initiatives, educational programs, and internships within all branches of state government, to enrich and broaden the dialog between the academic legal community and state governments by promoting and disseminating contemporary scholarship on issues confronting those governments. Through Program-sponsored scholarly papers, research, and educational seminars, the Program encourages the development of nonpartisan, critical perspectives on state government decision-making. By marshaling resources to promote the use of contemporary scholarship, the Program facilitates state governments' use of that scholarship to address and resolve legal issues. Ultimately, the Program serves as a vehicle to bring students, the law school, and the community of state government policy makers together in an academic forum for public debate and analysis of the legal issues facing state governments. For more information, logon to the PLSG website at: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/law_state_gov/

About Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis

With an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, IU School of Law - Indianapolis is the largest law school in the state of Indiana. Occupying a spacious, new, technologically advanced building, the school is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has enjoyed great success for more than 100 years in preparing students for legal careers. The success of the school is evidenced by the prominent positions graduates have obtained in the judiciary and other branches of government, business, positions of civic leadership, and law practice. The school’s nearly 9,000 alumni are located in every state in the nation and several foreign countries.

For more information on the Program on Law and State Government or this year’s symposium, please contact Professor Cynthia A. Baker at cabaker@iupui.edu.

02/26/2010

EU Moot Court Team Advances to Regional Competition in Italy

European Flag in the European Parliament building Professor Frank Emmert’s European Union Law Moot Court Team advanced to the regional competition of the European Union Law Moot Court Competition. The EU Moot is an annual event that allows teams from all over the globe to compete in a written and oral competition arguing the merits of a hypothetical case involving a series of legal questions prevalent in the European Union. The written competition involves the preparation of two written briefs, applicant and defendant in a hypothetical suit before the European Court of Justice. Because European Union law controls, students on the team acquire an extensive understanding of both the underlying principles and the current trends of European Union Law as they compete. Every year, teams from more than a hundred law schools around the world submit their written briefs. The best 48 teams are then invited to argue their cases before panels of professors and practitioners in four different Regional Competitions. This year, the Regionals take place at Columbia University School of Law in New York, the European University Institute in Florence, Maastricht University, and CEU San Pablo University Madrid. Since no team can compete in its own country, the Regionals involve extensive travel and ensure that each team encounters a great diversity of highly competitive fellow "Europeans" from the EU, Eastern Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere. The winning team from each Regional Competition is then selected to present arguments to the actual European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Although no more than three or four American schools make it to the orals in a typical year, the law school has previously been successful in this competition and has sent teams to Istanbul and to Bratislava. The law school is fortunate to enjoy victory again this year, due to the high quality of the European and international law program at IU School of Law - Indianapolis, as well as the qualification and dedication of its students. This year’s team includes Douglas Clough, Kyle Kimble, Lumi Nodit, and Nathan Seger. Their oral competition will take place from February 25-27 at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Anyone interested in finding out more about this competition is invited to visit the website of the competition at www.elmc.org and/or to contact Professor Emmert at femmert@iupui.edu.

02/25/2010

Professor Edwards Speaks on Human Trafficking and the Right to Health

On February 24, 2010, Professor George E. Edwards delivered a lecture in the Cutting Edge Lecture Series held on the IUPUI campus. In this series, t op university professors engage the community in discussions about rapidly changing fields of inquiry.

Professor George E. Edwards Professor Edwards lectured on The 17th Century Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Hurricane Katrina—International Trade, Human Trafficking & the Right to Health . He examined the applicability of international law to human rights issues in the U.S., Haiti, and other countries in the region affected by the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and focused on vestiges of slavery including health disparities between descendants of slaves and non-descendants. Professor Edwards also explored the relationship between international trading regimes under the World Trade Organization (WTO), and legal mechanisms in place to combat trafficking in humans.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. He is also the Founding Director of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Track in International Human Rights Law. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Center for the Study of Global Change of Indiana University.

02/19/2010

Appellate Clinic Students Prevail in Two Cases

Appellate Clinic students Beth Barnes and Shannon White won reversals for their clients in two recent Appellate Clinic cases.

Seal of the Court of Appeals of the State of Indiana Ms. White represented Jeffrey Tharp, who was convicted of invasion of privacy for violating a protective order. On February 18, the Court of Appeals concluded “ the State did not prove Tharp knew he was subject to an active order of protection” when Tharp was never provided written notice of the order or oral notice from an agent of the State. Read the opinion. White presented a very effective oral argument to the court last month. Watch the argument.

Ms. Barnes represented Daniel Kribs, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in an airport. In December, the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, reasoning that “[m]ere forgetfulness does not satisfy the knowledge or intent requirement set out by the statute.” Read the opinion.

Attorneys from the Marion County Public Defender Agency who worked with the students had high praise for their work. Mike Fisher said, "Shannon White’s advocacy in Jeffrey Tharp v. State was superb. Her obvious grasp of the issues and her ability to respond to the Court’s questions were at the highest professional level. The client could not have received better representation."

The Appellate Clinic was created and is overseen by Professor Joel Schumm, '98. “The Appellate Clinic students have achieved outstanding results in a process where the likelihood of success for a Defendant/Appellant is quite daunting," according to Suzanne St. John an appellate attorney at the Marion County Public Defender Agency.

Ruth Johnson, the appellate administrator at the Marion County Public Defender Agency also had nothing but praise for the law school's students, "The Appellate Clinic is an asset to the Indianapolis community. The students get hands on experience in representing clients on direct appeal. The clients get excellent representation by advocates who approach each case with dedication and enthusiasm. The Marion County Public Defender Agency, Appellate Division, is delighted with the work of the Appellate Clinic."

02/19/2010

Law School Hosts Regional Round of 35th Annual National Trial Competition

The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis is the official host of the Region 8 round of the 35^th Annual National Trial Competition on February 18-20. Region 8 includes teams from Chicago-Kent, DePaul, Indiana University - Indianapolis, Loyola, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, John Marshall, University of Illinois, Notre Dame and Valparaiso.

National Trial Competition logo The competition sponsors include the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis; the Texas Young Lawyers Association; the American College of Trial Lawyers; Bingham McHale LLP; Hovde, Dassow & Deets LLC; and Ice Miller, LLP.

The law school’s team includes Dan Cicchini (3L), Raymond Dudlo (3L), Martsyl Joseph (2L), Michelle Kessling (2L), Borham Kim (3L), and. Matthew Symons (2L). The team is being coached by Jessica Beerbower and Professor Fran Watson.

Professor Novella Nedeff has led the law school's hosting of this year's regional competition.

02/11/2010

Professor Kinney Lectures on the International Human Right to Health

Professor Eleanor Kinney Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney delivered a lecture on "Realizing the International Human Right to Health: The Role of Private, For-Profit Enterprise" at the West Virginia University College of Law, part of the West Virginia Law Review's symposium "Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America." The lecture, which took place on February 10, 2010 at the West Virginia University College of Law, was part of the Edward G. Donley Memorial Lecture series. It can be viewed on the web at http://lawmediasite.wvu.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=f9243d361ca7452eba4235e2055093cc .

01/28/2010

Faculty Make Their Mark at the AALS in New Orleans

Professors from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6-10, 2010. The theme of the meeting , “Transformative Law , ” was adopted by AALS president Rachel Moran to be “mindful of the symbolic significance of our return” to New Orleans “as well as of the successes and failures of the legal profession in addressing this perilous past decade.”

IU Law Clinical Professor, Cynthia Adams moderated the panel Hard Sell: Job Search Strategies for non-U.S. LL.M. Graduates and for J.D. Graduates Wanting to Practice International Law. The presentation was jointly sponsored by the Sections on Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers and International Legal Exchange. Professor Adams was the 2009 Chair of the Section on Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers and is currently the 2010 Secretary for the Section on International Legal Exchange.

Clinical Professor Deborah McGregor presented “Using Exams Not Only to Test but to Teach” in a session co-sponsored by the Teaching Methods Section and the Section of Legal Research Writing.

Associate Professor Emily Morris presented her poster “Informed Consent ‘Creep’” at the session organized by the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care.

David Orentlicher, the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, spoke as part of a panel, Constitutional Health Law: Pharmaceutical Regulation and Commercial Speech. His paper was titled “Prescription Data Mining and the Protection of Patients’ Interests.”

Associate Professor, Michael Pitts presented “Redistricting and Discriminatory Purpose” on a panel titled The Census, Redistricting, and Displaced Persons that was sponsored by the Section on Civil Rights.

As Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Section , Professor Lloyd T. (Tom) Wilson organized the section’s session entitled “Law as Transformative Agent: Thinking and Doing Property in New Categories.” The program was also co-sponsored by the Section on Property Law. Professor Wilson moderated the panel of six speakers from Cornell Law School, Syracuse University College of Law, University of Missouri School of Law, Charleston School of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, and George Mason University School of Law. In collaboration with Professor Wilson, the Indiana Law Review will publish the six papers from this panel in a special symposium issue dedicated to the program.

01/28/2010

Jimmie McMillian Honored and Promoted in 2009

Jimmie McMillian Jimmie “Tic Tac” McMillian received the Indiana Lawyer’s 2009 Diversity in Practice Award at the Conrad in downtown Indianapolis on November 20. He also served as a panelist at a breakout session at that meeting entitled “Retaining and Promoting Your Investment: Learn Ways to Engage Multicultural Lawyers and Develop a Multicultural Law Firm.”

McMillian, who recently became a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, also received the Rabb Emison Award from the Racial Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee at the Indiana State Bar Association’s annual meeting in the Fall of 2009. McMillian currently serves as General Counsel for the ISBA.

McMillian received his B.A. in political science in 1998 from Indiana University–Bloomington, and his J.D. in 2002 from the Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis. As a law student, McMillian served as a barrister on the Moot Court Team and was a member of the Trial Advocacy Team. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis Alumni Association and serves as the Vice-President of the Neal Marshall Alumni Association. From 2002 to 2004, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., of the Indiana Supreme Court.

McMillian is a member of the Indiana Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association (IBA), and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. He serves as an instructor for the IBA Bar Review Course and has taught Criminal Law and the Multistate Performance Test to aspiring attorneys. A Lifetime Member of the Marion County Bar Association, he has served as the organization’s President. In 2007, National Bar Association President Vanita Banks appointed McMillian to be her Deputy Chief of Staff. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Reach for Youth, Inc. and participates in their Teen Court Program, a juvenile diversion program for first-time offenders. In 2005, he received Barnes & Thornburg’s Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award and the Honorable Carr L. Darden Leadership Award. In 2006, he was recognized by The Indiana Lawyer as one of 10 “Up and Coming Lawyers” and received the publication’s Leadership in Law Award.

In 2007, McMillian received the Indianapolis Urban League’s NEXT Award, was honored with the Mayor’s Community Service Award from former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, and graduated from the IBA’s Bar Leader Series. In 2008, he was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” list and was included in the Fifth Edition of Who’s Who in Black Indianapolis . Mr. McMillian was also accepted into the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series Class XXXIII, named the recipient of the United Way Minority Volunteer Recognition Award, and awarded the Indiana University Charlie Nelms Alumni Award for his commitment to diversity and advocacy on behalf of the disenfranchised.

McMillian currently serves as the Chairman of the Marion County Public Defender’s Agency Board of Directors. He is admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. McMillian is also a certified civil mediator in the state of Indiana.

He is a frequent motivational speaker at community and civic organizations focused on helping young people, particularly African Americans. The Indiana Lawyer reported that his nominator for the Diversity in Practice Award identified his “determination and passion for inspiring young people to set their goals high.”

01/27/2010

Professor Tatjana Josipovic Becomes First Lady of Croatia

Professor Tatjana Josipovic, one of the professors from the University of Zagreb School of Law who taught in the law school’s Central and Eastern European Law Summer Program, recently became the First Lady of Croatia. Professor Josipovic’s husband, Ivo Josipovic, won the run-off presidential election on January 10, 2010 in Croatia. Professor Tatjana Josipovic is an internationally recognized authority on real estate law who has taught Central and Eastern European Issues in Real Estate Law for IU’s summer program. President Ivo Josipovic, a professor of law in addition to a well-known music composer, has also visited the IU summer program. The law school's Executive Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, Professor Frank Emmert, who established the law school’s summer program in Croatia, says, “We congratulate our colleagues, President and Professor Josipovic, on this wonderful occasion and wish them all the best for their tenure as the highest representatives of Croatia. While their time will be even more in demand, we hope that we may still see them in Dubrovnik every now and then.”

01/19/2010

Professor Allison Martin’s Work Showcased at Legal Writing Conference in Pittsburgh

The First "Colonial Frontier" Legal Writing Conference, "Engendering Hope in the Legal Writing Classroom: Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Attitude," held on December 5, 2009, was built around the article co-authored by IU School of Law – Indianapolis Clinical Associate Professor Allison D. Martin and Professor Kevin L. Rand, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis . Their article, entitled The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades: Law School Through the Lens of Hope , examines the personality traits of law students as predictors of success and then suggests that legal educators can engender hope in their students by helping law students formulate appropriate goals, increasing law students' autonomy, modeling the learning process, helping law students understand grading as feedback rather than as pure evaluation, and modeling and encouraging agentic thinking.

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Martin and Rand presented their work at the opening plenary session of the one-day conference. Professor Martin says students from the Duquesne Law Review who attended the plenary presentation told her afterwards they could relate their own personal experiences in law school to “hope theory” and to the principles of engendering hope in law students outlined
in the article. Martin says, “Kevin and I thought their reactions were very interesting and affirming.”

The Duquesne Law Review will be publishing a proceedings issue about the conference.

The conference was hosted by Duquesne University School of Law and co-sponsored by Aspen Publishers Legal Education / Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and the West Virginia University College of Law with additional support from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

01/14/2010

Gil Holmes, '99 Becomes Executive Director of ACLU-Indiana

Gilbert Holmes, Class of 1999 At a specially convened meeting on December 10th 2009, the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Indiana overwhelmingly voted to appoint Gilbert Holmes, ‘99 as Executive Director.

Holmes has served as Interim Executive Director for the past year. Prior to that, he held senior executive positions at IndyGo, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Clarian Health. He served for twenty years in the U.S. Army before attending law school. After being selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, and for attendance at the prestigious Command and General Staff College, he chose to retire. He is a decorated veteran of the Viet-Nam War.

“Gil has an invaluable combination of wisdom about the community, devotion to civil liberties, and the willingness to tell the ACLU’s story to the state of Indiana,” said Cathy Gibson, president of the Board of Directors. “He knows how to raise money, manage our resources, and keep our focus on the important work of protecting Hoosiers’ liberties,” she added.

“I’m looking forward to speaking with Hoosiers all over the state about our work,” said Holmes. “We’re a non-partisan organization, devoted to the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. I think that makes us both liberal and conservative, and I invite everyone to take a close look at what we do and what we stand for.”
Holmes’ predecessors as Executive Director include graduates of IU School of Law Indianapolis such as Claudia Porretti, ’06, Fran Quigley, ’87, and Sheila Suess Kennedy, ’75.

01/13/2010

Professor Dan Cole's 2002 book Pollution and Property Translated into Chinese

Chinese Cover of Pollution and Property by Professor Cole Professor Dan Cole's book Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) was recently translated into Chinese for Cambridge University Press and Peking University Press. The Chinese translators were Yan Houfu (Bejing University School of Law Ph.D. Candidate 2006) and Wang Shenkun (Juris Doctor, currently research post doctorate in Qinghua University School of Law).

Professor Cole is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU-Bloomington. He teaches and writes in the areas of Property, Natural Resources Law, Land Use, Environmental Protection, and Law & Economics. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law.

01/13/2010

Prof Quigley Speaks at Ohio Northern University Regarding the 'War on Terror'

Visiting Professor Fran Quigley will be speaking at Ohio Northern University on the evening of January 21^st on the topic of “International Law and Ethics in America’s ‘War on Terror’: Torture, Renditions, and the Predator Program.” Professor Quigley’s talk is sponsored by Ohio Northern’s Phi Beta Delta chapter and the university’s Committee on Arts and Special Events.

Fran Quigley is a visiting professor of law, teaching Civil Procedure and helping build the law school’s new relationship with Moi University School of Law in Eldoret, Kenya. Fran is also associate director of the Indiana-Kenya Partnership/AMPATH, and a staff attorney at Indiana Legal Services. He is a co-founder of the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE), a human rights law clinic devoted to representing HIV-positive individuals in western Kenya.

He is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights and writes a bi-weekly column for The Indianapolis Star. He has also served as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana and as a public defender and civil rights attorney.

01/13/2010

Law School Alumni Honored at Diversity in Practice

Diversity in Practice logo On Friday, November 20^th, the Indiana Lawyer held its annual Diversity in Practice event at the Conrad in downtown Indianapolis. Jimmie “Tic Tac” McMillian, ’02, received the Diversity in Practice award for the attorney category. Abhishek Dubé, ’09 was one of three students selected for the Diversity in Practice award.

McMillian, who was recently named a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, has also served as president of the Marion County Bar Association, and received the Rabb Emison Award from the Indiana State Bar Association’s Racial Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee. The Indiana Lawyer quotes his nominator as saying, “McMillian has a determination and passion for inspiring young people to set their goals high.”

Dubé, who passed the bar exam in May of last year, also worked over the summer as a teaching assistant for I-CLEO and has volunteered for the IBA’s Diversity Taskforce and the IBA Diversity Job Fair. He was also one of the inaugural winners of Baker & Daniels’ $10,000 diversity scholarships and worked for the firm as a summer associate in 2008. Dubé was one of three law students to receive the Diversity in Practice Award in the student category.

In the Government category, the Marion Superior Courts received the award for the Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce, a program led by IU School of Law – Indianapolis graduate Hon. Cynthia Ayers, ’82.

Ruth M. Rivera, ’04, and Chasity Thompson ’02 were also finalists for the Diversity in Practice awards. In 2008, Professor Maria Pabon Lopez received the Diversity in Practice award.

12/16/2009

Defending the Homeland and the Law

Cover of Alumni Magazine with image of students during the simulation Students in Professor Shawn Boyne’s Seminar in Comparative National Security Law, along with students from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), participated in a groundbreaking counter-terrorism simulation that placed them in the vortex of terrorist attacks and in the position of having to develop coordinated and cohesive responses. Approximately 50 students played various roles from the President, to governmental staffers, to reporters covering the story as it unfolded. With help from realistic news broadcasts, courtesy of Scott Sander at WISH-TV, as well as “top secret” At approximately 9:00 a.m. on Friday, October 23, 2009, news reports circulated throughout the law school that the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C. had been bombed.

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12/16/2009

Law School Professor, Alumnus Participate in Health Care Reform Panel

On November 10, 2009, Professor David Orentlicher and Representative Mike Pence, ‘86 participated in a Health Care Reform Panel hosted by Ball State University. Professor Orentlicher is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. H e is also a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives. Congressman Mike Pence represents Indiana’s 6th Congressional district, and is currently serving his 5th term in office. H e also was elected unanimously by House Republicans to serve as House Republican Conference Chairman in November 2008. Other panelists included Dr. Thomas Whiteman, Otolaryngologist, representative to the Indiana State Medical Association; Mr. Larry Dust, CEO , Key Benefit Administrators; and Professor Cecil Bohanon, Professor of Economics, Ball State University. D r. Charles Taylor, Ball State University Professor of Political Science moderated the event. Each panelist explained his perspective on health care reform and the audience was invited to ask questions.

12/16/2009

John T. Neighbours, ‘74 Receives Whistler Award from Mayor Ballard

On October 27, John T. Neighbours received the 2009 Charles L. Whistler Award, an honor given by the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office in collaboration with the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC). The award recognizes individuals who, outside the regular duties of their profession, have brought together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in Indianapolis. A partner at Baker & Daniels, Neighbours serves on the executive committee of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the board of the United Way of Central Indiana, where he is the immediate past president. The founding board chair of the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated Learning High School, Neighbours is cochair of the Legal Committee of Super Bowl XLVI; co-chair of the Central Indiana Transit Task Force, and a member of the boards of the Indianapolis Zoological Society and the Christian Theological Seminar y. He served as vice president of the Indiana Sports Corporation and has held positions on the boards of the Indianapolis Symphony, the DePauw University Board of Visitors, and the Marion County Commission on Youth, just to name a few. In addition, he was the management-side editor of The Developing Labor Law (Fourth Edition), a principal treatise in America on traditional labor law topics.

12/16/2009

Bepko Receives Chancellor’s Medal

Chancellor Emeritus Gerald L. Bepko was recognized with the Chancellor’s Medal at the IUPUI 40th Anniversary Breakfast on September 23. At the same event Chancellor Charles Bantz presented the Chancellor Emeritus Bepko sculpted personal bust, mounted on a pedestal, which has now been placed in the IUPUI University Library. Other 40th Anniversary recipients of the Medal are Senator Richard Lugar, former state Senator and Lt. Governor John Mutz, former state Senator Larry Borst, former state Senator Dr. Ned Lamkin and former City-County Council President Rozelle Boyd. A former law school faculty member, Bepko served as Dean of the school from 1981 until he was appointed Chancellor in 1986. He was Chancellor of IUPUI and IU Vice President for Long Range Planning until 2002. In 2003, he served as Interim President of Indiana University.
As Chancellor, Bepko led a movement to unify the various programs of IUPUI, academically and geographically, by bringing all schools to the West Michigan Street campus and presiding over the construction of more than 20 buildings. During his tenure as chancellor, enrollment grew by nearly 25 percent and external support for faculty activities grew from $38 million in 1986 to more than $200 million in 2001-02.

12/16/2009

Ida Coleman Lamberti, ‘92 Receives Randall T. Shepard Award

Ida Coleman Lamberti, ‘92, received the Randall T. Shepard Award for excellence in Pro Bono Publico during the 2009 Randall T. Shepard Award Dinner on Friday, November 6 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis. Lamberti has been a dedicated volunteer at the Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic (NCLC) in Indianapolis for years. She currently works with the Burmese refugee population, assisting refugees with immigration cases for NCLC. S he donated more than 750 hours in 2008 alone. According to NCLC administrators, Lamberti’s volunteer time makes a tremendous impact on NCLC’s refugee caseload, making it possible for NCLC to serve vastly more low income families in need.

The Shepard Award Dinner is sponsored by the Indiana Bar Foundation and the Indiana Pro Bono Commission.

12/08/2009

Nobel Prize Winner Ostrom's Work Appeared in Indiana Law Review

Professor Elinor Ostrom Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize co-winner in Economic Sciences, co-presented and published an article in conjunction with the Indiana Law Review's Symposium on "The Law and Economics of Development and Environment" at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, on January 22, 2005. The article, Conserving the World's Forests: Are Protected Areas the Only Way? , 38 Ind. L. Rev. 595, was co-authored with Tanya Hayes, assistant professor of Environmental Studies & Public Affairs, at the Institute for Public Service, Seattle University.

The article challenges the "belief that strictly regulated protected areas are the only way to ensure forest conservation." Ostrom and Hayes propose that "a system of rights and conservation policies that link state and local conservation efforts may lead to greater protection of the world's forests." Ostrom's Nobel prize was awarded “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University.

12/08/2009

New Book by Professor López Examines the Intersecting Crises of Public Education and Immigration Policy in the U.S.

Cover from Persistent Inequality by Professor Lopez Professor María Pabón López, along with her husband, Professor Gerardo R. López, Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University, has co-authored a new book that examines how the children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education system and the immigration law system. Their book, Persistent Inequality: Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students is based on a long tradition of scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory ideas. The book provides a critical analysis of the various legal and policy aspects of the U.S. educational and immigration law systems, asserting that both these systems need to address the living and working conditions of undocumented Latino students and remove the obstacles to educational achievement which these students struggle with daily. "This book is a response to questions that students have asked me in class and that I had begun exploring in my previous research," Professor María Pabón López says, adding that the book answers such questions as " What is the DREAM Act and how would this proposed federal law affect the lives of undocumented students? and How have immigration raids affected public school children and school administrators?"

Persistent Inequality is part of the Taylor & Francis/Routledge The Critical Educator series, co-edited by Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Mary Romero, Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, says, "Cutting through the inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric, Persistent Inequality explains the origins and consequences of excluding undocumented students from educational opportunities. This book is essential reading not only for those invested in racial justice but also for those attempting to understand the contemporary immigration issues.”

Professor María Pabón López joined the faculty at Indiana University School of Law –
Indianapolis in the fall of 2002. She teaches immigration law, family law, professional responsibility, a seminar on the rights of non-citizens/aliens and trusts and estates, race and the law, criminal law, and women and the law. A recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching and efforts to further diversity at the university and in the community, Professor López is the only academic to be appointed to serve on Indiana’s 10 member Board of Law Examiners.

12/01/2009

Tort Reform as Part of Health Care Reform? Professor Kinney Discusses the Topic on National News

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney taped a segment for ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday, November 24, addressing the topic of medical malpractice tort reform as part of an overall health care reform bill.

Professor Kinney, founding director of the school’s internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law. After graduating from law school, she practiced law for four years, then worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center for two years. After earning her master’s degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to joining the faculty in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association.
A widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America’s health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and issues in administrative law, Professor Kinney is author or co-author of numerous law review articles, book chapters and book reviews. She recently published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University Press 2002).

A Closer Look: Medical Malpractice Reform, Should medical malpractice be a part of a health care bill? (November 25, 2009) ABC's Good Morning America

11/19/2009

IU Law-Indianapolis Ranks 44 in the Nation by Super Lawyers Magazine

Super Lawyers logo The Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis has been ranked 44th in the country by Super Lawyers magazine. This is the first annual ranking of U.S. law schools by Super Lawyers, which ranks law schools based on the number of graduates who are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers magazine across the country. Only 5 percent of the lawyers in each state are selected to Super Lawyers lists.

According to Bill White, publisher of Super Lawyers, “We’ve been rating lawyers for nearly 20 years. This puts us in a unique position to shed light on how well schools fulfill the ultimate mission of producing great lawyers. Our approach is simple. We take a snapshot of the top lawyers in the country and ask, ‘What schools produced these lawyers?’ Then we report the results. Our rankings fill an informational gap. It throws a new and unique indicator of quality into the mix. It’s another data point for students to consider before making a big, expensive and life-changing decision.”

Schools are ranked according to the total number of graduates named to the state and regional Super Lawyers lists in 2009. In the event of a tie between schools, the cumulative peer evaluation and research scores of graduates are used as tie-breakers.

“The recently released Super Lawyers ranking of U.S. law schools, which puts IU-Indianapolis 44th, just one spot behind Notre Dame for the highest ranked school in Indiana, is based on the success of a law school’s graduates,” said IU Law-Indianapolis Dean Gary R. Roberts. “Our high national ranking is a tribute both to the great accomplishments and impact of our alumni and to the quality of the education our excellent students receive at this law school right here in the heart of Indiana’s state capital,” he added.

Selecting attorneys for Super Lawyers, involves a rigorous, multiphase process, according to White. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement, and selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.

The IU Maurer School of Law, located in Bloomington, was also listed in the top 100, ranking 59th.

For the complete listing, visit: http://www.superlawyers.com/toplists/lawschools/united-states/2009/

11/18/2009

Indianapolis Star Columnist Pays Tribute to Professor Mary Mitchell

"She Made Life's Work of Peace" by Dan Carpenter (November 18, 2009, Indianapolis Star).
The late Professor Mary Harter Mitchell in the early 1980s "A cherished ally, exemplar and inspiration was snatched away by a sudden, shocking illness early this month.

Mary Harter Mitchell was a professor nearly 30 years at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis; a devoted student at Christian Theological Seminary; an author; a poet; and a Quaker who took her religion of peace and justice at its word."
Read the column by Dan Carpenter at Indystar.com.

(Photo of Professor Mitchell shortly after she came to work for the law school in 1980.)

11/17/2009

Paws for a Cause: Faculty Pose with their Pets for a Good Cause

Cover image of the Paws for a Cause Calendar with Professor Cynthia Adams and her horse

The Animal Law Society will be selling calendars featuring IU School of Law - Indianapolis' law professors and their pets. The calendar project, named "Paws for a Cause," will help raise awareness for animal protection organizations such as Cats Haven, Southside Animal Shelter, FACE, Exotic Feline Rescue Center, Bird Lovers Only, The Indiana House Rabbit Society, Indiana Horse Rescue, Indy Feral, F.I.D.O., Indy Pit Crew, Ferret Rescue and Halfway House, and Friends of Indianapolis Animal Care & Control Foundation. The calendar is filled with pet-related dates such as "spay day," "Squirrel appreciation day" and "adopt a shelter rabbit month." Each month highlights an Indiana-based rescue organization. There are also coupons from local pet-related businesses. Professors featured with their pets in the calendar include Professors Adams, Anspach, Baker, Boyne, Drobac, Hill & Kelly-Hill, Huffman, Kinney, Klein, Lopez, Mead, Morris, and Page. The cost is $15.00 each. Visit the Animal Law Society web site to order: www.iuindy-als.webs.com

11/04/2009

Law School Mourns Professor Mary Harter Mitchell

Professor Mary Mitchell

It is with great sadness that the law school marks the untimely passing of Professor Mary Harter Mitchell, who died Wednesday morning, November 4, 2009. She was 56 years old.

Mitchell, a 1975 Butler University graduate, earned her law degree from Cornell Law School.

A memorial service for Mary Mitchell will be held on Sunday, November 8 at 4:30 P.M. at First Friends Meeting, Kessler Blvd. East Dr., with a reception to follow. The protocol for services dictates no flowers.>

11/03/2009

Law School Welcomes Veteran IP Litigator to Direct IP Center

John R. Schaibley, III will join the IU School of Law – Indianapolis as Executive Director of the school’s Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. Schaibley is retiring from Baker & Daniels after more than 25 years of litigation experience. Much of his recent practice has been on intellectual property matters. His focus included patent litigation, including infringement and licensing disputes, as well as complex breach of contract actions and arbitrations, often involving complex technology issues. He also has extensive experience with trademarks, copyrights, trade regulation, administrative law and environmental issues. He has worked with major corporations in the medical device, pharmaceutical, electronics and other industries, while representing clients in federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

“I think John Schaibley is a tremendous addition to our ranks,” says law school dean Gary R. Roberts. “What he can and no doubt will do for our IP program here, which is so important to the local bar and business community, is tremendous. I am very happy and excited that he is coming aboard.”

A graduate of Purdue University (B.A., 1975), Schaibley graduated first in his law school class at Indiana University (J.D., Maurer School of Law, 1981), where he was Executive Editor of the Indiana Law Journal. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and was a member of the Order of the Barristers. He has received West Publishing Company Hornbook Awards three times and American Jurisprudence Awards four times.

Schaibley served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary. He clerked for Judge Jesse E. Eschbach in both the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for Justice John Paul Stevens in the U.S. Supreme Court.

His many awards include Indiana University's Edwards Fellowship and the American College of Trial Lawyers Medal for Excellence in Advocacy. He has also been chosen for “The Best Lawyers in America” for 2009-2010, and “Indiana’s Best Lawyers” (2009).

He will teach a course on patent litigation in the Spring 2010 semester.

10/30/2009

Professor Huffman Participates in Antitrust Marathon in Ireland

On October 27, 2009, in Dublin, Ireland, Professor Max Huffman presented a paper raising issues surrounding the integration of competition law and consumer protection at the Fourth Antitrust Marathon, hosted by the Irish Competition Authority and sponsored by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Institute for Consumer Antitrust and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. The Antitrust Marathon included other academics from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, the heads of the competition authorities for Canada, Ireland, and France, members of the competition authorities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and barristers and solicitors from Dublin specializing in competition law. His paper will be published in the winter 2010 edition of the European Competition Journal.

10/22/2009

Professor Edwards Makes Presentation at U.S. State Department Affiliate in Rome

On Thursday, 1 October 2009, Professor George E. Edwards gave a presentation in Rome, Italy at the Commission for Cultural Exchange between the United States and Italy (Commissione per gli Scambi Culturali fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti), which is an affiliate office of the U.S. Department of State and houses the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission. The presentation focused on American Legal Education, and highlighted opportunities for Italian students to receive Master of Laws (LL.M.) and other advanced degrees in the United States. Attendees and participants included Fulbright staff, representatives from Italian Law Schools (faculty, students), and staff of EducationUSA (another U.S. State Department affiliate).

In Rome, Professor Edwards was also a delegate to the 137th meeting of the United Nations Food and Agricultural (FAO) Council held at FAO world headquarters from 28 September – 2 October 2009.

The FAO Council is the executive organ of the FAO Conference, which is the supreme governing body of the FAO that meets in regular session every two years. The Council has 49 Members, has powers delegated to it by the Conference, and exercises functions dealing with the world food and agricultural situation and related matters, current and prospective activities of the Organization, and other matters.

Professor Edwards is accredited to the United Nations to represent the National Bar Association (NBA), and he is the National Bar Association International Law Section Chairperson-at-Large for Public International Law.

10/21/2009

Chancellor Emeritus Bepko Receives IUPUI Award and is Named to Rhodes Committee

Chancellor Emeritus Gerald L. Bepko was recognized with the Chancellor’s Medal at the IUPUI 40th Anniversary Breakfast on September 23. Other 40th Anniversary recipients of the Medal are Senator Richard Lugar, former state Senator and Lt. Governor John Mutz, former state Senator Larry Borst, former state Senator Dr. Ned Lamkin and City Council leader Rozelle Boyd. At the same event the University through Chancellor Charles Bantz presented the Chancellor Emeritus Bepko sculpted personal bust mounted on a pedestal which has now been placed in the IUPUI University Library.

Bepko was selected to serve as Chair of the Rhodes Scholars Selection Committee for the 2009 selections for Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The selection sessions take place on November 20th and 21st.

Gerald L. Bepko joined the IU School of Law – Indianapolis faculty in 1972 and served as Dean of the law school from 1981 to 1986. After that he became Chancellor of IUPUI until 2002, also serving as IU vice president for long-range planning. In 2003, he served as Interim President of Indiana University. Since stepping down as Chancellor he has not only taught at the law school, he also served as Inaugural Director of the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at IUPUI.

As Chancellor, Bepko led a movement to unify the various programs of IUPUI academically and geographically by bringing all schools to the West Michigan Street campus and presiding over the construction of more than 20 buildings. He also led efforts to establish IUPUI as a major urban campus that is classified among the best in its peer group and to establish IUPUI as an important component of central Indiana’s research corridor along with Purdue University West Lafayette and IU Bloomington. During his tenure as chancellor enrollment grew by nearly 25 percent and external support for faculty activities grew from $38 million in 1986 to more than $200 million in 2001-2002.

10/17/2009

Anne Slaughter Andrew ‘83 Nominated by President Obama for Ambassador to Costa Rica

On Friday, October 16, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Anne Slaughter Andrew, ’83 to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica. She is currently the Principal of New Energy Nexus, LLC and advises companies and entrepreneurs on investments and strategies to capitalize on the New Energy Economy. Andrew has successfully advised companies in her corporate environmental/energy law practice, serving as Of Counsel at Bingham McHale and as Co-Chair of the Environment/Energy Team at Baker & Daniels, and also serving as a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Patton & Boggs. In addition, Andrew co-founded a medical bio-tech consulting company, Anson Group LLC and, as an owner and Director from 2004-2007, co-led the organization towards sustained growth and national recognition. Andrew has been actively engaged with conservation and environmental organizations, at the state and national level, including The Sierra Club and the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation. Andrew has worked with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since 1995, serving as an Indiana Trustee, and as a member of the TNC President's National Advisory Council. Andrew also served as Special Counsel and Director for TNC in Arlington, Virginia. In her professional and community work, Andrew is experienced in creating, building and managing public policy initiatives in the environmental and clean energy arena. Andrew graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts and received her Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, where she served as Editor‑in-Chief of the Indiana Law Review. Andrew has also taught a se minar in Environmental Regulation of Business as an adjunct professor at the law school.

10/14/2009

Law School Organizes Groundbreaking Counter-Terrorism Simulation for Students and Community Leaders

In the event of terrorist attack on American soil, what rights and responsibilities do public officials have to protect citizens? How far can officials go in limiting freedoms while still maintaining constitutionally protected rights? What are the potential conflicts between or within agencies that might hinder or complicate government responses? What are the short and long term legal consequences of actions taken in the chaotic moments after an attack? These are some of the questions and problems state, local and national government elected officials and civil servants will one day face. On October 23, 2009, students from the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs will face these same questions during a groundbreaking counter-terrorism simulation at the law school. Students from both schools will work side-by-side with local and state government officials to respond to simulated counter-terrorism events taking place locally and throughout the world. And the entire event will be broadcast live over the internet so college or high school students in their class rooms, first responders in emergency networks, or private citizens at home can watch and learn from the decision making processes sparked by the simulation.

"We created this simulation in the interest of preparing a new generation of global leaders and citizens," says Professor Shawn Boyne of the IU School of Law – Indianapolis, the professor who brought together all of the elements in this groundbreaking counter-terrorism simulation involving students in the fields of law and public policy.

The students participating in this exercise will be acting in assigned roles that include not only the Governor of Indiana, but also the President of the United States, the Mayor of Indianapolis, and intelligence operatives in the field. Acting "in character," for their assigned roles, they will have to make time-sensitive decisions based on conflicting, and sometimes incomplete, intelligence information. Professor Boyne says, "Faculty and students from SPEA will be participating in the exercise as well, to encourage our students to view the law through an interdisciplinary lens."

During the simulation, the participants will receive information from live newsfeeds detailing events as they unfold. They will then be asked to mobilize their staffs and work with other agencies to respond to the developing emergencies within the boundaries of the law. Professor Boyne says, “To enhance realism, we have invited several experts in the field of counter-terrorism to work with the students throughout the program.” At the conclusion of the simulation, participants will receive feedback from international counter-terrorism experts. A panel discussion will take place with international, national, and local authorities in the field of counter-terrorism.

"One of the things that makes this exercise truly unique is that it aims to expand this experiential learning opportunity to as wide of an audience as possible,"says Professor Boyne. Members of the public will be able to view the simulation beginning at 8:30 am on October 23rd at: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/simulation. "To date, the program has received overwhelming support from the State of Indiana and Marion County. In addition to providing technical assistance, the Marion County Emergency Management Division (MCEMD) plans to promote the simulation to its constituents. Similarly, the Indiana Emergency Response Commission (IERC) has expressed an interest in making this simulation exercise available for training for emergency responders in Indiana’s 92 counties,” says Professor Boyne. Debbi Fletcher, Senior Coordinator of MCEMD says, “This exercise provides public safety personnel at all levels of government-- local, state and federal, the opportunity to further enhance their skills and capabilities through their participation. This partnership is a vivid example of the university’s impact upon students and the citizens of Indianapolis." Professor Boyne says, "It is our hope that the benefits of this exercise will extend beyond the campus community to the community at large so that citizens will gain some insight into the law and policy ramifications of the counter-terrorism and emergency response planning processes."

Lieutenant-Colonel David Benjamin, a reservist Advocate with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and a specialist in the law of armed conflicts and counter-terrorism, will give a keynote address that is open to the public on the evening of October 22 (Continuing Legal Education credit will be available, pending approval. See the law school’s web site for more details: indylaw.indiana.edu). Benjamin served as one of the top legal advisors to the Israeli security establishment, advising senior IDF commanders on Operational Law issues, foreign relations, economic affairs, humanitarian affairs and international military cooperation issues. He also served as Chief Legal Advisor for the Gaza Strip from 2001 to 2005.

At 2:00 p.m. on October 23, Benjamin will be joined by experts on counter-terrorism and related issues from academia, the ACLU, the FBI, the U.S. Army War College, and Germany. While the simulation can be viewed live by the public over the internet, the panel discussions entitled "Dilemmas of Decision-making" and "Looking Forward: Improving National Security" will be open to the public (and Continuing Legal Education credit will be available, pending approval).

For more information on the Terrorism Simulation at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and related events, contact Elizabeth Allington at 317-278-3038 or eallingt@iupui.edu.

10/12/2009

Law School Strengthens Ties to IU’s Nobel Prize Nominated Program to Combat HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Flag of Kenya Dean Gary R. Roberts, Visiting Professor Fran Quigley, Judge Patricia Riley and a group of local attorneys will return on October 15th from a trip to Eldoret, Kenya to visit the Legal Aid Clinic of Eldoret (LACE), a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to people affected by HIV/AIDS. The group hopes to strengthen ties with the clinic, as well as with the Moi University School of Law.

The Kenyan attorneys and judges of LACE represent dozens of poor people in western Kenya, most of whom are HIV-positive and all of whom would otherwise have no access to justice. LACE has its roots in the public interest law traditions of the Eldoret area legal community and the history of human rights advocacy by the faculty and students of Moi University School of Law. Kenyan attorneys and judges form the core of the board of directors overseeing the operations of the program. Kenyan attorneys, law professors, and clinical law students also provide legal counsel to clients, with plans to integrate paralegals into direct service in the near future.

LACE works in close association with USAID-AMPATH, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated program that is a partnership between Moi University School of Medicine, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Indiana University School of Medicine. LACE has opened its initial office within the AMPATH Centre in Eldoret and accepts client referrals from the USAID-AMPATH medical and social services staff.

Professor George E. Edwards, Director of the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law, visited the program this summer, where he observed several IU law students working on an internship there. Professor Edwards says, “In my five days in Eldoret, I witnessed LACE’s dedication, its professionalism, and high spirits. I also confirmed that my Indiana law students were gaining solid legal experience outside the classroom, and contributing significantly to human rights.” Read Professor Edwards’ account of his visit to LACE.

Professor Quigley, one of the founders of LACE, recently released a book about the USAID-AMPATH program entitled Walking Together, Walking Far: How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership is Winning the Fight against HIV/AIDS.

The IU School of Law - Indianapolis co-hosted the Jordan H. and Joan R. Leibman Annual Forum which focused on yet another component of the the USAID-AMPATH program, the Imani Workshop. The Imani Workshop is a branch of the Family Preservation Initiative under the IU-Kenya Partnership's USAID-AMPATH program and a revenue-generating social enterprise focused on producing high quality crafts by HIV positive artisans in western Kenya. Imani Workshop manager, Evaline Njoki, joined experts for a panel discussion on issues crititcal to the workshop. The IU School of Business and the IU Herron School of Art and Design also co-hosted this event which took place in Eskenazi Hall on September 25.

10/02/2009

Something for Everyone: IU School of Law – Indianapolis Features Diversity Week

The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis is hosting a variety of events for students as well as the public as part of its first-ever “Diversity Week,” October 5-8, 2009. The school’s Diversity Committee has been chaired by Professor María Pabón López since it was created in 2007, and Professor López was joined this year by Tamara McMillian, Associate Director of Professional Development, as co-chair. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Matt Banker, who also serves on the committee, says the group, which is made up of faculty, staff and students, has “a dynamic collection of perspectives brought to the table.” Professor López says, “The Committee had this idea to have a week during the Fall semester when the law school community could share information and exchange ideas about the differences and similarities that we have all around us. I think Diversity Week will be useful to open the eyes of students, faculty and staff at the law school about the many faces that comprise the legal profession.” The committee also hopes the events will help build relationships between the law school and the Indianapolis community. Assistant Dean Banker adds that they are seeking to “foster a sense of inclusiveness of community members into the legal community.”

Hossein Fazilatfar is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) student who serves on the committee. He says he is looking forward to the week’s events “to celebrate and share our cultures, traditions, backgrounds, thoughts and beliefs and in sum to celebrate our ‘Diversity’ which we’re all proud of.” Another law student involved in the committee, Anthony Pearson, President of the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) says, “diversity is less about a person’s color and more about their perspective. A diverse legal ecosystem adds unparalleled value in the way it allows the legal community to respond to the multifaceted issues encountered by a community or company.”

The four days of events will kick off on Monday, October 5th with a Cultural Celebration Fair from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the law school’s Conour Atrium. The event, which is open to the public, will feature information on many countries and cultures as well as food, music and more from around the world. The International Law Society and Master of Laws Association are teaming up to present this entertaining event.

On Tuesday, October 6, Professor López has organized a panel discussion on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Professor López will be joined by alumna Ruth Rivera, ’04, an attorney with Plews Shadley Racher and Braun, as well as Professor Gerard Magliocca, who served as an intern in Justice Sotomayor’s office when she was a Federal District Court judge in New York. This event is co-sponsored by the IUPUI Latino Faculty Staff Council and will take place in room 375 of the law school at 1:00 p.m. (light refreshments will be served).

Tuesday evening, students, faculty and the public are invited to a Poetry Slam, entitled “The Beauty of Struggle” where members of the law school community will present their original poetic compositions. Local coffee house, Mo’Joe’s, will provide free coffee for this social event. The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) is organizing this event. BLSA will also be collecting school supply donations for Indy School on Wheels, an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to homeless school-aged children. If you wish to present a poem or make donations please contact BLSA at blsaiuls@iupui.edu .

Anthony Pearson says, “As the President of the Black Law Students Association, I view The ‘Beauty of Struggle’ Poetry Slam as an opportunity to reflect on the commonality of the struggles that we all face irrespective of our differences. The understanding that accompanies this reflection will hopefully allow us all to become better servants and leaders at home, at work, and in the community. I appreciate the efforts of the Diversity Committee and I know that the Indianapolis community, our students, faculty, and staff will be enriched by participating in Diversity Week.”

Professionals from the Human Resources office on the IUPUI campus will present a training workshop on “Diversity and Entering the Profession” on Wednesday, October 7. There will be two sessions open to law students, each limited to 50 participants per session. To sign up for either the noon or 5:00 p.m. session, law students should contact Dean Banker’s office at mbanker@iupui.edu .

Diversity Week culminates on Thursday, October 8, with a Keynote lecture by former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Myra Selby, currently a partner at Ice Miller, LLP. Former Justice Selby, who was the first African American woman to serve on the Indiana Supreme Court , will speak on “Diversity in the Legal Profession” at 4:30 p.m. in the Wynne Courtroom. This lecture is open to the public and one hour of CLE credit is offered. For more information, contact Tamara McMillian at tmcmilli@iupui.edu .

09/27/2009

Mark Roesler ’82 Profiled on 60 Minutes

Mark Roesler with images of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart

CMG Worldwide founder and CEO, Mark Roesler,’82 appeared in an exclusive one on one feature with Steve Kroft on the season premiere episode of 60 Minutes (Sunday, September 27, 2009). CBS News took an in-depth look at the man charged with protecting the legacies of most of the famous icons of the past, such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth and many others. 60 Minutes

09/22/2009

Law School Hosts Colleagues from Brazil

Dean Gary R. Roberts and Professor Tom Wilson with guest from Brazil

From August 30 through September 5, Professor Lloyd T. (Tom) Wilson hosted eight colleagues from the Faculdades Espirito Santenses (FAESA) law school in Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil . The trip was initiated by FAESA law professor Stella Emery Santana, who specializes in Environmental Law.

The delegation included the dean of the FAESA law school, two professors, four of the school’s top students, and a former state prosecutor. During their week in Indianapolis, the delegation attended four courses on the legal systems of the United States taught by Professor Wilson and were given a tour of the Baker and Daniels law firm, where Jackie Simmons discussed the firm’s focus on international law and business in Brazil.

Professor Wilson also arranged for the delegation to meet with leaders of all three branches of Indiana government. Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court spoke to the group in the Supreme Court Courtroom, and Judge Edward W. Najam, Jr. of the Indiana Court of Appeals (and Professor Wilson’s former law partner) met with them in the Court of Appeals Courtroom. Lt. Governor Becky Skillman received the group at her State House office, and Indiana Senators Phil Boots and Mike Delph, who is currently a third-year student at the law school, addressed the group as they sat at Senators’ desks in the Senate Chambers.

In addition to the cultural activities available in the capital city, the FAESA delegation was treated to a trip to Crawfordsville, where they addressed the faculty and students of Wabash College, and to an I.U. football game in Bloomington. Professor Tom Wilson says "The law school was very pleased to have this opportunity to promote our school’s contacts with Latin America. Hopefully we are setting the foundation for mutual faculty and student exchanges in the future."

09/21/2009

Professor Dannenmaier to Chair Workshop Session in Geneva on Resolving International Development Conflicts

Professor Eric Dannenmaier will facilitate discussion of mitigating violent disputes over natural resources during a workshop on “Environmental Security: Sources of Conflict and Prospects for Peacemaking” at the United Nations’ Maison Internationale de l’Environnement in Geneva on October 1, 2009. The Workshop is co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the University for Peace, and the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability. Professor Eric Dannenmaier will chair a session devoted to modeling how international organizations and national leaders can mitigate violent conflict where foreign investors and local communities clash over resource development and property rights in the face of scarcity. Dannenmaier will lead participants through a simulated dispute over a proposed mining concession in a developing country – drawing on a recent report about conflict potential over mining operations in the Philippines.

Professor Dannenmaier has been working on environmental security issues since the late 1990s, with his research focused on the influence of public access to environmental decision-making as a factor in mitigating the potential for violence and conflict escalation.

More information about the upcoming Geneva program can be found at http://www.upeace.org/esc/UNEP-UPeace-FESS%20Agenda_draft%201%20_4_.pdf.

More information about environmental security and conflict can be found in the article at http://www.ehponline.org/members/2004/112-3/focus.html.

A policy paper Dannenmaier wrote on the subject for the 2001 Presidential Summit of the Americas can be found at www.ssrn.com/abstract=1078283

09/21/2009

Law School Hosts Legal Delegation from South America

On September 25, the IU School of Law – Indianapolis will host a delegation of lawyers, judges, law professors, constitutional scholars, ministry officials and journalists from a dozen South American countries . The U.S. State Department is sponsoring this visit to help these officials examine the U.S. civil, criminal, military and juvenile justice systems and explore legal education and the practice of law. The program on the 25th will include discussions on a range of topics, including judicial case management, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation, plea bargaining, trial by jury, juvenile justice, the civil rights movement, affirmative action, family law, domestic violence, human rights, judicial activism and indigenous dispute resolution. It will also focus on legal education for foreign students and officials in the U.S. The proceedings will be conducted in Spanish with interpretation. Professor George E. Edwards is organizing the delegation’s visit to the law school.

09/18/2009

Professor Michael Pitts Serves as Media Resource on Indiana's Voter ID Law Case

Professor Michael Pitts When the Indiana Court of Appeals declared Indiana's Voter ID law unconstitutional on Thursday, September 17, IU School of Law - Indianapolis Professor Michael J. Pitts served as a resource for multiple media outlets covering the story, including The New York Times (link to article: http://www.nytimes.com /2009/09/18/us/18voter.html?r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx =1253276962-UMji/qD4YCh9Uw5ZpcarbQ). The Indiana law requiring citizens of Indiana to show ID before voting was declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 2008.

09/14/2009

Research of Professors Bravo and López presented at the World Society of Victimology’s 13th International Symposium of Victimology

When experts on victimology met at Tokiwa University, in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan in late August of this year for the 13th World Congress of Victimology, the work of two scholars from IU Law – Indianapolis was presented.

Professor María Pabón López presented a paper on her research regarding hate crimes against immigrants in the U.S. The work of Professor Karen E. Bravo on the personhood of the victims of human trafficking was also presented. The symposium, which takes place every three years, had “Victimology and Human Security” as its theme and featured researchers from all over the world. For more information about this conference, see http://www.isv2009.com/index.html.

09/14/2009

Professor López Selected to attend IUPUI Leadership Program

Professor Maria Pabon Lopez Professor María Pabón López has been selected as a member of the inaugural year-long Next Generation@IUPUI intensive leadership program. This program, funded by President McRobbie’s Diversity Initiative, is designed to provide an avenue to expand the pool of faculty who are ready to assume leadership positions at Indiana University. In addition to a curriculum addressing higher education administration theories and trends, participants will receive individualized coaching and mentoring and will develop a broader network of peers across the campus. See http://faculty.medicine.iu.edu/offices/fd/next/index.html for more information about Next Generation@IUPUI.

09/07/2009

Professor Quigley Presents New Book on Fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa

Visiting professor Fran Quigley will be presenting his book, Walking Together, Walking Far: How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership is Winning the Fight against HIV/AIDS, on November 12^that the IUPUI Faculty Club. Quigley’s presentation is part of the “Reading at the Table” series, which profiles IUPUI authors and provides an opportunity for selected authors to present their work to the IUPUI community.

09/07/2009

Professor Quigley to discuss Human Rights at ABA Conference

Visiting professor Fran Quigley will be presenting at the ABA conference, “HIV/AIDS and the Rule of Law: Human Rights at Home and Abroad,” at Notre Dame University on September 11. Quigley will be discussing the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE), a human rights legal clinic integrated into one of the world’s largest HIV/AIDS and poverty control programs, the IU School of Medicine-founded and Nobel Peace Prize-nominated AMPATH program in western Kenya. Quigley is associate director of AMPATH and co-founder of LACE.

08/25/2009

Professor Cynthia Baker Named to Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education

Professor Cynthia Baker Named to Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels recently named the law school’s Cynthia Baker, Clinical Associate Professor of Law & Director, Program on Law and State Government, to the state ’s Commission for Higher Education (ICHE). The Commission, which was formed as a coordinating agency in 1971, helps to plan and coordinate Indiana’s state-supported system of postsecondary education, focusing primarily on public higher education, but also considering issues regarding K-12 standards and testing, the Education Roundtable, Department of Workforce Development efforts, and the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana . More information on the ICHE can be found at: http://www.in.gov/che/2375.htm .

Cynthia Baker joined the law school in 1997 as the first Director of the Program on Law and State Government (PLSG). Under her leadership, the PLSG has substantially expanded experiential learning opportunities for students interested in the confluence of law and state government. Her primary professional responsibilities include serving as faculty advisor to the PLSG fellows and teaching the PLSG Externship Course, State and Local Government Law, and Legal Aspects of Government Finance. With the help of a grant from the United States Department of Education, she established the state's first interdisciplinary public policy mediation course for judges, community leaders, lawyers, and law students. Baker currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Government Practice Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association, as a co-chair of the State Administrative Law Committee of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and has served several appointments as a member of Indiana's Code Revision Committee. In 2005, Baker was appointed as Clinical Associate Professor of Law.

Before joining the law school, baker was a Section Chief of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's (IDEM's) Office of Legal Counsel and also served as legal counsel to IDEM's Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. Prior to her work at IDEM, she was a judicial clerk to the Hon. Robert D. Rucker of the Indiana Court of Appeals, now and Associate Justice on the Indiana Supreme Court. She earned her J.D. from Valparaiso School of Law where she served as editor of the Valparaiso Law Review and graduated magna cum laude.

Baker's academic interests include public education law, regionalism, mediation as a public policy tool, and government finance.

08/25/2009

Professor Eleanor Kinney Speaks on Public Radio about MRSA Issues

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney, co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University School of Law- Indianapolis, was a guest on the August 22-23 episode of Public Radio show Sound Medicine, hosted by Barbara Lewis and produced by the Indiana University School of Medicine. She discussed some of the nuances of the current health insurance crisis and how the insured might be affected by health care reform legislation.

Sound Medicine is underwritten by Clarian Health, IU Medical Group and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Listen to the show on line: http://www.soundmedicine.iu.edu.

08/14/2009

Professor Adams Speaks at International Legal Education Conference in South Africa

Professor Cynthia M. Adams participated in an international conference held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, on July 1-4, 2009. At the conference, Professor Adams spoke on the pedagogy and methodology of integrating lawyering skills in a contracts casebook course. The conference was sponsored by APPEAL (Academics Promoting the Pedagogy of Effective Advocacy in Law), an international organization devoted to promoting the exchange of ideas, information, and resources about the teaching of lawyering skills among academics in the United States and in Africa. The conference focused on the development of law curricula at South African universities. The conference was widely attended by judges, professors, and lawyers from South Africa and the United States. Professor Adams is a member of APPEAL, which is planning a similar conference to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2011.

08/12/2009

Professor Edwards Lectures on History of Human Rights, International Trade and the Right to Health

Professor George Edwards and colleagues from across Asia at the international conference On July 23 and 24, 2009, Professor George E. Edwards participated in an international conference in Taipei, Taiwan sponsored by the Asian Centre for the World Trade Organization and International Health Law and Policy. The WTO Centre is part of New Taiwan University, the premier university in Taiwan.

At the Taipei conference, Professor Edwards delivered a paper entitled "Human Rights and International Trade: From the 17th Century Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Hurricane Katrina, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Human Trafficking and the Right to Health."

Professor Edwards' presentation coincided with several occurrences related to race, race relations and the vestiges of slavery in the United States: a U.S. Congressional apology for slavery and segregation of African Americans; President Obama's visit to the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, from which millions of Africans were dispatched to slavery in America through the “Door of No Return”: and the controversy surrounding the arrest of preeminent African American Harvard Professor Gates. (Professor Edwards is pictured above, fourth from the right, with colleagues from across Asia at the International Health Law and Policy conference.)

08/07/2009

Professor Eleanor Kinney Speaks on Public Radio about the Flu Outbreak

On May 1, 2009, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney spoke on Minnesota Public Radio during a segment entitled "Flu outbreak and the public health response." Professor Kinney was one of a panel of experts consulted on the topic. She is co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and holds the Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman Professorship at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.

Listen to the show.

07/30/2009

Professors Teach and Lecture in China

Professors Tom Wilson and Antony Page strengthened the law school’s ties with China by teaching and lecturing at two Chinese law schools in May and June. Wilson and Page shared the role of resident professor for the Chinese Law Summer Program. The Program is held in Beijing at the Renmin University of China School of Law, which recently announced it was ranked first among China’s law schools. Wilson is Co-Director of the Program, which began in 1987.

While in Beijing, Professors Wilson and Page also delivered lectures to faculty and Ph.D. students in law at the China University of Political Science and Law. Professor Wilson’s lectures were “East Meets West: Contract Formation Problems Common to the U.S. and China,” and “Legal Education for Foreign Students in the U.S.” Professor Page’s presentations were “Progressive Organizational Law: Solutions to What Problems?” and “Failures of Corporate Governance: The Independent Director Solution.” Professor Page also presented the latter work at Renmin University and another work, “Termination Fees, Reverse Termination Fees, and Standards of Review” at the offices of the Jun He law firm in Beijing, with a simulcast to firm offices in Shanghai & Shenzen. Several attorneys in each city earned the LL.M. degree from Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis.

07/29/2009

Professor Kinney Testifies Before House Energy and Commerce Committee

On Monday, July 27, 2009, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's field hearing in New Albany, Indiana. She testified as an expert on insurance and health law before the field hearing (see House web site for testimony). Professor Kinney was asked to talk about the situation in Indiana regarding health insurance and, in particular, experiences of Hoosiers with rescission of private health insurance contracts and post claims underwriting which allows insurers to do their underwriting and decision-making about whether an insurance policy is valid after it has sold the individual. In addition, she also discussed the provisions in HR 3600, 111th Cong., to limit the practices of rescission and post claims underwriting. See http://energycommerce.house.gov. An article about the hearings appeared in the News and Tribune.Com web site.

07/29/2009

Unprecedented Joint Board Meeting

On Friday, April 17, the law school's Board of Visitors and Alumni Association Board of Directors held an unprecedented joint meeting to discuss ways that alumni can assist the school. Following a welcome by Board of Visitors Chair, Hon. Jane Magnus-Stinson, and Alumni Association President G. Michael Witte, Dean Gary R. Roberts gave a State of the School address. Presentations were made related to the school’s efforts in the areas of public and media relations, and law school admissions. Following lunch, the group re-convened to discuss the issues presented earlier in the day. On pages 10 and 11 of this magazine, you will find outlines of steps you can take to assist the school in raising its profile in the local and national communities, along with talking points that were developed by the boards during the meeting.

07/29/2009

Solution Center Grant Helps Law Students Help Nonprofits

During the Spring 2009 semester , a special grant from IUPUI's Solution Center helped to make it possible for six IU Law -Indianapolis students to work in close collaboration with the Community Development Law Center (CDLC). The six students were Megan Alvarez (3L), Dana Arent (2L), Marina Grgic (2L), Kelly Huang (2L), John Lim (2L) and Amanda Whipple (3L). These students were selected by Professor Mary Wolf, Director of Clinical Programs and Externships, who oversaw the academic aspect of the program, and Sheila Jenkins, '98, Executive Director of CDLC. Students received academic credit for completing 120 hours of service, and the students were overseen by CDLC attorneys, all of whom are alumni of the law school and participated in clinical programs as students.

Jenkins joined the CDLC the year she graduated from law school and has been its Executive Director since 2003. Michael R. Smith, ’93, an adjunct professor at the law school and a retired attorney for Eli Lilly and Company, met regularly with the students and supervised their work, as did Kim Huizinga, ‘98 who worked as a Marion County Deputy Prosecutor and in private practice before joining the CDLC.

At a recent gathering at the end of the semester to discuss the outcomes of the semester-long project, the students were enthusiastic about how much they had learned and how much they would recommend this experiential learning situation to other students.

The CDLC (formerly known as the Community Organizations Legal Assistance Project, Inc. or COLAP) was established to provide high quality pro bono legal and related services to new and existing Indiana nonprofit community organizations that serve low-income clients and neighborhoods.

Smith says the current economic climate is causing a lot of pain in the nonprofit sector. “A lot of organizations are really stressed,” he says. As a result, there is more need for the kind of services the CDLC provides than ever before. He says that the CDLC staff very much wanted the students working with them to learn how to do real legal work and deal with as many practical aspects of law practice as possible. The students assisted the practicing attorneys with all aspects of helping nonprofits from a legal perspective, including assisting with nonprofit start ups. Students helped with such issues as drafting articles of incorporation, creating bylaws, and filing IRS forms, such as form 1023 to obtain tax exempt 501(c)(3) status, an essential step in helping groups secure funds from donors.

Kelly Huang and Dana Arent helped several organizations complete their IRS form 1023 paperwork, a process Huang characterizes as “long and complex.” She says that professional help with the applications can often improve the likelihood that the IRS will grant tax-exempt status. Huang worked with an urban public school that was hoping to become a unique type of charter school, specializing in training students for the airport, aviation and aerospace industries. Huizinga, who worked with Huang on the project, says it was important to take the students to the client’s location so they could really get a feel for the organization they were helping, so she and Huang visited the school on several occasions.

John Lim and Marina Grgic helped to develop training programs that were presented to a meeting of the Nonprofit Solutions Initiative of the IUPUI Solutions Center. Lim assisted Smith in creating a presentation on strategic alliances among nonprofit organizations, while Grgic worked with Indianapolis CPA Paul Bogdanoff, of Bogdanoff Henderson, PC, on a presentation covering the recently revised IRS reporting obligations of tax-exempt organizations. The presentations are available to other groups through the CDLC.

Amanda Whipple, who obtained her M.B.A. from Ball State before attending law school, put her experience in the financial arena to work helping financially distressed companies deal with issues such as bankruptcy, insolvency, and even the dissolution of an organization and the disposal of remaining assets. Participating in the program “was definitely worth doing,” she says. Amanda says that in light of her work through the CDLC, she is seriously considering combining her legal expertise with her previous financial experience to pursue a career in the field of mortgage foreclosure prevention or forensic accounting.

Megan Alvarez’s ability to speak Spanish allowed her to help a Hispanic church group to translate their bylaws and make an application for 501(c)(4) status, which allows them to maintain their tax-exempt status while doing more governmental lobbying than is allowed under the traditional 501(c)(3) status.

The students echoed the sentiment expressed by Smith regarding the benefit to students of getting outside the law school walls and into real life legal work situations. A couple of students are still involved in finishing a few cases, even though the semester has ended. John Lim says he enjoyed his internship so much that he plans to volunteer for a week this summer just to help out. The CDLC attorneys will put him to good use in helping serve the Indiana nonprofit community.

07/29/2009

Loan Repayment Assistance Program Reaches Endowment Goal

The law school's chapter of Equal Justice Works (EJW) hosted the Inaugural Public Interest Recognition Dinner on March 7, 2009. The dinner was a fundraising event specifically created to honor alumni who have pursued careers in public interest law and to raise funds for the LRAP Endowment. Thanks to the hard work of the EJW student volunteers, the event raised $35,000 which allowed the LRAP fund to reach its original endowment goal of $100,000.

More than 150 people gathered in the Conour Atrium to hear former Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr. ‘58, who gave the keynote address, and to celebrate the three honorees: Emily Benfer, ‘05, Georgetown School of Law; Melody Goldberg, ‘06, Indiana Legal Services; and Marco Moreno, ‘03, Lewis & Kappes.

During her remarks, Emily Benfer, who worked for social justice issues by helping the homeless while a law student, spoke about the importance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words when he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” (The quote from Dr. King is etched on a plaque that hangs outside the classrooms on the third floor of the law school).

“As a student, I read those words and dreamed of the ways I would tug and pull on that arc until justice was realized,” she said. She spoke of the many lessons she learned, first from professors in law school and now from the clients for whom she advocates, but she says, “perhaps the most important [lesson] is finding your inspiration to bend the arc. For me, I know enduring motivation in my clients. One client, Tysha, showed me five fingers when I asked her how old she was. She drew me a rainbow, held my hand, and whispered, ‘You are my best friend.’ I once asked Tysha about the homeless shelter she lived in and she began to cry. The little girl looked at me and asked, ‘Are you really going to help us?’ I knew at that moment with absolute certainty that no matter what lies ahead or how weary I may become, the answer will always be, ‘Yes, Tysha, I will help.’”

Benfer reminded the audience, made up of many lawyers, law students and professors, “Dr. King said, ‘[the arc] bends toward justice.’ And President Obama reminds us that ‘here is the thing: it does not bend on its own. It bends because each of us in our own ways put our hand on that arc and we bend it in the direction of justice.’ Together, we are the pressure that ensures the bending of the arc, we lean and push and litigate and organize with the knowledge that the outcome we provoke is unwavering justice.” Benfer continues the work that she started as a student, pursuing justice in Washington, D.C.

07/29/2009

IU Alumna Breaks Big Insurance Case

The strange story of Marcus Schrenker first made national news in January when the Fishers money manager parachuted out of his plane before it crashed in the Florida panhandle as authorities say his complex scheme of fraud was unraveling.
But law school alumna Lisa Harpenau , ‘07, had already been on the case for more than a year, beginning when she was a part-time investigator for the Indiana Department of Insurance while studying for the Indiana bar exam.

Now she’s considered a hero by Schrenker’s victims and was recently awarded the Governor’s Public Service Achievement award as a result of her work on the Schrenker matter.

In fact, Harpenau had just graduated from law school when the 26-year-old received an after-hours phone call from Charles Kinney one evening in August 2007.

“I’ll never forget what he said. He said, ‘You have a rogue agent there in Indiana.’” Harpenau says.

The Delta Airlines pilot from Atlanta, Ga. proceeded to tell her that his elderly parents had invested nearly $900,000 with Schrenker and had lost nearly everything. And they had the documentation to prove it, he said.

“I thought that, while you never presume someone is guilty, if what Charles Kinney says is true, we have quite a case here,” Harpenau recalls. “My instincts told me there really was a problem.”

Harpenau—who admits her co-workers at the Department of Insurance like to make fun of her love of documents, files and mounds of paper—says it was like Christmas when the evidence arrived in boxes.

The information became the basis of an insurance case that is now over, at least for Harpenau. The Indiana Department of Insurance successfully prosecuted Schrenker for selling longterm annuities to people while promising they wouldn’t pay penalties for early withdrawals. In fact, some of Schrenker’s clients racked up stiff penalties, often when he forged their signatures and secretly moved the money from account to account so he could collect up-front commissions.

“He just pocketed the money,” Harpenau says.

Federal and state authorities say it was a multi-million dollar scam with victims in several states, including Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

A restitution order has been filed, and Indiana authorities will attempt to collect more than $280,000 in fines and a little more than $300,000 in restitution. While Schrenker owes much more than that to former clients, judgments around the country are still being finalized.

As of late April, Schrenker was still sitting in a Florida jail, having entered an insanity plea for charges that he faces in Florida for crashing his plane and faking distress calls. On June 6, he changed his plea on those charges to guilty.

Credits Trial Practice Class Harpenau, now a full-time market regulation attorney with the Indiana Department of Insurance’s consumer protection unit, was hired on the spot when she first interviewed for the part-time job at the Indiana Department of Insurance.

It was a natural fit for Harpenau, who was an insurance sales agent for Indiana Farm Bureau. She’d also worked as a law clerk and administrative assistant for the Indianapolis law firm Hunsucker, Goodstein & Nelson, where she learned a little bit about insurance law—and a lot about “searching for that needle in a haystack in 60 boxes of documentation,” she says.

A graduate of Twin Lakes High School in Monticello, Indiana Harpenau’s first job was as an arcade game worker at Indiana Beach. She went on to major in psychology at IUPUI, where undergraduate courses in business law and psychology in law piqued her interest.

Almost on a whim, Harpenau took the LSAT and applied to law school. Once accepted, her career path was set.

“I had a lot of great professors in law school,” she says. “Learning the rules of evidence from Professor [Henry] Karlson also really paved my way to being able to apply those rules to one big, real-life case.”

The Schrenker case was a big one, but Harpenau predicts she’ll run into additional interesting cases. And she doesn’t think her actions should be considered unusual.

“I am happy I could help people but at the end of the day, this is what I would do in any job,” she says. “This is what Indiana taxpayer dollars pay me to do."

07/29/2009

Students Honored for Pro Bono, Clinic and Internship Accomplishments

On May 1, the law school hosted its annual Pro Bono and Clinical Program Reception in the Conour Atrium. The keynote speaker was Catherine A. Meeker, Co-chair of the Indiana State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee and an associate at Baker & Daniels. In total, the class of 2009 contributed 15,441 pro bono hours while in law school. Sixty-one J.D. students were recognized for their pro bono work. The John Paul Berlon Award for outstanding pro bono contributions was presented to DawnMarie White who contributed over 200 hours to six different public interest organizations during her law school tenure. As Pro Bono Program participants, students volunteer on supervised projects for non-profit organizations and government agencies. They also work with individual attorneys doing unpaid legal work. The work must benefit the under-served, under-represented, or organizations with limited resources. Participating in the program affords students exposure to diverse areas of practice, such as administrative law, criminal law, family law, and children’s issues. As a result, students gain practical experience while learning about the legal needs of the under-served. The Pro Bono Program is directed by LaWanda Ward, ‘03, and is housed within the school’s Office of Professional Development, directed by Assistant Dean Chasity Thompson, ‘02. The law school’s clinical program also honored students at the reception. The recipient of the Outstanding Clinic Student Award for 2008-09 was Matthew Kubal. This award honors a clinic student who has demonstrated dedication to public interest work through representation and advocacy on behalf of clients in the clinic. Kubal was recognized for his live-client clinic work which involved gathering evidence and developing a case theory based on the law and facts of the case. He participated in both the Civil Practice and Criminal Defense Clinics, and completed the Advocacy Skills Concentration. “Matt has gone the extra mile for his clients in interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence for his cases,” said Clinic Director, Professor Mary Wolf. After completion of his clinic requirements for his Civil Practice Clinic class in the Fall, Kubal continued to represent his clients on a pro bono basis. One case he was working on is expected to last through the summer, and he has committed to continue his work on it while studying for the bar exam. In addition to the award presentation, all clinic students received a certificate of completion during the program. This year, five LL.M. students were also honored for their pro bono contributions. In addition, a total of 51 former Program in International Human Rights Law interns, current students and graduates were presented with certificates signed by Professor George E. Edwards and Dean Gary R. Roberts for their work on United Nations’ human rights reports.

07/29/2009

The School that Never Sleeps: Celebrating the Evening Division

Most superheroes face the challenge of balancing dual identities. For example, millionaire Bruce Wayne moonlighted as Batman. Similarly, over the years, our evening division students have spent their daylight hours as doctors, nurses, reporters, teachers, and businesspeople, only to be transformed into Law Students at dusk. The superpowers required to maintain a “normal” personal and professional life while pursuing a legal education are remarkable, and for generations, our evening division students have managed to do just that. These individuals are, indeed, superheroes. Not only do they sacrifice family time for four years to obtain a law degree, but following graduation, many have gone on to positions of great responsibility and influence. The drive that helped them to accomplish the combined tasks of work, study, and family life as students, served them well in their subsequent careers. Graduates of our part-time division have gone on to serve as company presidents, state Supreme Court Justices, judges of lower courts, state senators and representatives, and partners in law firms. There are those who have held high postions in the federal government such as U.S. Ambassador, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Congressman—one even became a United States Vice President. We salute these individuals, who, much like Abraham Lincoln, burned the midnight oil in pursuit of a legal education.

Were it not for the IU School of Law – Indianapolis and its part-time course of legal study, many of these individuals would not have had the opportunity to attend law school. Many were supporting families and needed to work—not having the luxury of quitting their jobs to pursue their educations on a full-time basis. In a time when changes in national law school ranking methodologies have had the effect of discouraging the continuation of part-time law school programs, we proudly stand behind our program and the fact that we have been able to offer a legal education to, literally, thousands of individuals who otherwise might not have had that opportunity.

One of the features of our part-time program that makes it stand out from many at other law schools is that it is the school’s policy that all full-time faculty members teach in the evening division. Our evening division students receive the same core first-year courses, taught by the same faculty, as our day division students. Evening students also benefit from courses taught by adjunct professors who are prominent attorneys in their fields of practice. In fact, it is quite common for our day students to take some elective courses in the evening if those courses have not been filled by evening students. Evening classes meet Monday through Friday, starting at either 5:30 p.m. or 6:00 p.m., and ending at approximately 8:30 p.m.

Current 4L student, Lora Manion, works as a Legal Assistant and Contract Administrator at United Water Suez in Indianapolis. Recently, she talked about her law school experience, “Balancing a full-time job in a legal department while attending evening classes nearly every weekday has been more challenging than I expected. I earned my MBA through a part-time program 10 years ago, and I mistakenly thought that it wouldn’t be too hard for me to earn a law degree in the evening—but I underestimated the time commitment and the effect of being older now. It takes careful time management to complete all my homework and maintain a healthy relationship with my husband, friends and family. To maintain a healthy balance, I’ve learned that I have to put tasks like ‘walk 8,000 steps, drink 6 glasses of water’ on my To Do List along with, ‘read 15 pages of Evidence and make 10 flashcards.’”

But she feels that the sacrifices are worth it. “I think the sacrifices that I am making now will pay off when I graduate in May 2010. Along the way, I have learned some important (and sometimes painful) lessons about taking care of my health, family and faith first, while carefully managing my work and school assignments. These are valuable life lessons that I feel sure that I will be able to draw upon in my future legal career.”

Veterans of the part-time program share some of her sentiments. These individuals, and many others, have pointed out that without the evening division of the law school, the dream of becoming an attorney could never have become a reality for them. Our hats are off to our current part-time students and the many graduates of the evening division who maintained the delicate balance between their personal lives and their lives as Law Students.

07/29/2009

Tiffany N. Munsell to Lead National Black Law Students Association

Tiffany Munsell (3L) was elected National Chair of the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) for the 2009-10 academic year. She was National Treasurer of NBLSA in 2008-09. As National Chair, Munsell will concentrate her efforts on long-term development, advancing social awareness, and serving the needs of local chapters. “We are entering a unique and exciting era, one that requires a new level of responsibility and dedication from our generation of black law students. As Chair of NBLSA, I will work diligently to revitalize the image and future success of rising attorneys in the black community,” Munsell said.

An Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity (ICLEO) Fellow, Munsell is active in her local BLSA chapter, having served as financial secretary and director of communications. She has volunteered with the Street Law and Guardian ad Litem programs, and has assisted Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans. A summer associate at Krieg DeVault, LLP for the past two summers, Munsell says she has a passion for community service and has aspirations toward a career in economic development. The Indianapolis native received her BA degree in Economics from Spelman College in 2005 and worked in the financial services industry prior to law school. NBLSA, a 7,000-member organization, was founded in 1968 to articulate and promote the needs and goals of African American law students and effectuate change in the legal community.

07/23/2009

Mary Beth Claus, '86 To Become Senior Counsel at Cleveland Clinic

Mary Beth Claus, '86 will become Senior Counsel at the Cleveland Clinic where she will be responsible for the medical center's health care regulatory matters.

Mary Beth Claus Claus was a member of Baker & Daniels health and life sciences team where she represented clients on federal and state regulatory issues. Currently a partner at Baker & Daniels, LLP, she said “It is with mixed emotions that I’m making a change in my legal career. I am looking forward to this exciting new challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed working with outstanding colleagues and friends at Baker & Daniels.” Tom Froehle, the firm’s chair and chief executive partner said “Mary Beth has been a tremendous partner at Baker & Daniels. Although we will miss her greatly at the firm, this is a terrific opportunity, and I am confident that she will serve the Cleveland Clinic well.”

Claus has been named to The Best Lawyers in America and Indiana Super Lawyers, including the distinction of being one of Indiana’s top 25 female lawyers. She has been active in the community serving on the board of directors for the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, MDWise, Inc. and the Wishard Memorial Foundation. Claus is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

07/23/2009

Professor Ken Chestek Chairs Panel at Opening of Once Upon a Legal Story

Professor Kenneth Chestek was asked to be a member of a panel making the opening plenary presentation at the Once Upon a Legal Story (Chapter Two) conference at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon on July 22-24. He is presenting the results of an empirical study he worked on earlier this year exploring whether appellate judges are persuaded by stories incorporated into appellate briefs. The study asked a group of appellate judges, appellate law clerks, appellate lawyers and law professors to read and evaluate a pair of briefs, one of which was written as a “pure legal argument” (using traditional syllogisms and the standard tools for legal anaysis) and the other which incorporated an additional “story” element (a legally irrelevant, but interesting background detail that provided context for the litigant’s motivations and goals). His findings showed that judges, lawyers and law professors did find the story brief more persuasive while the law clerks judgment was not affected by this additional element of the brief.

Professor Chestek is currently working on an article based upon this study entitled, “Judging By the Numbers: An Empirical Study of the Power of the Story.”

For more information on the Once Upon a Story Conference please visit:

http://www.lclark.edu/law/programs/legal_analysis_and_writing/applied_legal_storytelling_ conference/index.php?highlight=once+upon+a+legal+time

07/23/2009

Gretchen Snelling, '95 Named VP and General Counsel of Hulman and Company and the IMS

Gretchen E. Snelling, '95 has been named vice president and general counsel of Hulman & Company and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, LLC.

Gretchen Snelling "Gretchen has done an excellent job as assistant general counsel of IMS, LLC since 2003, and this promotion will serve all of the Hulman-George companies well," said Curt Brighton, president and CEO of Hulman & Company.

In her new position, Snelling serves as an officer and general counsel for all of the Hulman-George companies, including the Speedway, IMS Productions, Indy Racing League, Hulman & Company and Clabber Girl.

Before joining IMS, Snelling was an attorney with Ice Miller from 1995-2003, concentrating in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and financial transactions, real estate transactions and leasing.

A summa cum laude graduate of the law school, she did her undergraduate work at Purdue University, where she received a bachelor of science in economics, with distinction, in 1992. She was in the honors program in the Schools of Management and Liberal Arts and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Professional affiliations include the Indiana Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Association.

07/20/2009

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman's Chapter on Affirmative Action in Public Housing Appears in a New Book on Integration

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman's chapter "Constitutional and Statutory Mandates for Residential Racial Integration and The Validity of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action to Achieve It" appears in the recently published book entitled The Integration Debate: Competing Futures For American Cities (Ed. Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009).

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and an expert on housing discrimination issues.

07/15/2009

Student Wins Title

Law student Emily Munson
Emily Munson (2L) won the title of "Ms. Wheelchair Indiana", a competition for Indiana women in wheel chairs who are advocates. She is the incoming president of the Health Law Society and part of her platform as Ms. Wheelchair Indiana is advocating for the disabled to have a voice in emergency preparedness planning.

06/26/2009

Annual Conference Focuses on Autism and Vaccines

The seventh annual Conference on Health, Disability and the Law took place at Inlow Hall on June 12 and attracted a large crowd to the Wynne Courtroom. This year’s conference focused on “Autism and Vaccines,” and featured keynote speaker, Paul Offit, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The conference was co-sponsored by the law school, its Hall Center for Law and Health, and the Riley Child Development Center of the IU School of Medicine.

The conference provided several presentations on the issues surrounding autism and vaccination, including a discussion of what the research does and does not suggest. Related topics included the impact of the vaccination discussion on school policies and procedures, methods for professionals to use when talking with parents about vaccines, and ethical and policy implications.

New this year was the Health, Disability and the Law Student Lecture, featuring law student speaker Matthew Lasher, who presented on the topic, “Hoosier Immunity: Examining Mandatory Vaccinations and Recommending Improvements to Indiana’s Programs.”

06/22/2009

Law School Connection to Judge Sotomayor Noted in New York Times

On June 17, 2009, a New York Times article about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's views on the expanded government surveillance powers in the USA Patriot Act referenced a lecture that she gave at the law school in March of 2003. Her remarks were made during a speech for the law school's Pro Bono Program's "Decade of Giving" Celebration. Read the NYT article.

06/10/2009

Professor Dan Cole Joins NYU Law School's Institute for Policy Integrity Board of Advisors

Professor Dan Cole was recently invited to become a member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School. Other members of the board include John Podesta (former Chief of Staff in the Clinton Administration), E. Donald Elliott (former Administrator at the EPA), Sally Katzen (former head of OIRA in OMB), Kathleen Rest (Executive Director, Union of Concerned Scientists), as well as distinguished professors from NYU, Yale, Penn State, University of Michigan, and Duke.

Professor Cole says he was invited to join the group because he has “ written several articles and book chapters in the last few years on issues relating to the theory, method, and practice of cost-benefit analysis (or regulatory impact analysis) in the federal government.” While working on those various papers, he met Dean Ricky Revesz and Michael Livermore, who together founded the Institute at NYU.

The Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School is a nonpartisan think tank and advocacy organization for the use of properly conducted cost-benefit analysis to promote socially beneficial regulation. The Institute engages in capacity-building to improve the ability of NGOs to advocate more effectively for regulatory programs using cost-benefit analysis. The Institute also advocates directly for reforms in cost-benefit analysis and the process of regulatory review to remove anti-regulatory biases, and supports economically justified regulations. The board of advisors is made up of academics and leaders in government, business, and in the advocacy community.

06/08/2009

Professor James P. Nehf Publishes Consumer Law Articles on Manufactured Homes and Unfair Advertising

Professor James P. Nehf published a chapter titled "Financing Manufactured Homes," in SECURED TRANSACTIONS UNDER THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, ch. 18A (J. B. McDonnell, ed., 2009), and a chapter on "Misleading and Unfair Advertising" in the INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK OF CONSUMER LAW 2009 (Ashgate Publishing). In April, he chaired a consumer law working group at the ABA Spring Meeting of the Business Law Section, Cyberspace Committee. Professor Nehf was also invited to submit an opinion to the House of Lords (European Union Sub-Committee on Social Policy and Consumer Affairs) regarding its inquiry into the European Commission's proposed Directive on consumer rights. Professor Nehf is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, which oversees the law school's LL.M. program and S.J.D degree.

06/08/2009

Professor Dannenmaier Cited by Philippines Supreme Court

Professor Eric Dannenmaier was cited by the Philippines Supreme Court Chief Justice in a dispute over release of negotiating documents from a trade agreement. The Court denied a petition to release the records, but its Chief Justice dissented, citing Dannenmaier in support of the proposition that disclosure would strengthen the country’s democratic process.

The case of Akbayan Citizens Action Party v Thomas Aquino (Supreme Court of the Philippines (G.R. No. 170516, 2008) arose when a group of citizens' organizations and members of the Philippines Congress sought release of the text of a 2005 Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement. The petitioners also sought the release of drafts and written offers each country had submitted during the negotiation process. Inquiries by members of the Philippine’s Congress produced nothing, and the legislators joined others in a mandamus petition to the country’s Supreme Court. By the time the Court heard the case, the trade agreement itself had been made public, but the government still refused to provide documents produced during negotiations. Petitioners claimed that access was essential to their effective participation in the public discussion over whether to ratify the trade agreement.

The Supreme Court sided with the government, finding that the documents revealed diplomatic negotiations protected from disclosure under national and international law. But Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno authored a vigorous dissent, arguing that the disclosure of the documents – particularly where public review and legislative ratification of the agreement was at stake – was important to a full consideration of the agreement as part of the democratic process.

The Chief Justice cited Professor Dannenmaier’s 2004 article “Trade, Democracy, and the FTAA: Public Access to the Process of Constructing a Free Trade Area of the Americas,” (1066 Fordham Int’l Law J. 1078) nine separate times, often quoting at length from the article in support of his position that the documents should have been released. The Chief Justice relied both on Dannenmaier’s comparative description of increased public access to Western Hemisphere trade negotiations, and his more instrumental claims that access “gives legitimacy to the process and result, and it strengthens the political will of populations who must support ratification and implementation once the text is finalized. … While it is true that participation implies resource allocation and sometimes delay, these are investments in a democratic outcome … .” (dissent at 42 quoting Dannenmaier at 1115).

Professor Dannenmaier said: “Okay, so it’s only a dissent – but sometimes dissent is the start of something beautiful. It’s good to see ideas that were embraced in the context of an Inter-American process finding some purchase in a pan-Asian context. On the merits, I don’t think I could support a wholesale release of diplomatic communiqués, but the failure to provide details regarding a trade agreement of keen interest to the Philippine people certainly makes it hard for citizens to be good citizens. And withholding details from Congress members who must consider a ratification vote? Surely there is a more democratic solution.”

A copy of the opinion can be found at http://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/decisions.php?doctype=Decisions / Signed Resolutions&docid=12166820302146138178#

06/08/2009

The Political Centrist by Professor John L. Hill to Appear in November

Cover of Professor John Hill's Book

Professor John L. Hill's book The Political Centrist (2009, Vanderbilt University Press) will be be released in November, 2009. In it Professor Hill examines the decline of "liberal" and "conservative" ideology and the growth of a "centrist" approach to contentious contemporary political and social issues such as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay marriage, illegal immirgration, judicial activism, and other key issues. Read more about Professor Hill's book.

06/01/2009

IndyLaw Deans Travel to Korea and China

Image of a pagoda in Korea Dean Gary R. Roberts, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Jim Nehf, and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies Claire Grove will travel to Seoul, Korea, to attend the Indiana University International Alumni Event June 5-7, 2009.

From Seoul, they will fly to Beijing, P.R. China, to visit the law school’s partners at Renmin University, which hosts the Chinese Law Summer Program for Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. In addition, Dean Roberts has coordinated with graduates in Beijing to organize an alumni reception and dinner during the visit. Before returning to the U.S., the deans will visit Nanning, P.R. China, where Dean Roberts and Dean Nehf will give presentations to the Guangxi Bar Association.

05/28/2009

Faculty Connections to Judge Sotomayor Noted in New York Times

On May 27, 2009, Professor Gerard Magliocca’s op-ed article “Scenes From Judge Sotomayor’s Courtroom,” ran in the New York Times. Professor Magliocca has known Judge Sotomayor for 13 years after having worked as a summer intern for her in the federal district court in New York. Read the NYT article.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor On May 26, 2009, Dean Gary R. Roberts was quoted in the NYT in an article on the importance of Judge Sotomayor’s temporary injunction that helped lead to the end of the baseball strike in 1995. Dean Roberts says in the article that Sotomayor made the “‘right decision from a legal and tactical standpoint,’ and one of the most important ones in baseball history, short of the Supreme Court’s antitrust rulings.” Read the article entitled “Sotomayor’s Baseball Ruling Lingers, 14 Years Later” (by Richard Sandomir).

05/26/2009

President Obama Announces Judge Sotomayor as His Choice for the Supreme Court

Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the law school in 2003 On Tuesday, May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his choice of federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as nominee to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. Judge Sotomayor spoke at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis on March 21, 2003 (see photo) at the Pro Bono Program’s "Decade of Giving" Celebration. She spoke about the importance of attorneys giving back to the community through pro bono projects and suggested that there are opportunities for pro bono work in every area of legal practice.

Commenting on Sotomayor’s nomination to the nation’s highest court, Professor María Pabón López said, “This is an exciting day--one for which the Latino community in the U.S had been eagerly awaiting. President Obama is to be commended for his choice. As a fellow Puerto Rican and Princeton graduate, the nomination of Judge Sotomayor has special significance for me. I know her path has not been an easy one, overcoming obstacles and breaking barriers all the way, yet she is an accomplished jurist who makes the rule of law, fairness and justice her top priorities. As the only Latino law professor at my school and the first Latino tenured here as well, Judge Sotomayor’s nomination gives me hope that the Supreme Court will have a member who understands the struggles of those of us who work in systems where we have been and continue to be underrepresented.”

Professor López notes the following notable qualities about Judge Sotomayor:

1. Judge Sotomayor’s incredible American story and three decade distinguished career in nearly every aspect of the law provide her with unique qualifications to be the next Supreme Court justice.

2. As a prosecutor, litigator, and trial and appellate judge, Judge Sotomayor brings more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed for the Court in the past 70 years.

3. Judge Sotomayor is widely admired as a judge with a sophisticated grasp of legal doctrine and a keen awareness of the law’s impact on everyday life. She understands that upholding the rule of law means going beyond legal theory to ensure consistent, fair, common-sense application of the law to real-world facts.

SPANISH TRANSLATION of Professor López’s comments:
Comentarios de la Profesora María Pabón López sobre el nombramiento de la Juez Sonia Sotomayor

Este es un día emocionante, el cual esperaba con anhelo por mucho tiempo la comunidad Latina. Hay que felicitar al Presidente Obama por su selección. Como soy también puertorriqueña y graduada de la Universidad de Princeton, como la juez Sotomayor, su nombramiento tiene un significado especial para mí. Se que su camino no ha sido fácil, ella ha superado obstáculos y roto barreras pero aún así es una juez excelente, quien hace que el derecho y la justicia sean sus mayores prioridades. Como soy la única profesora Latina en mi facultad y la primera con permanencia, el nombramiento de la Juez Sotomayor me da la esperanza de que el Tribunal Supremo tendrá un miembro que entiende las luchas de los que trabajamos en sistemas donde los Latinos carecen y han carecido de representación. Los siguientes puntos, que se encuentran en circulación, son notables en cuanto a ella:

Ju La juez Sotomayor tiene una historia personal increíble y una carrera distinguida durante tres décadas laborando en casi todos los aspectos del derecho. Esto le da cualidades únicas para ser la próxima juez del Tribunal Supremo.

2. Como fiscal, abogada litigante, y juez de tribunales de instancia y apelativo, la juez Sotomayor trae más experiencia federal jurídica al Tribunal Supremo que ningún otro juez del Supremo en los últimos 100 años, and más experiencia jurídica que cualquier otra persona confirmada para el Tribunal en los últimos 70 años.

3. La Juez Sotomayor goza de amplia admiración de ser una juez que tiene una apreciación sofisticada de la doctrina legal y un conocimiento afilado sobre las realidades de cómo las leyes afectan la vida cotidiana. Ella entiende que el mantener el estado del derecho consiste de ir mas allá de la teoría legal y que hay que asegurarse de que la ley se aplique consistentemente y justamente a los hechos de la vida real

05/18/2009

Heather A. McCabe co-authors issue brief on the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment

Heather A. McCabe Heather McCabe, '03, Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, collaborated with the IU Center for Health Policy to produce an Issue Brief entitled New ADA Amendment Benefits People with Disabilities and Businesses. This brief outlines the original ADA, discusses some of the important court decisions interpreting it, and then discusses the anticipated impact of the ADAA on both individuals and businesses. Click here to read the issue brief in full.

05/18/2009

Hall Center for Law and Health Collaborates on Public Health

The Hall Center for Law and Health, as part of its work on Health Reform, collaborated with State of Indiana the Center for Health Policy to release an Issue Brief entitled Public Health Programs Key to Healthy Population, Lower Healthcare Costs. Indiana ranks 34th in the nation in Public Health Indicators and 50th in per capita Public Health expenditures.

Read the issue brief in full

05/13/2009

Presentations from the Nanotechnology Conference Now Available

On April 15, 2009 the Hall Center for Law and Health co-convened a well-attended symposium on the emerging field of nanotechnology entitled Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medical Nanotechnology: Defining the Issues. Featured speakers from IU Law – Indy included Professors Eleanor Kinney, David Orentlicher, and Emily Morris. Visiting Professor Ralph Hall and other experts in the life sciences also spoke.

Click on a link below to view/download any presentation:

	"Legal Issues In Nanotechnology: New Sizes – New Issues," Ralph Hall
	"Possible Intellectual Property Law Issues in Nanotechnology," Emily Michiko Morris
	"Medical Nanotechnology: The Ethical Concerns," David Orentlicher
	"Thoughts on the Commercialization Process," Kyle Salyers
	"Nanotechnology – Science, Medical Applications, and IUPUI Resources," Kody Varahramyan

04/30/2009

IU Law - Indianapolis has Two Top 10 Programs

Top Ten Graphic In 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranked two programs at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis in the top 10 in their national ranking of top law schools. Faculty who teach in the fields of health law and legal writing ranked the Hall Center for Law and Health as 10th and the school’s legal writing program (Legal Analysis Research and Communication or LARC) as 8th. Additionally, the school was also in the Top 10 of public law schools offering a part-time program, ranking 7th.

Professors Eleanor DeArman Kinney (J.D., M.P.H.) and David Orentlicher (J.D., M.D.) co-direct the school’s Hall Center for Law and Health, which provides a legal perspective to the life sciences. The center also is a part of the Consortium for Health Law, Policy, and Bioethics, in collaboration with the IU School of Medicine’s Center for Bioethics and the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

The law school’s LARC program has a core of required courses focusing on research and predictive analysis and communication, persuasive writing, giving oral arguments to a court, and drafting. Many of the seven full-time law professors teaching in the legal writing program are actively involved in the legal community, both nationally and internationally. In 2008, the IU School of Law – Indianapolis hosted the 13th national biennial conference of the Legal Writing Institute, bringing more than 600 legal writing faculty members from 13 countries to Inlow Hall.

04/23/2009

Jimmie 'Tic Tac' McMillian '02 Receives 'Up and Coming' Award from CLD

Jimmie "Tic Tac" McMillian, '02 received the "Up & Coming" Award from the Center for Leadership Development during the organization’s 29th Annual Minority Business & Professional Achievers Recognition Dinner on March 23. The “Up & Coming” award category recognizes “talented individuals with promising futures of achievement who are 35 years of age or less.” Mr. McMillian is an associate in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis office and a member of the Litigation Department.

Mr. McMillian received his B.A. in political science in 1998 from Indiana University–Bloomington, and his J.D. in 2002 from the Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis. As a law student, Mr. McMillian served as a barrister on the Moot Court Team and was a member of the Trial Advocacy Team. He was awarded the 2001 F. Emerson Boyd Trial Advocacy Scholarship, the 2001-2002 Student Bar Association Student Speaker Award, and the 2002 John Morton Finney Award for Promoting Diversity. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis Alumni Association and serves as the Vice-President of the Neal Marshall Alumni Association. From 2002 to 2004, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., of the Indiana Supreme Court.

Mr. McMillian is a member of the Indiana Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association (IBA), and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. He serves as an instructor for the IBA Bar Review Course and has taught Criminal Law and the Multistate Performance Test to aspiring attorneys. A Lifetime Member of the Marion County Bar Association, he has served as the organization’s President. In 2007, National Bar Association President Vanita Banks appointed Mr. McMillian to be her Deputy Chief of Staff. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Reach for Youth, Inc. and participates in their Teen Court Program, a juvenile diversion program for first-time offenders. In 2005, he received Barnes & Thornburg’s Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award and the Honorable Carr L. Darden Leadership Award. In 2006, he was recognized by The Indiana Lawyer as one of 10 “Up and Coming Lawyers” and received the publication’s Leadership in Law Award.

In 2007, Mr. McMillian received the Indianapolis Urban League’s NEXT Award, was honored with the Mayor’s Community Service Award from former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, and graduated from the IBA’s Bar Leader Series. In 2008, he was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” list and was included in the Fifth Edition of Who’s Who in Black Indianapolis. Mr. McMillian was also accepted into the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series Class XXXIII, named the recipient of the United Way Minority Volunteer Recognition Award, and awarded the Indiana University Charlie Nelms Alumni Award for his commitment to diversity and advocacy on behalf of the disenfranchised.
In addition to fulfilling responsibilities for a variety of clients at Barnes & Thornburg, Mr. McMillian has remained active in serving youth in the community. In 2006, he was invited to serve as a member of Mayor Peterson and City County Councilman Monroe Gray’s Blue Ribbon Community Crime Prevention Task Force, and Co-Chaired the Youth Engagement Committee. As Co-Chair, Mr. McMillian assisted in drafting a committee report that suggested methods for deterring and preventing youth from committing violent crimes. Mr. McMillian currently serves as the Chairman of the Marion County Public Defender’s Agency Board of Directors.

Since 2004, Mr. McMillian has been a featured speaker and annual participant with the 100 Black Men/Jack and Jill Beautillion Millitaire Program, where he has addressed issues such as domestic violence, date rape and drunk driving. During the interactive presentations, he has encouraged over 400 young African-American males to make the right decisions.
Since 2005, Mr. McMillian has been a featured speaker and annual participant with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s O.K. Program at Arlington High School. His inspirational lectures have captured the attention of the at-risk African American males who participate in the program and inspired them to improve their lives.

In 2005, Mr. McMillian developed the MCBA’s College Application Drive Program, which provides one-on-one assistance for any high school student attempting to complete an application for college. In 2005 and 2006, the program was held at Arsenal Tech High School. Mr. McMillian speaks to junior and senior students, solicits participation in the program, and solicits volunteers from the community to participate as mentors.

He is admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Mr. McMillian is also a certified civil mediator in the state of Indiana.

04/23/2009

Pistole '81 and Rivera Morales '04 to Receive Awards at Evening of Celebration on May 8

The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and its alumni association are proud to announce that John S. Pistole, ’81 and Ruth M. Rivera Morales, ’04 will be the 2009 alumni award recipients at the annual Evening of Celebration on May 8, 2009 at Inlow Hall. All alumni are invited to attend the festivities, which will include two one hour CLE presentations (including one hour of Ethics Credit, pending approval), a cocktail reception to welcome the graduating class into the alumni family, presentations of the alumni awards, and reunion dinners for the classes of 1959, 1974, 1984, 1994, and 2004.

John S. Pistole will receive the Distinguished Alumni Service Award. As the Deputy Dirctor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2004, he is the highest ranked official in that agency not appointed by the President.

He began his career as a Special Agent with the FBI in 1983. He served in the Minneapolis and New York Divisions before being promoted to a Supervisor in the Organized Crime (OC) Section at FBIHQ. He assisted the Italian National Police in their investigations into the 1992 assassinations of two prominent Magistrates. He also served as an Instructor in OC matters at the FBI Academy for nearly 30 New Agents Classes.

Mr. Pistole later served as a field supervisor of a White-Collar Crime (WCC) and Civil Rights Squad in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he created a Health Care Fraud Task Force and a Public Corruption Task Force. During this time, he also developed curricula and provided instruction at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

Mr. Pistole next served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Boston, Massachusetts, where he had oversight for WCC, Computer Intrusion Programs, and all FBI matters in the States of Maine and New Hampshire and WCC, especially Public Corruption, in Rhode Island. In 1999, he helped lead the investigative and recovery efforts for the Egypt Air Flight 990 crash off the coast of Rhode Island. Following the espionage arrest of Robert Hanssen, he was detailed to FBIHQ and helped lead the Information Security Working Group, addressing security and vulnerability issues. In 2001, he was named an Inspector in the Inspection Division in Washington, D.C., where he led teams conducting evaluations and audits of FBI field offices and Headquarters divisions.

Following the events of 9/11, Director Mueller appointed Mr. Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, first as Deputy Assistant Director for Operations, then as Assistant Director. Mr. Pistole was then appointed as the Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. In October, 2004, Mr. Pistole was promoted to Deputy Director, the number two position in the FBI. He is a recipient of the 2005 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executive. In 2007, Mr. Pistole received the Edward H. Levy Award for Outstanding Professionalism and Exemplary Integrity.

Ruth M. Rivera Morales will receive the Early Career Achievement Award. Ms. Rivera Morales received her J.D. degree in 2004 and is currently an associate at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun in Indianapolis. While a law student, she was a fellow of the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity (ICLEO), and president of the Hispanic Law Students Association (HLSA). She was chosen for the Early Career Achievement Award due to her enthusiastic participation in a wide variety of community-based legal initiatives. She is currently an active member of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Diversity Task Force, a board member of the Hispanic Business Council, Chairperson of the Indiana State Bar Association’s Latino Affairs Committee. She has also led initiatives such as the compilation of first ever directory of Spanish speaking attorneys in Indiana, increased Latino lawyer participation in various community outreach and networking events and the presentation of CLE programs of interest to attorneys serving the Latino and other communities. She has also given generously of her time and talents to assist the law school and the IUPUI campus with recruitment.

In May, 2008 she was chosen as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” by the Indiana Lawyer for her contributions to the legal profession and her work in the Latino community.

In addition to her law degree, Ms. Rivera Morales holds an M.B.A. degree from Indiana Wesleyan University (2000) and a B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (1984).

For information on attending any of the Evening of Celebration events, including the Award Ceremonies, please visit the IUAA web site: alumni.iupui.edu/law09 or call 317-274-2289.

04/14/2009

Case Argued by Appellate Clinic Law Student Reversed by Indiana Supreme Court

On April 8, 2009, the Indiana Supreme Court reversed a conviction for resisting law enforcement in Jeffrey Graham v. State, a case argued before the court in December of last year by Jonathan Bont (3L). Bont ’s argument was part of his Appellate Clinic experience overseen by the clinic's founding Professor, Joel Schumm , '98. Mr. Graham was convicted of resisting law enforcement for not giving his hands to police officers who sought to handcuff him. The argument focused on the requirement of "forcibly" resisting. The court reiterated that “force” is required, and “refusing to present one’s arms for cuffing” was not sufficient. A webcast of the December argument and the text of the ruling are both available on the court's web site.

Jonathan Bont and Professor Joel Schumm arguing before the Indiana Supreme Court Stacy Uliana, ’97, an attorney at the Indiana Public Defender Council reacted to the oral argument that took place on December 11, 2008, saying, “Jon did an excellent job. He was just as articulate as the lawyers who appear before the court on a regular basis.”
Professor Schumm was also pleased. “The argument went very well,” said Professor Schumm. “Jon demonstrated his complete mastery of the record, case law, and policy concerns in addressing the Justices’ questions with the poise and clarity of a seasoned appellate advocate.” Schumm added, “ Jon’s hard work paid off in this win for our client and hopefully clarity of the legal standard in future cases.”

Bont, who is a member of the Order of Barristers and the Indiana Law Review, says that his experience arguing before the court was definitely the most memorable of his law school career and he recommends the experience to other students. After graduation in May 2009, Bont will clerk for Judge Larry J. McKinney, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Bont says the Appellate Clinic experience was "a terrific opportunity to develop legal research, analysis and advocacy skills in a venue that can have a lasting impact on Indiana law."

04/14/2009

Center for Law and Health Bids Farewell to Faculty Fellow from Turkey

The Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis recently bid farewell to Professor Halit Yilmaz from the law faculty at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. Professor Yilmaz was a visiting fellow at the Hall Center during the 2008-09 academic year.

Visiting Professor Halit Yilmaz His main areas of interest were administrative law, mass communication law, urban planning and general theory of law. Professor Yilmaz worked on articles on the international human right to health and the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.

Eleanor DeArman Kinney, the Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman Professor of Law and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, says, “Professor Yilmaz expanded the international scope of the Hall Center for Law and Health. His interests in pharmaceutical regulation and the international human right to health matched those of our own and we hope to work with Professor Yilmaz in the future. It was a pleasure to have him among us and we look forward to his work.”

Professor Yilmaz said, "The topic of health care in Turkey, with relation to a right to health and from an administrative law perspective, requires immediate attention of scholars and thorough study, particularly because of the ongoing transformation of the health care system…There is an urgent need for studies of the topic in details and different dimensions. I believe that linking the general principles of administration and regulation with the requisites of protecting the right to health is of particular importance. Studying the general principles of the right to health, and the comparable experiences under other modern legal systems has been essential for my book project."

04/13/2009

Professor Emmert Speaks on Antitrust Issues in Emerging Markets at ABA Meeting in Washington, D.C.

On Friday March 27, 2009, Professor Frank Emmert gave a lecture entitled "Reflections on How To and How Not To Establish Antitrust Oversight in Emerging Markets and Transitional Economies" at the Spring Antitrust Meeting of the American Bar Association (ABA) in Washington D.C.

Professor Frank Emmert Emmert is the John S. Grimes Professor of Law, as well as the Director of the law school's Center for International and Comparative Law. He joined the law school faculty in the summer of 2003. He is the founder and managing editor of the European Journal of Law Reform (since 1997). Before his appointment at IU he was a visiting professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has also served as Dean of Concordia International University Estonia School of Law, Executive Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Lecturer in European and International Law at the European institute of Basle University. He has taught courses at the Universities of Strasbourg (France), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana and Maribor (Slovenia), Prague (Czech Republic), St. Gall (Switzerland), the College of Europe (Poland), as well as Stanford Law School and Rutgers University School of Law.

Since the summer of 2007, Professor Emmert has served as the director and principal investigator of a multi-million dollar grant-funded project the law school is implementing in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of Alexandria University, Egypt and the Faculty of Law of Cairo University, Egypt.

Professor Emmert is fluent in German and English, conversant in French and Italian, and speaks some Spanish and Estonian. He has advised various governments and multinational enterprises, and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars in Europe and the US. His publications include more than 10 books and 40 articles in the areas of European Union, international and comparative law.

04/06/2009

Indiana Senate to Honor John Okeson ‘89 on April 7

Friends and colleagues will gather for a resolution in memory of H. John John Okeson, '89 Okeson, ’89, on April 7, 2009 in the Senate Chambers, to be read at 1:30 p.m. April 1, 2008. A Fort Wayne native, he served as Governor Mitch Daniels’ senior legislative counsel for over two years. He was an attorney with Baker & Daniels at the time of his death.

04/01/2009

Professor George E. Edwards Receives PEAR Award from IUPUI

Professor George E. Edwards was recently chosen as a recipient of IUPUI’s Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR) after he received the National Bar Association (NBA)’s Ronald Harmon Brown Award of International Distinction. The award was established in memory of the first African American to become the United States Secretary of Commerce, Ronald Harmon Brown (1941-1996).

Dr. Beverly Baker-Kelly, Judge/High Commissioner Navi Pillay, and Professor George E. Edwards Professor Edwards, the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and Director of the law school's Program in International Human Rights Law, was in Southeast Asia when the original Brown award was bestowed at the annual NBA meeting in August 2008. The following are excerpts from Prof. Edwards’ acceptance speech, delivered on his behalf: “I am proud that the NBA has permitted me to be a par t of its noble efforts to promote and protect international human rights, not only in the United States, but around the world…. We have made great strides towards ensuring human rights and the rule of law. But, much more needs to be done. Human rights protections begin with knowledge about what our rights are, who is responsible for ensuring our rights are not violated, what steps to take when our rights are violated, and how our human rights are to be enforced…. Knowledge is power. Power is meaningless, unless we take action.”

Professor Edwards was chosen in accordance with the NBA criteria, which specify that the Brown Award is given to a high profile lawyer or advocate with international distinction, in an area of international law, with outstanding domestic and international contributions, and with work that reflects or honors the contributions of United States Secretary Ronald Harmon Brown. Former recipients of the Ronald Harmon Brown Award for International Distinction have included Judge Navi Pillay (2003, currently the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Judge, International Criminal Court & Judge, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda); Dr. Penuell M. Maduna (2004, former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development for South Africa); U.S. Rep. John Conyers (MI) (2006, Congressman); Patricia Viseurs Sellers (2007, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia); Dr. Beverly Baker Kelly (2000, Deputy Registrar, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).

IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz will present Professor Edwards with the PEAR award at the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation on Friday, April 17, 2009.

Photo: Dr. Beverly Baker-Kelly (former Registrar of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2000 Brown Award Recipient); Judge/High Commissioner Navi Pillay (currently the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Judge, International Criminal Court & Judge, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2003 Brown Award Recipient); and Professor George E. Edwards, at the NBA meeting in New Orleans in 2003.

04/01/2009

Professor Orentlicher Speaks on Ethical Considerations and Stem Cells at Ballenger Lecture Series

Professor David Orentlicher spoke on March 25 in Flint, Michigan at a conference entitled “The Face of Our Future. Stem Cell Research: It’s Political Ramifications Ethics and Risks, Alternative Options & More.” The event was part of the Ballenger Eminent Persons Lecture Series at the Foundation for Mott Community College. Professor Orentlicher said, “The pursuit of all forms of stem cell research is not only the wisest approach for science. It also is the best approach for ethics.” His presentation was entitled “Stem Cells: Ethical Considerations.”

Professor Orentlicher is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and the Co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.

03/28/2009

Professor Edwards Spearheads NBA's Efforts to Encourage U.S. Participation in Combatting Global Racism

Professor George E. Edwards, as Chair of the Public International Law Section of the National Bar Association (NBA), was cosignatory on a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the United States to participate fully in the April 2009 UN Durban Review Conference in Geneva and its April preparatory meetings. Accompanying the letter was a Resolution adopted by the NBA Board of Governors calling for the U.S. to send a high level delegation to Geneva which would, among other things, demonstrate the U.S. committement to combatting global racism and racial discrimination. This letter was also copied to U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Susan E. Rice.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and Director of the Program in International Human Rights Law and a John S. Grimes fellow.

03/28/2009

Professor Florence Roisman to Speak at Human Rights Event at Columbia Law School

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman will speak at a conference entitled "Human Rights and State Law: New Strategies for Economic Justice Advocacy," sponosred by the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. On April 17 in New York City, Professor Roisman's panel entitled "Why Human Rights?" will explore reasons why social justice lawyers should consider using human rights standards to advocate for economic and social rights in state law. Panelists will address the relevance of human rights standards in interpreting state constitutional provisions and statutes and in developing state common law. The panel will also address the relationship between international and foreign law and state/municipal law and ways in which lawyers can incorporate human rights standards into their legal analysis by drawing on international and foreign law for interpretive purposes. Professor Roisman is the author of the article, "Using International and Foreign Human Rights Law in Public Interest Advocacy," 18 Indiana International and Comparative Law Review 1 (2008) .

03/20/2009

IU Law-Indianapolis Defenders Prove Chadian Women's Rights Violations to UN Experts

During Spring Break (March 16-20, 2009), shadow reporting students gave an oral intervention and a one-hour private briefing to the UN Human Rights Committee in New York about child marriages, female genital mutilation, violence against women, and women’s political marginalization occurring in Chad.

The J.D. and LL.M. students presented their key findings and recommendations contained in their 40-page shadow report to the Committee’s Chad Task Force members, who include Ms. Zonke Zanele Majodina (South Africa), Ms. Ruth Wedgwood (USA), and Mr. Abdelfattah Amor (Tunisia), along with staff members of the Committee secretariat and other Committee members. Titled Chad’s Breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Failure to Protect the Rights of Women and Girls, the students’ report includes two affidavits, including one made by Chadian Valery Nadjibe, a rights violations victim.

Now a Fulbright scholar, Mr. Nadjibe spoke to the Committee for about 30 minutes and gave his personal accounts of child marriages, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, dowry system, and women’s lack of access to political office. The Committee members asked Mr. Nadjibe numerous questions about various women’s human rights violations happening in Chad.

The students belonging to the law school’s International Human Rights Law Society also discussed their factual findings and recommendations stated in their report to the Committee for an additional 30 minutes. During their briefing, Wedgwood, a staunch women’s human rights advocate, requested the students to provide her and the Chad Task Force with factual information about Chadian refugees. The briefing was held at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Days earlier, on March 16, J.D. students Zoe Meier and Kristen Hunsberger orally intervened during the closed-door session of all members of the 18-member Committee held at the UN New York Headquarters. Accompanied by their fellow students, the duo briefly explained to the Committee how the Chadian government violated women’s rights guaranteed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Other nongovernmental organization representatives similarly intervened during the session for other countries that were up for review by the Committee, such as Australia. Rwanda, and Sweden.

The students who attended the Committee sessions include: Megan Alvarez, J.D., shadow report coordinator, International Human Rights Law Society, Matthew Trick, J.D., Bobby Lam, J.D., Zoe Meier, J.D., Kristen Nicole Hunsberger, J.D., Uchenna Christiana Mgboh, LL.M., Wele Elangwe, LL.M. Human Rights track, Kavinvadee Suppapongtevasakul, LL.M. Human Rights track, and Jhon Sanchez (LL.M., ’07, J.D., ’08).

The Committee monitors the Covenant’s implementation by states parties.

03/20/2009

Baker and Daniels' Public Interest Fellows Draw attention to Mortgage Foreclosures and Wrongful Convictions

Continuing its long-standing commitment to community service and providing access to justice, the law firm of Baker & Daniels sponsored two Public Interest Fellowships through the Clinical Programs of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. "Our goal was to provide law schools with another tool to promote advocacy on behalf of the public interest. Fellows will develop initiatives to engage students, attorneys, organizations, and the community in public interest law," said Carl Pebworth, litigation attorney and chair of Baker & Daniels' committee on pro bono and public interest.

The first two recipients of the Baker & Daniels’ Public Interest Fellowships are Laura Kight and Melinda Mains.

As a B & D Fellow, Laura Kight is coordinating partnerships with the Indiana Supreme Court , the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority, and Indiana Legal Services, Inc. in hosting the Indiana Mortgage Foreclosure Defense & Prevention Conference at Inlow Hall at IU School of Law-Indianapolis on April 3^rd. The conference will address the latest developments in the mortgage and foreclosure landscape and how to effectively address the problems facing many homeowners. K ight is a third year student working with Joanne Orr, Clinical Professor of Law, in planning the conference. Kight is completing an Advocacy Skills Concentration, with the capstone experience of representing low-income clients in the Civil Practice Clinic. She has served as the Director of Technology on the school’s Client Counseling Board, as a judicial intern for the Honorable Patricia Riley, ’74, Indiana Court of Appeals, and participated in the Moot Court and Client Counseling Competitions.

Expanding the scope of the Criminal Defense Clinic, B & D Fellow Melinda Mains is working alongside Fran Watson,’80, Clinical Professor of Law, to develop a Wrongful Convictions Clinic. The Wrongful Convictions Clinic’s advanced, active learning environment will allow students to develop and exercise skills needed to advocate for those wrongfully convicted. Through broad partnerships, the Wrongful Convictions Clinic will identify the systemic failings that lead to wrongful convictions. Mains is a first year evening student. She is president of the Mains Group, an Indianapolis-based public relations and marketing company.

To learn more about these programs or the Baker & Daniels Public Interest Fellows, contact the Law School Clinic at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis at (317) 274-1911.

03/18/2009

Professor Bravo Presents Money Laundering and Human Trafficking Research at the 103rd ASIL Annual Meeting

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has invited Professor Karen E. Bravo to participate in its 103^rd Annual Meeting. ASIL is the premier U.S. international law organization. Professor Bravo will present a poster of her research entitled “Follow the Money? Does the International Fight Against Money Laundering Provide a Model for International Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts?” She joins an international and multidisciplinary group of academics in introducing poster sessions to the ASIL. The event will take place in Washington, D.C. on March 25-28.

03/09/2009

Professor Kinney Speaks at Saint Louis University on the Implications of Health Reform

Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney was a distinguished speaker at the Saint Louis University School of Law's Center for Health Law Studies on February 17, 2009. She spoke on "A Fresh and Needed Look at the Content of Health Benefits and Coverage: Implications for Health Reform."

Professor Eleanor Kinney Professor Kinney is one of the nation's leading experts on health law. After earning her master's degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining Indiana University in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association. Kinney is a published author and lecturer on America's health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor and issues in administrative law. She recently published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University Press, 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals (ABA Publishing, 2002). Kinney was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, President Clinton's TAsk Force for Health Care Reform and the Indiana Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor. She has been appointed by the governor of Indiana to the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health. She currently serves as chair of the Patient Safety Subcommittee of the Indiana Commission on Excellence in Health Care.

03/09/2009

Professor Kinney Visits Taiwan to Promote 'Human Right to Health'

Professor Eleanor Kinney (center) with colleagues in Taiwan

In December 2008, Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney and her husband Dr. Charles Clark were guests of the Ministry of Health for the Republic of China in Taiwan. Their host was Dr. Chen-ming Yang, ‘96. Dr. Yang is the Director General for International Health for the Ministry of Health in Taiwan. Professor Kinney and Dr. Clark were also guests of the Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan.

Professor Kinney visited the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy at the law school at the National University of Taiwan. The IU School of Law – Indianapolis has a collaborative agreement with the Taiwanese law school. Professor Kinney plans to publish an article on realizing the international human right to health through the World Trade Organization in the law school’s new journal, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy. National University of Taiwan, Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law & Policy web site.

While in Taiwan, Professor Kinney also gave a speech on “The Realization of the Human Right to Health in an Economically Integrated World” at the Institute of Health and Welfare Policy of the National Yang Ming University in Taipei. Photos from the visit: See http://picasaweb.google.com/CMCEKC/Taiwan2008#

Professor Kinney and Dr. Clark visited government agencies, hospitals and universities in Taiwan, where they visited the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Buddhist organization that provides humanitarian relief and other services throughout the world.

Professor Kinney says, “One of the most interesting visits was to the Bureau of National Health Insurance. We learned about Taiwan’s very unique and innovative health insurance program that provides universal and almost free health coverage to the population of Taiwan.”

Photo: Professor Kinney visited the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy at the law school at the National University of Taiwan.(left to right)
Mr. Chin-Chia Tien( LL.M. Candidate, National Taiwan University College of Law), Ms. Tsung-Ling Lee, Mr. Hsien Wu, Mr. Mark Shope, Professor Chang-fa Lo(Professor of National Taiwan University), Professor Eleanor D. Kinney (IU School of Law – Indianapolis), Professor Tsai-yu Lin(Professor of Soochow University), Professor Pei-kan Yang(Professor of Feng Chia University), Mr. Gaoqiao( LL.M. Candidate, National Taiwan University College of Law), Dr. Chuan-feng Wu(Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica), Wei- hsiang Wang(Foundation of Medical Profeeionals Alliance in Taiwan).

02/26/2009

Indiana Supreme Court Hires Rath, '06 as Director of Appellate Court Technology

The Indiana Supreme Court has named Robert Rath, '06 as the first-ever Director of Appellate Court Technology. Rath is uniquely qualified for the position with extensive information technology experience, a law degree, and bilingual skills. Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard recently named Rath to the position and said, “Having Robert join our Court family allows us to gain an experienced manager with an incredibly diverse background.”

Robert Rath, Class of 2006 As Director of Appellate Court Technology, Rath will play a crucial role in developing a stronger vision for how the Court utilizes technology. Rath will review Court processes and identify how changing technology may improve Court functions and services. “Technology can play a critical role in enhancing business performance. Whether a project aims to improve productivity or to enable new business processes, it is very important to have an understanding of what that business is trying to accomplish. As an attorney, I have a profound appreciation for the Court’s mission. Our team’s charter goes far beyond electronic filing or on-line collaboration —it is about our system of justice. I look forward to playing a role in improving Indiana appellate court technology.” The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) recommended Indiana hire an Appellate Court IT Director. A consultant from the NCSC helped evaluate candidates for the position. The Supreme Court also formed a selection committee made up of Directors from the Division of State Court Administration, Court of Appeals, Indiana Judicial Center, and Clerk of the Appellate Courts. The decision to hire Rath allows Indiana to dedicate one person to developing a strategy for technology improvements. Rath comes to the Supreme Court from private practice. Prior to having his own law office and consulting practice, Rath served as an information technology manager for Thomson, Inc., and Sara Lee Corporation. Fluent in Spanish, Rath enjoyed the opportunity to be immersed in another culture and spent a number of years working in Mexico. A 2006 graduate of the law school, Rath earned his business degrees from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and Indiana Wesleyan University. He currently lives in the Indianapolis area with his wife and three children.

02/18/2009

Professor Orentlicher to Present at Conference on Organ Donation Issues

Professor David Orentlicher, an expert in bioethics issues from Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion to explore competing views regarding the place of law, economics, and ethics in organ transplantation. The discussion was part of a conference on Organ Allocation: Donation, Sales, and Illegal Trafficking on Friday, February 13 at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. The event was intended to foster discussion and highlight the debate surrounding organ allocation in the international community. The keynote address was be delivered by Dr. Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.

02/13/2009

Professor Jennifer Drobac Appears on PBS to Discuss Teen Sexual Harassment Issues

Professor Jennifer Drobac Jennifer A. Drobac , Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law- Indianapolis and an expert in family, juvenile and sexual harassment law, was featured on the Friday, February 20 episode of NOW on PBS on the subject of teen sexual harassment in the workplace.

NOW on PBS: A shocking statistic - teenagers are in more danger from sexual predators at their part time jobs than through the Internet. It's a vastly underreported phenomenon, but some brave young women are stepping up publicly to tell their stories. On Friday, February 20 (check local listings), NOW collaborates with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University to bring an unprecedented broadcast investigation of teen sexual harassment in the workplace. In the program, NOWPBS abused teenagers from San Diego and the state of Washington share their own stories with Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa. We track their legal journeys to justice, and how the issue impacts teenagers across the country -- many of whom don't know how to report workplace abuse, or even recognize when their bosses cross the line. "Only when adults realize the extent and serious nature of this problem concerning the sexual harassment of teenaged workers can we protect them and help them protect themselves from sexual predators in the workplace," said Professor Drobac. "I applaud PBS and E.J. Graff at Brandeis University for bringing light to this dark corner. Through education and legal intervention, we can do so much more to eradicate this appalling abuse and blatant discrimination."

This show is viewable in its entirety for free on the NOW on PBS website starting Monday, February 23 at http://www.pbs.org/now/

About Professor Drobac: Jennifer Drobac joined the law school faculty in the fall of 2001. From 1992 to 2001, she practiced law in California, focusing on employment law issues and litigation, and from 1997 to 2000, she served as a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Her scholarly work has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals. In 2005, she finished her first textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Theory. Additionally, Professor Drobac serves on the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Board of Trustees. She was named a John S. Grimes Fellow in 2006-07 and a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in 2005-2006. Professor Drobac also received the 2005 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award.

02/12/2009

Professor López Elected to Secretary of Board of Law Examiners

Professor María Pabón Lóp Photo of Maria Lopez ez was elected as Secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Board of Law Examiners in January. Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard originally named Professor López to the State Board of Law Examiners effective December 1, 2007. The Board "is responsible for the admission of attorneys, the certification of legal interns and the formation and renewal of professional corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships for the legal profession" in Indiana. She is the only academic in the 10 member board. See http://www.in.gov/judiciary/committees/ble.html for more information about the board.

02/11/2009

IU Law – Indianapolis Professors Make Their Mark at the Annual AALS Meeting

When law professors from all over the country met in sunny Southern California in early January of this year for the Annual AALS meeting, several scholars from IU Law – Indianapolis presented papers and were elected to leadership positions in their sections.

Professor Lloyd T. (Tom) Wilson, Jr. was elected chair of the 101-member Section on Real Estate Transactions. As Chair one of his responsibilities is to organize the Section’s panel presentations and other activities for the 2010 annual meeting.

Andrew R. Klein, Paul E. Beam Professor of Law, was elected to the executive board of AALS’ Section on Torts & Compensation Systems.

Professor Jennifer Drobac presented her paper “’Minding’ the Sexual Harassment of Adolescent Workers” at the “Children, Sex, and the Law” session.

Frank Emmert, the John S. Grimes Professor of Law, spoke about the development of international alumni networks by medium sized law schools / LL.M. programs in the session organized by the Section on Post-graduate Legal Education, co-sponsored by the Sections on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers and Institutional Advancement entitled "After the LL.M. - Career Options, Building Alumni Networks and Development Strategies.” He also spoke about his experience with the law school’s LL.M. program in Egypt in the session organized by the Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers entitled "The Changing Role of U.S. Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers." Furthermore, in the session organized by the Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation entitled "Emerging Antitrust Regimes - Challenges and Approaches" Professor Emmert spoke about the introduction of antitrust or competition law in transitional economies in Central and Eastern Europe and lessons learned that could be beneficially applied in other parts of the world.

Eleanor DeArman Kinney, the Hall Render Killian Heath and Lyman Professor of Law
was on the Panel for the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care. The panel was entitled “Comparative Health Law: What Can the U.S. Learn from Other Countries?” Her talk was entitled: “Realization of the Human Right to Health in an Economically Integrated North America.”

Professor María Pabón López presented a paper entitled “Grooming, Mentoring and Decision Making: Critical Times f María Pabón Lópezor Persons of Color in the Legal Academy” given at the “Hiring, Retaining and Promoting Law Professors of Color” panel sponsored by the Section of Minority Groups.

Allison Martin, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, presented a work entitled “A Study of Hope, Optimism, Academic Performance, and Psychological Well-Being in Law School” as part of the Balance in Legal Education section.

David Orentlicher, the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, presented his talk, “Discrimination Out of Dismissiveness: The Example of Infertility” at the session of the Section on Disability Law.

01/26/2009

Professor James P. Nehf Becomes Associate Dean for Graduate Studies

Professor James P. Nehf became Associate Dean for Graduate Studies on January 9, 2009. He is now overseeing the law school's LL.M. (Master of Laws) program and S.J.D. degree. The LL.M. program is offered to qualified students in five areas of specialization: American Law for Foreign Lawyers (available only to students with law degrees from outside the United States); Health Law Policy and Bioethics; Intellectual Property Law; International and Comparative Law; and International Human Rights Law. The S.J.D. degree is the terminable degree in law and is available to scholars who desire to research and write a dissertation on a subject of particular interest and importance.

Professor Nehf has taught contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects since joining the faculty in 1989. He is an internationally recognized expert in consumer privacy law and serves as an executive board member of the International Association of Consumer Law, a society of consumer law academics and policy makers worldwide. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series. Professor Nehf was the inaugural director of the law school's European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as interim director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. His publications include an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts - Impossibility, and numerous articles on privacy law, consumer law, commercial transactions and international/comparative law subjects.

Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. In recent years, Professor Nehf has taught as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University and the University of Georgia.

01/14/2009

1986 Graduate Debra McVicker Lynch's Robing Ceremony on Friday

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch's investiture ceremony will take place at 3:00 pm on Friday, January 16 in Courtroom 216 in the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (46 E. Ohio Street), Indianapolis. A reception will follow outside the courtroom.

Photo of Debra McVicker Lynch Debra McVicker Lynch, ’86, was appointed to the position of United States Magistrate Judge after the position became available due to the elevation of William T. Lawrence, ‘73 to the position of federal district judge.

Prior to her appointment, Lynch was of counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP (formerly Sommer Barnard) where she worked for more than 20 years. Her practice included litigation of contract disputes, business dissolutions, antitrust matters, securities fraud cases, professional malpractice actions, and non-competition and trade secret matters. Lynch served as a law clerk to the Hon. Sarah Evans Barker from 1986 - 1988.

Lynch has also been an adjunct professor at the law school, teaching the Complex Litigation course. She served as Special Master for Judge Sarah Evans Barker in the Bridgestone/Firestone Tires Products Liability Multidistrict Litigation from 2000 to 2004. Lynch is a summa cum laude graduate of the law school, where she served as Editorin-Chief of the Indiana Law Review. United States Magistrate Judges are appointed by the Judges of the U.S. District Court for a term of eight years, and are eligible for reappointment to successive terms. A Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Committee chaired by retired Magistrate Judge V. Sue Shields reviewed more than 50 applications and recommended five candidates for the position. The district judges of the court then selected Ms. Lynch from among those five candidates.

01/05/2009

State Commerce Secretary Joins Baker and Daniels

Nathan Feltman, '94, Indiana Secretary of Commerce and Chief Executive Officer of the Photo of Nate Feltman Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), announced in late December that he will join Baker & Daniels LLP as a partner January 12, 2009. The Mishawaka, Ind. native will join the firm's business and corporate finance practice where he will work with privately held companies and help lead the firm's economic development, government relations and international initiatives.

"We couldn't be more pleased to have Nate join us after his successful stint with the IEDC. As Governor Mitch Daniels' point man on the state’s economic development efforts, he has been a driving force behind Indiana's economic successes over the past four years and has a deep understanding of the needs of businesses," said Tom Froehle, Chief Executive Partner of Baker & Daniels.

Prior to joining the IEDC in 2005 as executive vice president and general counsel, he served as a partner with Ice Miller in Indianapolis and Altheimer & Gray in Chicago where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions, including the representation of private equity funds and venture capital firms. Prior to his U.S. legal experience, Feltman spent nearly four years in Moscow, Russia with the international law firms of Baker & McKenzie and Steptoe & Johnson where he represented multi-national companies seeking to do business in Russia through trade relationships, licensing, franchising arrangements and capital investments.

"After four rewarding years working closely with Governor Daniels to strengthen Indiana's economy, I now look forward to assisting companies with their corporate and financing needs," said Feltman. "Amidst one of the most challenging economic times in recent history, companies across the state and around the world continue to seek out growth opportunities. The opportunity to join Baker & Daniels will allow me to utilize my business, finance and economic development experience to assist clients successfully navigate the current economic storm."

Feltman holds a B.S. in business and B.A. in political science from Indiana University. He is a 1994 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a master's degree in Russian Law (LL.M) from the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has served on the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Alumni Board since 2003 and was president of the group in 2007-2008.

12/22/2008

Alumni Krauss ’76 and Church ’70 Named to New AG Transition Team

Photo of Greg Zoeller Indiana Attorney General-Elect Greg Zoeller has named the transition team that is assisting him in reviewing the current operations of the Office, its structure and ways to provide greater service to the public and to the governmental entities the Attorney General represents.

“It’s an honor to serve as the State of Indiana’s Attorney General, and I appreciate the distinguished group of individuals who have agreed to work with me in developing and enhancing our current operations to build upon the service the people of this state have come to expect from the office," said Zoeller.

Two prominent alumni of the law school are working on the transition team. Doug Church, ’70 and John Krauss, ’76. Church is Immediate Past President of the Indiana State Bar Association and a senior partner at Church, Church, Hittle and Antrim. Krauss is the Director of the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, as well as the Indiana University Public Policy Institute and the IU Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Clinical Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs.

"This is an experienced and knowledgeable group that will help me focus on my commitment to serving the State of Indiana to the best of my ability by reaching out to those we serve during challenging times," added Zoeller.

Zoeller was selected in the November election to succeed Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. The Attorney General-Elect will officially take office Monday, January 12, 2009 following an 11: a.m. swearing-in ceremony in the Indiana Statehouse.

12/22/2008

Patrick Shoulders, ’78 Receives ISBA’s William G. Baker Award

Photo of Patrick Shoulders Patrick Shoulders, ‘78 was awarded the William G. Baker Award at this year’s “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution” competition in Indianapolis in December 2008. The award, presented by the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA), is given to an attorney or member of the ISBA who has shown outstanding dedication to citizenship education. Shoulders has been involved in “We the People” for more than 20 years in a variety of roles, serving as chairman of the Indiana State Bar Association’s Citizenship Education Committee and working with the state coordinator of the program to expand funding and recruit volunteers. In addition, Shoulders has judged the hearings at the district, state and even national levels and acted as the keynote speaker a number of times. Shoulders also has volunteered his time to work with the local schools to prepare them for the competition.

William G. Baker, ‘70 is a New Castle, IN attorney and one of the “founding fathers” of the program who has been instrumental in furthering the program’s goals.

Patrick Shoulders is a Trustee of Indiana University and a partner in the Evansville, Indiana firm of Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders, LLP where he concentrates his practice in litigation. H