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Professor Edwards Elected to AALS Positions and Named National Policy Fellow: Prof. George Edwards received national recognition as a Center for National Policy Fellow in International Human Rights. He was also elected to three graduate and international legal education positions of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). [more...]

Professor Antony PageProfessor Page Testifies in Support of Flexible Purpose Corporations: Prof. Antony Page testified before the Indiana Senate in favor of a bill introducing an organizational form for business entities that would like to pursue a social purpose in addition to making a profit. Senate Bill 62 was authored by law school alumnus Indiana State Senator Mike Delph, '10. [more...]

Professor Allison MartinProfessor Martin's Work on 'Hope Theory' Receives National Attention:  Professor Allison Martin's work examining the personality traits of law students as predictors of success was recently featured in The National Law Journal and other major publications. [more...]

Professor Nicolas TerryHall Center Welcomes Health Law Expert Nicolas Terry to the Faculty: Professor Nicolas Terry has been appointed the Hall Render Professor of Law and also will serve as the co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. [more...]

Dean Emeritus Norman LefsteinNew Book on Public Defense in Criminal Cases Offers ‘Clear Vision of a More Promising Future’: Professor and Dean Emeritus Norman Lefstein's latest book, Securing Reasonable Caseloads: Ethics and Law in Public Defense, seeks to reform a system that is vital to democracy.  [more...]

Professors Bravo and Magliocca Named Associate Deans:  Professor Karen E. Bravo is now the Associate Dean for International Affairs, and Professor Gerard N. Magliocca has become the Associate Dean for Research. [more...]

Professor Florence Wagman RoismanProfessor Roisman Speaks and Writes on Issues of Economic Social Justice: Professor Florence Wagman Roisman participated in a conference at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She also published an article in the Rutgers Law Review's Festschrift issue for Prof. John M. Payne.  The article was entitled “Thirteen Principles for Effective Advocacy.” [more...]

Professors Katz and Klein Provide Expert Analysis on Indiana State Fair Disaster Claims: 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. [more...]

Professor Cynthia Adams visiting Kenya Law SchoolProfessor Adams Advises Kenya Law School on Advocates Training:  While consulting with the Kenya Law School on enhancing its Advocates Training Programme, Professor Cynthia Adams made a presentation on clinical skills curriculum development. [more...]

Cover of LL.M. Roadmap bookProfessor Edwards’ LL.M. Roadmap Now Available in Print: Professor George Edwards has visited China, Paris, and Harvard to make presentations on the LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs which recently appeared in print. [more...]

Guests from Brazil visited the Federal Courthouse in IndianapolisProfessor Tom Wilson Leads Brazilian Program: The law school hosted a group of professors and students from the Faculdades Espirito Santenses Law School (FAESA) for the third year in a row. [more...]

Recent publications, presentations, and other professional activities

Cynthia M. Adams, Clinical Professor of Law
  • Presentation on clinical skills curriculum development at the Kenya Law School's Midterm Review, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2011.
  • Presented “Applying Creative, Critical Pedagogy in the Global Classroom," at the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, in Colorado, July 2011. The conference was sponsored by the Clinical Legal Education Association and the Legal Writing Institute.
  • Member of the American Association of Law School’s newly created Section on Transactional Law and Skills. Editor for that Section’s semi-annual newsletter.
  • Consultant to the Kenya Law School on clinical skills curriculum development in its Advocate Training Programme.

Shawn Boyne, Associate Professor of Law; Co-Chair, Global Crisis Leadership Forum; Dean's Fellow, Grimes Fellow, and DRIVE Fellow
  • "Is the Journey from the In-Box to the Out-Box a Straight Line? The Drive for Efficiency and the Prosecution of Low-Level Criminality in Germany," Book Chapter in The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2012. (Luna & Wade,eds.)
  • *"The Cultural Limits on Uniformity and Formalism in the German Penal Code," Crime, Law, and Social Change (forthcoming 2012). Draft available on SSRN.
  • "American Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism," Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Bloomington, IN. November 14, 2011.
  • "The Cultural Limits on Uniformity and Formalism in the German Penal Code," St. Louis University School of Law, November 2, 2011.
  • 2nd Counterterrorism Simulation and Workshop, IU School of Law-Indianapolis, October 27th-28th, 2011. Co-sponsored by the Indiana University School of Environmental and Public Affairs.

Karen E. Bravo, Professor of Law; John S. Grimes Fellow; Dean's Fellow; Associate Dean for International Affairs
  • *Transborder Labor Liberalization and Social Contracts in Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa (Toyin Falola and Bessie House-Soremekun, eds.) (2011)
  • The Role of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Discourse, 9 Seattle J. for Social Justice 555 (2011)

Kenneth D Chestek, Clinical Professor of Law
  • The National Health Care Reform Litigation: A Case Study of Story in Action (presentation to the Third Applied Legal Storytelling Conference held at the University of Denver--Sturm College of Law)

Eric R. Dannenmaier, Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow; Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program
  • The Role of Non-State Actors in Climate Compliance, in Jutta Brunnée, et al., eds., A COMPLIANCE SYSTEM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE REGIME (Cambridge University Press) (in press 2012)
  • Constructing Transnational Climate Regimes, in Gunther Handl and Joachim Zekoll, eds., BEYOND TERRITORIALITY: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL AUTHORITY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Brill Publishing) (in press 2012)
  • Energy Security as National Security: Why Energy Matters to Midwestern and Great Plains States, with David Craig, Gabriel Filippelli, Alfred Ho, and Carol Rogers, (Pew Charitable Trust Project on National Security, Energy and Climate) (in revision) (2012)

James D. Dimitri, Clinical Professor of Law
  • "Driven Away from Distraction: Teaching Students to Unplug (at Least Periodically) in the Digital Age,” presented at the Central States Legal Writing Conference at The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 2011.

Jennifer A. Drobac, Professor of Law
  • Consent, Teenagers, and (un)Civil(ized) Consequences [draft title], in CHILDREN, SEX AND THE LAW [draft title](Ellen Marrus, ed., NYU Press, under contract for publication in 2012)—chapter that highlights the inconsistent legal treatment of adolescent consent, to recommend law reform based on the science of juvenile development and socio-legal public policy.
  • Faith-based Employment Discrimination and the Law in RELIGION AND THE STATE [draft title] (Boris Bittker, Scott Idelman, and Frank Ravitch, eds.)—chapter which reviews employment antidiscrimination case and statutory law as it pertains to faith-based employment discrimination in a treatise concerning law, religion and the state.
  • WORLDLY BUT NOT YET WISE: THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF TEENAGERS, THEIR “DEVELOPING CAPACITY,” AND THE LAW’S RESPONSE [draft title] (University of Chicago Press, under contract for publication 2012)—book which explores why the scientific facts concerning adolescent neurological and psychosocial development are incongruent with sexual harassment law, designed to protect our teenagers from sexual predators at school, at work, and at play.
  • A Bee Line in the Wrong Direction: Science, Teenagers, and the Sting to "the Age of Consent" -- J. LAW & POLICY-- (accepted for publication 2012)—article which examines New York, California, and Illinois sexual harassment law and several cases to showcase the conflicts between criminal and civil treatment of adolescent consent to sexual activity with an adult. The article also proposes a new solution, legal assent.
  • Student Speech in the Wake of Morse v. Frederick, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina (July 25, 2011).

George E. Edwards, Carl M. Gray Professor of Law; Director, Program in International Human Rights Law; John S. Grimes Fellow
  • LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Degree Programs. (Aspen / Wolter Kluwer Business Law Publishing Co.) (www.LLMRoadmap.com) (www.aspenpublishers.com/Product.asp?catalog_name=Aspen&product_id=1454802391) (Aspen link for pre-orders of LL.M. Roadmap)

Carrie Hagan, Clinical Associate Professor
  • "Bridging the Disciplinary Gap: Increasing Holistic Context and Opportunity for Clinical Law Students through an Interdisciplinary Partnership between Law and Social Work," Co-Presenter, Transforming Legal Education – Australian National Conference on Clinical and Experiential Learning, Sydney, Australia, September 2011.
  • "Marginalizing Discrimination: How Social Justice, Advocacy and LGBT Awareness on a Clinical Level Can Make Equality More of a Reality," Presenter, 6th Global Alliance for Justice Education Worldwide Conference, Valencia, Spain, July 2011.

Robert A. Katz, Professor of Law
  • Discussant, Panel on "Social Entrepreneurship and the Law: The Role of Legal Policy in Promoting Social Change," as part of Randolph W. Thrower Symposium, hosted by the Emory Law Journal, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, February 9, 2012.

Gerard N. Magliocca, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research
  • "Constitutional Liability Rules," delivered at Northwestern University Law School in November 2011.
  • "The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan," presented at Boston College in October 2011.

Emily Morris, Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow
  • “Stanford v. Roche: Practical and Policy Implications,” presented at Intellectual Property at the U.S. Supreme Court: 2011 Indianapolis Bar Association CLE, August 30, 2011.

James P. Nehf, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Professor of Law; Cleon H. Foust Fellow; John S. Grimes Fellow
  • Authored books:
  • CORBIN ON CONTRACTS--IMPOSSIBILITY, vol. 14 (rev. 2001, Joseph Perillo, ed.)
  • OPEN BOOK--THE FAILED PROMISE OF INFORMATION PRIVACY IN AMERICA (forthcoming 2012)
  • Edited books:
  • THE FUTURE OF CONSUMER CREDIT REGULATION: CREATIVE APPROACHES TO EMERGING PROBLEMS (M. Kelly-Louw, J. Nehf, P. Rott, eds., 2008)
  • SECURED TRANSACTIONS UNDER THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (Lexis-Nexis/Matthew Bender, beginning 2012)
  • Guaranties in Secured Transactions, in SECURED TRANSACTIONS UNDER THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, ch. 8A (J. McDonnell, ed., 2011)(in press)
  • Book chapters:
  • Preventing Another Financial Crisis: The Critical Role of Consumer Protection Laws, in Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (2011)(in press)
  • "Consumer Law as a Bridge in a Global Legal System," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), Hilton Head, SC, July 2011

David Orentlicher, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law; Co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health
  • *Orentlicher, Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch (NYU Press, forthcoming 2013)
  • Orentlicher, "Constitutional Challenges to the Health Care Mandate: Based in Politics, Not Law," 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 19 (2011)
  • Orentlicher, "The Legislative Process Is Not Fit for the Abortion Debate," 41(4) Hastings Center Report 13 (2011).

Michael J. Pitts, Associate Professor of Law; John S. Grimes Fellow; Dean's Fellow
  • Opt-Out Voting, 39 Hofstra L. Rev. 897 (2011)
  • One Person, One Vote: Teaching “Sixth-Grade Arithmetic”, 56 St. Louis U. L. J. __ (2012)
  • Redistricting 101, 10 Election L. J. 483 (2011) (reviewing Charles Bullock III's "Redistricting")
  • Highlights of the 2010 Redistricting Cycle, University of Kentucky College of Law

Florence Wagman Roisman, William F. Harvey Professor of Law; 2011 Chancellor's Professor; 2011 John S. Grimes Fellow
  • The Property Course: A Manifestation of Systems of Domination, "ClassCrit IV," American Univ., Washingtion, DC, Sept. 24, 2011
  • Presentation of the David B. Bryson Award to George Gould, Housing Justice Network, Oct. 16, 2011

Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Associate Professor of Law; Dean's Fellow
  • Dr. King's Speech: Surveying the Landscape of Law and Justice in the Speeches, Sermons, and Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, 30 LAW & INEQ. ___ (2012)


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