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02/25/2013

Professor Emmert Makes Presentations in Italy, India

Professor Frank Emmert made a presentation on "An Economic Analysis of Islamic Law" at the conference "Crossroads East and West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions" at International University College of Turin in Italy on February 4, 2013. He taught a series of lectures on European integration at Symbiosis International University in Pune, India, February 17-21, 2013.

He also is again chairing an international expert commission for the accreditation or re-accreditation of several law programs in Lithuania this semester and traveled to Lithuania for site evaluations in late February 2013. In early April, Professor Emmert will co-chair a conference at American University Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in the context of the Soros Foundation Higher Education Support Program.

He will also travel to Chisinau, Moldova, for an evaluation of the new post-graduate program in international human rights law at Moldova State University, and he is planning to attend the 25th anniversary celebration of the European Law Moot Court at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on April 12, 2013. After having taught "WTO Law" in the law school's program in Cairo, Egypt in January, he will return there to teach "European Union Law - Doing Business in and with the Internal Market" in April and May.

Professor Emmert is the John S. Grimes Professor of Law. He teaches European union law, comparative law, international business transactions, international commercial arbitration, international trade law, legal systems in transition, world trade organization law.

02/25/2013

Professor Winters Presents at Food Law Colloquium

Professor Diana R. H. Winters took part in the 2013 Food Law Colloquium on February 23. Titled “Local Food|Global Food: Do We Have What It Takes to Reinvent the U.S. Food System?” the event was hosted by the Maine Law Review and the University of Maine School of Law.

The panel Professor Winters was part of was given the topic “Flaws in Federal Approaches to Food Regulations, and Proposed Fixes.” She was there to talk about “How Reliance on the Private Enforcement of Public Regulatory Programs Undermines Food Safety in the United States: The Case of Needled Meat.” Other subjects addressed during the event concerned the intersection of the food movement and the First Amendment, obesity prevention policies, food choice, sustainable food systems, food and climate, and future food policy.

Professor Winters joined the IU McKinney faculty in August 2012. She was a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law, where she also was the Health Law Scholar. Professor Winters teaches health law, torts, and FDA law.

02/25/2013

Graduate Studies Lecture Series Examines Rwandan Genocide

The genocide in Rwanda and that nation’s struggle to reconcile its citizens with one another was the topic of the fourth installment of the Graduate Studies Lecture Series.

Dr. McIntosh, Kizito Kalima, Professor Nehf

Dr. Ian McIntosh, Director of International Partnerships of the Office of International Affairs at IUPUI; and Kizito Kalima, survivor and co-founder of the Amahoro Project for Forgiveness and Reconciliation, delivered lectures on the subject in the Wynne Courtroom on February 5, 2013.

The genocide in Rwanda happened in 1994 when the rival ethnic Hutu and Tutsi peoples clashed for control of the government. Death toll estimates over the approximately 100 days of the genocide range from 500,000 to 1,000,000, as much as 20 percent of the population.

Dr. McIntosh talked about Rwandan efforts to create an ethnic free society, where the use of the names Hutu and Tutsi are curtailed, save for commemoration of the genocide. He outlined some of the stages of reconciliation the government has put in place for its people, in addition to the elimination of ethnic distinctions, including the granting of partial amnesty for crimes in exchange for the truth of what happened during the genocide, and the mandating of apologies on the part of the perpetrators of the crimes and the acceptance of those apologies by those harmed by crimes.

Kalima talked about how he survived the genocide, which began in April 1994 when he was a freshman in high school. He is Tutsi, and survived a blow to the head from a man wielding a machete. Kalima said he was determined from that point that if he had to die, it would be by a bullet. He ran from people with guns every time he was rounded up and while he was shot at, the bullets never hit him. He eventually hid in a banana plantation until peace was restored in July 1994.

Sports were a refuge for him, Kalima said, and he eventually found solace and stability at school in Uganda. He immigrated to the United States, and moved to Indianapolis for work in 2006. His mission is to help other young genocide survivors. He believes that the Rwandan plan for reconciliation “looks good on paper” but that “genuine reconciliation has to come from the heart.”

02/25/2013

MMK Honoree Seeks to Understand Bioethical Challenges through Theatre

A look at how issues of bioethics are dealt with through plays staged since the 1960s was the topic of the McDonald Merrill Ketcham (MMK) Lecture at the law school on February 7, 2013. This year’s MMK honoree was Karen H. Rothenberg, J.D., M.P.A., Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and founding Director of the Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. She served as that law school’s dean from 1999-2009.

Professors ORentlicher, Rothenbert, and Terry

The McDonald Merrill Ketcham Lecture and Award in Law and Medicine brings leading scholars and policy makers in the fields of law and medicine to the IUPUI campus for presentations at both the law and medical schools.

Following Rothenberg’s lecture, a panel discussion lead by Janet Allen, artistic director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, also examined the MMK lecture topic. Other panelists included Dr. Margaret Gaffney and Dr. Peter Schwartz, both of whom are faculty investigators at the IU Center for Bioethics, and Professor William Schneider, director of Medical Humanities at IUPUI.

02/25/2013

IU McKinney International Moot Court Teams Show Promise

IU McKinney School of Law has two internationally focused moot court teams, and both have hopes of expanding on their successes.

The Jessup Moot Court team finished in the top eight among 22 teams at regional competition in Chicago during the weekend of February 2 and 3, 2013. In the run up to the competition, the team faced a set of circumstances that would have knocked a lesser team out of making the trip to the competition in the first place, team members said.

Jessup Moot Court Team

One team member had to bow out at the last minute due to the flu, meaning the team that argued at competition was made up of only three members – the only three-member team in the competition. Despite the obstacles, they beat law school teams from the University of Michigan, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and IU Maurer. This year’s team is made up of 1L Paul Babcock, 2L Devin Hillsdon-Smith, 2L Keenan Wilson, and 2L Amanda Miller.

The Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world's largest moot court competition, with participants from over 550 law schools in more than 80 countries. The competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations.

IU McKinney has its first team for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, March 21-28, 2013. Team members are Hillsdon-Smith, 3L Mary Ladd, 3L Sam Kerkhoff, and 3L Mike Blackwell.

Vis Moot Court Team 2013

The goals of the Vis competition are to foster the study of international commercial and arbitration laws and encourage the resolution of business disputes by arbitration. The problem for the competition is always based on an international sales transaction subjected to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

02/25/2013

International and Comparative Law Review Boards Announced

The Indiana International & Comparative Law Review has announced its Volume 24 Executive and Editorial Board members. This group of students will lead the publication during the 2013-2014 academic year, formally taking the reins after commencement in May 2013.

Volume 24 Executive Board:

Editor-in-Chief: Sukrat Baber
Executive Managing Editor: Zachary Ahonen
Executive Articles Editor: Sean Denault
Executive Notes Editor: Sarah Harrell
Executive Symposium Editors: Emma Mahern (Live Symposium Coordinator); David Dickmeyer (Publication Editor)
Executive Notes Development Editor: Alyssa Taylor
Executive Articles Development Editor: Nicholas Johnston
Executive Production Editor: Tarah M.C. Baldwin

Volume 24 Editorial Board:

Jon Burns
Andrew Emhardt
Kyle Forgue
Katelyn Holub
Marianne Luu
Patrick Mcintyre
Keaton Miller
Lane Tuttle
Vanessa Woolsey
Graham Youngs

02/25/2013

SJD Candidate Published Article on Religious Constitutionalism in Egypt

Mohamed Abdelaal, an SJD candidate at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, recently, published an article about the phenomenon of religious constitutionalism and constitutional rhetoric in which he cites Egypt as an example. The article, titled “Religious Constitutionalism in Egypt: A Case Study,” appears in the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs , Vol. 37 (2013).

Abdelaal is a lecturer of constitutional and administrative law at the Alexandria University Faculty of Law.

02/25/2013

Professor Cynthia Adams' New Book to Be Released in March 2013

Drafting Contracts in Legal English

Lamenting the lack of a book for non-English speaking law students to assist with teaching contract drafting, Professor Cynthia Adams,’83, and her co-author, Professor Peter K. Cramer, decided to write one.

That book, Drafting Contracts in Legal English: Cross-Border Agreements Governed by U.S. Law, will be published in March 2013. Professor Adams is a clinical professor of law at IU McKinney who teaches contract drafting, legal analysis and communication, integrated contracts, civil procedure, trusts and estates, and legal process at the law school. Her co-author, Professor Cramer, is a non-native English speaker and a linguist. He also is assistant dean for graduate programs at Washington University in St. Louis.

“The language of business internationally increasingly is English,” Professor Adams says, “and knowledge of how to draft contracts in English is a skill that is highly in demand.” The first part of the new book details the pitfalls practitioners may fall into, while the second part of the book describes different kinds of provisions in contracts, with an international spin to them. Chapters outline preliminary drafting concerns, word choice and sentence structure, and the importance of clear and concise writing. The work also takes into account phrases that non-native English speakers may hear and not be familiar with and translates or explains as many of those as possible.

Professor Cramer, a native of Germany, has taught as an adjunct professor at IU McKinney’s program at the University of Cairo.

Professor Adams is known for her passion for teaching law students whose native language is not English. She most recently presented on the topics of drafting contracts for non-native English speakers, the methodology of clinical instruction, and academic writing strategies in Costa Rica, Kenya, and South Africa.

02/25/2013

Inter-country Human Rights Topic of International Student Speaker Event

Students from Australia, Brazil, and France talked about inter-country human rights during the February 21, 2013, installment of the International Student Speaker Series. The event was held in the law school’s Faculty Lounge.

LL.M. students Sarah Kathleen Dunkley of Australia and Gabriela Pereira Castilhos of Brazil, and Angelique Odette Devaux, LL.M. ’12, of France gave presentations on the topic.

The event is organized and sponsored by Associate Dean for International Affairs Professor Karen Bravo and the Master of Laws Association.

02/25/2013

IU McKinney Student Wins New International IP Writing Competition

Pervin Taleyarkhan, a 2013 J.D. candidate at IU McKinney, has won first prize and $500 in the inaugural Pondering Intellectual Property Competition, an international writing contest.

Taleyarkhan’s paper, titled “Intellectual Property: Protecting the Intellect or the Property,” was part of the competition sponsored by the National University of Juridical Sciences, the Intellectual Property and Technology Society, and Spicy IP.

The topic for the competition was "Should the process of creating an invention or work determine its protectability as an intellectual property?" In her paper, Taleyarkhan argued that the process involved in the creation or invention stages should not determine a particular invention or work's protectability. In doing so, she analogized IP to Warren Buffet's investment philosophy: "Price is what you pay, value is what you get," which stresses the crucial difference between price of company stocks and the company's ultimate value. The link with IP is that the "price paid" is the process of arriving at an innovation, while the Buffet concept of "value" is how much society values a particular innovation. Taleyarkhan points out that the two are wildly different and thus one should not depend on the other.

The competition was judged by experts from around the world, including: Professor David Vaver of Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Lionel Bently, director of the Centre for IP Law, University of Cambridge; Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center at the University of Oxford; Professor Shamnad Basheer, MHRD Chair Professor in IP law at the National University of Juridical Sciences, India; and Judge Randall R. Rader, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

“I was truly honored by this, mainly because it is a field in which I am gaining ever-increasing interest,” Taleyarkhan said of the win. “It was encouraging to hear that my work in IP law is worthy of recognition on an international level. The judges included Judge Radar, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). I hear about the CAFC constantly in my IP courses so Judge Radar in particular is more like a celebrity to me. Again, it was truly an honor and I am pleased beyond measure that I could make IU McKinney proud.”

Taleyarkhan lives in Lafayette, and graduated in 2009 from Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she worked as a student researcher, conducting studies in cardiovascular engineering under the mentorship of the late Professor Leslie A. Geddes, a pioneer in electrical/biomedical engineering and recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2006.

Upon graduation, Taleyarkhan, who also is editor-in-chief of the Indiana Health Law Review , plans to work in IP either at a law firm or on her own, with a 10-year-goal of working in-house for a business. “ I enjoy being involved with a process/endeavor throughout its progression. Plus, I am fascinated with the inner workings and rapid decision-making processes that businesses have to make to stay afloat (and prosper), and would love nothing more than to be a part of that.”

02/25/2013

Student's Law Review Note to Be Published in Wests Intellectual Property Law Review

Reanna L. Kuitse, 2013 J.D. candidate at IU McKinney, will see her note about Christian Louboutin’s “Red Sole Mark” reprinted in Thomson Reuters (West) 2013 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review. It first appeared the Indiana Law Review, 46 Ind. L. Rev. 241.

The note examines whether a trademark, such as Louboutin’s distinctive red lacquered sole with which he marked all of his high-heeled shoes, can be based solely on color in the fashion industry. Yves Saint Laurent put red soles on the bottoms of its high-heeled shoes in 2011, and Louboutin filed a motion for an injunction, which was denied by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Louboutin appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which found the District Court’s reasoning for denying the injunction was inconsistent with case law.

“I am extremely excited about the news and I would like to thank everyone who helped make the piece possible including the Indiana Law Review , my friends and my family,” Kuitse said. She is executive articles editor for the law review.

After graduating and taking the bar exam, Kuitse will be an associate at the law firm Rothberg Logan & Warsco in Fort Wayne. She currently is an intern with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

02/25/2013

McKinney Law Symposium to Examine Potential to Prevent a Future Financial Crisis

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will host a major national symposium on “Law and the Financial Crisis” on April 5, 2013.

One of the panels slated for that day will examine the potential for the law to prevent the next financial crisis. Professor David Herzig of Valparaiso School of Law will moderate a panel made up of Professor M. Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago School of Law, and Professor Lisa Nicholson of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Professor Henderson has private sector experience counseling clients on business and regulatory strategy, and he will speak about new strategies for regulation. Professor Nicholson has securities and commercial litigation experience and will speak on the subject of corporate governance.

Former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh will present the keynote address to kick off the event. Senator Bayh’s lecture will focus on his experience with the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during the financial crisis.

The symposium is sponsored by the Indiana Law Review , a legal periodical edited and managed by students of IU McKinney Law that publishes scholarly articles by professors, judges, and practitioners from throughout the country. Andrea Kochert is editor of a special issue of the Law Review that will contain the proceedings of the symposium.

02/21/2013

Alumna Invited to Speak at Pepperdine Conference on Intercountry Adoption

Melinda Mains, a 2012 cum laude IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law graduate, was invited to share her scholarship on intercountry adoption at Pepperdine University School of Law during a conference titled Intercountry Adoption: Orphan Rescue or Child Trafficking. Mains was the only presenter to provide in-depth scholarship on the practice of American children being adopted by foreign families.

Outgoing adoptions from the United States is a little known or studied aspect of intercountry adoptions. According to Mains’ research, before 2008 approximately 500 children were adopted from the United States each year by foreign families. After 2008, when the United States implemented the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, the number of outgoing adoptions fell dramatically to only 25. Mains’ presentation was titled “ Made in the U.S.A. – Adopted by Foreign Families: The Impact on American Birth Parents, American Children, and Foreign Adoptive Parents following the ratification of the Hague Convention On Protection Of Children And Co-Operation In Respect Of Intercountry Adoption.” The conference was February 8 and 9, 2013, in Malibu, Califorina.

Mains’ research also revealed that statistics on outgoing adoptions from the U.S. State Department are contradictory to the information on adoptions reported by receiving countries.

“It was a great opportunity to present a unique area of the law that explores the application of state, federal and international law in a single event,” Mains said.

The conference focused on the important and complex topic of intercountry adoption. Praised by some and criticized by others, intercountry adoption remains a matter of deep contention on the global stage. Proponents see it as a way to give a purported 18.5 million adoptable orphans a family and a better life, while critics call it a door to corruption and cultural imperialism. The conference goal was to find understanding and common ground among divergent voices, while exploring the complex legal, religious and ethical issues raised by intercountry adoption.

02/20/2013

IU McKinney Alumni on Case before SCOTUS

It’s an Indiana-based case in which alumni of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law are weighing in and waiting to see how the Supreme Court of the United States will rule in the case Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Company. The case was heard February 19, 2013.

Gary Baise, ’68, is counsel of record in an amicus brief submitted on behalf of Monsanto. David Snivley, ’79, is senior vice president, secretary, and general counsel of Monsanto, the multinational agricultural biotechnology company.

Monsanto sued Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman for infringing the company’s patents on its “Roundup Ready” soybean seeds, which are genetically engineered to be resistant to Roundup and other glyphosphate-based herbicides. When Bowman planted the seeds without paying the technology fees Monsanto demands of farmers who want to use its seeds, Monsanto successfully sued Bowman and won damages of $84,000. Bowman has now appealed the case up to the SCOTUS.

It’s a case that also has captured the attention of the law school’s Professor Emily Morris

“The primary issue in the case is exactly how far an intellectual property owner’s rights extend before those rights are exhausted, an issue also raised in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,” Professor Morris said of the case the high court heard in October 2012. “More specifically, Bowman raises the question of how a patent owner’s rights apply to self-replicating technologies, such as plants, bacteria, and other living organisms. The ultimate question is exactly what rights a patent owner transfers when it sells a product covered by one or more patents and what rights the patent owner can seek to retain.”

02/20/2013

IU McKinney to Host Comparative Law Conference

Nearly 100 comparative law scholars will travel from around the world to present their scholarship at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law April 18 and 19, 2013, for the second annual Younger Comparativists Conference, sponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law. The conference aims to highlight, develop and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparative law scholars.

Program co-chairs of the event are Professor Shawn Boyne, co-chair of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum; and S.J.D. Candidate Mohamed Arafa, assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandra University Faculty of Law. Conference participants will come from all over the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Nigeria, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Several IU McKinney faculty who teach in the law school’s Center For International and Comparative law will participate in the conference, including Professors Yvonne Dutton, George Edwards, Margaret Ryznar, and Shawn Boyne. The highlight of the conference will be a lunch panel on April 19, moderated by by Professor James P. Nehf, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. The panel will focus on the topic “Law in the Changing Middle East.” Other panels will examine global perspectives on: corporate governance, intellectual property and technological change, as well as multiculturalism and diversity.

The law school’s Center for International and Comparative Law is one of several programs and opportunities for students that are international in scope. Others include:

• Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, a collaboration between the law school and Renmin University of China School of Law in Beijing. The center also offers a Chinese Law Summer Program for students that contains a Chinese law firm summer internship component for interested students.

• Program in International Human Rights Law, which was founded in 1997 and has facilitated over 150 internships in nearly 60 countries around the world. This program was granted special consultative status with the United Nations in 2011, making it one of approximately 2,000 organizations from 200 countries that have this status and reflects the UN’s confidence that the program will provide reliable information to the UN.

The Younger Comparativists Conference is open to the public and will run from: 3:30 to 5 p.m. on April 18 and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 19. For more information, check the law school’s website.

02/18/2013

Professor Wilson Elected to Editorial Board in China

Professor Tom Wilson has been elected to the editorial board of Frontiers of Law in China, an English language law review based in Beijing. The journal is published by Higher Education Press/Springer and is sponsored by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The mission of the law review is to “provide a forum for comprehensive legal debate and to promote global dialogue between jurists.”

Professor Wilson joins an editorial board that includes legal scholars from China, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Spain, U.K, and U.S.

“It is an honor to be selected to serve on the editorial board, and I look forward to working with the editors and authors from around the world in promoting discussion about law in China,” Professor Wilson said.

Professor Wilson is the director of the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, of the Chinese Law Summer Program at Renmin University of China Law School, of the Summer Program in American Law for students at Sun Yat-sen University Law School, and of the LL.M. Program Track in American Law for Foreign Lawyers.

02/13/2013

IU McKinney Moot Court Team Finishes Among Top 8

The IU McKinney Jessup Moot Court team finished in the top eight among 22 teams at regional competition in Chicago during the weekend of February 2 and 3, 2013.

The IU McKinney team won three out of four preliminary rounds. This year’s team is made up of 1L Paul Babcock, 2L Devin Hillsdon-Smith, 2L Keenan Wilson, and 2L Amanda Miller.

02/13/2013

Professor Edwards Elected to 3 National Leadership Positions for Master of Laws Programs

Professor George E. Edwards was elected to three graduate and international legal education leadership positions within the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). These positions involve Master of Laws (LL.M.) and other graduate law programs at law schools across the U.S., and overseas.

First, Professor Edwards was elected president-elect of the AALS Section on Graduate Law Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers. This section is involved with LL.M. programs for international students at over 140 law schools in the U.S. LL.M programs are the subject of Professor Edwards’ book, LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs. In 2014 Professor Edwards will be elevated to chair of the AALS Section on Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers.

“I am excited to take on this leadership role in the very important section dealing with international students who come to the U.S. to study in our nation’s law schools,” Professor Edwards said. “This type of international legal education promotes human rights in the U.S. and in the students’ home countries, and plays a critical role in international relations, diplomacy and global peace and security initiatives.”

Second, Professor Edwards was elected secretary of the AALS Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education. This section deals with both U.S. and non-U.S. lawyers who are seeking LL.M., S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Sciences) or other advanced law degrees at U.S. law schools.

Third, Professor Edwards was elected president-elect of the AALS Section on International Legal Exchange, and will serve on the executive committee of that section. The section focuses on a wide range of international and transnational legal education initiatives, including LL.M. programs in the U.S. for international students. He will be elevated to chair of this Section in 2014 at the AALS annual meeting in New York.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law, and the founding director of the Program in International Human Rights Law. Also, he was the founding director of the LL.M Track in International Human Rights Law at IU McKinney and directed that track until 2011.

02/13/2013

SJD Candidate Mohamed Arafa to Present Lecture at IUPUI

SJD candidate Mohamed Arafa will discuss politics and the current situation in Egypt in a lecture at IUPUI.

The lecture, titled “Corruption in the Political Realm and the Current Situation under Islamism,” will begin at 3 p.m. on February 14, 2013, in room 3015 in the Business/School of Public and Environmental Affairs building on the IUPUI campus.

The lecture will focus on Arafa’s recent article titled “President Mursi’s Egypt Arab Spring: Does Egypt Continue to be a Civil State or under the Umbrella of Islamic (Sharie’a) Law and Islamism?” The article was published in US- China Law Review , Vol. 9, No. 6, (2012).

Arafa is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt. During the Fall 2012 semester, he taught as an adjunct professor of law at IU McKinney.

02/11/2013

Dean Roberts to Attend 2014 Olympic Winter Games as Part of Court of Arbitration for Sport

Dean Gary R. Roberts has been appointed to the Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and will be part of the group that will be on hand for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia in February 2014. He was named to the CAS in Spring 2012. Dean Roberts is one of the few sports law leaders across the globe entrusted with this decision-making responsibility.

“This is truly amazing – a wonderful surprise and great honor,” Dean Roberts said.

Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with branch offices in New York City and Sydney, Australia, CAS was set up under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee and provides services to facilitate the settlement of sports-related disputes through arbitration or mediation by means of procedural rules adapted to sports’ specific needs. Most CAS disputes are handled in much the same way a court case would be, under pre-hearing and hearing rules and procedures established by the court itself.

With the leadership of the International Olympic Committee, the CAS was allowed to become independent in the early 1990s, which gave it international credibility. Over the following few years all international sports federations agreed that all disputes to which they or any teams, coaches, or athletes under their jurisdiction were parties would be submitted for final binding arbitration to the CAS, and not to national courts. Roughly 250 lawyers with extensive backgrounds in sports law have been appointed as judges or members of the CAS by the CAS’s governing board, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport. It is from this group that the Ad Hoc Division is chosen.

A recognized expert in sports law, Dean Roberts has published several articles and book chapters on antitrust, labor, and other issues in the sports industry, and has co-authored the leading casebook on sports law. He has served as president of the Sports Lawyers Association and as chairman of the Association of American Law Schools Sports Law Section. He is currently an officer and board member of The Sports Lawyers Association. He 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). He has led the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law since 2007, and will step down as dean on June 30, 2013.

02/11/2013

Environmental Law Expert from Brazil Teaches at IU McKinney Law

Professor Stella Santana from Faculdades Integradas Espirito Santenses (FAESA) is teaching “The Law and Legal System of Brazil” in the spring semester 2013.

She has visited IU McKinney each of the past four years for the Program in American Law, which the law school conducts for students and professors from Brazil – and she was a visiting scholar at the law school in January and February 2012.

Her course provides an introduction to the law and legal system of Brazil, including the sources of law, the organization of the court system, and the regulation of the practice of law as it affects transnational practice.

Professor Santana teaches law at FAESA, located in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil. She began her teaching career in 2002 and also has taught at law schools in Rio de Janeiro. Her areas of teaching and scholarship include international public law, international private law, and environmental law. A specialist in environmental law, she has taught courses on law hermeneutics and argumentation; environmental law; international public law; international private law; and human rights law.

Professor Santana earned her J.D. in 2000 at Faculdade de Direito de Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, which is located in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Brazil; a specialization in globalization, human rights and European Union law in 2003 from Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; an LL.M. in 2003 from Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro; and an MBE in international analysis in 2005 from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Santana is currently completing a doctorate in environmental oceanography at Federal University of Espirito Santo in Vitoria, Brazil. Her field of study is Integrated Sustainable Management in River Basins and Coastal Zones, a case study of the central north of Espirito Santo coast.

Professor Tom Wilson, who partnered with Professor Santana to create the Program in American Law and recruited her to be a visiting scholar and visiting professor, said “I am happy that Professor Santana has returned to our law school once again. I am especially pleased that this time our students get to interact with her in the classroom. They are certain to appreciate her enthusiasm for teaching and for her native country.”

02/06/2013

Associate Dean Bravo Re-appointed to Helton Selection Committee of American Society of International Law

Associate Dean Karen Bravo was re-appointed to the Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program Committee. The Helton Program, established in 2004 on the recommendation of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Honors Committee, recognizes the legacy of Arthur C. Helton. Helton was a ASIL member who died in the August 19, 2003, bombing of the United Nations mission in Baghdad along with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello and 20 others.

"I continue to be both honored and awed to participate on this committee,” Associate Dean Bravo said. “Honored to play a small role in carrying on the legacy of Andrew Helton, and awed by the commitment and creativity demonstrated by the young lawyers and law students who have applied for the fellowship.”

Funded in part by contributions from ASIL members, the fellowship provides financial assistance in the form of micro-grants to ensure that these individuals have access to modest amounts of funding that can often stand between them and their first professional opportunities to become effective practitioners, experts, and scholars of international law. Fellows will undertake their project in association with an established educational institution, international organization, or non-governmental organization working in areas related to international law, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. Associate Dean Bravo will serve on the 2013 selection committee, which reviews applications for the fellowship.

Professor Bravo is a John S. Grimes Fellow, a Dean’s Fellow, and Associate Dean for International Affairs.

02/06/2013

Nguyen, '06, Directs ABA Young Lawyer Disaster Legal Services Program

The area hit by Hurricane Sandy will take years to recover. It’s difficult to comprehend how one single person could make a significant impact to help people cope with the aftermath of the storm.

But David Nguyen, ’06, is such a person. Nguyen will tell you that sometimes, the best way to make a difference in an area marked by a natural disaster is to concentrate on what will make individual lives better. He points to a photograph of a man who lost all of his identification documentation in the storm, and needed the help of a lawyer to start putting that portion of his life back together.

Nguyen is director of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division Disaster Legal Services program. He spent three days in mid-November 2012 in New York City helping with recovery efforts, and traveled there again for a few days in January 2013 to offer more assistance.

While Hurricane Katrina was a horrible storm when it hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, “In many ways Sandy was much worse,” said Nguyen, “when you consider the density of the population and the complexity of the infrastructure.” There were obvious signs of recovery on the second trip, he said.

Getting the telephone lines in place took about a week and a half after the storm hit the Northeastern United States on October 29, 2012. “We foresee the recovery process going on for years,” he said.

Nguyen has been involved with the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division Disaster Legal Services program since August 2010. He became acting director in February 2011, and has been director since August 2011. He got involved at the behest of Matthew Besmer, ’06, who preceded him in the program’s director’s position. Ryan Hamilton, ’06, serves as vice director of the program. “There’s a huge contingent of this law school that’s a part of this program,” Nguyen said with pride.

Spending about a quarter of his time as a solo practitioner in Indianapolis, Nguyen is pursuing a doctorate in higher education policy on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. He teaches on legal and ethical issues for teachers. His solo practice concentrates on business, family, and immigration law in the Vietnamese community in Indiana.

02/06/2013

Professor Lea Shaver Presents Scholarship on Right to Science and Culture

Professor Lea Shaver discussed her scholarship surrounding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) at the law school on January 31, 2013. It was the third installment in the new Graduate Studies Lecture Series that began in Fall 2012.

What Professor Shaver terms “the right to science and culture” is taken from Article 27 of the UDHR, which states in part: “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

Drawn to law school because of what she calls her passion for human rights, Professor Shaver began to consider how the socioeconomic rights of the poor, such as the right to health care, education, and the like, are impacted negatively by intellectual property law. IP makes everything more expensive, she said, pointing to a best-selling book that retails for $27.99 in print form with a digital reader version that sells for $12.74, compared to the print version of a Charles Dickens classic – no longer protected by copyright – that sells for $3.50 for a print version and is free on most digital readers. She also talked about a prescription drug, the brand name of which sells for $2 per tablet, while the generic version sells for 3 cents.

“It cannot be entirely left up to the market to create access to ensure advances in science and culture are available to everyone,” she said.

Professor Shaver taught at Yale Law School and Hofstra Law School before she joined the law school in Fall 2012. She teaches intellectual property, copyright, and patent law.

02/05/2013

Six from IU McKinney Named to IBJ's Forty Under 40 List

Five alumni and one student from IU Robert H. McKinney School of law were named to the 2013 class of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 list of young professionals.

On the list are:

third-year student Edward Battista, owner and manager of the restaurant, Bluebeard;
Michele Jackson, ’00, of the law firm Harden Jackson and president of MLJ Adoptions;
Hannah Joseph, ’04, of the law firm Katz & Korin, and owner with her husband of King David Dogs;
Lawren Mills, ’04, attorney and lobbyist with Ice Miller Strategies;
Chad Pittman, ’02, executive vice president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.;
and Chasity Q. Thompson, ’02, assistant dean of the law school’s Office of Professional Development.

Congratulations to our outstanding young professionals!

02/05/2013

Professor Wilson Lectures and Builds Relationships in Taiwan

Professor Wilson in Taiwan

In the first week of January, Professor Tom Wilson established connections between the IU McKinney School of Law and three law schools in Taiwan. Professor Wilson was invited to Providence University by Professor John Wang, Chair of the Department of Law, to deliver two lectures, one on American commercial law and one on opportunities available at the IU McKinney School of Law for foreign professors and students. Providence University is located in Taichung City and traces its history back to 1920 and to Mother Marie Gratia Luking and five Sisters of Providence from St. Mary of The Woods in Indiana

Professor Wilson is shown in the photo with Professor Wang and Providence University students who attended one of the lectures. In the second photo, Professor Wilson is shown with (from left) Professor John Wang; Victor C. Lin, Dean, Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs; Sidney Lin, Coordinator/Project Manager, Academic Exchange Affairs Division of the Office of International Affairs ; and Roy Chen, a member of Ambassador Elite, a student organization that helps host International guests.

Professor Wilson with Professors in Taiwan

While in Taiwan, Professor Wilson also met with Bernard Kao, Dean of the College of Law and Political Science at National Chung Hsing University, also in Taichung City, and with Amy Huey-Ling Shee, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre of International Affairs & Exchange at National Chung-Cheng University in Minxiong, Chiayi County. As a result of these meetings, IU McKinney School of Law will have increased opportunities to collaborate with law schools in Taiwan.

02/05/2013

Professor Edwards Presents on LL.M. Programs at AALS Annual Meeting

Professor George Edwards delivered a plenary presentation on Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs at U.S. law schools at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Professor Edwards’ presentation was titled “Balancing the Interests & Needs of Stakeholders in U.S. Master of Laws (LL.M.) Programs for International Students: Avoiding Cash Cows, Diploma Mills, Bait & Switch, LL.M. Creep & Other Disappointments, While Furthering Academic, Professional, Diplomacy, Human Rights & Other Goals.” The workshop had over 200 attendees from law schools across the U.S. and overseas.

Professor George Edwards at the AALS annual meeting

In his remarks, Professor Edwards identified the many stakeholders involved in international legal education, and highlighted specific U.S. law school policies and practices that threaten the ability of LL.M. programs to meet stakeholder needs. He proposed the possibility that the ABA or another entity might accredit LL.M. programs. He also spoke of developing an LL.M. program Code of Conduct, creating a national council or association of international LL.M. students in the U.S. (with local chapters at different schools and in different cities, states and regions), and other mechanisms to help ensure that reasonable expectations of all LL.M. program stakeholders are met.

His presentation was part of AALS President Lauren Robel’s Presidential Workshop on Globalizing the Curriculum, designed around the meeting’s theme of “Global Engagement and the Legal Academy.” Robel is provost and executive vice president at Indiana University and former dean of IU Maurer School of Law.

Professor Edwards noted that “Ideally all law schools around the U.S. would recognize the need to meet stakeholder needs. It’s good for the students. It’s good for the school. It’s good for public diplomacy, and the positive impressions we want our international students to form while here and take back with them to their home countries. It’s good for U.S. foreign policy, peace, and human rights around the globe when international LL.M. students come to the U.S. and join our programs, have excellent experiences, and return as ambassadors of what we have to offer.”

Plenary Conveners & Speakers shown in the above photo, from left, are: Professors Vicki C. Jackson (Harvard Law School); Raquel E. Aldana, McGeorge School of Law; Lauren Robel (AALS President & Indiana University); David S. Law (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law); George E. Edwards, Indiana University McKinney School of Law; Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. (University of Alabama School of Law); Heinz J. Klug (University of Wisconsin Law School).

01/30/2013

Associate Dean Bravo Lectures on Recent Scholarship at West Virginia University

Associate Dean Karen Bravo discussed her current research during a talk titled “Illicit International Markets” on January 15, 2013, at West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown. The discussion was the topic of a post by Professor Jena Martin Amerson on her blog “The Business of Human Rights.”

Offering three examples of markets which have significant human rights implications, Associate Dean Bravo talked about low caste women in India who serve as surrogate mothers, the black market for harvested organs, and the market for ivory harvesting.

Professor Bravo is a John S. Grimes Fellow, a Dean’s Fellow, and Associate Dean for International Affairs.

01/30/2013

SJD Candidate Mohamed Arafa Speaks in Italy on Islamic Environmental Law

SJD candidate Mohamed Arafa presented his paper on Islamic environmental law at a workshop at the International University College of Turin February 4 and 5, 2013. Arafa talked about his latest paper, “Islamic Policy of Environmental Conservation: Is that a Possibility?" at the "Crossroads East and West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions" workshop.

Arafa is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt. During the Fall 2012 semester, he taught as an adjunct professor of law at IU McKinney.

01/28/2013

Senator Evan Bayh to Speak at Law School's Event on Financial Crisis

Former Indiana Senator Evan Bayh will speak at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law during a national symposium to take place April 5, 2012. The event is titled “Law and the Financial Crisis,” and will examine the connection between law and the financial crisis by pursuing three inquiries: (1) law’s role in instigating the financial crisis; (2) law’s effectiveness in addressing the financial crisis; and (3) law’s potential in preventing the next financial crisis.

Senator Bayh’s lecture will focus on his experience with the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during the financial crisis, and his chair position on the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance. Senator Bayh also served on the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, and Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment.

The symposium is sponsored by the Indiana Law Review, a legal periodical edited and managed by students of IU McKinney Law that publishes scholarly articles by professors, judges, and practitioners from throughout the country. Andrea Kochert is editor of a special issue of the Law Review that will contain the proceedings of the symposium.

01/25/2013

Professor Katz Presents at Universities in Hong Kong, Guangzhou

Professor Robert Katz gave a presentation at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on November 2, 2012, titled "The Means and Ends of Social Enterprise in the USA." This talk was organized by HKU's Faculty of Social Sciences and its Centre for Civil Society and Governance.

In addition, he was a member of the delegation from the IU School of Philanthropy and IUPUI to travel to Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). In the last week of October 2012, Professor Katz traveled to San Yat-sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China, as part of a delegation of faculty from the IUPUI campus and the IU School of Philanthropy, where he has a joint appointment as a Professor of Philanthropic Studies. He met with faculty and administrators at SYSU's Center on Philanthropy, a research institute at SYSU devoted to civil society and philanthropy. The trip was intended to facilitate mentorships and research and curricular collaborations among scholars with similar interests at SYSU and in Indiana.

Professor Katz teaches the law of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, the corporate and tax aspects of health care organizations, and trusts and estates.

01/25/2013

Professor Terry to Deliver Lecture at Bioethics Center

In a lecture at the IU Center for Bioethics, Professor Nicolas Terry talked about the failure of health information technology to change health care.

Titled “About the Emperor’s New Clothes: Why Heath Information Technology Has Failed to Transform Health Care,” Professor Terry’s lecture argued that health information technology either shares or reflects the market failures of health care and that the modest attempts to reform health information technology still come up short.

The lecture took place on January 28, 2013, at the IU Center for Bioethics.

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Hall William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health.

01/25/2013

Lebamoff, '89, is Senior Advisor in Afghanistan

Craig Lebamoff

Craig Lebamoff, '89, is serving as Senior Advisor to the Afshan Ministry of the interior, as part of the international effort to assist the Afghan transition. He is working in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In 2012, Lebamoff also was awarded a Sir Ian Axford (Fulbright) Fellowship in Public Policy. He lived in Wellington, the New Zealand capital, and worked as an embedded attorney with the country’s security, intelligence, and police agencies. He also lectured in several New Zealand institutions and wrote a thesis on their immigration and border security challenges since September 11, 2001.

Lebamoff’s previous assignment was in Baghdad, Iraq in 2011. He served at the U.S. Embassy and helped Iraqis who formerly served as translators for the U.S. military during the insurgency apply for and resettle into the U.S. as refugees. Lebamoff received the Department of Homeland Security's Director's Heritage Award for 2011 for his work in assisting Iraqi refugees in the Middle East.

01/25/2013

Professor Orentlicher's Study on Football and Concussions to be Published

Professor David Orentlicher's study "Concussion and Football: Failures to Respond by the NFL and the Medical Profession," co-authored by William S. David of Harvard Medical School, traces the evolution of the medical understanding of concussion over the past several decades. The study is scheduled for publication in the FIU Law Review of the Florida International University College of Law.

According an abstract of the study, posted to the Social Science Research Network website, "In reviewing the response of the National Football League to concussion, one can easily think that the league was too slow to worry about the medical consequences of head trauma. … the extent to which its response was unreasonable is unclear. If many medical experts did not worry about concussions, it is difficult to fault the NFL for not worrying either."

"Still one can question the NFL's failure to adopt concussion guidelines in the late 1990s when medical experts did issue guidelines," Orentlicher said.

Professor Orentlicher is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, and co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health.

01/25/2013

Professor Magliocca Elected to American Law Institute

Professor Gerard Magliocca was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) on January 18, 2013. ALI is an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

The group is made up of 4,000 lawyers, judges, and law professors who draft, discuss, revise, and publish Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. ALI has long been influential internationally and in recent years more of its work has become international in scope.

Other members of ALI who are on the law school faculty include Professor Gerald L. Bepko; Professor Jeffrey O. Cooper; Professor Jennifer Drobac; Professor George E. Edwards; Professor Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos; Professor Andrew Klein; Professor David Orentlicher; Dean Gary Roberts; Professor Florence Wagman Roisman; Visiting Professor Randall T. Shepard; Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr.; and Professor James P. White. ALI members who are professors emeriti of the law school include Professor Thomas B. Allington, Professor Jeffrey W. Grove, Professor W. William Hodes, and Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney.

Professor Magliocca is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research. His forthcoming book, a biography of John Bingham, is titled American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment, and will be published in August 2013.

01/25/2013

Professor Boyne Presents on Comparative Law at Case Western Reserve Law School

Professor Shawn Boyne presented her paper titled “The Challenge of Translation in Comparative Law” on January 23, 2013, at Case Western Reserve Law School. Professor Boyne is one of the many faculty members at the law school writing in the area of comparative and international law.

She was recently chosen by the American Association of Comparative Law to be a national reporter on the topic of American whistleblowing legislation at the International Congress of Comparative Law to be held in Vienna, Austria in 2014.

Professor Boyne is a Dean’s Fellow, DRIVE Fellow, and Co-Chair of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum.

01/23/2013

Hill, '98, Named Vice President and General Counsel of Citizens Energy Group

Jennett Hill , ’98, joined Citizens Energy Group as vice president and general counsel on February 1, 2013. She joined the utility after working as a partner at law firm Faegre Baker Daniels since 2001. She is well-known to Citizens, having provided legal counsel for their community redevelopment efforts for more than eight years.

While practicing nonprofit and tax-exempt law at Faegre Baker Daniels, Hill also provided legal and business guidance in corporate governance, intellectual property, internet, and privacy matters. The daughter of an Army officer, Hill helped the Indiana National Guard form a foundation to raise money for a memorial to recognize the guard and its mission. She also led her law firm’s efforts toward creating the Indiana Lawyers for Soldiers program, organized with the guard, the Indiana State Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana Bar Foundation, and the Indiana Pro Bono Commission. The effort offers pro bono legal services to deployed guard members and their families.

Prior to joining the firm, Hill worked at IBM for over 10 years in a variety of areas, including as a systems engineer, a systems design consultant, and as a regional manager. She also served as a law clerk to then-Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr. on the Indiana Supreme Court from May 1998 through January 2000.

01/18/2013

Professor Schumm, '98, Authors Criminal Defense Reform Report for ABA

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a report written by Professor Joel Schumm, '98, on behalf of two attorney groups calls for changes in what the report terms “the perpetual crisis in indigent defense.”

Titled “National Indigent Defense Reform: The Solution is Multifaceted,” the report was released on January 8, 2013, by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Recommendations on how to approach the problem come from a focus group made up of 18 experts, one of whom was Professor Norm Lefstein. The report concludes that criminal defense could be improved by reclassification – changing criminal statutes so that minor illegal acts become civil infractions dealt with by a fine; and diversion – in which low-level criminal charges are dismissed if the offender performs community service and meets other requirements.

An article written in the ABA Journal contains a link to a pdf of the report.

Professor Schumm is a magna cum laude graduate of the law school. He is a clinical professor of law, where he teaches in the Appellate Clinic, and is director of the Judicial Externship Program.

01/14/2013

Claus, '86 Named General Counsel of IU Health

Mary Beth Claus, '86, has returned to Indiana to serve as General Counsel of Indiana University Health.

Claus spent the last three and a half years at the Cleveland Clinic, where she served as the deputy chief legal officer and director of health care regulatory matters, overseeing all of the medical center’s regulatory and legal compliance matters. Prior to that, she was a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels. Her career also includes several years spent managing the healthcare practice group as a partner at what was then Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, and two years working as an operational and executive liaison for former Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, advising him during the Medicaid budget overhaul of 1992.

Claus is only the second person to serve in the General Counsel position at IU Health, taking over from Norman Tabler, who retired in December 2012 after 16 years in the job. In her new role, Claus will direct the statewide regulatory, internal audit, corporate compliance and insurance operations departments.

01/14/2013

Miller, '80 and Shively, '80 Named to Bench

Two IU McKinney School of Law alumni were named to the bench in their respective counties in the waning days of Governor Mitch Daniels administration. Gary Miller, ’80, returns to the Marion Superior Court, and Les Shively, ’80, has been named to the Vanderburgh Superior Court.

Miller is taking the vacancy created when Judge Robyn Moberly, ’78 was appointed Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in November 2012.

Miller has taught as an adjunct professor at the law school since 1992, teaching trial practice and professional responsibility.

While in law school, he worked as a bailiff in the Municipal and Circuit Courts. After graduation, he worked as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. Miller left the prosecutor’s office in 1983 to join the law firm, Hollingsworth & Meek. He worked there until 1986 when the Indiana Supreme Court appointed him as a judge pro tem. He ran for the bench in 1990 and remained in office for three terms. He was a judge in the Criminal Division for 10 years before switching to the Civil Division. Miller left the bench in 2008 and since that time has been practicing law at MillerMeyer.

“I’m thrilled with the governor’s decision and I look forward to many years on the bench,” Miller said. “I like what I’m doing, it’s been a lot of fun, but I have a drive to be on the bench and when the opportunity presented itself, I had to submit an application.” He is targeting a February 1, 2013, start date.

This is Shively’s first appointment to the bench. He was the first student appointed to the Indiana University Board of Trustees, and he served from 1976-1977, appointed by then-Governor Otis Bowen. He served on the Indiana Board of Law Examiners from 2002-2011, and the Indiana State Student Assistance Commission from 1986-1989.

He developed an appreciation for public service early, working for two summers for the chief of staff for the Evansville mayor, former chief justice and Visiting Professor Randall T. Shepard.

“I did whatever he told me to!” Shively said laughing, and that included everything from helping transportation workers to formulate bus schedules to working with key players in Evansville city government. “I was certainly moving toward law school at that point.”

Shively says he has always aspired to a position in the judiciary, and after practicing law for 32 years, this opportunity to take the vacancy created when Judge David Kiely was elected to Vanderburgh Circuit Court was a good chance to combine his love of the law and public service.

01/14/2013

Pence, '86, Takes Oath of Office, Begins Work as Governor

Mike Pence

Mike Pence, ’86, was sworn into office as Indiana's 50thgovernor during an outdoor ceremony on the west side of the Indiana Statehouse on January 14, 2013.

The Columbus, Indiana, native is a graduate of Columbus North High School. He graduated from Hanover College in 1981. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pence represented Indiana's 2nd District from 2001-2003, and Indiana's 6th District from 2003 to his inauguration to the governor's office.

While a member of the U.S. House, Pence served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and was vice chair of the subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. He also served on the Committee on the Judiciary and was vice chair of its subcommittee on the Constitution. He also served on the subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet. Pence was elected to Republican Conference Chairman in 2008, the third-highest ranking Republic leadership position. He was the first Representative from Indiana to hold a U.S. House leadership position since 1981.

A large number of IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumni and students were elected or re-elected in the November 2012 general election. Re-elected to state offices were Senator Brandt Hershman, a third-year evening division student and director of the law school’s Program on Educational Outreach for Government Leaders, and House Speaker Brian C. Bosma, '84. Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, '82, was retained on the bench. In the U. S. Congress, Susan Brooks, '85, was elected to the House of Representatives, where she will represent District 5. Todd Rokita, '95, was re-elected to represent House District 4; and Todd Young, '06, was re-elected to represent House District 9.

01/10/2013

McMillian, '02, to Receive Hine Medal

Jimmie “Tic Tac” McMillian, ’02, will receive a Maynard K. Hine Medal for service to the IUPUI campus. The medal honors alumni who make significant contributions in support of the campus and its alumni programs. McMillian will receive his award at the IUPUI Alumni Leaders’ dinner on February 28, 2013.

Several IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumni have been recipients of the medal, which was first awarded in 1974. The medal is named for IUPUI’s first chancellor, Maynard K. Hine, who believed in the power of a strong alumni program.

McMillian was president of the law school’s alumni association in 2011-2012, and currently serves as president of the Neal Marshall Indiana University Alumni Association. While in law school, he served as a barrister of the Moot Court Team and was a member of the Trial Advocacy Team. He served as a law clerk to then-Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., from 2002-2004. McMillian is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg, and practices in the litigation department.

01/08/2013

Professor Boyne Comments on Local Case Getting National Attention

Professor Shawn Boyne offered commentary about the Bei Bei Shuai case for a story that appeared in the January 6, 2013, Indianapolis Star. The story was subsequently published in USA Today.

Shuai is accused of murder and attempted feticide in the January 2, 2011, death of her 3-day-old infant. Shuai was pregnant and tried to kill herself by eating rat poison. The case has generated national attention by those who point to it as an example of gender discrimination and an attack on women’s reproductive rights. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry, '78, has said the facts of the case left him with no choice other than to file charges against Shuai.

Shuai is being defended pro bono by Linda Pence, '74, who argues that her client’s intent was to commit suicide, and that it is not certain that the baby died as a result of the rat poison.

Professor Boyne said in the article that she doesn't see what merit there is in bringing the case against Shuai.

“In my opinion, there are other more serious individuals out there committing violent crimes that should take precedence over this prosecution,” Professor Boyne said in the story.

Professor Boyne is a Dean’s Fellow, a Grimes Fellow, a DRIVE Fellow, and co-chair of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum. Early in her career, she served as a senior trial prosecutor for the state of New Mexico, and worked for several years as a defense attorney.

01/08/2013

Associate Dean Bravo Nominated to Executive Council of ASIL

Associate Dean Karen Bravo has been nominated to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). Her term is scheduled to begin during the group's annual meeting April 3-6, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

The council is the governing body for ASIL, which was founded in 1906 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1950. ASIL’s aim 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,” according to the organization’s website. ASIL has about 4,000 members from nearly 100 countries, and its members include attorneys, academics, corporate lawyers, judges, those who work in government and nongovernmental organizations, international civil servants, students, and others interested in international law.

Professor Bravo is a John S. Grimes Fellow, a Dean’s Fellow, and Associate Dean for International Affairs. She is an expert in the study of human trafficking, and is a well-known international law scholar.

01/08/2013

Appellate Clinic Wins Case for Man Charged as a Habitual Traffic Violator

Professor Joel Schumm, '98, director of the Appellate Clinic; and 2013 J.D. candidate Amy Beard, a certified legal intern, won an appeal in the Indiana Court of Appeals for their client who was not notified that his driving privileges had been suspended.

“The Appellate Clinic was an invaluable practical experience, which provided an opportunity to develop appellate advocacy skills,” Beard said. “It is rewarding to realize that this appeal may affect future Indiana law. I greatly appreciate the guidance and knowledge I received from Professor Schumm and the Marion County Public Defender Agency.”

The Indiana Court of Appeals, in Israel Cruz vs. State of Indiana, 49F24-1107-FD-48198, determined that the clinic client’s conduct was worthy of blame in that he knew he wasn’t supposed to drive yet did anyway, but that the evidence presented at the bench trial did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he knew he has been suspended by the BMV. The court reversed his conviction.

01/08/2013

Professor Ryznar Becomes Contributor to Huffington Post

Professor Margaret Ryznar has become a contributor to The Huffington Post, where she will blog on family law and related topics. Professor Ryznar’s first two posts consider the international custody case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and whether alternative reproductive technology is outpacing family law.

Professor Ryznar joined the faculty in fall 2012, and teaches and researches in the areas of family law, tax, trusts and estates, property, and juvenile law.

01/08/2013

Professor Terry Takes Part in Panel Discussion in DC

Professor Nicolas P. Terry was part of a panel discussion on behalf of the group Patient Privacy Rights (PPR). The panel, titled “Health Care, the Cloud, and Privacy,” was held at noon on January 7, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

The panel explored health care privacy challenges posed by cloud computing. Professor Terry was joined on the panel by Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Deborah C. Peel, MD, founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights; and Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

PPR’s mission is to ensure the patient’s right to control medical privacy in order to protect patients’ jobs and opportunities.

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health.

12/17/2012

SJD Candidate Abdelaal Helps Draft Rule of Law Index

S.J.D. Candidate Mohamed Abdelaal served as Egypt’s expert in the drafting of the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index for 2012.

World Justice Project is an independent non-profit organization that aims to advance the rule of law worldwide.

“This is a project that offers a detailed and comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law in practice,” said Abdelaal.

Abdelaal is an Assistant Lecturer of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Alexandria, Egypt.

12/17/2012

Adjunct Professor, SJD Candidate Teaches in Qatar on Current Work

Adjunct Professor Mohamed Arafa took part in Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy 2013 Workshop in Doha, Qatar for two weeks in January. He presented his work in progress titled "Conventional and Unconventional Corruption in Post-Revolution Egypt: Time and Way to Reform."

Professor Arafa’s recent work titled "President Mursi’s Egypt Arab Spring: Does Egypt Continue to be a Civil State or under the Umbrella of Islamic (Sharie‘a) Law and Islamism?" 9 US- China L. Rev . 6 (Fall 2012) was recently published.

Professor Arafa is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt, and an SJD candidate at IU McKinney. Professor Arafa was recently named to the editorial board of the United States-China Law Review as an “honored reviewer.”

12/12/2012

IU McKinney Law to Offer Concentration in International and Comparative Law

A new Concentration in International and Comparative Law is available to students at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The concentration is available to qualified students graduating in December 2012 or later.

"The new Concentration in International and Comparative Law demonstrates the law school's commitment to educate our students to practice in a global environment,” said Associate Dean for International Affairs Professor Karen Bravo. “The teaching, research, and practice expertise of our international and comparative law faculty members have expanded over the last few years and we have a growing international reputation in a wide array of subject areas, such as national security, human rights, commercial law, intellectual property, and illicit international markets. The Concentration allows us and our students to focus on this plenitude of riches."

The Concentration will be awarded to J.D. candidates who complete at least 6 approved courses totaling at least 15 credit hours in International and Comparative Law and closely-related subjects while maintaining a minimum grade point average of 3.2.

12/11/2012

Professor Schumm to Receive Pinnell Award

Professor Joel Schumm, ’98, has been selected to receive IU’s George W. Pinnell Award in 2013 for outstanding service to Indiana University. Recipients are chosen from more than 4,000 faculty members from IU’s eight campuses. The awards are presented at the Celebration of Distinguished Teaching in the spring.

“This is really a great honor and a great tribute to Joel’s endless willingness to do things above and beyond the call of duty,” said Dean Gary Roberts.

W. George Pinnell is a former executive vice president of Indiana University and former president of the IU Foundation, who was known for his stewardship as dean of the School of Business, for leadership in university administration, and for his service to state and national government. The Pinnell award was established in 1988 to recognize faculty members and librarians who have shown exceptional breadth of involvement and depth of commitment in service to the university, to their profession, or to the public.

Professor Schumm, a magna cum laude graduate of the law school, is a clinical professor of law and director of the Judicial Externship Program. He teaches in the appellate clinic, appellate practice, a judicial selection seminar, juvenile justice, and state constitutional law.

12/10/2012

McKinney Law School to Examine Law and the Financial Crisis

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will host a major national symposium on “Law and the Financial Crisis” on April 5, 2013, said Andrea Kochert, a law student who is directing the symposium.

Kochert said the symposium will examine the connection between law and the financial crisis by pursuing three inquiries: (1) law’s role in instigating the financial crisis; (2) law’s effectiveness in addressing the financial crisis; and (3) law’s potential in preventing the next financial crisis.

“While the financial crisis is by no means entirely behind us,” Kochert said, “it is not too early to begin to examine some of the many connections between law and the disastrous impact that the financial crisis had on our economy in general and millions of businesses and individuals in particular. We look forward to welcoming to the Robert H. McKinney School of Law the leading professors of finance and business law as well as prominent figures from business and government who will participate in the symposium.”

The symposium will be conducted under the auspices of the Indiana Law Review , a legal periodical edited and managed by students of IU McKinney Law that publishes scholarly articles by professors, judges, and practitioners from throughout the country. Kochert is editor of a special issue of the Law Review that will contain the proceedings of the symposium.

12/10/2012

Professor Ryznar Interviewed on Capitol Affairs

Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky of Capitol Affairs, an international radio news show airing on AM stations in New York and Washington, D.C., interviewed Professor Margaret Ryznar on December 6, 2012, regarding the international custody dispute currently pending in the United States Supreme Court, Chafin v. Chafin. The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the case. The interview is available on the website, The Voice of Russia.

Professor Ryznar joined the faculty in Fall 2012 and teaches and researches in the areas of family law, tax, trusts and estates, property, and juvenile law.

12/10/2012

Professor Sullivan and Vi Simpson, '94, Named to Uniform Law Commission

Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., and Indiana Senator Vi Simpson, ’94, have been named by Governor Mitch Daniels to represent Indiana on the Uniform Law Commission (ULC).

The ULC, formerly known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, is the organization responsible for creating the Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform Partnership Act, among other important legal endeavors.

“It is noteworthy that both Frank and Vi are members of the opposite political party from the Governor’s – a tribute to all three of them,” said Dean Gary Roberts. Simpson is also a recent lieutenant governor candidate.

They join other ULC members with ties to the law school: IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Law Gerald L. Bepko; and Marti Starkey, ’81, a partner at Harrison & Moberly. Bepko and Starkey are life members of ULC.

12/10/2012

Professor Edwards Delivers Presentation on International Legal Education, Human Rights in Oman

Professor George Edwards spoke at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State affiliate EducationUSA (AMIDEAST), in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 4, 2012. He discussed the intricacies involved in deciding whether to choose the U.S. for an overseas Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree program, the challenges of selecting a U.S. law school to attend, opportunities post-graduation, and how international legal education promotes human rights in host and sending countries. Participants in the presentation included members of the Omani legal profession, including students, and U.S. State Department personnel.

EducationUSA is a U.S. State Department affiliated network of 450 educational advising centers in 170 countries, and is represented in the Middle East through AMIDEAST. It strives to foster mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. Professor Edwards in recent years has presented international legal education materials to EducationUSA Centers at Embassies, Consulates, Fulbright offices and other locations in about two dozen countries on five continents. His presentations build upon his book, LL.M. Roadmap.

12/09/2012

Professor Martin to Present at IU Medical School

Professor Allison Martin will present “Fostering Hope: A Primer on Hope Theory for Educators, Mentors, and Clinicians,” to faculty of the IU Medical School on December 13, 2012. She and her research partner, IUPUI Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Kevin Rand, will offer the presentation.

This presentation will introduce participants to hope theory, which Professor Martin and Dr. Rand have researched extensively regarding law students. Hope theory is a psychological model of human behavior organized around the pursuit of goals. Research on hopeful thinking and goal pursuits will be reviewed from different contexts, including graduate education and healthcare.

Professor Martin is a Clinical Professor of Law in the nationally ranked Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC) department. She has taught extensively in the areas of legal writing, moot court advocacy, and professional responsibility. She is the faculty advisor for the law school’s national and international moot court teams.

12/07/2012

Dean Roberts, Mannweiler, Visit with Former Governor

Paul Mannweiler Edgar Whitcomb Gary Roberts

Dean Gary Roberts and former House Speaker Paul Mannweiler, ’76, recently traveled to Rome, Indiana, to visit with former Governor Edgar Whitcomb, ’50.

“He’s a colorful guy with lots of great stories to tell,” Dean Roberts said. The former governor and Mannweiler traded stories about their political friends. Mannweiler is a partner with Bose McKinney & Evans and is a principal of Bose Public Affairs Group.

The home Whitcomb lives in overlooks the Ohio River, and he can see the old Perry County Courthouse from his front door. The courthouse is likely not the busiest place in town, as Rome has a population of about 35 people. The former governor, now age 95, is likely the reason for the bulk of the town’s visitors, as he entertains guests frequently, the dean said.

Whitcomb was a student at Indiana University when World War II began, and he left his studies to serve in the U.S. Army. He returned to IU after the war and earned his law degree. Whitcomb practiced law in North Vernon, Seymour, and Indianapolis before running for office. He was Indiana’s governor from 1969 to 1973. After leaving office, he served as director of Mid American World Trade Association and resumed his law practice. Whitcomb moved to Perry County when he retired.

Stories of Whitcomb moving there and living in a cabin with no heat are true, the dean said, adding that Whitcomb cut his own firewood. He moved to the house in town a few years ago. Whitcomb took up sailing in his 70s, and sailed around the world. Whitcomb has written three books. He wrote two books about his World War II experiences – he was captured by the Japanese in the Battle of the Philippines but was able to escape. His third book is about his sailing adventures.

“We had a fascinating day,” Dean Roberts said.

12/06/2012

Vice Dean Page and Professor Katz Article Mentioned in Blog on Philanthropy

Professor Robert Katz and Vice Dean Antony Page co-wrote an article “The Truth about Ben and Jerry’s,” that continues to generate interest. The article, in which they debunk the conventional wisdom that corporate law compelled the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever, is the subject of a blog post in The Philanthropic Enterprise.

In their original article, published in the Fall 2012 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Katz and Page claim that although new corporate forms like benefit corporations and low-profit limited liability companies (L3Cs) can make it easier to pursue a social mission or run a socially responsible business, you don't need one to do so.

Professor Katz teaches the law of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, the corporate and tax aspects of health care organizations, and trusts and estates.

Vice Dean Page teaches closely held business organizations, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and sales one and two, international law, international securities regulation, and publically traded corporations.

12/05/2012

IP Center Hosts Symposium on Intellectual Property and Public Rights of Access

Jeffrey B. Kindler

The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation hosted its annual symposium on November 30, 2012, in the Wynne Courtroom. Titled “Intellectual Property and Public Rights of Access: The Evolving 21^st Century Balance,” the event featured a variety of experts from the public and private sectors, as well as academia.

The keynote speaker was Jeffrey B. Kindler, senior advisor at Paragon Pharmaceuticals, a global investment firm that builds and manages innovative pharmaceuticals. He also had served as chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer. He delivered a lecture titled “Strengthening the Depository of Ingenuity and Inventiveness: The Case for Enhanced International Enforcement of U.S. Intellectual Property Rights.”

Panels throughout the day addressed a variety of topics. The first dealt with the topic “Quid Pro No? Perspectives on Apple v. Motorola, and Judge Posner’s Contention that Most Industries Would Prosper Without Patent Protection.” Professor Gerard Magliocca provided an overview of the topic. Panelists were E. Anthony Figg, ’73, of Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck; Paul H. Berghoff of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff; Scott W. Hackwelder, corporate counsel with Cummins Law Department; Professor Bernard Chao of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Professor Mark Janis of the IU Maurer School of Law; and Professor Lea Shaver of the law school.

William R. Covey, director and deputy general counsel of enrollment and discipline with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, delivered a lecture titled “Proposed New Professional Responsibility Rules – Changes to Representation of Others Before the USPTO.”

Professor Emily Morris gave an overview of the topic “Stealing the Fire of Biotechnology? Patents that Chill Fundamental Research? Strategies for Living in the World of Prometheus, and Prognostications on Myriad Subject Matter Patentability Issues.” Panelists included Douglas K. Norman, ’88, vice present and general patent counsel at Eli Lilly and Company; Mike Young, vice president and chief intellectual property counsel with Roche Diagnostics; Figg; Berghoff, dr. Peter H. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., and acting director and faculty investigator at the IU Center for Bioethics, and associate professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine; Professor Joshua D. Sarnoff of the DePaul College of Law; and Professor Kevin E. Collins of Washington University School of Law.

Professor Shaver gave an overview of the topic “International Enforcement of U.S. IP Rights and the Right to Science and Culture.” She was joined on the panel by Kevin Erdman of Reichel IP, and Gene O’Donnell, director of IP at ChaCha Search.

Robert E. Lee, assistant general patent counsel at Eli Lilly and Company, delivered a lecture titled “Use or Lose: The Evolving Interplay between Domestic Law and International Systems of Trademark Rights.”

Biocrossroads President and Chief Executive Officer David Johnson gave an overview of the topic “Universities, Tech Transfer Offices, and Start Up Companies: Combining Science, Law, and Finance to Create Innovative Ventures. Panelists included Dr. John Emanuele of Faegre Baker Daniels; Brian Cholewa, patent counsel at IU Research and Technology Corporation; Cedric D’Hue, ’05, of Bingham Greenebaum Doll, and Hamid Piroozi, legal IP manager at the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization.

IP Center Director and Adjunct Professor John Schaibley, III, gave an overview of the topic “The Supreme Court’s Recent Focus on IP – Diagnosing the Causes, Assessing the Results, and Predicting the Next Certworthy IP Questions. Panelists were Judge Larry J. McKinney of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division; Berghoff; Figg; Nancy Tinsley, ’90, associate general counsel of Roche Diagnostics; and Professor Magliocca.

Professor Ralph Hall of the University of Minnesota School of Law gave an overview of the final panel of the day, which discussed the topic “What Outside Counsel Need to Change in Providing IP Counseling and Litigation Services.” This topic was discussed by Norman, Young, Hackwelder, Lee, and Kindler.

12/05/2012

IU McKinney Law to Offer Concentration in Intellectual Property Law

A new Concentration in Intellectual Property Law is available to students at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The concentration is available to qualified students graduating in December 2012 or later.

“Because IP law is one of our natural strengths, it makes eminent sense for our IP Center to offer this Concentration,” said Dean Gary Roberts. “This is one more way our students can demonstrate to employers a broad knowledge base in a particular area of law upon graduation.”

The executive director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation, Professor John Schaibley, agreed.

“The new Concentration in Intellectual Property Law provides official recognition for our students who take full advantage of the IP Center’s extensive curriculum, taught by its four full time and 15 adjunct faculty members, who provide our IP students with an unsurpassed education on cutting edge intellectual property issues,” he said. “With over 20 IP courses, our IP curriculum combines history and theory with real-world challenges, focusing on practical issues of current and anticipated future importance for protection of IP rights. Students who meet the rigorous requirements of the IP Concentration deserve special recognition for their achievement and expertise. The IP Concentration will aid students seeking employment in IP and related fields, representing the law school’s determination that the student has successfully completed a rigorous course of studies providing a sound foundation for practicing intellectual property law.”

12/05/2012

IU McKinney Makes First LRAP Awards

The inaugural awardees for the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) have been announced. The are: Carrie Lynn ’07, staff attorney for Indiana Legal Services in Indianapolis; Mohammed Tareq Nazamy ’09, team leader/assistant coordinator for Marion County Alternative Courts; and Danielle Underwood ’08, staff attorney for Indiana Legal Services in Ft. Wayne.

The LRAP Endowment is the culmination of years of advocacy by the law school's chapter of Equal Justice Works. For the past decade the group has worked to make loan repayment assistance a reality for law students who wish to practice public interest law. Fundraisers include the annual Equal Justice Works Public Interest Dinner with the proceeds from ticket sales going directly to ensure the LRAP Endowment.

Awards are initially made as loans that are then forgiven provided all program eligibility criteria are met at the end of the 12-month award period. For more information, visit the LRAP website or contact Sonja Rice, ’07, d irector of special projects at sorice@iupui.edu or 317-274-8043.

12/05/2012

Professor Quigley Delivers Lecture on How Human Rights Can Save Haiti

Professor Fran Quigley

Professor Quigley’s talk, titled “How Human Rights Can Save Haiti… and Other Developing Countries, too,” was delivered on November 29, 2012. The lecture was offered in observance of International Human Rights Day, and was the second in the newly established Graduate Studies Lecture Series. The lecture is available via podcast.

In an effort to focus attention on what he called “the humans in human rights,” Professor Fran Quigley showed photographs of people he has met while working in Haiti.

One woman had lost her mother to the cholera outbreak that began less than a year after the January 2010 earthquake. Another woman was too afraid of the government to be photographed, so Professor Quigley showed a photo of her family’s tormentor, Jean-Claude Duvalier. Several members of her family were tortured and killed under his regime. While no longer in power, Duvalier has returned to Haiti after a self-imposed exile. He faces charges of embezzlement, but has not been detained or tried.

And there was a photograph of Marguerite, a toddler Professor Quigley met in Port-au-Prince. She lives with her family under a blue plastic tarp with cardboard walls, along with thousands of others struggling to exist after the earthquake. An estimated 300,000 are still homeless after the quake, he said.

Haiti does not have established human rights law for its poor, but there is reason to hope that this changing, Professor Quigley said. The formula for social change there is global, grassroots activism, and “Haiti has the blueprint,” Professor Quigley said. He encouraged those interested in helping Haiti to connect with the website Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, or Bureau des Avocats Internationaux.

“Unless we do this in a better way,” Professor Quigley said of efforts to bring about change for the better in Haiti, “we won’t have a better result.

There also is a real need for basic infrastructure in Haiti. Professor Quigley pointed to the lack of a water purification system there, which contributed to the cholera outbreak.

Professor Quigley teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic and is the senior advisor for the IU Center for Global Health.

12/05/2012

IU McKinney Law to Offer Junior Faculty Workshop

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will conduct its second annual Junior Faculty Workshop on Intellectual Property Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry December 7-8, 2012. The workshop focuses on the wide range of intellectual property issues as they relate to the pharmaceutical industry and offers an opportunity for untenured scholars to present their draft scholarship for in-depth critique and commentary by respected senior scholars in the field.

“We are very fortunate this year to be able to use the Junior Faculty Workshop to look at an area of intellectual property that is particularly important, not only in terms of innovation and the economy but also healthcare,” said Professor Emily Michiko Morris, one of the organizers of the workshop. “The pharmaceutical industry is one in which intellectual property rights are thought to be particularly successful, and yet so many issues remain. How can the law continue to support pharmaceutical innovation while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs and expanding access to medicines? This year's workshop brings together some of the most noted scholars in the field with those just beginning to make their mark, for what promises to be an intensive and careful examination of a variety of pressing topics.”

The following junior scholars have been selected to participate, based on the match between their proposed papers and the theme of this year’s workshop:

Yaniv Heled (Asst. Professor, Georgia State University College of Law): Regulatory Competitive Immunities—The Newest Kind of Intellectual Property
Benjamin Liu (Asst. Professor and Dir., Chinese IP Resource Ctr., The John Marshall Law School): Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, China Myth, and the Globalization of Patent Linkage
Liza Vertinsky (Assoc. Professor, Emory University School of Law): Making Knowledge and Making Drugs? Experimenting with University Innovation Capacity
Jacob Rooksby (Asst. Professor, Duquesne University School of Law): Innovation and Litigation: Tensions Between Universities and Patents and How to Fix Them
Emily Michiko Morris (Assoc. Professor, Indiana University McKinney School of Law): Patent Exclusivity Versus Regulatory Exclusivity Under the Hatch-Waxman Act

The following scholars will join the workshop as commentators:

Rebecca S. Eisenberg , Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Cynthia M. Ho , Clifford E. Vickrey Research Professor and Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Program, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Jay P. Kesan , Professor, H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar, and Director, Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Outterson , Associate Professor and Co-director of the Health Law Program, Boston University School of Law, and Associate Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
Christopher M. Holman , Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Professor Nic Terry is the Colloquium Committee Chair. Also chairing the event are Associate Dean for Research Gerard Magliocca, and Professor Morris.

12/05/2012

Professor Terry Offers Commentary in Wall Street Journal Article

Professor Nicolas P. Terry was quoted in an article about heart gadgets and privacy law that appeared in the Wall Street Journal November 28, 2012.

The article outlines the concerns patients with implanted medical devices have with gaining access to the information their devices are gathering. Some companies consider their customers only to be physicians and hospitals, rather than patients.

Patients also have concerns that their medical information could be given to third parties. Professor Terry’s comment in the article surrounds this kind of scenario. He says that privacy laws typically would prevent third-parties not involved in health care from having access to medical information. It’s a different set of circumstances with a non-prescribed device. “You get a very different scenario if you take your iPhone and buy the sleep-monitoring app,” Professor Terry is quoted in the article as saying. “There is no real law that protects that data.”

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health. He teaches torts, products liability, health information technology, law and science, and health care quality.

11/30/2012

IU McKinney Fauculty Take Part in 2012 Law School for Legislators

Professor Cynthia Baker

Professor Cynthia Baker, director of the Program on Law and State Government; Professor Joel Schumm, ’98, director of the Judicial Externship Program; and Adjunct Professor John Krauss, ’76, who also is director of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, took part in the Indiana State Bar Association’s Law School for Legislators. The event was held in the House Chambers at the Indiana State House on November 19, 2012.

Professor Krauss gave an overview on the role each branch plays in Indiana Government, and provided a summary of what role each branch is tasked with fulfilling. Professor Schumm worked with Justice Loretta Rush, new to the Indiana Supreme Court, to walk legislators through the differences between civil and criminal court proceedings. Professor Baker offered an interactive program aimed at demonstrating how the decisions made in state government ultimately end up impacting the lives of Indiana’s residents.

11/28/2012

Professor Sullivan Named to State Business Law Commission

Governor Mitch Daniels has appointed Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., to the Indiana Business Law Survey Commission. Sullivan teaches courses in business and commercial law.

The Commission was established as a permanent voluntary body in 1988 by the General Assembly. It monitors developments in laws that affect corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships and advises the General Assembly on amendments and new legislation to keep Indiana's corporate and related laws "state of the art."

Professor Sullivan joined the faculty after 19 years of service as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. As a member of the Court, he wrote and participated in numerous decisions involving business and commercial law. Prior to his appointment to the Court, Professor Sullivan served as Indiana State Budget Director and as Executive Assistant for Fiscal Policy to Governor Evan Bayh in 1993. Prior to state service, he practiced corporate finance and securities law in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg.

11/27/2012

Graham Appointed Judge In Tippicanoe Superior Court

Faith Graham, ’96, currently a juvenile magistrate, has been elevated to judge in Tippecanoe Superior Court III by Governor Mitch Daniels. She succeeds Justice Loretta Rush who was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in September 2012.

Prior to becoming a magistrate, Graham was a Tippecanoe County deputy public defender and an adjunct faculty instructor in the criminal justice program at Ivy Tech. Graham is a member of the Tippecanoe County Bar Association, the American Judicature Society and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Her appointment will be effective at a date to be determined.

11/27/2012

IU McKinney Student Wins on Wheel of Fortune

Russell Hollis

Russell Hollis, a third-year evening student at the law school, won a total of $12,500 in cash and prizes on the television game show Wheel of Fortune. The show aired on November 23, 2012.

Specifically, Hollis won $7,500 in cash and another $5,000 in gift cards to Sears.

“ My goal was to have fun, which may have helped me handle my nerves on the show, Hollis said. “Being a contestant on the Wheel of Fortune helped me realize it is significantly more difficult to solve puzzles as a contestant on the show than it is from the comfort of my living room.”

Hollis was watching the show with his wife, Jennifer, one evening in May 2012 after final exams, and she noticed he was doing well on the puzzles. She encouraged him to fill out the game show’s online contestant form. “I thought that if I won anything, it would be a great thing to help pay for law school,” he said. Hollis works as a deputy trustee in the Warren Township Trustee’s office.

“Although I did not make it to the bonus round, I fared well on the show,” he said. “The other two contestants were really nice people and I am happy all three of us were able to win money.”

11/26/2012

Professor Edwards Named to ALI Restatement Group

Professor George E. Edwards has joined the American Law Institute (ALI) group that is charged with updating the most authoritative U.S. reference work on international and foreign relations law of the U.S. Professor Edwards is an elected member of ALI.

As a new member of the Consultative Group of the ALI Restatement (Fourth) on The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Professor Edwards joins a group of legal academics, practitioners and jurists that will update the 25-year-old ALI Restatement (Third) of The Foreign Relations Law of the United States. This Restatement serves as a major reference work for lawyers, judges, and scholars who rely on the Restatement for guidance on important issues in the field. Professor Edwards joins some of the most influential international law professionals in the U.S. working on this Restatement, the updating of which will involve research and writing over the next several years. The project will initially focus on three topics: jurisdiction and enforcement; treaties; and sovereign immunity.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law, the founder and director of the Program in International Human Rights Law, and a John S. Grimes Fellow at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the founder and former director of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Track in International Human Rights Law at the law school. Professor Edwards is also the author of LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs, a resource for LL.M. students, graduates, and applicants around the globe. Professor Edwards has said he will donate all of his profits from this edition of the LL.M. Roadmap to the International Law Students Association, which is the parent organization of International Law Societies at law schools across the U.S. Visit the LL.M. Roadmap website to learn more.

11/26/2012

Professor Ryznar Addresses Digital Estate Planning

In addition to more traditional estate planning, people are beginning to think about what will happen to their online social media presence and include instructions in their estate plans. It’s a practice Professor Margaret Ryznar says is advisable in an interview with Indiana Lawyer. The story appears in the November 23-December 6, 2012, edition.

Professor Ryznar joined the faculty in Fall 2012, and teaches and researches in the areas of family law, tax, trusts and estates, property, and juvenile law.

11/21/2012

Immigration Clinic Students Successfully Defend Clients

Students in the law school’s Immigration Clinic were able to help a client gain asylum and a path toward citizenship, and another client to reunite his family. Both cases were decided on the same day, November 6. 2012.

Sam Ladowski, a second-year student, and Clare Corado, a third-year student, successfully represented Aissatou Barry from Guinea in her asylum claim before the Immigration Court in Chicago. The students had filed a strong brief prior to the hearing, said Professor Linda Kelly Hill, who teaches in the law school’s Immigration Clinic. Immigration Judge Robert Vinikoor told the students he had read the brief and was “almost convinced” to decide the case in their client’s favor. “Ms. Corado promptly retorted, ‘Well, we are here to convince you the rest of the way,’” Professor Kelly Hill said. “And so they did!”

Barry comes from an ethnic group in which the practice of female genital mutilation is nearly universal. She fled to the United States in an attempt to prevent herself and her young daughters from being forcibly subjected to the practice, Professor Kelly Hill said. An important legal issue in the case stemmed from the fact that Barry had not filed for asylum within one year of arrival in the country, which is required by U.S. law.

Corado and Ladowski had both served as Peace Corps volunteers prior to entering law school. Corado’s service took her to Ecuador, and Ladowski worked in Madagascar. “One cultural/language difference is that Americans tend to me more direct,” Ladowski said, “while other folks tend to speak more indirectly.” The students learned to effectively communicate with Barry after a couple of meetings with her. “Our experiences certainly help and also give our clients a little more comfort,” Ladowski said.

Ladowski and Corado were able to successfully argue that Barry qualified for an exception to this filing deadline due to changed personal circumstances, Professor Kelly Hill said. Several years earlier, the Immigration Clinic had secured asylum for Barry’s young daughter based on her daughter's fear of FGM. Her daughter's relief provided a heightened argument for the mother's fear of FGM forced upon herself and further reprisal for protecting her daughter. Barry’s application, which had been filed with her daughter's claim in 2009, had been initially denied and forwarded to the Immigration Court.

Judge Vinikoor granted Barry asylum and withholding of removal based on the likelihood of her persecution if she were deported back to Guinea. Barry is now safe from being deported and can eventually become a United States Citizen.

“Juggling a case load, classes, and other responsibilities is tough, but it’s probably good practice for what life will be like after graduation,” Corado said. “I have been careful to keep up in my classes, but I definitely prioritize my clients over my classes. There is nothing like working with people who have fled torture and oppression to remind us law students that grades are not the most important things in life.”

Corado plans to practice immigration law after graduation, which means “taking the time now to research details even tangentially related to my cases will help me to build a solid foundation for my career,” she said.

Barry’s immigration case has been pending for three years, and many past Immigration Clinic students assisted with various portions of her case. These students include Emilee Preble, '09, Andrea Schmidt, '09, Jared Prentice, '12, and Mercedes Rodriguez, '12.

“Aissatou is a loving mother of three beautiful children,” Ladowski said of Barry. “They have all been through a lot so this was a great relief for her and her family.”

A second victory for an immigration clinic client came that same day. Naun Anthony Benitez and Atcha Piyatanang, both third-year students, were in their successful representation of a U.S. citizen stepfather who had filed a family unification application on behalf of his Honduran stepdaughter, said Professor Kelly Hill. His stepdaughter remains in Honduras.

The Department of Homeland Security called the application into question, and in an unusual move, required the stepfather to present himself at DHS in Indianapolis to prove the bona fides of their relationship. Benitez and Piyatang prepared a convincing legal memo supported by significant documentation of the valid relationship, the professor said. Accompanied by the students on the day of the meeting at DHS, the stepfather was interviewed and the application was granted in minutes.

11/21/2012

Adjunct Professor, SJD Candidate Named to Editorial Board

Adjunct Professor Mohamed Arafa has been named to the editorial board of the United States-China Law Review as an “honored reviewer.” The review is published by David Publishing Company.

Professor Arafa is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt, and an SJD candidate at IU McKinney. Professor Arafa’s recent work "Corruption and Bribery in Islamic Law: Are Islamic Ideals Being Met in Practice?" was published by Golden Gate Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law (Spring 2012).

11/14/2012

Professor Sullivan to Speak at Appellate Judges Summit

Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., will be the featured luncheon speaker at the 2012 Summit for Appellate Judges, Lawyers and Staff Attorneys in New Orleans on November 16, 2012.

Professor Sullivan’s address, “Two Pivot Points in American Constitutional History,” will compare the dramatic shifts in the nation’s understanding of the Constitution that occurred during the Jackson Administration in 1832 and the Roosevelt Administration in 1937.

The Summit is a professional development event attended by hundreds of judges and lawyers who preside over, work in, and practice before federal and state appellate courts. Speakers at this year’s program include Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Judge Carl Stewart of the United States Courts of Appeal for the 5th Circuit, Chief Judge Alex Kosinski of the United States Courts of Appeal for the 9th Circuit, Dean John B. Attanasio of SMU Dedman School of Law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California-Irvine School of Law , and Dean Ward Farnsworth of the University of Texas School of Law.

The Summit is presented annually by the Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI), the professional development arm of the American Bar Association’s Appellate Judges Conference (AJC), which is comprised of federal and state appellate judges, their courts' staff attorneys, and appellate practitioners. Professor Sullivan, a justice on the Indiana Supreme Court from 1993 until earlier this year, is a former chair of the AJC and of the Board of the Directors of the AJEI.

11/07/2012

Congratulations to McKinney Law Alumni on General Election Wins

A large number of IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumni and students were elected or re-elected in the general election November 6, 2012. Most notably among them are Mike Pence, ’86, who was elected to the Indiana governor’s office, defeating John Gregg, ’84. Also re-elected to state offices were Senator Brandt Hershman, a third-year evening division student and director of the law school’s Program on Educational Outreach for Government Leaders, and House Speaker Brian C. Bosma, ’84. Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, ’82, was retained on the bench.

In the U. S. Congress, Susan Brooks, ’85, was elected to the House of Representatives, where she will represent District 5. Todd Rokita, ’95, was re-elected to represent House District 4; and Todd Young, ’06, was re-elected to represent House District 9.

“The importance of the McKinney School to the leadership of Indiana was reaffirmed Tuesday night,” said Dean Gary Roberts. “Come January, McKinney alumni or students will include the Governor, the Chief Justice (and three of the five Supreme Court justices), the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader in the Senate, one U.S. Senator, and three U.S. Representatives – a virtual clean sweep of Indiana’s political leadership. And this does not include the dozens more who will serve in the General Assembly, in local offices, or in judgeships. The School is immensely proud of the contributions that it and its alumni make to this state and the country.”

11/06/2012

IU McKinney Law Student Receives Thesis Award

Ryan Schwier, former staff member of the Ruth Lilly Law Library and first-year evening student at the IU McKinney School of Law, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Esther L. Kinsley Master Thesis Award. The annual award is open to nominations from each degree-granting program of the Indiana University Graduate School, and is presented to one student for a thesis of “truly outstanding” quality. The award will be presented at a reception hosted by the IU Graduate School in April 2013.

Schwier’s thesis examines the history of the Indian-settler legal relations in Indiana from the state’s pre-territorial period to the late 19th century. His thesis committee was chaired by Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Brand Monroe, ’02; Professor of History David J. Bodenhamer; and IU McKinney Law Professor Gerard N. Magliocca.

11/05/2012

Professor Adams Speaks at Emory University

Professor Cynthia Adams spoke at Emory University School of Law's Third Biennial Conference on Teaching Transactional Law and Skills, held on November 2-3, 2012.

Professor Adams addressed pedagogical innovations in teaching the U.S. contract narrative to law students, non-U.S. lawyers, and nonnative English speakers. The presentation included highlights from her new book, Drafting U.S. International Contracts in Legal English, forthcoming from Aspen Publishers in Spring 2013.

11/05/2012

LL.M. Graduate's Abstract Accepted for Presentation at Life Sciences Symposium

Bianca Buechner, LL.M. '12, will present her abstract "How Human Dignity Influences Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Europe and the United States: Ethical and Legal Comparative Analysis of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Policies with the case studies of Brüstle v. Greenpeace e.V. (Europe, 2011/2012) and Shirley" at the 7th Fraunhofer Life Science Symposium Leipzig 2012 in Germany on November 29, 2012.

She also recently took part in the 6th Vaccine and VHS Conference in Shanghai, China, where she reports she was the only lawyer and ethicist at the conference, and the researchers there appreciated hearing a different point of view. She also traveled to Nanjing, China, to speak at the Medical School of Nanjing about the compensation of study-related injuries. In addition, she gave two talks at Renmin University in Beijing.

11/01/2012

Professor Dutton Speaks at International Criminal Law Conference

Professor Yvonne Dutton presented at the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law 25th International Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 24, 2012. The conference was titled “Crime and Criminal Justice – Exploring the International, Transnational, and Local Perspectives.”

Professor Dutton was part of a panel that presented about piracy and kidnapping. Her presentation was titled “Maritime Piracy, Impunity, and the Need for More International Cooperating and Collaboration.” Professor Dutton teaches evidence, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Her research interests outside the classroom include international criminal law, international human rights law, and maritime piracy. Professor Dutton joined the law school faculty in Fall 2012.

11/01/2012

Professor Roisman Quoted in Report on Fair Housing

ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization, published a yearlong investigation into what it calls the 40-year failure of the federal government to enforce the provisions of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.

The report titled “Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law” is available online. The second part of the report titled "Soft on Segregation: How the Feds Failed to Integrate Westchester County" also is available online.

"It is fair to say, it is accurate to say, that the only situation in which HUD is doing anything effectively to affirmatively further fair housing are situations where there has been litigation," Professor Florence Wagman Roisman is quoted as saying in the report. "Then it does as little as possible, as grudgingly as possible."

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law, and a 2011 Chancellor’s Professor, and a 2011 John S. Grimes Fellow.

10/31/2012

Roesler, '82, Delivers IP Lecture

Mark Roesler

On October 30, 2012, Mark Roesler, '82, Chairman & CEO of CMG Worldwide, Inc. delivered a lecture on “Balancing the Interests Associated with the Right of Publicity in the Era of Technological Advances,” as part of the school’s Distinguished Speaker Program. His talk was sponsored by the law school’s Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. Roesler spoke to a large crowd in the Wynne Courtroom, and provided an analysis of celebrities of the past and the present and the legal concepts involved with balancing the interests associated with the right of publicity in the era of technological advances.

Roesler graduated as valedictorian from Alexandria Monroe High School in 1974, and went on to DePauw University . While in college, Roesler started his own roofing company to finance his education. After completing his undergraduate studies, Roesler earned a joint J.D. and M.B.A. through the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and IU Kelley School of Business in 1981. Roesler started CMG Worldwide with the purpose of protecting the rights of famous deceased people, as well as generating income for their estates by marketing their names and likenesses. His first two clients were the estates of Elvis Presley and James Dean. Today, the client list has grown to over 250 deceased and living personalities. Roesler has represented the estates of many celebrities in high-profile legal battles. He has been called upon many times to provide expert witness testimonies pertaining to the net worths of celebrities. CMG Worldwide is headquartered in Indianapolis , and has offices in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro .

10/26/2012

IU McKinney Law to Offer Graduate Certificate in Health Law

A new Graduate Certificate in Health Law is now being offered at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

“The Hall Center for Law & Health is a signature program at the McKinney School that dovetails perfectly with IUPUI’s focus on the life sciences,” said Dean Gary Roberts. “I’m pleased to see that expanded through the addition of this Graduate Certificate in Health Law.”

The Certificate in Health Law provides J.D. students with the opportunity to specialize in the expanding field of health law. Graduation with the Certificate will signal potential employers and collaborators that these students have particular knowledge, experience, and skills in various aspects of health care law and policy and have engaged in a rigorous course of specialized study providing a critical foundation for practice.

The Hall Center for Law & Health at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law offers a robust curriculum in health law and policy. Courses include advanced offerings in Public Health Law, Health Quality & Safety, Bioethics, Food & Drug Law, and Health Information Technology. Students who want to earn the Certificate must maintain a required grade-point average in Health Law courses and complete a research or experiential capstone course.

10/26/2012

Professor Terry Appointed to Federal Advisory Group

Professor Nicolas Terry has been appointed to a federal advisory group for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services. The group will develop a health information technology policy framework for the coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information.

Professor Terry is co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, and the Hall Render Professor of Law. His expertise is in the intersection of medicine, law, and health information technology.

10/25/2012

International Student Speaker Series Offers Chance to Learn from Graduate Law Students

The International Student Speaker Series continued during the Fall 2012 semester, with two lectures given by graduate law students from around the world.

The inaugural lecture in the series was presented in Spring 2012 in the law school’s Wynne Courtroom. The lectures are presented by the Master of Law Association and the Graduate Studies Program, and are coordinated by Professor Karen Bravo, Associate Dean for International Affairs. Lectures this semester were held in the faculty longue.

International Student Speaker Series September 2012

The first lecture of the Fall semester on September 20 was on the topic of Family Law. LL.M. students Thatchaphon Svetasreni of Thailand, Liu Yi-sheng of Taiwan, Angelique Odette Devaux of France, Gabriela Castilhos of Brazil, Najeeb Basim of Iraq, Zhenzhu Li and Zhe Sun of China, shared how family law is approached in their home countries.

International Student Speaker Series October 2012

The second lecture of the semester was presented October 23. S.J.D. student Mo hamed A. Arafa of Egypt, and LL.M. students Nasser Shah of Kuwait, Flavia Martinelli De Medeiros of Brazil, Fabiana Morette Lattea of Brazil, and Zhenzhu Li of China, spoke about criminal law in their home countries.

10/25/2012

Professor Dannenmaier Speaks at Energy Conference

Professor Eric Dannenmaier spoke on October 3 at the Indiana Energy Conference, a one-day program held on the IUPUI Campus in downtown Indianapolis. Professor Dannenmaier explored the topic of climate change and its cause. He was the featured luncheon speaker that day, along with Brian Wilkes, WXIN Fox 59 Chief Meteorologist.

July 2012 was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, and the year is on target to set a new record. While weather is not the same thing as climate, many see the extreme events of late as examples of how climate is changing in ways that will have significant economic, social, and health impacts.

A story about the October 3 panel discussion by Wilkes and Professor Dannenmaier can be found at Indiana Living Green.

“Climate change is the ‘new normal’ that will be driving energy demand and energy policy in the coming decades, and every major energy producer knows that,” said Professor Dannenmaier. "Beyond the energy sector, it will affect crop production, transit, public health, and drinking water, among other critical concerns. It’s time for our political leadership to understand and embrace what business leaders are already counting on – and to rethink policies from agriculture to transportation; from disaster management to water supply. We can get ahead of the game and plan for prosperity and jobs through mitigation and adaptation, or keep our heads in the sand and hope for better weather. If you ask me, the time for planning is now.”

10/23/2012

Working in the Evolving Internet Landscape

Patrick Jones

On October 22, 2012, Patrick Jones, ’01, Senior Director of Security at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN), gave a talk at the law school titled "Working in the Evolving Internet Landscape." He addressed intellectual property and other issues related to domain names, internet governance, risk management and security and also shared his thoughts concerning the use of a law degree outside of traditional legal practice in an international setting.

Jones coordinates ICANN's Security, Stability and Resiliency responsibilities across the organization and currently supports ICANN's DNS Risk Management Framework project. Jones frequently speaks as a subject matter expert on Domain Name System risk and resiliency activities, global engagement and DNS security collaboration. He joined ICANN in 2006 and has been active in the internet governance and policy areas since 2000.

10/23/2012

Professor Baker Questions Speakers at Candidate Forum

Professor Cynthia Baker, director of the Program on Law and State Government, was one of three moderators at a candidate forum at the Exchange Club of Speedway on October 22, 2012. The event was held at Speedway High School.

Participants included candidates for the U.S. Senate Andy Horning; Paul Tencher, authorized by Joe Donnelly to speak for him as campaign manager; Brose McVey, authorized by Richard Mourdock to speak for him as deputy campaign manager. Other races represented included Congressional candidate for the 7^th District Carlos May; someone from U.S. Representative Andre Carson’s campaign; Indiana Senator Mike Young, ’09; Young’s challenger Mark Waterfill; and Indiana House of Representative candidates Karlee Macer and Tim Motsinger.

Indianapolis Star editorial page editor Tim Swarens; University of Indianapolis Professor Doug Woodwell; and Professor Baker questioned the speakers along with audience members.

10/22/2012

Professor Ryznar Delivers Paper at University of Chicago

Professor Margaret Ryznar delivered her paper titled “Two Private Rights of Action” at the University of Chicago Law School's Legal Scholarship Workshop on October 8, 2012. The paper is forthcoming in the Catholic University Law Review and considers improvements to the child support enforcement system.

Professor Ryznar joined the faculty in Fall 2012, and teaches and researches in the areas of family law, tax, trusts and estates, property, and juvenile law.

10/18/2012

Human Rights in Kenya - A Success Story

IU McKinney professors and LACE visitors

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law hosted a presentation by the attorney leaders of the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE) in Kenya on October 17. LACE Legal Director Milkah Mirugi Cheptinga and Board President Eric Gumbo were introduced by Clinical Professor Fran Quigley, ‘87.

The Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE) in Kenya is a human rights law clinic working in close association with the Indiana University-affiliated and Nobel Peace Prize-nominated AMPATH (Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare) program in Eldoret, Kenya. Since its founding in 2008, LACE has represented over 3,000 HIV-positive AMPATH patients in cases including land and inheritance issues, gender-based violence prosecutions, defense from debt collection and criminal charges, and family law and defamation claims associated with HIV status. LACE has been invited to present overviews of its program at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna and the conference of the American Public Health Association, and has earned the support of the Open Society Initiative of East Africa and Rotary International.

The central Indiana legal community has partnered with LACE since its inception, when Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia A. Riley, ’74, president of the IU McKinney Alumni Association Board of Directors, co-founded the organization along with Quigley and their Kenyan colleagues. A delegation of lawyers, judges, and law faculty, including IU McKinney School of Law Dean Gary Roberts, visited LACE in the fall of 2009. Local law firms have supported LACE through an annual “Race for LACE” held in conjunction with the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.

One of LACE’s many clients is Leah J, an HIV-positive Kenyan widow with three children. When Leah’s husband died of AIDS, he left behind a small piece of farmland that was the family’s only property and source of income. But Leah’s in-laws forced her and her children off the land, and they were left homeless and hungry. LACE was able to go to court and secure Leah’s rights to the land, which provides an income for her and her children. For more information about LACE, please check http://www.lacekenya.com/

10/18/2012

Professor Edwards Presents to State Department Officials at U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg

Professor George Edwards gave a video presentation to U.S. State Department officials taking part in a workshop at the U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa. He focused on how African students might gain admission to and be successful in law school programs in the United States.

The title of his presentation was “What East & Southern African Students Need to Know About Studying Law in the U.S.: Food for Thought Regarding U.S. Master of Laws (LL.M.), Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Doctor of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) Degree Programs.”

His video conference was to EducationUSA advisors from 19 countries across Southern and East Africa. EducationUSA is a U.S. State Department affiliated network of 450 educational advising centers in 170 countries. It strives to foster mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. EducationUSA advisers and staff work with U.S. higher education professionals to promote international student enrollment. Professor Edwards in recent years has presented international legal education materials to EducationUSA Centers at Embassies, Consulates, Fulbright offices and other locations in about two dozen countries on five continents. His presentations build upon his book LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs.

10/17/2012

Three from IU McKinney Took Part in International Law Weekend at Fordham Law School

Professors Karen Bravo and Lea Shaver, and Adjunct Professor and S.J.D. candidate Mohamed Arafa presented at International Law Weekend at Fordham Law School October 25-27, 2012.

Professor Bravo took part in a panel titled “Teaching International Law: Principals for Framing a Survey Course” on October 27. She is associate dean for international affairs.

Professor Shaver was part of a panel discussing the topic “Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development. This presentation is slated for October 26.

Adjunct Professor Mohamed Arafa was part of a panel discussion titled “Towards a Culture of Accountability: A New Dawn for Egypt” on October 27. He is an S.J.D. candidate at IU McKinney.

The annual event is sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association.

10/16/2012

Professor Sullivan to Speak at CLE for Administrative Law Judges

Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr. will speak at a continuing legal education program sponsored by the Indiana Association of Administrative Law Judges on Thursday, October 18, 2012, at the Indiana Statehouse.

His remarks, entitled “Selected Developments in Indiana Administrative Law,” will survey the evolution of selected Indiana administrative law doctrines such as “exhaustion of administrative remedies” and “standing” during the last quarter century from his perspective as a 19-year member of the Indiana Supreme Court.

To learn more about the program, contact Catherine Gibbs, Office of Environmental Adjudication, at 317-232-8527, or cgibbs@oea.in.gov.

Professor Sullivan joined the faculty at the law school in August 2012 immediately following completion of his service on the Supreme Court.

10/08/2012

Law School Hosts International Conference on China's First Ten Years in the WTO

WTO conference at IU McKinney

On October 5, the Center for International and Comparative Law held a conference on “China's First Ten Years in the WTO - Issues, Challenges, and Prospects.” The event featured academic experts from around the world and provided six hours of Indiana CLE credit.

Vice Dean Antony Page welcomed attendees to the event, which was organized by Professor Frank Emmert, director of the Center.

The day was divided into several themes, and included multiple presentations given by scholars from the U.S. and abroad, followed by questions and discussion from the audience. The first session on “Compatibility of China’s Political and Economic System with WTO Law” featured sessions by Dr. Ming Du, LL.M., Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on “China's State Capitalism and the WTO,” and Mark L. Shope, J.D., LL.M., Associate at Faegre Baker Daniels, Indianapolis, on “Neoliberal Economic Policy and its Discontents: A Look at Chinese Development Policies and their Compatibility in a Multilateral Trading System.”

The next session on “Rule Based vs. Power Based Trade Relations,“ included “China, the US, and the EU in the WTO – ‘The Power and the Glory’ or just ‘Catch-as-Catch-Can’?” by Dr. Frank Emmert, LL.M., John S. Grimes Professor and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Anna Hakobyan, LL.M., Assistant Professor at Yerevan State University. This session also included “The Evolution and Future of the China-EU-Investment Relations” by Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M., Professor of Public Law, European Law, Public International and International Economic Law at Siegen University and Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne.

In the afternoon, “Global Equality vs. Regional Preferences” was the topic on which Dr. Talia Einhorn, Professor at Ariel University Center, Department of Economics and Business Management and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Management presented with her paper titled, “Regional Trade Agreements - Effects, Significance, and Rank within the Framework of the World Trading System.” Ying Chen, LL.M., SJD candidate at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law spoke on “China's Investment and Trade in Africa - Neo-Colonialism or Mutual Benefit?” and Dr. Javier Esguevillas, Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos III, Madrid, and Research Fellow at Notre Dame University spoke on “Trade and Investment Between China and Latin America.”

The final session was on “Dispute Settlement on the National and International Level” which featured a paper on “Challenges, Contention and Compliance: China's Role in WTO Dispute Resolution” by Timothy Webster, J.D., LL.M., Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. “The Implementation of China's WTO Transparency Commitment and Its Effect on China's Rule of Law: An Empirical Study” was the topic of Dr. Lu Xiaojie, Professor at Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing.

Professors Ming Du and Frank Emmert gave closing remarks at the conference. The Center plans to publish proceedings from the conference during the Spring semester.

10/05/2012

IP Center Hosts International Visitors

Professor Schaibley with International Visitors

On October 4, 2012, the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation hosted visitors from six different nations who were in the United States as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The group learned about the law school’s IP Center from Executive Director John Schaibley.

The visitors were Parviz Bakhshaliyev, a senior specialist in the international cooperation department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan; Fabio Santos DeSouza, chief of police of the intelligence division of the Civil Police Department of the Federal District in Brazil; Reemo Salupold, senior special investigator in the cyber crime and intellectual property unit, Police Border Guard Board in Estonia; Zoila Tatiana Morales, head of intellectual property rights for the Attorney General’s Office in Guatemala; Clare Elizabeth Curran, Member of Parliament, Dunedin South, New Zealand, and Udomsit Pattravadeeluck, legal officer, department of intellectual property, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand.

10/05/2012

IU McKinney Law J.D. Candidate Named CEO of Statewide Nonprofit

Kimberly A. Opsahl, a student in the law school’s evening division, has been appointed chief executive officer of the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Centers (INARF). She will take on her new role in January 2013.

Opsahl has been an executive with the organization for eight years, serving in a variety of capacities including director of membership support and vice president – external affairs. She is a 2013 J.D. candidate with a concentration in health law.

“I am extremely honored to have the opportunity to serve as INARF’s third chief executive officer. It is gratifying to be a part of furthering INARF’s mission and to share the amazing work our members are engaged in throughout Indiana,” Opsahl said. “I am confident that my experience at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law provided me with a competitive edge in achieving this success.”

INARF is the primary membership organization representing agencies that provide services to individuals with disabilities. INARF’s 80 member agencies provide vocational, residential, and early intervention services to over 13,000 individuals with disabilities across Indiana.

10/01/2012

Professor Wilson Leads Brazilian Program

The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law was the site of the fourth annual Program in American Law for Brazilian law professors and students from September 1 through 10, 2012. From 2009 through 2011, program participants came from (FAESA), located in Vitória, Brazil. In 2012, a second group of professors and students from Faculdade de Direito de Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (FDCI), located in Itapemirim, Brazil joined the program. 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. The classroom portion of the 2012 program included instruction on federalism, the jury system, and the common law. These topics allow participants to gain a better understanding of the legal system in the U.S. and to compare it to the civil law system of their home country.

The sites of program field trips were:

United States District Court, where the Brazilians met with Judge Sarah Evans Barker and Judge William T. Lawrence, ’73, who spoke about the role of federal courts in a federalist system
Indiana Supreme Court, where Justice Steve David, ’82, an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program, spoke to the group in the Supreme Court Courtroom about the state court system
Indiana Senate, where the group heard from Senator Phil Boots, Senator Mike Delph, ’10, and Senator Brandt Hershman, J.D. candidate 2013, about matters ranging from state government finance to important issues on the legislative agenda
Office of the Indiana Attorney General, where they met with Attorney General Greg Zoeller, who teaches as an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program, and who spoke about the Attorney General’s role in connection with each branch of state government
Faegre Baker & Daniels law firm, where Brita A. Horvath, ’02, Tom Froehle, Angie Castille, and Kathy Osborn spoke about the international practice of law and the firm’s pro bono and civic engagement activities

In addition, program participants visited Wabash College, where representatives of FAESA and FDCI joined faculty in a presentation titled, “Crisis and Recovery: Reflections on Economic Policies in Brazil and the U.S.”

Professor Wilson will host the 5th Program in American law in September 2013.

09/27/2012

Professor Drobac Elected to The American Law Institute

Professor Jennifer A. Drobac has been elected to The American Law Institute. She attended the ALI 89^th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in May as an invited guest. At the meeting, she was recognized to comment regarding the revision to the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses.

The American Law Institute is an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. ALI is made up of 4000 lawyers, judges, and law professors who draft, discuss, revise, and publish Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. ALI has long been influential internationally and, in recent years, more of its work has become international in scope.

Other members of ALI who are on the law school faculty include Professor Gerald L. Bepko; Jeffrey O. Cooper; Professor George E. Edwards; Professor Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos; Professor Andrew Klein; Professor David Orentlicher; Dean Gary Roberts; Professor Florence Wagman Roisman; Visiting Professor Randall T. Shepard; Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr.; and Professor James P. White. ALI members who are professors emeriti of the law school include Professor Thomas B. Allington, Professor Jeffrey W. Grove, Professor W. William Hodes, and Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney.

Professor Drobac received the Indiana University 2010 Sylvia E. Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award. She also received the 2005 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. 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.

09/24/2012

Professor Morris Made Presentation at Third Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference in Seoul

Professor Emily Michiko Morris made a presentation at the Third Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, which was held at Seoul National University, Korea. She talked about a work in process titled “Optimal Uncertainty in Patent Claim Construction,” in which she examines the effects of uncertain patent scope on incentives, competition, and litigation in patent-dependent industries. Her presentation was October 14, 2012.

Professor Morris is an Associate Professor of Law and a Dean’s Fellow. Before joining the Indiana University faculty, she served as a Humphrey Fellow in Law and Economic Policy at the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Morris's current work focuses on economic analysis of various patent law issues, including patent claiming and the effects of patent law on various industries.

09/24/2012

SJD Candidate Arafa to Present at Hamline University

Adjunct Professor Mohamed Arafa presented and moderated a panel during the 21^st annual symposium “Emerging Voices in Islamic Jurisprudence” at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 28 and 29, 2012.

Professor Arafa, who is an Adjunct Professor of Law (teaching Islamic Law) at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will moderate the panel titled “Islamic Law and its Effect on Islamic Communities.”

Professor Arafa’s recent work “Corruption and Bribery in Islamic Law: Are Islamic Ideals Being Met in Practice?” was published by Golden Gate Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law (Spring 2012).

Professor Arafa is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt, and an SJD candidate at IU McKinney.

09/24/2012

Hong Kong Scholar Du Ming Visits Joint Center for Asian Law Studies

Professor Du Ming, visiting scholar Du Ming, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, visited the IU McKinney School of Law’s Joint Center for Asian Law Studies in July. During his visit Professor Du conducted research for a forthcoming book that analyzes the impact of central government action on “market economies.” The book will examine government practices in several countries.

Professor Du specializes in international economic law, business organizations, capital markets, and Chinese law. He holds degrees from Oxford University (D. Phi.), Harvard University (LL.M.) and Tsinghua University (LL.B. and LL.M.).

Professor Du returned to the IU McKinney School of Law in October to participate in a conference on China’s membership in the World Trade Organization.

09/20/2012

Professor Sullivan to Speak on Diversity in the Legal Profession in Indianapolis, South Bend

Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., will address diversity in the legal profession in remarks at upcoming continuing legal education programs in Indianapolis and South Bend. Sullivan’s talks will examine the Indiana Supreme Court’s many diversity initiatives and the role they play in increasing access to justice in Indiana. He will also discuss the way in which a commitment to diversity enhances the professional skills of lawyers and enriches their personal lives.

The first program is the Indiana State Bar Association’s Applied Professionalism Seminar, on Friday, September 21, 2012. The event will be at the ISBA’s offices in Regions Conference Center, on the fifth floor of the One Indiana Square building in Indianapolis. This event offers six hours of ethics continuing legal education credit and satisfies CLE requirements for new attorneys.

The second program is the St. Joseph County Bar Association’s program on “Twenty-First Century Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession,” on Monday, September 24, 2012, at the Palais Royale, 105 W. Colfax Ave., in South Bend. This event offers two hours of CLE, including two hours of ethics credit.

Professor Sullivan joined the faculty at the law school in August 2012 after 19 years of service as a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. He is the recipient of several awards for advancing opportunities for minority lawyers in the legal profession.

09/14/2012

Professor Orentlicher to Speak at SUNY

Professor David Orentlicher, co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, will present the lecture “Broccoli, Medicaid and Mandates: Implications of the Affordable Care Act” on September 20, 2012, at 4 p.m. at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

Professor Orentlicher is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002-208, and is a former director of the Division of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association.

09/11/2012

Professor Terry to Join the Harvard Law Blog Bill of Health

Professor Nicolas Terry, co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health, has been invited to join the permanent bloggers at “Bill of Health,” a new health law and policy blog from the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School.

The blog will provide news, commentary and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics, and a goal is to cultivate an interactive discussion forum.

Professor Terry is one of the perrmanent bloggers at HealthLawProf Blog.

09/11/2012

Professor Roisman to Take Part in SALT Teaching Conference in October

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman will participate in the 2012 SALT Teaching Conference, October 5 and 6, 2012, at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland.

SALT is the Society of American Law Teachers. Professor Roisman will take part in a panel about approaches to social justice teaching, and a subsequent panel that will examine race and its legacy.

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law, a Chancellor’s Professor, and a John S. Grimes Fellow.

09/07/2012

Indiana Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument in Andrews v. State in Wynne Courtroom

A three-judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals heard oral argument in the case Andrews v. State on September 5, 2012, in the law school’s Wynne Courtroom. The case, before Judges Michael Barnes, Paul Mathias, and Nancy Vaidik, was an appeal out of Hamilton Superior Court concerning whether the appellant was required under the decision in Wallace v. State to register as a sex offender. The appellant pleaded guilty in Massachusetts in 1984. The state argued that Andrews had an obligation to register under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, passed in 2006.

After the argument, the judges answered students’ questions, and Judge Vaidik pointed out that many lawyers connected with the case began their legal careers as law clerks. She invited those attorneys to talk about how they obtained their first legal jobs. “It’s a tough market out there, I know,” she said. “I’ll be hiring law clerks for next September. Apply.”

09/07/2012

Professor Emerita Kinney to Lecture at Southern Illinois University

Professor Emerita Eleanor Kinney delivered the 2012 Dr. Arthur Grayson Distinguished Lecture at Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Professor Kinney, who is the 2012-2013 Garwin Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Law, presented “Physicians and Health Law at an Impasse: What Can Be Done?” at 5 p.m. on September 27, 2012.

Professor Kinney is the Hall Render Professor of Law Emerita and founding director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health.

08/30/2012

Visiting Scholar and Graduate Studies Program Manager Present Inaugural Lecture

Zuo Quan and Perfecto "Boyet" Caparas offered the first Graduate Studies Program Lecture titled "Damocles' Sword: Human Rights Divergence Between China and the U.S. – Disputes and Reflections."

Zuo is a visiting scholar at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and a Ph.D. candidate at Southeast University School of Law—Nanjing (China).

Caparas holds an A.B. and LL.B. from Manuel Luis Quezon University, an LL.M. in Human Rights (Honors) from the University of Hong Kong, and an LL.M. in American Law for Foreign Lawyers from IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the program manager for the law school’s Graduate Studies Program.

Zuo talked about China’s human rights commitment and the nation’s desire to find its own unique path forward. Clashes among nations over human rights are inevitable, he said, and he called for mutual respect between the governments of the United States and China, and for leaders of both nations to stop politicizing human rights issues. “It is better to distinguish the American people from the American government,” he said warmly, noting that he is enjoying his studies at the law school and welcomes the opportunity to get to know people.

Caparas offered an historical perspective on human rights in the United States, all the way from the Founding Fathers embracing the natural theory of human rights forward to the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s impact on access to medical care as a basic human right.

The lecture was held August 21, 2012, in the Wynne Courtroom.

08/29/2012

IU McKinney Law and IPS Partner in Unique Program

A program formalized August 29, 2012, between Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Indianapolis Public Schools will introduce 200 students in Grades 6-12 to the study of law and available career options in legal fields.

The partnership is between Shortridge Magnet High School for Law and Policy and IU McKinney School of Law.

“This collaboration between IPS and IU is an excellent example of the synergy an urban campus offers, resulting in enormous opportunities for university students and the community,” said IU McKinney School of Law Dean Gary R. Roberts. “We know the time and effort our students and faculty are investing in a new generation of homegrown legal professionals will have a positive effect on Indiana and the legal profession for years to come.”

The students’ law-themed curriculum is taught in part by IU McKinney Law faculty and students, who also, along with law school alumni, tutor and mentor students from the program. Juniors and seniors from the high school also will be selected to “shadow” law students working in the live client clinics, where they will experience practical aspects of the law and legal representation.

The goal of the Shortridge program is to prepare students for their roles as citizens while exploring legal and social justice careers. Law student Teaching Assistants (TA’s) will build relationships they hope will positively impact the lives of Shortridge students. Law school faculty will volunteer their time to teach the high school students, and student TA’s will receive academic credit for their work.

“Even if law isn’t in some of our students’ future career paths, the exposure they will receive through this partnership is immeasurable,” said IPS Superintendent Dr. Eugene G. White. “They have the opportunity to learn from some esteemed law professors and lawyers-in-training who believe in the potential of our Shortridge scholars.”

The event also featured the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two schools, as well as a reception and moot court held at the law school for the Shortridge students.

08/29/2012

Professor Emmert to Present at Conference in Beirut

Professor Frank Emmert will be speaking on "The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) as the Future Civil Code of Europe - the Most Ambitious Legal Harmonization Project of Our Times" at a conference in Beirut on September 10, 2012. The conference, "Harmonization of Law," is jointly organized by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), The Hague Conference on Private International Law, the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, and Beirut Arab University, under the Patronage of H.E. the Minister of Justice of the Lebanese Republic, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Professor Emmert is the executive director of the IU McKinney School of Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law.

08/29/2012

Professor Emmert Lectures on Competition Law in Tajikistan

Professor Frank Emmert delivered a presentation on August 26, 2012, at a conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Professor Emmert’s presentation was titled "Getting Serious About Competition Law - Power, Abuse, Why We Should Care, and What We Can Do About It." The conference was organized by the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in cooperation with the Tajik Bar Association.

Professor Emmert is the executive director of the IU McKinney School of Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law.

08/29/2012

Professor Schumm named to Best Lawyers

Professor Joel Schumm, ’98, has been named to the peer-reviewed “Best Lawyers in America, 19th edition.” He was named to the list because of the work in appellate practice.

According to Best Lawyers, inclusion on the list “ is based entirely on peer review. The methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. Best Lawyers employs a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services.”

Professor Schumm is the director of the Judicial Externship Program and teaches in the Appellate Clinic. Earlier this year, he was a semifinalist for a vacancy on the Indiana Court of Appeals.

08/29/2012

Search Committee for Law School's Next Dean Announced

The team that will conduct a national search for candidates for the dean of the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law has been announced.

Gary R. Roberts, who joined the school as dean in July 2007, will remain on the faculty after his retirement. He will retire as dean of the school on June 30, 2013.

The search committee will be led by retired Indiana Supreme Court Justice Theodore (Ted) R. Boehm.

Law school faculty and staff on the search committee include:

Cynthia M. Adams, ’83, clinical professor of law
Karen E. Bravo, professor of law, John S. Grimes Fellow and Dean’s Fellow
Linda Kelly Hill, M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law and Immigration Clinic director
Antony Page, vice dean & professor of law
Chasity Q. Thompson, ’02, assistant dean, Office of Professional Development
Carlton M. Waterhouse, associate professor of law and Dean’s Fellow

The search committee also includes a McKinney Law student: Nabeela Virjee, J.D. candidate 2013.

Other members of the search committee are:

David Bodenhamer, professor of history and executive director, The Polis Center
David W. Crabb, John B. Hickam Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine
James Gladden, dean, IU School of Physical Education and Tourism Management
Jeff Linder, ’75, IU associate vice president for public affairs and government relations
Hon. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, ’83, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
William R. Neale, ’73, partner, Krieg DeVault

08/28/2012

International Law Society Hosts Event, Sponsors Donation Drive

The International Law Society (ILS) hosted International Law Hour: Episode 1 in October. Professors George Edwards, Frank Emmert, and Tom Wilson showcased the many international law-related activities at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, including international human rights internships, international moot court competitions, and the summer study abroad program in Beijing, China. The next Episode will showcase local professionals working in international law, who will describe globally-oriented job prospects in Indiana, and will be a source of networking for event participants.

On the humanitarian side of things, the ILS is currently co-sponsoring a donation drive for Exodus, a local non-governmental organization (NGO) that helps refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants in need of support. Food, clothing, and other tangibles are being collected as part of the drive. And coming soon, the ILS will lead a drive for Project Sole, an NGO that collects shoes for impoverished peoples around the world who can’t afford footwear and suffer from feet ailments.

The ILS is focused on a balanced approach to helping students find career opportunities, helping those in need of basic necessities, as well as collaborating with other groups to make our mission possible.

08/28/2012

IU McKinney Alumnus Finds International Connections Between Indiana and the World

IU McKinney Alumnus Terry Slywka

Terry Slywka, ’96, has spent the last 10 years working overseas on legal reform projects in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

“I have found the international connections between Indiana and the world are much greater than many think,” Slywka said.

After spending eight years in the former Soviet Union, specifically Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Slywka has been in Kosovo for the last two years. He works as Chief of Party, or the field project leader, for U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID. He leads a staff of about 50 experts and is in charge of the USAID Business Enabling Environment Program, a three year project which runs through 2013.

Kosovo, supported by Slywka’s project, had by far the greatest improvement in business-related laws and processes from 2011-2012 in the World Bank and International Finance Corporation report “Doing Business 2013.” Kosovo also had the single greatest improvement in any indicator; in this case it was “Protecting Investors,” due to increased corporate disclosure, avoidance of conflict of interest and director liability provisions.

But it’s not all about the technical aspects of this kind of work, Slywka said.

“We also work closely with citizens and all the usual parties in the development industry, trying to find the roots of economic development and good governance in local legal and cultural traditions, while avoiding the cut and paste approach of rote replication of policies and laws from other countries,” he said. “At the same time, the work has driven a bit of personal introspection about the role of law in various countries (and how people manage their interpersonal relationships), the commonality of the human condition, the unlimited potential and capability of people around the world, and what we as America means to the world.”

08/27/2012

Professor Shaver Explores Human Rights from an Intellectual Property Standpoint

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines the basic rights all human beings are entitled to expect. It’s a fairly straightforward document, spelling out the right to vote, to have favorable working conditions, and equality before the law, among others.

But Professor Lea Shaver has zeroed in on Article 27 of the Universal Declaration, which states that people have “the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

“The problem,” she says, “is nobody knows what that means.” It’s this facet of the Declaration where she has chosen to focus her scholarship.

Her 2010 article The Right to Science and Culture, published in the Wisconsin Law Review , was cited by United Nations Special Rapporteur Farida Shaheed in a report on intellectual property and cultural rights adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in July 2012.

“It’s the equivalent of being cited by a court for me!” she said.

Professor Shaver taught at Yale Law School and Hofstra Law School before joining the IU McKinney faculty in Fall 2012. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. As a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, her studies focused on essential human rights: the right to water, housing, education, for example.

She points to living standards in the United States, which increased after the New Deal. Prior to that, electricity had only been available to the wealthy, she said, and a change in government policy made electricity available to nearly everyone. This has led her to wonder “is there a human right to electricity? A human right to the internet? Are there human rights to things that change over time?”

She believes the right to participate in the culture of a society, Article 27 of the Universal Declaration, means that the ability to participate must be available to everyone. “The ideal is that we all get to make and create.”

08/27/2012

LL.M. Student Pursues Advanced Studies, Plans for Career Change

LLM Student Zhenzu Li

Zhenzhu Li, an LL.M. student from Changsha, China, which is the capital of the Hunan Province, is nearing the end of her studies at IU McKinney Law. She’s completing the American Law for Foreign Lawyers track.

If you’ve been to the two International Students’ Speaker Series events this semester, you’ve seen her. She spoke about family law in China at the first event on September 20, 2012, and about criminal law, which she practices at her law firm at home, on October 23, 2012. She is president of the Master of Laws Association, which organizes the Speakers Series with the Graduate Studies Program and the Associate Dean for International Affairs, Professor Karen Bravo.

"As an international student here, I have learned a lot about the American legal system, which is completely different from China," Li said. "I have learned to how to be an international lawyer, which is the most important reason why I am here. In addition, I learned to swim in deep end, play golf, and learned to how to be strong and independent. I will take the bar exam in California in July and I will try my best to past it!"

Li plans to resume her criminal law practice when she returns home to China in December 2012, but she also plans to focus on international business transactions. She’s been a practicing lawyer for 10 years, and was looking for a new challenge in her career path. She describes the market for lawyers in China as promising for those who know American law and have good English skills. She plans to pursue a position as a partner in a law firm when she returns home to Changsha.

She misses her daughter, 3-year-old Wenxuan Su, and has been home to see her twice since arriving here in January 2012. Li also has faced other challenges in her family, including her father’s illness.

“This year has been tough for me,” she said. “but this was my dream, to go abroad and study for one year.” But, it will be good to be home, she said.

08/23/2012

Professors Wilson and Ding Organize Reunion of Chinese Alumni

Professors Wilson and Page with alumni in China
Over 120 Chinese nationals have earned degrees at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law since May 2003. Professors Tom Wilson and Ding Xiangshun (LL.M. ‘06, visiting professor at IU McKinney School of Law in 2012, and Renmin University of China Law school Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Foreign Affairs) set out in the fall of 2011 to form an IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Alumni Association in China. With the hard work of an organizing committee, which included alumni Annie Liu (LL.M. ’04), Hongbin Bao (LL.M. ’04; J.D. ’07), Sabrina Zeng (LL.M. ’06), Wei Yang (LL.M. ’07), Feng Tian (LL.M. ’07), Zhenfeng Yan (LL.M. ’06), and Leng Shuai (LL.M. ’07), an overflow crowd met in Beijing on May 27, 2012. Attendees included alumni who had received their degrees only two weeks earlier at commencement ceremonies in Indianapolis. Alumni renewed friendships, established connections, and enjoyed exchanging memories of the time they spent at IU McKinney Law. According to Prof. Wilson, planning already has begun for the 2013 Alumni Reunion.

08/22/2012

Professor Katz and Vice Dean Page Prominently Featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review

Professor Robert Katz and Vice Dean Antony Page co-wrote an article that is prominently featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, an award-winning magazine that covers innovative approaches to global problems.

Titled "The Truth about Ben and Jerry's," Katz and Page’s article debunks the conventional wisdom that corporate law compelled the sale of Ben & Jerry's to corporate giant Unilever. Katz and Page claim that although new corporate forms like benefit corporations and low-profit limited liability companies (L3Cs) can make it easier to pursue a social mission or run a socially responsible business, you don't need one to do so.

"Proponents of benefit corporations and the like should be pressed to identify real and unavoidable instances of the Ben & Jerry's scenario," they write, "or stop using it to demonstrate the dire need for such forms." Katz and Page's article was also the center piece of the magazine editor's column.

08/21/2012

Indiana Gubernatorial Candidates to Participate in Forum Moderated by Retired Chief Justice Randall Shepard

Libertarian Rupert Boneham, Republican Mike Pence, ‘79 and Democrat John Gregg, ‘84

<< Watch the forum live August 21 at 7:00 p.m. >>

Indiana's major-party gubernatorial candidates will join retired Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard for an August 21 public conversation about key issues facing the Hoosier state. Hosted by the Indiana University Public Policy Institute (PPI) and co-sponsored by the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, this one-of-a-kind Policy Choices for Indiana’s Future Gubernatorial Forum is at capacity, but the public can view it live via webstream starting at 7 p.m. August 21.

Libertarian Rupert Boneham, Republican Mike Pence, ‘79 and Democrat John Gregg, ‘84 will appear separately in back-to-back conversations with Shepard, the Executive in Residence at the PPI which is a part of IU’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). Shepard’s academic appointment is also supported by the law school. The discussions will focus on the policy options developed by the Policy Choices for Indiana’s Future project by its commissions on Education and Workforce Development, Energy and the Environment, and State and Local Tax Policy.

08/21/2012

Professor Roisman to Take Part in Panel on Marion County Small Claims Report

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman will participate in a roundtable discussion concerning the Indiana Supreme Court’s task force that investigated the Marion County Small Claims Court. Professor Roisman will serve on the panel with Indiana Court of Appeals Judge John Baker, and Marion Superior Judge Louis Rosenberg. The program, slated for August 23, 2012, is presented by the Indianapolis Bar Association. She is the co-author, with Brienne Delaney, '12, of "Report #1 on Landlord-Tenant Court Proceedings in Indiana."

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law, a Chancellor’s Professor, and a John S. Grimes Fellow.

08/17/2012

IU McKinney Law Grad is Finalist for Indiana Supreme Court

The Hon. Steven R. Nation, '75, of Hamilton Superior Court, is one of three finalists for the Indiana Supreme Court. Judge Nation has a diverse legal background, having worked as a civil trial attorney, a prosecutor, and a trial judge.

Also under consideration for the opening on the Indiana Supreme Court are Tippecanoe Superior Judge Loretta Rush, and Taft Stettinius & Hollister partner Geoffrey Slaughter.

This most recent vacancy occurred when Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., left the Indiana Supreme Court to join the IU McKinney Law faculty. Governor Mitch Daniels will make the final decision. Three other alumni already serve on the court. Justice Mark Massa, ’89, was appointed earlier this year. Justice Steven David, ’82, was appointed in 2010. Chief Justice Brent E. Dickson, ’68, has served on the court since 1986.

08/16/2012

IU McKinney Law Hosts Visitors from Sun Yat-sen Law School

Dean Roberts and Professor Wilson with visitors from Sun-Yat Sen university

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was host to 14 law students and professors from Sun Yat-sen University Law School July 31 through August 11. The purpose of the visit was the inaugural Summer Program in U.S. Law. The Summer Program is a partnership of the two law schools and will be held annually.

The group from Sun Yat-sen Law attended classes taught by professors Tom Wilson, George Wright, Carlton Waterhouse, Gerard Magliocca, and Shawn Boyne. Subjects covered included the American legal system, U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal law.

But it wasn’t all classroom work every day. Students were treated to a number of legal field trips, including visits to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to meet with the Hon. William T. Lawrence, ’73; the Indiana Senate, where they met with State Senator Brandt Hershman, ’13 J.D. candidate; Indiana Supreme Court, where they met Justice Steven David, ’82; and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office, where they posed questions to AG Greg Zoeller, an adjunct professor at IU McKinney Law. Students also paid a visit to one of the state’s largest firms, Faegre Baker Daniels, where they met with Chief Operating Partner Tom Froehle; Manager of Diversity and Inclusion Brita Horvath, ’02; and M. Angella Castille, who spoke with students about international and cross-border transactions.

Cultural field trips included trips to a concert on the Canal with Argentine tango dancing, the U.S. National Swimming Championships, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Trader’s Point Hunt Club Horse Show.

Pictured: Dean Gary R. Roberts and Professor Tom Wilson with the visitors from Sun-Yat sen university.

08/16/2012

Head of McKinney Information Services to Direct National Magazine

AALL Spectrum Cover Catherine Lemmer , head of information services at the Ruth Lilly Law Library at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, has been selected as the new editorial director of AALL Spectrum. The magazine is published nine times a year and distributed to all American Association of Law Libraries members.

Lemmer received her M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Before joining the law library community, she was a partner at Vedder Price in Chicago and worked as a project manager developing a statewide library consortium using the open-source Evergreen ILS. She is the co-editor of the law school’s Legal Studies Research Paper Series, and she re-energized the library's "Writing Circle" to encourage library staff to research and write for library publications.

08/16/2012

Chinese Law Summer Program Has Record Enrollment and Places Interns in Chinese Firms

Professor Tom Wilson with students in Tiananmen Square
The 2012 Chinese Law Summer Program (CLSP) attracted the highest number of students in the program’s 26 year history. A total of 46 students from nine law schools, including one in the Philippines, completed the program, which was held from May 18 to June 16 at the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Law schools represented in the 2012 CLSP were Boston College Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, University of Oklahoma College of Law, University of Santo Tomas Civil Faculty of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law, Widener University School of Law, and University of Wisconsin Law School. Since Renmin University of China Law School became the host school in 1998, students from 97 law schools have enrolled in the CLSP.

Following the 2012 CLSP, 13 students worked as interns in major Chinese law firms located in Beijing, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The internships allowed U.S. law students to work on international transactions and litigation and to observe the practice of law in China. Participants in the 2013 CLSP, which will be held from May 17 to June 15, will be eligible for similar internships. Discussions are already under way to add more firms in other Chinese cities. The Director of the Chinese Law Summer Program is Professor Tom Wilson.

08/16/2012

Professor Wilson Organizes Judicial Conference in China

Participants in The Art of Judging conference in Beijing
Professor Tom Wilson organized and led the 3rd Sino-U.S. Law Conference, which was held on June 11, 2012, at the National Judges College of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. The theme of the conference was The Art of Judging. Judges from the U.S. and China discussed challenges they face and compared methods of judging. Representing the judiciary in Indiana were (1) Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr. (who will become Professor of Practice at the IU McKinney School of Law in the fall); (2) Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven H. David, ’82 (adjunct professor of law); and (3) Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia A. Riley, ’74, (adjunct professor of law). Also among the speakers were Gao Jinghong and Hao Yinzhong, both of whom are senior judges of the Supreme People’s Court of China. The audience included approximately forty high-level Chinese judges, among them Xu Fang, Chief Judge of the DaDong District Court, who will receive an LL.M. degree from the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law in August. Professor Wilson spoke in the opening session and moderated the proceedings.

The Sino-U.S. Law Conference series was founded in 2010 and is a product of collaboration between Professor Wilson and Renmin University of China Law School professor Ding Xiangshun, LL.M. ’06. The Conferences are sponsored by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, which is based at the IU McKinney School of Law and the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Information about prior Sino-U.S. Law Conferences is available online here and here.

Participants in The Art of Judging pictured above: (from left) Professor Liu Fengjing, Nankai University Law School; Hao Yinzhong, senior judge of the Supreme People’s Court of China; Professor Fred Morrison, former dean of the University of Minnesota Law School; Professor Mary Sue Backus, University of Oklahoma College of Law; Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia A. Riley, ’74; Gao Jinghong, senior judge of the Supreme People’s Court of China and dean of the National Judges College; Professor Tom Wilson; Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., former Indiana Supreme Court justice; Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, ’82; and Ding Xiangshun, LL.M. '06, assistant dean for foreign affairs, School of Law of Renmin University of China.

08/15/2012

IU McKinney Law Professor's Work in Haiti Subject of Forthcoming Book

Professor Quigley with survivors of the earthquake in Haiti As disheartening as the poverty is in Haiti, that is not the island nation’s primary problem.

It seems like a shocking thing to say about a nation where more than 70 percent of its citizens live at or below the poverty line, but the real problem is impunity, said Professor Fran Quigley, ‘87.

He has made five visits to Haiti in the last year, thanks to funding from the John S. Grimes Fellowship. He is currently at work on a book, tentatively slated to be published in 2013, titled The Victory is for the People: How Human Rights Can Save Haiti. The book tries to answer the question of how to make the government more responsive.

“The real answer for Haiti is the rule of law,” he said. “If the rule of law were respected there, it would lead to democratic representative government with an obligation to protect the rights of its people, and would lead to schools and an economy that works.”

While students are not yet permitted to travel to Haiti, they can observe from their Health and Human Rights Clinic classroom what the lack of the rule of law has meant for Haiti’s people. This is a tremendous lesson for students about how vital the work is that lawyers do in that area. Professor Quigley hopes students eventually will be able to travel to Haiti, which is only a 90-minute flight from Miami, to see conditions first-hand. “There’s a lot we can do, a lot of the action is here,” Professor Quigley said. “If we don’t address the human rights issues, we’ll just keep putting a Band-Aid on it, and it won’t work.”

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s president from 1971 to 1986, fled his homeland rather than face going to court over the jailing, torturing, and killing of political opponents and journalists and diverting public funds to his accounts. Now Duvalier is back home in Haiti, walking around as a free man and the current president is lobbying that Duvalier should have political immunity and not face trial.

A little pressure from the nation’s northern neighbor could go a long way toward a trial for Duvalier. “If the U.S. President wants Duvalier to be put on trial, he’ll be tried,” Professor Quigley said. “If he remains unscathed, it leaves a message that criminals won’t be held accountable.”

Professor Quigley has written extensively about what he’s seen in several publications, including Commonweal, AlterNet, Truthout, and Counterpunch.

Professor Quigley, a clinical professor of law and director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at IU Robert H. McKinney School of law, also is the senior advisor for the IU Center for Global Health.

08/15/2012

IU McKinney Professor Named to Alliance Steering Committee

Professor Linda Kelly Hill was elected to the steering committee of the Indiana University Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors. She takes office on October 1, 2012. The Alliance works to enhance the excellence of faculty, staff, and administrators, and their research, teaching, and service.

“It will be an honor to serve on the Alliance Steering Committee,” Professor Kelly Hill said. “The Alliance Steering Committee serves as elected representatives of the Alliance, which is comprised of professors holding a distinguished rank, titled professorship or an endowed chair at Indiana University. The Steering Committee therefore plays a critical role in serving as a liaison between the faculty of Indiana University and our central administration. I look forward to representing the faculty’s interests in teaching, scholarship and service. In so doing, it will be my pleasure to work towards creating an even stronger learning environment for our students."

Professor Kelly Hill teaches Conflicts of Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, and Trusts and Estates. Consistent with her teaching, Professor Kelly Hill's scholarship focuses upon how traditional norms regarding family and gender roles have influenced numerous areas of law. Her scholarship regularly explores how such norms affect such legal areas such as immigration, domestic violence, sexual harassment and probate. In 2006, Professor Kelly Hill also began an immigration clinic at IU McKinney Law. Through the work of the law school's upper level J.D. and LL.M. students, the Immigration Clinic is providing pro bono legal representation to Indianapolis' indigent immigrant community.

08/14/2012

Law School's IICLR Editors Plan to Make Symposium an Annual Event

Student Editors of the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review
Students Douglas Louks, Anne Kaiser, Jenna Gerber, and Morgan Whitacre are the principal editors for the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review for the 2012-2013 academic year. Published continuously since 1991, II&CLR is devoted to the study and analysis of current international legal issues and problems. New this year is the decision to make the formerly biennial symposium an annual event. This year’s symposium will be a collaboration with the Environmental Law Society (ELS), after which II&CLR’s annual symposium will become a freestanding event.

Kaiser, a third-year student, will be the editor-in-chief of the II&CLR. She would like to practice immigration law, and also is interested in policy work in the areas of immigration, higher education, the environment, and drug law reform. Gerber, a third-year student, will be the review’s managing editor. She is drawn to international law because “the world is becoming smaller every day thanks to the advance of technology, and international law is becoming more relevant in our everyday lives.”

Louks, a third-year student, and Whitacre, a fourth-year evening student, are symposium editors. Louks will edit the works of the speakers from the previous symposium. He plans to become a member of the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps after graduation. Whitacre will work with ELS students to plan the March 1, 2013, symposium, on Great Lakes Governance issues. “ I joined the international and comparative law review because it allowed me to broaden the scope on the issues I care most about,” she said.

08/14/2012

LL.M. Grad Publishes Article on Organ Transplantation

Bianca Buechner, LL.M. ’12, had an article published in PredictER (Predictive Health Ethics Research), a multi-disciplinary research, policy, and public education program of the IU Center for Bioethics. Titled “News from Germany: Organ Transplantation and ‘Research Donations,’” the article examines organ transplantation law in Germany and efforts to increase the practice.

Buechner is research assistant and fellow at the IU Center for Bioethics, and a research assistant at the law school’s Hall Center for Law and Health.

08/13/2012

Welcome to Incoming Graduate Students from Around the World

A total of 10 graduate students, including two S.J.D. candidates, are starting their studies at IU McKinney Law beginning with the fall 2012 semester.

The LL.M. students are:

Gabriela Castilhos Pereira of Brazil
Wimolsiri Chalongkhwan of Thailand
Sarah Dunkley of Australia
Yi-sheng Liu of Taiwan
Aishah Shamsi of the United States
Carleen Thompson of the United States
Dongyi Wang of China
Yanpeng Wang of China
The S.J.D. students are:
Yazeed Alissa of Saudi Arabia
Zheng Qin of China

Welcome to all!

08/13/2012

Antony Page Appointed Vice Dean

Vice Dean Antony Page Professor Antony Page has been appointed to the position of Vice Dean, succeeding Paul Cox, who stepped down from that role effective June 30. Professor Page came to Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in the Summer of 2003. An expert in corporate law, he 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 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 in a variety of journals, including the Boston University Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and his work has been cited by U.S. courts including the United States Supreme Court and four state supreme courts. Professor Page has received the Outstanding New Faculty Member Award from the student body, an Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award, and has also been awarded John S. Grimes Fellowships and Dean Fellowships.

He has taught the following courses: Closely Held Business Organizations; Mergers & Acquisitions; Contracts and Sales I; Contracts and Sales II; International Law; International Securities Regulation; and Publicly Traded Corporations. In addition to the J.D., he holds a B. Comm. (with great distinction) from McGill University and an M.B.A. from Simon Fraser University.

08/10/2012

Professor Wilson Visits China, Hosts Sun Yat-sen Law Students

IU McKinney Law Professor Tom Wilson, director of the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, Chinese Law Summer Program (CLSP), and the American Law for Foreign Lawyers LL.M. track, has had another busy summer.

He traveled to China in May and June, where the CLSP attracted the highest number of students in the program’s 26-year history. A total of 46 students, including one from the Philippines, completed the program held at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing, from May 18 through June 16.

Professor Wilson and Vice Dean Antony Page took part in a roundtable discussion on legal education in China on May 26 at Renmin. The goal of the discussion was to explore possible reforms to legal education in China.

Professor Wilson also led the CLSP students at the Third Annual International Forum for Law Students, held May 27. Professor Wilson coached seven students, who made presentations on the Forum’s theme of “Legal Studies Beyond Borders.”

That same day, Professor Wilson and Professor Ding Xiangshun, LL.M. ’06, organized a reunion for the more than 120 Chinese nationals who have earned degrees at the IU McKinney School of Law since May 2003. The event was held for an overflow crowd in Beijing.

Professor Wilson also organized and led the Third Sino-U.S. Law Conference, held on June 11 at the National Judges College of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. Judges from the U.S. and China discussed the challenges they face and compared their judging methods. Representing the Indiana judiciary were Professor Frank Sullivan, who then was an Indiana Supreme Court Justice; Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, ’82, and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Riley, ’74.

Professor Wilson was invited to deliver a lecture at Nanjing Normal University Law School on June 12, where he compared the American jury system with the Chinese law assessor system.

Professor Wilson then oversaw the inaugural Summer Program in U.S. Law for 14 students and professors from Sun Yat-sen University Law School held in Indianapolis from July 31 through August 11. The program is a partnership of the two law schools and will be offered annually. The group from Sun Yat-sen Law attended classes taught by professors Wilson, George Wright, Carlton Waterhouse, Gerard Magliocca, and Shawn Boyne. Subjects covered included the American legal system, U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal law.

08/09/2012

Two from McKinney School of Law Honored by Indiana Association of Cities and Towns

Indiana State Representative and Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, '84, and State Senator Brandt Hershman, '13 candidate, have been named co-recipients of the 2012 Legislator of the Year Award by the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns.

Bosma was honored for his open communication with the organization, which advocates on behalf of municipal governments across the state. Bosma also was recognized for his efforts at protecting revenues for municipal governments, and making sure proposed legislation did not get in the way of economic development.

Hershman, who also is director of the Program on Educational Outreach for Government Leaders at the law school, was honored for his leadership role in the Senate on Emergency 9-1-1 funding, and for his long-time support of the organization’s initiatives for improving efficiency in municipal governance.

08/08/2012

Two McKinney Professors to Present at Conference at Stanford Law

Professor Emily Michiko Morris and Professor Lea Shaver will present at the 12^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, slated for August 9 and 10 at Stanford Law School.

Professor Morris will present a work-in-progress titled "'Overbreadth' as Oversimplification," in which she argues that the current focus on alleged over breadth in patent scope, as seen in the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Prometheus and Bilski and in myriad Federal Circuit decisions, oversimplifies a variety of concerns that we have in patent law.

Professor Shaver will present her paper titled “Time for a Truce: Lessons from the Lightbulb Litigation for the Smartphone Patent War,” which contains analysis and commentary in what she calls “the brewing ‘patent war’ in the smartphone industry.”

Professor Morris is an associate professor of law and Dean’s Fellow, who has been teaching at the law school since 2008.

Professor Shaver is an associate professor of law. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and taught there and at Hofstra Law School before joining the faculty at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law this year.

08/08/2012

Professor Drobac Lectures Around the World on Neuroscience and the Law

Professor Jennifer Drobac spent much of the summer presenting her research on adolescent neuroscience and law to other academics around the world.

First, she presented at the Law & Society Association 2012 International Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 7. Then she attended a faculty seminar in Brisbane on June 15 at the University of Queensland. Then it was off to another faculty seminar on June 21 in Sydney at the University of Sydney where she also was a Parsons Visiting Scholar, followed by the Athens Institute of Education and Research Law Conference in Athens on July 16. She presented her work titled “ Abandoning Teenage Consent for Adolescent Assent: Harmonizing Developmental Sciences and the Law.”

Professor Drobac received grant money from the law school, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and from IUPUI to fund her participation at the conferences and her lecture presentations.

"By presenting my research on adolescent neuroscience and law to academics from around the world, I have gathered new perspectives and information which are influencing my work,” she said. “Scholarly exchange plays a vital role in making the world better, safer, and economically vibrant. The international relationships I've formed will undoubtedly benefit all of us for years to come."

08/08/2012

Professor Edwards to Speak at UNICEF Conference at Georgetown

Professor George E. Edwards has accepted an invitation to speak at the 10th UNICEF-Georgetown International Development Conference (IDC), to be held at Georgetown University Law Center on November 9, 2012.

The theme of the international development conference is “Educate, Enlighten, Empower”, and Professor Edwards will speak about how human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the domestic level can be empowered to advocate before inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) such as the United Nations. He will discuss how human rights NGOs can mobilize, under domestic and international law, to further the protection of human rights around the globe.

Professor Edwards in Vietnam
Professor Edwards also gave a presentation on legal education and LL.M. programs on July 26 at the U.S. Embassy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (pictured above). The event was sponsored by the Consulate’s Public Affairs Section and Education USA, a U.S. State Department Affiliate.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law, John S. Grimes Fellow, and director of the Program in International Human Rights Law.

07/21/2012

LL.M. Program in Egypt Holds Commencement Ceremony

Dean Gary Roberts and Professor Frank Emmert, executive director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, spoke at commencement for the law school's LL.M. program in Cairo, Egypt in July. The Evening of Celebration for 2012 graduates and all program alumni of the law school's LL.M. program in Cairo got under way on Friday, July 6, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., and the commencement ceremony took place the next day, July 7, 2012, at 6:00 pm. Both events were held in the Al Saraya Ballroom at Intercontinental Hotel Citystars - Cairo.

The Commencement Address was given by Omar Altantawy, Senior Specialist of Economy and Trade, Ministry of International Cooperation. Other speakers included student A rig Ali; Dr. Hassan Abdel Basset El Gumie, Vice Dean, Cairo University Faculty of Law; Walter North, Mission Director, USAID-Egypt; and Germaine Amer, Deputy Office Director and Development Specialist, Cairo University Faculty of Law – Egypt Program.

07/20/2012

Professor Wilson Leads Chinese Law Summer Students at the 3rd International Forum for Law Students

Professor Wilson in China
Professor Tom Wilson coached seven law students who made presentations at the 3^rd Annual International Forum for Law Students, which was held on May 27, 2012, at the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. The theme of the Forum was Legal Studies Beyond Borders. Student speakers researched issues relating to transnational legal education and the transnational practice of law. In addition to eight student speakers from China, seven students enrolled in the law school’s Chinese Law Summer Program made presentations, including five from the IU McKinney School of Law: Sukrat Baber, Tarah M.C. Baldwin, Amanda Miller, Corinne Purvis, and Daniel Wegg. The issues discussed at the forum were wide-ranging and included (1) the importance of legal cultural immersion for transnational law practice, (2) the ethics of outsourcing legal work to foreign countries, (3) a case study of international legal education methods developed at Maastricht University, (4) practice challenges posed by the mixed civil-common law system of the Philippines, (5) a legal education pedagogy based on “stateless” law; (6) a role for social scientists in the transnational practice of law, and (7) dual degree programs at U.S. and Canadian law schools.

The International Forum for Law Students series was founded in 2010 and is a product of collaboration between Professor Wilson and Renmin University of China Law School professor Ding Xiangshun (IU McKinney School of Law, LL.M. ’06). The Forums are sponsored by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, which is based at the IU McKinney School of Law and the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Information about prior International Law Forums is available online here and here.

07/18/2012

Five Indiana Supreme Court Candidates are McKinney Law Grads

A total of five of the 10 people seeking to become the next associate justice on the Indiana Supreme Court are graduates of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. They are:

Hon. Cale J. Bradford, ’86, Indiana Court of Appeals
Andrielle M. Metzel, ’96, Indianapolis
Hon Steven R. Nation, ’75, Hamilton Superior Court
Hon. Mary G. Willis, ’91, Henry Circuit Court
John P. Young, ’88, Indianapolis

Semifinalists will be interviewed August 8 and 9, and the three most qualified candidates will be sent to Governor Mitch Daniels, who will make the final decision. The JNC is filling a vacancy that will occur when Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., leaves the court later this summer to join the faculty of the law school.

07/17/2012

Dean Roberts to Retire in 2013

Dean Gary R. Roberts Gary R. Roberts, dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will retire as dean of the school on June 30, 2013, IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz has announced. Roberts will remain on the law school faculty after his retirement as dean.

Roberts, who joined the school as dean in July 2007, has overseen a dramatic transformation at the law school, the most visible sign of which was the $24 million naming gift in December by Indianapolis business leader Bob McKinney, which resulted in the establishment of five endowed chairs and a $17.5 million scholarship endowment for the school.

“Gary Roberts assumed leadership of a financially sound school and further strengthened it through his energy, determination and work ethic,” Bantz said. “Gary’s efforts have raised awareness of the vital contributions the McKinney School’s graduates continue to make, especially in Indiana, and he will leave the school well positioned to confront the challenges facing legal education in the future.”

Roberts, a national expert in sports law, joined the McKinney School from the Tulane University Law School, where he was on the faculty for 24 years and where he served as deputy dean from 2001 to 2007. He earned his law degree from Stanford University, graduating at the top of his class.

In addition to the naming gift secured during his tenure, Roberts also has strengthened the school in a number of other ways. He led the effort to create a strategic plan for the school and worked with the faculty to adopt or rewrite the Faculty Constitution and Bylaws, the Student Bar Association Constitution, the Student Honor Code and the procedures for exam administration. He has overseen the addition of 15 faculty members to the school and a doubling of the student financial aid budget, which has been crucial to the school's effort to attract talented students.

He also has grown key international partnerships with the law school at Renmin University in Beijing, the law school at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and the McKinney School’s renowned LL.M. Program in Cairo, Egypt, which has graduated 203 students in the past four years.

“Gary has made significant contributions to the school, and I am delighted he has decided to remain as a faculty member after his retirement as dean,” Bantz said.

A search for Roberts’ successor will begin immediately.

07/16/2012

Dean Roberts Comments for NPR on NCAA Sanctions for Penn State

Dean Gary Roberts told National Public Radio (NPR) the NCAA is not meant to be a law enforcement agency and should not take on that role regarding the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky scandal. Roberts said he would urge the organization to use its bully pulpit to urge its members to not let their athletic programs become too powerful. Dean Roberts made the comments in a story for NPR’s Morning Edition program on July 16, 2012.

“For the NCAA to have the kind of power to discipline institutions because members of their athletic program or their senior leadership engage in immoral or illegal conduct that really has nothing to do with athletics, I think that’s very worrisome,” Dean Roberts told NPR reporter Tom Goldman.

The NCAA is not meant to be a law enforcement agency and Dean Roberts said he believes the university will suffer without sanctions. “I think the whole institution has been damaged,” he said. Friends of his on the faculty tell him this will have a ripple effect beyond just athletics.

07/13/2012

Legal Institute for High School Students Held at Law School

The law school hosted students taking part in the Just the Beginning Foundation's Summer Legal Institute for high school students July 9 through 13, 2012.

Just the Beginning Foundation, based in Chicago, is a non-profit group of judges, lawyers, and others who aim to increase diversity in the legal profession and judiciary. The program’s goal is to reach out to young people of various underrepresented backgrounds and provide support to them throughout their academic and professional careers.

Students got a variety of experiences during the program. They spent a day at the federal courthouse as the guests of Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, where they sat in on a court proceeding and met with other federal judges, including Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, ’83. Professor Robert Brookins gave the students a taste of what a law school class would be like. And students learned some resume, interviewing, and networking skills from Tamara McMillian and Jimmie McMillian, ’02.

07/11/2012

Professor Edwards Shares International Human Rights Expertise with Indianapolis Community

Professor George Edwards gave a presentation to the Kiwanis Club of Broad Ripple titled “Is International Law Relevant to Indiana?: Why We Should Be Interested In International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and International Humanitarian Law.” He made the presentation on July10, 2012.

Kiwanis International is a global organization dedicated to serving children worldwide. Kiwanis and its family of clubs annually raise more than $100 million and dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve children.

07/11/2012

Professor Shaver's Scholarshlip Relied Upon by UN Official

Associate Professor Lea Shaver recently learned that her scholarship on the right to science and culture was inspirational to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights, Farida Shaheed. Shaheed's report on the right to benefit from scientific progress and its application was presented to the UN's Human Rights Council in late June. Professor Shaver's article "The Right to Science and Culture" was published in the Wisconsin Law Review in 2010.

07/11/2012

Professor Martin Appointed to ABA Commission

Professor Allison Martin has been appointed to the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs’ (CoLAP) Advisory Committee. She received the appointment from ABA President-Elect Laurel G. Bellows. The appointment will become official at the ABA Annual Meeting in August 2012.

Professor Martin is known for her research on law student’s psychological well-being. “I am thrilled to become a part of the Commission’s efforts to help judges, lawyers, and law students across the country,” she said.

Professor Martin is Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, in the nationally ranked Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC) department. She has taught extensively in the areas of legal writing, moot court advocacy, and professional responsibility. She is the faculty advisor for the law school’s national and international moot court teams. She is also a contributing co-author of the Indiana Pleading and Practice Treatise.

07/03/2012

Dean Roberts Appointed to Legislative Commission

Dean Gary Roberts has been appointed as a lay person to the Indiana General Assembly’s Code Revision Commission. He was appointed to the Commission by State Rep. Brian Bosma, ’84, who serves as Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives. The appointment is for one year. Responsibility for the appointment alternates every year between the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. The Commission helps with compiling the Indiana Code, as well as developing standards for the statutes to make them clear, concise, and easy to interpret and apply.

07/02/2012

Professor Edwards Teaches in Indiana Judges Graduate Program

Professor George E. Edwards served as a professor at the Indiana Judges Graduate Program, held in Nashville, Indiana, June 3-7, 2012. His course, titled “Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: What Would You as an Indiana Judge Do if Johnny Depp or Another Notable ‘Pirate’ Appears as a Piracy Defendant in Your Indiana Courtroom?” demonstrated that international law is relevant to Indiana law and practice.

The students in the graduate program were 30 Indiana State Court judges from different courts across the state. The judges were selected to take a series of courses taught by professors and judges from the U.S. and overseas.

The program was sponsored by the Indiana Judicial Center. The Center is the staff agency of the Judicial Conference of Indiana, and was created by statute. The legislature has charged the Judicial Conference with promoting continuing education of judges. Each class of judges that participates in the Graduate Program for Judges takes courses spread over two consecutive summers.

Professor Edwards conducted a simulation exercise for the judges with participants playing the parts of prosecutor, defense counsel, witnesses, and judges. The mock hearing focused on whether an Indiana court could conduct a trial involving alleged pirates who were accused of capturing an Indiana ship that was sailing off the coast of Somalia in East Africa.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and is the founder and director of the law school’s Program in International and Human Rights Law.

(Pictured in the photo: Front Row (L to R): Senior Judge Betty Barteau; Justice Robert Rucker, Indiana Supreme Court; Judge Gail Bardach, Hamilton Superior Court #6; Judge Richard D’Amour, Vanderburgh Superior Court; Judge Stephen Bowers, Elkhart Superior Court #2; Professor Edwards; Judge G. George Pancol, Madison Superior Court #2; Judge Rick Maughmer, Cass Superior Court; Judge Michael Morrissey, Tippecanoe Superior Court; Judge Carol Orbison, Marion Superior Court; Judge Elaine Brown, Indiana Court of Appeals; Magistrate Marcia Linsky, Allen Superior Court; Judge Stephenie LeMay-Luken, Hendricks Superior Court #5; Judge Kathleen Lang, LaPorte Superior Court #1; Magistrate Greta Friedman, LaPorte Circuit Court; Magistrate Michael Pagano, Lake Superior Court; Judge Elizabeth Tavitas, Lake Superior Court; - Second Row (L to R): Judge James Osborn, Marion Superior Court; Judge John Baker, Indiana Court of Appeals; Judge Jonathan Cleary, Dearborn Superior Court; Justice Frank Sullivan, Indiana Supreme Court; Judge James Ahler, Jasper Superior Court; Judge Rex Kepner, Benton Circuit Court; Judge Kevin Barton, Johnson Superior Court #1; Judge Jerry Jacobi, Clark Circuit Court #2; Judge Richard Stalbrink, LaPorte Superior Court; Judge Paul Felix, Hamilton Circuit Court; Judge Robert Kirsch, Noble Superior Court; Judge Kathleen Coriden, Bartholomew Superior Court #2; Judge Monte Brown, DeKalb Superior Court; Magistrate Geoffrey Gaither, Marion Superior Court; Professor Geyh, IU Bloomington - Back Porch (L to R): Rt. Hon. Lord Iain Bonomy, Scotland; Professor Edward Purcell, New York Law School; Judge Matthew Headley, Putnam Circuit Court; Senior Judge Justice Randall Shepard; Judge Valeri Haughton, Monroe Circuit Court, Div. 8; Judge Fran Gull, Allen Superior Court; Judge Marc Rothenberg, Marion Superior Court)

07/02/2012

Knowledge of Neuroscience Practices Can Help Lawyers Better Advocate for Clients

Professor Tracy Gunter “There is a huge difference in how doctors and lawyers think about mental states,” said Dr. Tracy Gunter, an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, who teaches Neuroscience and Law as an adjunct professor at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The number of cases involving neuroscientific evidence doubled from 2006-2009 and in 2012 fMRI was introduced for the first time in an Illinois court, she said. Dr. Gunter believes that increasing legal interest in neuroscience may be driven, in part, by the idea that it offers the promise of making previously unseen mental states visible.

Dr. Gunter’s Neuroscience and Law course examines how cutting-edge practices in neuroscience may be applied to legal cases involving adolescents, addictions, pain, violence, lie detection, and other matters. She hopes her course teaches law students how to approach neuroscientific evidence, when to seek out an expert, and then how to use that expert’s knowledge to better advocate for their clients.

Dr. Gunter is board certified in general adult and forensic psychiatry. Her research interests include gene-environment interactions in behavioral illness, implications of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the interface of neuroscience and law. Most recently she served as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Law at St. Louis University School of Medicine, where she taught Forensic Psychiatry and Law in the law school there. Prior to that, she was Director of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Iowa and a consultant for the Iowa Department of Corrections. Dr. Gunter has conducted over 1000 forensic mental health evaluations and been qualified as an expert witness in several jurisdictions.

She says she is passionate about teaching and is deeply committed to interdisciplinary research and clinical education across the IU campus. She said she admits that it must be a leap of faith for law students to look to a physician to guide them through a course in the law school, but “once students understand that we are in this together, not only here in law school but also subsequently in practice, things seem to go swimmingly.”

07/02/2012

Eight Indiana Supreme Court Candidates are McKinney Law Grads

A total of eight of the 22 people seeking to become the next associate justice on the Indiana Supreme Court are graduates of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. They are:

Hon. Cale J. Bradford, ’86, Indiana Court of Appeals
Alicia A. Gooden, ’96, Indianapolis
Andrielle M. Metzel, ’96, Indianapolis
Hon Steven R. Nation, ’75, Hamilton Superior Court
Karen R. Orr, ’89, Monticello
Brenda A. Roper, J.D. ’97, LL.M. ’11, Indianapolis
Hon. Mary G. Willis, ’91, Henry Circuit Court
John P. Young, ’88, Indianapolis

Not all of the 22 candidates will be interviewed; the Judicial Nominating Commission has announced that it will release a list of those who will be interviewed on July 6. Candidates will be interviewed July 17 and 18, after which semifinalists will be selected. Semifinalists will be interviewed August 8 and 9, and the three most qualified candidates will be sent to Governor Mitch Daniels, who will make the final decision. The JNC is filling a vacancy that will occur when Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., leaves the court later this summer to join the faculty of the law school.

06/29/2012

Two McKinney Law Professors Provide Expert Commentary to Local and National Media

In the aftermath of the ruling by the Supreme Court of the Unites States on the Affordable Care Act, Professors Gerard Magliocca and David Orentlicher were both sought after by national and Indiana media outlets for expert commentary.

Professor Magliocca provided commentary to three media outlets, including PBS NewsHour, Congressional Quarterly, and Indianapolis radio station WIBC.

Professor Orentlicher provided commentary to seven media outlets, including the National Law Journal. He appeared on two Indianapolis television stations, WTHR (NBC) and WRTV (ABC), and also was quoted in the following newspapers: the Indianapolis Star, the Indianapolis Business Journal, and the Marion Chronicle-Tribune. Additionally, he contributed posts to the blogs, Concurring Opinions and Health Affairs.

National Law Journal
WTHR
WRTV
Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis Business Journal
Marion Chronicle-Tribune (subscription required)
Concurring Opinions
Health Affairs

06/29/2012

Professor Wilson Delivers Lecture at Nanjing Normal University Law School

Professor Tom Wilson (center) with professors from Nanjing Normal University

Professor Tom Wilson was invited to deliver a lecture at the Nanjing Normal University Law School. In his lecture, given on June 12, 2012, Professor Wilson compared the American jury system with the Chinese lay assessor system, which is sometimes called the Chinese people’s jury. While at Nanjing Normal University Law School, Professor Wilson met with Dean Li Li and Professors Tang Shanpeng, Wei Xiao, and Tu Zhenyu to discuss collaboration between the two law schools.

Pictured: Professor Wei Xiao, Professor Tu Zhenyu, Professor Wilson, Dean Li Li, and Professor Tang Shanpeng

06/28/2012

Law School Professors Wilson and Page Participate in Legal Education Roundtable in China

Professors Tom Wilson and Antony Page were invited participants at a roundtable discussion on legal education in China. The roundtable, which was held on May 26, 2012, at the Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing, brought together Chinese educators and U.S. law professors who have teaching experience in both the U.S. and China. The goal of the roundtable was to explore possible reforms to legal education in China. In addition to Professors Wilson and Page, other participants included professors and deans affiliated with Renmin University, Beijing Foreign Affairs University, Harvard University, and the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

06/27/2012

Professor Kelly Hill Quoted by Two Indiana Newspapers on Immigration Ruling

Professor Linda Kelly Hill offered perspective on the recent United States Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v. United States to two Indiana newspapers. She offered her expertise in one news story June 25, 2012, by the Indianapolis Star in a story titled “Ruling in Arizona immigration case casts doubts on fate of Indiana law.” The second story, “Immigration ruling may affect Indiana’s law,” was published June 26, 2012, by the Terre Haute Tribune Star. In both pieces, she commented on the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona’s immigration law. She is the law school’s M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law and oversees the Immigration Clinic.

06/27/2012

Professor Emerita Kinney to Visit at Southern Illinois University School of Law

One of the nation’s leading experts on health law, Eleanor DeArman Kinney, Hall Render Professor of Law Emerita, has been appointed as the Garwin Distinguished Visiting Professor of Health Law at Southern Illinois University School of Law. Professor Kinney is the founding director of the internationally recognized William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. After graduating from law school, she practiced law for four years before working as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center for two years. After earning her master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining IU McKinney Law’s faculty in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association.

06/27/2012

Professor Boyne Presents Scholarship in Canterbury, England

Professor Shawn Boyne recently presented her work titled, "Translating Civil Law Objectivity with an Adversarial Brain," at the interdisciplinary conference Comparative Law: Engaging Translation. The conference, which included faculty members from Hong Kong, France, Romania, England, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, and The Netherlands was held at Kent Law School, Canterbury, England on June 20-21, 2012. The conference proceedings will be published in a book forthcoming from Routledge Press.

Prior to attending the conference, Professor Boyne spent several days in London interviewing British barristers who defend fraud and corruption cases. Boyne's research on the UK's Bribery Act of 2010 seeks to examine the degree of corporate compliance with the new regulations and barriers to enforcement. This research trip was funded by Indiana University's Office of the Vice-President for International Affairs.

06/21/2012

SJD Student Publishes on Islamic Jurisprudence

Mohamed Abdelaal, a first-year SJD candidate from Alexandria, Egypt, participated in the workshop on International and Comparative Law at Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis March 30, 2012. He presented his paper titled "Rising of Taqlid as the Secondary Judicial Approach in the Islamic Judiciary." The workshop was presented by Washington University's Center on Law, Innovation, and Economic Growth.

Abdelaal also had a paper published recently entitled Taqlid v. Ijtihad: The Rise of Taqlid as the Secondary Judicial Approach in Islamic Jurisprudence, the work was published in The Journal Jurisprudence (Vol. 14, 2012). He also will participate in International Law Weekend, presented by the International Law Students Association in New York City in October 2012.

06/16/2012

Indiana State Court Judge Has Vital Interest in International Law

The scope of her day-to-day work may be confined to the state’s borders, but Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia A. Riley, ’74, has more than a passing interest in international law.

She had an opportunity to meet with judges and prosecutors handling the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in April 2012. Judge Riley made the visit to The Hague, Netherlands, with the Washington-D.C. based International Judicial Academy in fall 2011. While visiting The Hague she was able to attend proceedings related to Taylor’s trial.

During that visit, she also was able to witness preliminary proceedings against Uhuru Kenyatta, who was accused of organizing election-related violence in Kenya during 2007-2008. Much of that violence occurred near Eldoret, site of the Legal Aid Center of Eldoret (LACE), which Judge Riley co-founded with IU McKinney Law Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, in 2008. The Center represents HIV-positive patients in a variety of cases. She was in Eldoret in January 2012 when the International Criminal Court announced that Kenyatta and others would be tried.

Judge Riley also took part in the third annual “Race for LACE” to raise funds for the organization. Runners and walkers took part in the One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon on May 5, 2012, and raised more than $9,500 for LACE, which represents HIV-positive patients in Kenya in a variety of cases.

She also was one of three Indiana judges to take part in the Third Sino-U.S. Law Conference, organized by the law school’s Professor Tom Wilson. The conference was held June 11 at the National Judges College of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. The conference’s theme was “The Art of Judging,” and participants discussed the challenges they face and compared judging methods. IU McKinney Law Professor Frank Sullivan, Jr., who was then an Indiana Supreme Court justice, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, ’82, were the other Indiana judicial participants.

06/13/2012

Professor Waterhouse Chairs National Conference on Faith, Law and Politics

Professor Carlton Waterhouse served as an organizer for the Third Annual National Conference of the Law and Religion Section of the National Bar Association which was held April 27 - 28, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference brought together attorneys, clergy, judges, and activists to address the legal challenges and opportunities facing religious communities. The conference theme was "Faith, Law and Politics." The array of panels featured national experts and areas of interest, including Criminal Prosecution for Charitable Acts, Election Protection and Voter Education, Tax, Religion, and Politics, and Churches, Mosques, Temples and the Foreclosure Crisis. Professors Michael Pitts and Antony Page also participated in the conference as presenters. Professor Pitts made a presentation regarding voter identification laws and professor Page presented on the use of new corporate structures as by religious groups. In addition to serving as the program chair for the conference, Professor Waterhouse also participated in a panel examining the relationship between reparations and religion.

06/10/2012

McKinney School of Law Welcomes Faculty with International Law Expertise

The law school is pleased to welcome two new faculty members with international law expertise: Associate Professor Yvonne Dutton and Associate Professor Lea Shaver.

Professor Dutton has taught as an adjunct at the University of Colorado School of Law, and was a fellow in the Careers in Law Teaching Program at Columbia Law School, where she earned her J.D. and was on the editorial staff for the Columbia Law Review. She also was a Stone Scholar throughout her law school career. At IU McKinney Law, she will teach evidence, criminal law, and criminal procedure.

Professor Shaver received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law and was the submissions and articles editor for the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersand law school. She also served as a summer clerk to the Hon. David F. Hamilton when he was on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. At IU McKinney Law, she will teach intellectual property, copyright, and patent law.

06/07/2012

Professor Terry Speaks at International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Professor Nicolas P. Terry, co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, participated in the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy on June 6-7, 2012 at the Georgetown University Law Center. More than 40 health-privacy experts from around the globe gathered for the Summit, including U.S. government officials, CEOs, physicians and academics, along with several hundred live and virtual attendees. Professor Terry’s panel was entitled, "How do Social Media, Mobile Devices, Medical Devices and Implants, Online ‘Health Websites’, and Clouds Threaten Health Privacy?" Professor Terry’s remarks focused on how new technologies, many of which are outside of the healthcare system, further erode individual control over the use of personal health information.

He is the Hall Render Professor of Law and teaches Torts, Products Liability, Health Information Technology, Law & Science, and Health Care Quality. Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, he began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He has served as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and held visiting faculty positions at the law schools of Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Iowa. From 2000-08, Professor Terry served as co-director of Saint Louis University’s Center for Health Law Studies. From 2008-10, he served as the School of Law’s Senior Associate Dean.

06/06/2012

Professor Terry Speaks on Health Information Technology at Annual Health Policy Institute

Professor Nicolas P. Terry Professor Nicolas Terry, co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Center for Law and Health and Hall Render Professor of Law, was a presenter at the 14th annual Health Policy Institute on May 18, 2012, at Southern Illinois University School of Law. Professor Terry gave a lecture called “Framing HIT implementation beyond meaningful use: what we know and do not know about effectiveness, financing, regulation and liability exposure.” The event was titled “EHRs, EMRs, and Health Information Technology: To Meaningful Use and Beyond.” His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. The goal of the conference was to examine the current status of health information technology (HIT) and look to its future in health care.

Professor Terry teaches Torts, Products Liability, Health Information Technology, Law & Science, and Health Care Quality. Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, he began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He has served as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and held visiting faculty positions at the law schools of Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Iowa. From 2000-08, Professor Terry served as co-director of Saint Louis University’s Center for Health Law Studies. From 2008-10, he served as the School of Law’s Senior Associate Dean.

06/06/2012

Law School’s Immigration Clinic Wins Political Asylum for Clients

Two people have been granted political asylum, thanks to the efforts of law students from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. One is a young woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) and at age 15 fled to the United States rather than enter into a forced marriage with her cousin who was nearly 40 at the time. The other is a young man who feared persecution in his native Zimbabwe because of his HIV status.

Zoe Meier, ’12, was the student who worked on the case of the young woman, along with Immigration Clinic Director, Professor Linda Kelly Hill (pictured, left). The woman’s mother objected to her daughter being subjected to FGM, but “the ‘ceremony’ was performed by our client’s aunt, the sister of our client’s father,” said Professor Kelly Hill. “Our client testified her mother had always prayed ‘May God protect you from the knife.’”

When the woman turned 15, her aunt and father began planning for her to marry her cousin, her aunt’s son. The woman’s cousin was nearly 40 years old then, already married to three other women and known for abusing these wives. With her mother’s help, the woman fled to the United States.

Her claim for asylum was made upon her subjection to FGM and her fear of forced marriage, tribal banishment and other reprisal by her father for refusing to marry. The case included U.S. medical documentation of the woman’s subjection to FGM.

Regardless, the woman’s asylum request was denied by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Asylum Office in Chicago based on an adverse credibility determination. Credibility is often a contentious issue in asylum, according to Professor Kelly Hill.

The woman was referred to Immigration Judge Virginia Perez Guzman in Chicago. Meier was responsible for all cross-examination, document filing and witness preparation before Judge Guzman. Meier continued in her assistance of the client on a pro bono basis after completing her graded clinical work in 2011.

It was a responsibility Meier felt deeply. “For the client, I wanted to somehow convey to her that yes, she was a client, but she was also a person whose future I cared about and I thought about through every moment of preparation for her case. It weighed on me,” Meier said. “I questioned whether I should really be responsible for her future as a student and finally I realized that all we can ever do is prepare mentally, emotionally, and with obsessively organized precision. It was an amazing experience to test my skills and confirmation that I loved immigration law.”

Judge Guzman recognized that the woman merited asylum. She ultimately found the woman to be credible, Professor Kelly Hill said, due in large part to Meier’s successful cross-examination of the DHS impeachment witness.

Meier’s client, who has asked to be referred to as Fatoumata N., has nothing but positive things to say about the all the law students who worked on her case.

“When I had questions about the case, I texted, called or e-mailed,” she said. “Actually, it was easier working with them because they are students like me and I understand the pressure they are under.” She is currently studying human resources management and international relations. Serve Zaitseff, '12 and Aimee Heitz, '12

Two other Immigration Clinic students, Serge Zaitseff, ’12, and Aimee Heitz, ’12 (pictured, right), won asylum on behalf of a client from Zimbabwe. Asylum was awarded based upon the client’s HIV-positive status and his “well-founded” fear of being subjected to persecution due to his HIV status if he returned, the professor said. In so ruling, Immigration Judge Eliza Klein recognized HIV-positive individuals form a recognized “social group” subject to persecution directly by the Zimbabwean government as well as subject to societal persecution condoned by the state. In short, the judge declared that “returning the respondent to Zimbabwe would ‘be a literal death sentence.’”

Heitz and Zaitseff started working on the case in January 2012, and the case accelerated from there because the client had been detained.

“We were happy with the result,” Heitz said. “It was a rewarding experience.”

The victory is particularly significant as the man had been detained by federal immigration authorities for seven months; unable to pay a $3,500 bond set by the federal government. “Ms. Heitz and Mr. Zaitseff were required to prepare and work with our client under the terrific communication challenges presented by his ongoing detention and transfer (without notice) between three different facilities in Wisconsin and Illinois,” Professor Kelly Hill said. In February, the asylum hearing was conducted in an immigration courtroom designated for detained individuals. It was the first chance the students had to meet their client in person.

Immigration Clinic evidence established the man’s fear of persecution, and also persuaded the judge of the severe “ostracism and condemnation of those affected by HIV/AIDS” in Zimbabwe, including that extended families often refuse to take in orphans for fear of contracting the disease. The judge noted instances where the government had been involved in “direct attacks” against the HIV-positive population of Zimbabwe. The client has been released and is now living safely in the United States.

Immigration Clinic students actively represented approximately 50 people during the 2011-2012 academic year. This student work included representation of applicants for asylum, U Visas (crime victims), T Visas (sexual trafficking), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action, U.S. citizenship, and various other petitions. “The legal assistance provided by our students immeasurably changes our clients’ lives,” Professor Kelly Hill said. “I wish them all the brightest of futures.”

In addition to Heitz, Zaitseff and Meier, Immigration Clinic students who graduated in 2012 included Erika Blinks, Saulo Delgado, Rachael McCarthy, Jared Prentice, and Mercedes Rodriguez.

06/06/2012

Judge Patricia A. Riley,’74, Court of Appeals of Indiana: Observations on International Criminal Law and Courts

Much of the world paused recently when the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Not since World War II had an international war crimes court convicted a head of state, and human rights activists around the globe hailed the milestone verdict.

It did not go unremarked here in Indiana, either. Judge Patricia A. Riley, ’74, a member of the Court of Appeals of Indiana, had met with judges and prosecutors handling Taylor’s case when she traveled last fall to The Hague, Netherlands, with the Washington, D.C.-based International Judicial Academy.

The tour included direct observations of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Judge Riley also visited the International Peace Palace, where international legal disputes have been heard since 1913.

“So that nugget of international law has been developed for many years,” she said, “but it’s just now coming to fruition where leaders can be held responsible for atrocities and (other) violations of human rights.”

Judge Riley did not observe Taylor’s trial directly, but she attended related proceedings in a high, windowless courtroom where banks of lawyers, interpreters and other functionaries labored throughout the years-long trial.

She described an intricate prosecution that spanned five years and two continents and involved harrowing testimony from child soldiers and other victims of unspeakable atrocities during Sierra Leone’s long civil war. “Some of the witnesses who testified had never worn shoes,” she said, recalling prosecutors’ descriptions.

Judge Riley also observed preliminary proceedings against Uhuru Kenyatta, who was accused of organizing election-related violence in Kenya in 2007-2008. Much of that violence occurred near Eldoret, where Judge Riley co-founded the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE) in 2008. She was in Eldoret in January of this year when the International Criminal Court announced that Kenyatta and others would stand trial.

“The whole town stopped,” she said. “Everyone just stopped and listened to the computer (audio stream)” at the IU house where she stayed.

War-crimes prosecutions remain controversial, as witnessed by the United States’ continued opposition to the International Criminal Court. Yet Judge Riley said the court and related tribunals have demonstrated that due process and the rule of law can be fairly applied to defendants and victims alike.

“Who’s going to speak for (victims) if we don’t have these special courts,” she said.

06/05/2012

IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Receives Grant to Help ‘Green’ IUPUI Campus

Green leaf Professor Eric Dannenmaier and students in the Environmental and Natural Resources (ENR) Law Program at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law received a grant of $6,000 to fund a project they proposed as part of the “Greening IUPUI” effort. Work on the project is beginning this spring.

The effort proposed by Professor Dannenmaier and ENR students is called “Promoting Green Purchasing at IUPUI.” This project will promote environmentally responsible purchasing decisions through the development of a “green purchasing guide,” and educational initiatives including workshops/roundtable sessions for purchasing officers.

IUPUI Sustainability logo Now in its fourth year, the Greening IUPUI grant funds student, faculty and staff-led initiatives to "green" IUPUI by advancing sustainability principles. Each year, IUPUI provides up to $50,000 in funding for projects or activities that will reduce the campus’s environmental impact through learning, teaching or instituting "green" behavior. Winners of the grant are chosen by a multi-disciplinary committee that represents a range of campus interests.

Other projects that will be implemented this spring include an urban gardening initiative, a means to make events more environmentally responsible, installation of bat shelters along White River and Fall Creek, water bottle hydration stations in Cavanaugh Hall, a program for the Center for Young Children, the IUPUI Sustainability House, and an effort to make the outdoor recycling system more user-friendly.

06/01/2012

IU McKinney School of Law Faculty Announce New Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN

This Spring, faculty at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law launched an online forum for faculty publications on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a web site that facilitates the rapid dissemination of social science research. The school’s publication, Legal Studies Research Paper Series has released three issues thus far. If you wish to subscribe to this eJournal, please contact Professor Gerard Magliocca, Associate Dean for Research.

“We are pleased at this new way of making our faculty’s cutting-edge research more accessible to students, alumni, and friends of the law school,” said Professor Magliocca who edits the eJournal along with Catherine A. Lemmer, Head of Information Services at the law school’s Ruth Lilly Law Library.

06/01/2012

Professor Emmert Presents on Iranian Nuclear Program at Stanford Law School

Poster from Stanford Law School event
On May 3, 2012, Professor Frank Emmert presented on "The Iranian Nuclear Program and the Response of Israel, the EU, and the US: Law and Policy Options in an American Election Year" at Stanford Law School. Dr. Emmert discussed the ambiguity of the Iranian program in the context of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, including the options available to the West. Other issues he addressed included: Should Israel prevent the development of an Iranian nuclear bomb with a pre-emptive strike on Iran's research and enrichment facilities? Could the EU and US influence Iran and Israel toward an outcome that ensures long-term peace and security in the region?

Professor 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 founded of the European Journal of Law Reform in 1997 and continues to serve on its editorial board. 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.

05/31/2012

Former Chief Justice Shepard Accepts Joint Academic Appointment with IU Public Policy Institute and McKinney School of Law

Recently retired Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard has been named the first executive in residence at the Indiana University Public Policy Institute in IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The appointment also includes a relationship with the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Former Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, Randall T. Shepard As executive in residence, Shepard will work with PPI on finding ways that nonpartisan research and data can help leaders understand the challenges and opportunities of the future. Under the two-year joint academic appointment with SPEA and the law school, Shepard will lead executive seminars and mentor faculty and staff as they develop academic programs focused on the relationship between law and public policy.

"When I decided to leave the bench, it was with the hope that I could find new opportunities to contribute in a meaningful way, and my appointment with PPI certainly fits the bill," Shepard said. "I find it attractive as a combination of public policy exploration that's anchored in rigorous academic enterprise and focused on engaging audiences beyond the university who are charged with leading public institutions."

Shepard has co-chaired two recent projects for PPI: Policy Choices for Indiana's Future, which provides policy guidance for Indiana officials and candidates for office; and the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform, which was formed by Governor Mitch Daniels and staffed by PPI.

"The chief justice's years as leader of one branch of Indiana government have prepared him to be an expert resource and mentor for the work we do at the IU Public Policy Institute," said institute Director John L. Krauss. "We are gratified and pleased that he has chosen to give us the benefit of his knowledge and experience and to use the institute as a forum through which he can continue to help shape Indiana's future. And his past work with PPI ensures that he will hit the ground running."

Shepard retired in March after serving on the Indiana Supreme Court for 27 years. He had been chief justice for a quarter of a century, making him the nation's longest-serving state court chief justice. He will continue judicial services as a senior judge at the Indiana Court of Appeals, and he anticipates being involved in other endeavors.

A native Hoosier who served in city government and as a judge in Evansville and Vanderburgh County before being appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1985, Shepard has been recognized nationally for his service and expertise. In 2006, he was appointed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to serve on a committee that advises the U.S. Supreme Court.

05/29/2012

Hall Center for Law and Health Co-Director Professor Terry Welcomed by Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman

Professor Nicolas P. Terry Professor Nicolas Terry, co-director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, was welcomed with a reception hosted by law firm Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman in the courtyard of their downtown Indianapolis office at One American Square. The reception was held May 23, 2012. Professor Terry teaches Torts, Products Liability, Health Information Technology, Law & Science, and Health Care Quality. Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, he began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He has served as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and held visiting faculty positions at the law schools of Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Iowa. From 2000-08, Professor Terry served as co-director of Saint Louis University’s Center for Health Law Studies. From 2008-10, he served as the School of Law’s Senior Associate Dean.

05/29/2012

UN Acts on IU McKinney Law Student-Initiated Cape Verdean Child Abuse Report

Timothy Weber, Katherine Cook and Florian Wegenstein
The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently voiced concerns over the corporal punishment and sexual abuse of children in Cape Verde after Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law students and Delta Cultura Cabo Verde presented a report about those issues at the UN Headquarters in New York. The report was produced under the auspices of the law school's Program in International Human Rights Law. PIHRL was awarded "special consultative status" from the UN last summer, making it one of only 2,000 organizations from 200 countries to have such distinction.

The student-initiated report titled “Cape Verde Breaches its Duty to Prevent and Combat Corporal Punishment and Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Tarrafal, Santiago School Children, and Thus Violates Articles 2, 7 & 24 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR)” was endorsed by the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law, directed by Professor George Edwards, and the Delta Cultura Cabo Verde, an NGO based in Tarrafal, Santiago, Cape Verde. The students belonged to the IU McKinney School of Law-based International Human Rights Law Society (IHRLS).

Comprised of 18 independent experts from various nations, the UN Human Rights Committee oversees the enforcement and implementation of the ICCPR by states parties. In its 6-page concluding observations adopted on March 28, 2012, the committee bewailed “reports of frequent use of corporal punishment by teachers” and urged Cape Verde to “take practical steps to put an end to corporal punishment in all settings.” See the full concluding observations at UN Human Rights Committee > Cape Verde http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/hrcs104.htm

“The State party should act vigorously against the use of corporal punishment in schools, should promote non-violent forms of discipline as alternatives to corporal punishment, and should conduct public information campaigns to raise awareness about its harmful effects,” the committee stated.

The committee came up with its observations after a formal meeting with the Cape Verdean ambassador to the UN. Earlier, Florian Wegenstein, co-founder and project manager of Delta Cultura Cabo Verde, and IHRLS officers Katherine Cook and Timothy Weber, along with visiting scholar Zuo Quan, met and briefed committee members in private about those issues. Wegenstein also highlighted the scourge of sexual abuse and corporal punishment in Cape Verde when he and the IHRLS officers orally intervened during the official, closed-door meeting of the committee. (Pictured above outside of UN headquarters in New York are students Weber and Cook with Wegenstein).

A Ph.D. candidate at China’s Southeast University, Quan appreciated his participation in the UN proceedings, saying, “This is the first time I was involved in a shadow report program and felt very lucky to work with a creative and industrious team consisting of J.D. students under the leadership of Prof. George Edwards and Mr. Perfecto Boyet Caparas. It was amazing especially since I got a chance to attend the session of the UN Human Rights Committee in New York City.”

“That was a really precious and impressive experience for me as a visiting scholar at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law,” Quan said. “This opportunity is beyond my imagination.”

For her part, Cook said, “The committee seemed to address our issues and take them quite seriously. With respect to corporal punishment, the ambassador even admitted that it is a widespread issue there.”

IHRLS president Leontiy Korolev, ’12, said, “Outside of the legal research, writing and editing, this project presented challenges not found in any law school class. We worked with an NGO in Cape Verde to put the report together in spite of a time crunch, language barriers, power outages, and a general lack of access to the internet on the other side of the Atlantic.”

Co-author Aimee Heitz, ’12, commented, “Writing the shadow report has been a rewarding experience. Not only do we get the practical experience of legal writing, but we learn a little more about the world and help prevent human rights violations globally.”

05/29/2012

Law School Delegation Meets with Ambassador Andrew, ’83 in Costa Rica

Professor James Nehf, Ambassador Anne Slaughter Andrew, '83, Azalea Assaf-Parnell, LL.M. '12, and Anthony Masseria
Associate Dean For Graduate Studies James P. Nehf; Academic Advisor Anthony Masseria; and Azálea Assaf-Parnell, LL.M. ’12, visited Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (ULACIT), a small private university in San José, Costa Rica, with a law program of approximately 100 students. Professor Nehf gave a lecture on using consumer protection laws as a way to avoid another global financial crisis. During this trip, Nehf, Masseria, and Assaf-Parnell visited with the dean of the law faculty and other university officials to discuss potential future collaborations. The three also met with the U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Anne Slaughter Andrew, ’83, to discuss ways for the McKinney School of Law to increase its presence and impact legal education and the profession. Masseria and Assaf-Parnell also met with several current ULACIT students to discuss the benefits of earning a graduate degree in law in the United States.

05/29/2012

Student Gains Real World Experience on Amicus Brief for Housing Rights

A Sullivan County woman wanted to fight her landlord’s attempts to evict her from her apartment, and went to trial in small claims court there.

She thought she would appear before a judge who would hear evidence, but was instead met with a court reporter who assured her that a judge would listen to her case later. She then was told to fill out a pre-signed “initial hearing/judgment order” form that required the woman to vacate the apartment. The woman did, and at a subsequent damages hearing was ordered to pay her former landlord $975, after never getting the chance to tell her side of the story.

She appealed, and Certified Legal Intern Alison Becker of the law school’s evening program co-authored, along with Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, an amicus brief in the case Lisa Reynolds v. Daniel Capps. The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed in its decision handed down May 23, 2012, because the woman was denied her due process rights.

Becker’s interest in this kind of work was piqued in fall 2010 in Professor Florence Roisman’s property class and the assignment to write about a landlord-tenant proceeding the professor asked her students to attend.

"Working with Professors Quigley and Roisman on this brief was one of my most satisfying endeavors at the law school,” Becker said. “I learned a great deal from these two dedicated individuals and it was an honor to see my academic pursuits make a difference for a 'real person' in the 'real world.' I look forward to continuing to work with Professor Quigley this fall in the Health and Human Rights Clinic and will always view Professor Roisman as a mentor and role model."

“Alison did a terrific job advising the Court of Appeals about the need to protect tenants’ due process rights in eviction cases,” said Clinical Professor of Law Fran Quigley, who teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. “The Court issued a strong decision finding that Ms. Reynolds has a constitutionally-protected right to present a defense, so it is clear that Alison formed a great team with Indiana Legal Services here.”

05/25/2012

International Students Speaker Series Examines Law and Legal Education Around the World

The inaugural International Students Speaker Series was held April 12, 2012, at Inlow Hall, with six students speaking about legal education in their home countries. The event featured Fang Xu, LL.M. ’12, judge in Dadong District Court in Shenyang, China, who also was president of the law school’s Master of Laws Association; Ahmed Faheem, of Pakistan, who is an LL.M. student in the intellectual property track; Yen-Chia Chen, J.D. ’12, who worked for the National Science Counsel in his native Taiwan; S.J.D. candidate Mohammed Arafa of Egypt, who’s teaching and scholarship focus on criminal law; Ahmed Shehata, LL.M. ’12, of Egypt, who worked as a corporate lawyer at Nile Advisory Group among other entities; and Bianca Buechner of Germany, LL.M. ’12.

The International Students’ Speaker Series was co-sponsored by the Master of Law’s Association (MLA) as well as the Asian Law Society, with support from Professor Karen Bravo, Associate Dean for International Affairs. The lecture series will continue in the Fall of 2012. Check the website for more information.

05/25/2012

International Symposium Focuses on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

The Indiana International & Comparative Law Review symposium on March 2, 2012 presented a day-long program titled “Recent Developments in the War on Corruption: The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Beyond” in the law school’s Wynne Courtroom.

Participants discussed the merits of the FCPA, which makes a distinction between illegal bribery and “grease payments” that may be legal under the Act if such payments do not break local laws. Another hot topic of discussion was the United Kingdom’s Bribery Act, which just went into effect in summer 2011 and is considered among the toughest anti-corruption statutes in the world. The UK’s law is so stringent, some fear it will put the UK at a competitive disadvantage. One presentation examined the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, which prohibits bribe paying and receiving within countries that have ratified the pact.

Participants included Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn of New England School of Law; Assistant Professor of Business Law Michael Koehler of Butler University; Mark Vlasic, Principal at Madison Law & Strategy Group PLLC and Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law; Herbert Igbanugo, Founding Shareholder at Igbanugo Partners International Law Firm, PLLC; Bruce W. Bean, lecturer in Global Corporate Law at Michigan State University College of Law; Dr. A. Neil Campbell, Partner at McMillian LLP in Toronto; Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. Candidate at the law school and Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems at Alexandria University in Egypt; Andrew Spalding, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law; and Angie Castille, partner at Faegre Baker Daniels.

05/25/2012

Third Annual ‘Race for LACE’ Raises Funds for Human Rights in Kenya

Particpants at the Third Annual Race for LACE
The One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon kicked off May 5, 2012, with one local group running to aid human rights in Kenya.

The Legal Aid Center of Eldoret (LACE) in Kenya was co-founded in 2008 by Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Professor Fran Quigley, '87 and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Riley,'74. The program represents HIV-positive patients in Kenya in a variety of cases, including gender-based violence prosecutions and defense from criminal charges.

To help raise awareness for the program, Becca Shelton organized the third-annual Race for LACE run. The group raised more than $9,500 for LACE. Shelton, along with nearly 40 runners and walkers, many Indiana lawyers or law students, ran the 5K or 13.1 mile half-marathon.

Sponsors for the group’s run included the Indianapolis Rotary Club, Faegre Baker & Daniels, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP, Ice Miller LLP, Barnes & Thornburg, Ogletree Deakins, and Taft.

Following the race, LACE runners met with Benard Langat, who is originally from Kenya but now lives in the United States. Langat finished 3rd in the mini-marathon.

To learn more about LACE or future race events, visit www.lacekenya.com or contact Shelton at randrshelton@gmail.com.

05/25/2012

Expert in South African Business Law and Entrepreneurship Visits the Law School

Professors Carlton Waterhouse, Tshepo Mongalo and Karen Bravo
With an unemployment rate at 29.5 percent, and a youth unemployment rate at around 50 percent, South Africa desperately needs to accelerate economic growth. Associate Professor Tshepo Mongalo of the University of Cape Town is among those working to simplify doing business in that country. He presented a lecture to students on April 4, 2012, in the law school’s Wynne Courtroom. He is the Regulatory Framework Manager for the Business Registration Reform Project in South Africa, an interdepartmental government project aimed at simplifying primary and secondary business registration procedures for all types of businesses. Mongalo teaches commercial law at the University of Cape Town. View his profile at the university by clicking here: http://www.commerciallaw.uct.ac.za/staff/academic/tmongalo/

(Pictured: IU McKinney Professor Carlton Waterhouse, Professor Mongalo, IU McKinney Professor Karen E. Bravo)

05/25/2012

Professor McGregor, Author of International Lawyer’s Legal Writing Guide, Lectures in China and California

Professor Deborah McGregor and students in China

Clinical Professor of Law Deborah B. McGregor taught Introduction to Legal Research and Writing to a class in Huangzhou, China, in April 2012 as a visiting professor for the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Overseas Training Program.

“I had the privilege to teach in Huangzhou, China, in Chicago-Kent College of Law's new and growing program,” said Professor McGregor (pictured front row, second from left, with students from the program). “The students were extremely bright and charming lawyers and law students. What a thrill it is to be able to experience a culture across the world.”

In May 2012, McGregor presented on a panel at the Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference in Palm Desert, California. The panel presentation was titled “Publishing Your Global Skills Text.” Professor McGregor was asked to participate on this panel after co-authoring with Professor Cynthia Adams the text, “The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States.”

Professor McGregor is the Assistant Director of Legal Analysis, Research, and Communication at the law school. She teaches legal analysis, research and communication for J.D. and LL.M. Students, integrated legal analysis for LL.M. students, advanced persuasive writing and oral advocacy for LL.M. students, and legal process.

05/22/2012

CBS' Mo Rocca Interviews Professor Pitts for Upcoming PBS Special

Mo Rocca, a CBS News correspondent and former correspondent for "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," recently interviewed Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law professor Michael Jude Pitts during filming for the documentary "Electoral Dysfunction."

The feature-length documentary is slated for PBS broadcast and limited theatrical release in the fall. While other films have focused on narrow aspects of voting in America, "Electoral Dysfunction" is the first documentary to take a nonpartisan look at the inner workings and underpinnings of the election system -- and to use irreverent humor to spark interest in electoral reform among viewers across the political spectrum, according to producer and director Bennett Singer.

Produced by a team of Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmakers, the documentary aims to present an even-handed and engaging overview of America’s electoral system. The film focuses on a number of specific issues, including voter ID laws and the role of the Electoral College.

The film includes a profile of Ben Leatherbury, an IUPUI alumnus, who served as one of Indiana’s 11 presidential electors in 2008, according to Singer.

Mo Rocca and Professor Michael Pitts Rocca’s interview with Pitts (pictured left) focuses on Indiana’s voter ID law which was passed in response to concerns about voter fraud, but has raised questions about disenfranchisement. Pitts, an expert in election law, has written extensively on the topic.

“One of the key stories in the film centers on the history and impact of voter ID laws, and our host, Mo Rocca, interviewed Professor Pitts about the groundbreaking research he has done on Indiana’s voter ID law. Professor Pitts published this research in his article ‘Documenting Disenfranchisement: Voter Identification at Indiana's 2008 General Election,’” Singer said.

05/21/2012

Nine IU McKinney Alumni Graduate From Leadership Program

Twenty-five lawyers graduated in the inaugural class of the Indiana State Bar Association Leadership Development Academy. Nine IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumni were among them.

The academy is a statewide leadership program established to empower and develop lawyers to be informed, committed and involved so they may fill significant leadership roles in the local and state bar associations, local communities and organizations, and serve as role models in matters of ethics and professionalism. Lawyers chosen for the program are accomplished practitioners who have been in their legal careers for less than 15 years.

The law school’s graduates are: Reynold T. Berry, ’05; Tonya J. Bond, ’04; Andrea L. Ciobanu, ’10; Spencer J. Feighner, ’07; Justin P. Forkner, ’10; Lindsay M. Hurni, ’10; Josh C. Neal, ’02; Terry W. Tolliver, ’00; and Amber Nicole Ying, ’04.

Chasity Q. Thompson, ’02, assistant dean of the Office of Professional Development, was among those who served on the academy’s planning committee.

05/21/2012

Professor Pitts’ Scholarship Cited by D.C. Circuit Court in Case Involving Voting Rights Act

Professor Michael J. Pitts An article by Professor Michael Pitts was cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on May 18, 2012. The court upheld the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder . Section 5 requires certain state and local governments to get pre-approval from the federal government for any electoral changes. The majority opinion in the case cited Professor Pitts’ article ( Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off Just Yet: A Response to Samuel Issacharoff’s Suggestion to Scuttle Section 5 of the Voting Rights Ac t ) in which he argued that one of Section 5’s greatest benefits is found at the local, as opposed to state, level of government.

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. He also is a two-time winner of the Red Cane Award for Best New Professor (2008 and 2009), a winner of the Black Cane Award for Best Professor (2010), and a recipient of a Trustee’s Teaching Award (2010). Prior to arriving at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Professor Pitts served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice.

05/17/2012

Professor Joel Schumm, ’98 Chosen as Semifinalist for Indiana Court of Appeals Judge

Professor Joel Schumm, Class of 1998 Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Judicial Externship Program Joel M. Schumm, ’98, is a semifinalist for the vacancy on the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Professor Schumm is a magna cum laude graduate of the law school, where he served as articles editor for the Indiana Law Review while in school. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he spent the three years after graduation in judicial clerkships, first with the Hon. Theodore R. Boehm, then of the Indiana Supreme Court; followed by the Hon. Paul D. Mathias of the Indiana Court of Appeals. He joined the faculty in 2001.

Professor Schumm has represented more than 100 indigent defendants on appeal, either individually or as part of the Appellate Clinic, which he created at the law school in 2008. Students working under his supervision have successfully briefed and argued cases before both the Indiana Court of Appeals and Indiana Supreme Court.

His research and writing areas include criminal law and procedure, and he has authored the annual survey article on that topic in the ILR since 1997. From 2005 to 2007 Professor Schumm served as the Indiana team leader for the American Bar Association’s assessment of the death penalty, which issued a 400-page report . He authored a criminal appellate practice manual for Indiana lawyers published by the Indiana Public Defender Council in 2008. He also served as the reporter for the Problem-Solving Courts Task Force of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), which heard testimony in seven cities and issued a comprehensive assessment in 2009.

05/15/2012

Brent Dickson, ’68 Chosen as Next Chief Justice of Indiana Supreme Court

Chief Justice Brent E. Dickson, '68 A graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will serve as chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.

The state’s Judicial Nominating Commission selected Acting Chief Justice Brent Dickson, ’68, to serve the remainder of his term as chief. Indiana’s mandatory retirement age for judges is 75, and Chief Justice Dickson will reach this milestone in July of 2016.

“Justice Dickson will make a stellar Chief Justice and we are extremely proud of him,” said Dean Gary R. Roberts. “This school has been producing leaders in all walks of life for over 100 years, but we have had a particularly strong impact on the Indiana judiciary in which so many of our graduates serve. Justice Dickson has taught as an adjunct professor at our school and has been a real friend to our institution for many years. I know that his experience and sound judgment will serve the Supreme Court and the people of Indiana exceedingly well!”

Chief Justice Dickson received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University. After 17 years as a general practitioner in Lafayette, he was elevated to the high court by Governor Robert D. Orr in January 1986. He is known for his work aimed at fostering attorney civility, and is co-founder of the Sagamore Chapter of the American Inns of Court in Indianapolis. He is equally committed to enforcing and enhancing high standards for the legal profession, and has long served as the court’s liaison to the Disciplinary Commission and the Board of Law Examiners.

Chief Justice Dickson is one of three IU McKinney alumni who serve on the court. Justice Steven David, ’82, was appointed in 2010. Justice Mark Massa, ’89, was appointed earlier this year.

05/10/2012

Hon. Patricia McGowan Wald to Speak at IU McKinney School of Law Commencement

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was honored to have legal pioneer Hon. Patricia McGowan Wald as commencement speaker on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The law school ceremony also featured Dean Gary R. Roberts, IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz, and speakers elected by the student body: Bianca Buechner (LL.M. Division), Alfred Degrafinreid II (Full-time J.D. Division), and Marti Showers (Part-time J.D. Division).

Judge Wald served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for twenty years, from 1979-1999, including five years as Chief Judge. She was a member of the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern Europe Law Initiative Executive Committee from 1993-99, working on constitutional and judicial reform in that region’s emerging democracies. In 1999, she was appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she sat on the first ICTY Srebrenica genocide trial. Since 2002, she has been a member of the governing body of the OSI Justice Initiative, a member of the President’s Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Sentencing Project and a Co-chair of the Advisory Board to DLA-Piper’s New Perimeter Project.

She is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Additionally, she serves on the American Constitution Society’s Security and Justice Initiative Task Force. A graduate of Yale Law School, Judge Wald also previously served as an attorney with the Mental Health Law Project, an attorney with the Center for Law and Social Policy, co-director of the Ford Foundation Drug Abuse Research Project, an attorney with the Neighborhood Legal Services Program, and as the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Carter Administration’s Justice Department. Judge Wald was the first woman on the D.C. Circuit bench and the first woman to head Legislative Affairs in the U.S. Department of Justice. She was the recipient of the American Bar Association’s Medal of Honor in 2008.

05/10/2012

Susan Brooks, ’85 Wins Primary

Susan W. Brooks, Class of 1985 On May 8, 2012, Susan W. Brooks, ’85 won the hotly contested Republican primary race for Indiana’s 5th U.S. Congressional District. Brooks was one of 7 GOP candidates. She will now face Democrat Scott Reske in and Libertarian Chard Reid the November election.

Brooks, a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Ivy Tech Community College for the past four years. She was the law school’s 2006 Outstanding Alumna of the Year.

“We are extremely proud of Susan,” said Gary R. Roberts, Dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. “She is a perfect example of how our alumni take their law degrees and do even more than practice law. Many of them go on to become leaders in a variety fields, including in the political arena. We have alumni serving in leadership roles in all branches of government and many of our graduates were successful in the primary elections this year."

05/04/2012

Law School to Honor Distinguished Alumni and Early Career Award Recipients

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law announced recipients of the school’s 2012 alumni awards. Three individuals received Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA), while two others are the recipients of Early Career Achievement Awards.

The law school hosted its awards ceremony on May 4, 2012, to honor these alumni.

DAA winners are Fred Glass, ’84, Indiana University Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics; the Hon. Jane Magnus-Stinson, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, ‘83; and Michael W. Wells, ’79, President of REI Investment Inc.

Glass is known for his strides not only in making key coaching hires for IU athletics, but also for stressing academic excellence for student-athletes. He also has played a central role in several major sports initiatives in Indianapolis, including the development of Lucas Oil Stadium and the expanded Indiana Convention Center, as well as bringing major NCAA events to the capital city. Formerly a partner in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, Glass served as chief of staff to then-Governor Evan Bayh from 1989 to 1993.

Magnus-Stinson, a cum laude graduate of the law school, was sworn in as a judge of the U.S. District Court in June 2010 after being nominated in January of the same year. She had served as a magistrate judge in that court since 2007. Twice elected to the Marion Superior Court, she served there from 1995 to 2007, and served as associate presiding judge during 2005-2006. She was counsel and deputy chief of staff to then-Governor Bayh from 1991 to 1995, and early in her career had a civil litigation practice at the firm LewisWagner. She is a member, and former Chair, of the law school’s Board of Visitors.

Wells, a magna cum laude graduate of the law school, has been involved with several of the most significant real estate projects in Indianapolis, including Circle Centre Mall, Emmis Communications Headquarters, and the JW Marriott. In addition to his real estate work, he manages the portfolio of real estate investments owned by REI Real Estate Partnership. His community involvement includes serving as immediate past chairman of the Indianapolis Zoo; executive committee member of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, Indiana Chamber of Commerce, and Building Owners and Managers Association; immediate past president of Crossroads Council of the Boy Scouts of America; and as a member of the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site Board of Directors. He also is a member of the law school’s Board of Visitors.

Early Career awards were given to Chasity Q. Thompson, ‘02, Assistant Dean of the Office of Professional Development (OPD) at the law school, and 9^th District Congressman Todd Young, ’06.

Thompson became associate dean of OPD in 2006 after serving as associate director for almost two years. She served as a clerk to then-Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court immediately after law school in 2002. She has served on the executive committee of the Indiana State Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Section and the bar’s Committee for Racial Diversity in the Legal Profession. She also serves on the Indiana CLEO Advisory Board; the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Law Student Executive Committee, and is a member of the Marion County and National Bar Associations. She was the 2006 recipient of the ISBA’s Raab Emison Award for her commitment to diversity in the legal profession.

Young was sworn in as a member of Congress on January 5, 2011, and currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Budget Committee. He graduated with honors from the United States Naval Academy in 1995 and accepted a commission with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was assigned to lead a Marine recruiting effort in the Chicago and northwest Indiana area, and during this time earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. After leaving the military, Young spent a year in England attending the School of Advanced Study in London. After returning to the U.S., he worked at The Heritage Foundation, and later as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. He worked as a management consultant in Indiana for several years, prior to attending law school.

05/03/2012

Health and Human Rights Clinic Will Hold Training for Volunteers on June 8

Indianapolis Bar Foundation Logo With generous support from the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, the Health and Human Rights Clinic (“HHRC”) at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law invites local attorneys to team with clinical faculty in providing pro bono representation to low-income clients in the Indianapolis community.

This program is designed to provide law school graduates and attorneys in the local community with an opportunity to learn and develop practice skills while providing legal representation to vulnerable populations in the Indianapolis area. The HHRC staff will provide training and support to volunteers during their representation of clients.

Key Features of the Program include:

· Screening of cases by the HHRC before referral to volunteers

· Free full-day procedural and substantive training (CLE credit is pending) in practice areas including: Housing, Consumer, & Public Benefits Law in exchange for accepting pro bono cases

· Guidance & support from experienced attorneys throughout the representation of clients

· Volunteer recognition programs

· Special recognition for volunteers who provide outstanding service

To participate in this program, volunteers must attend a free full-day training session that will be held on Friday, June 8, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law. An application for CLE credit is pending in anticipation of offering six (6) hours of free CLE credit to all attendees who accept pro bono cases. If you plan to attend this training, please R.S.V.P. no later than Friday, June 1, 2012 by completing and emailing the Contact Information Form to gsmallwo@iupui.edu or dclott@iupui.edu. Contact Form

For more information about the Health and Human Rights Clinic visit: http://www.indylaw.indiana.edu/clinics/HHRC.pdf . To learn more about the Indianapolis Bar Foundation please click the link below or visit: http://www.indybar.org/about/bar-foundation .

05/02/2012

New endowment program designed to help law students pay back student loans

Loan Repayment Assistance Program logo The average American law school student graduates with more than $100,000 in student loan debt, according to Bloomberg Law. For graduates who choose to work for nonprofits which provide legal services for low-income clients, paying off that debt can be an onerous task.

A new program at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, seeks to lighten the burden for its graduates who choose to practice public interest law.

The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (http://www.indylaw.indiana.edu/lrap/) assists the law school’s graduates who are employed full-time with non-profit organizations and governmental agencies dedicated to serving the legal needs of low-income individuals and families in Indiana.

Graduates may apply to the LRAP Endowment for loans to refinance existing educational debt and to reduce the burden of educational loan payments. The loans are forgiven contingent upon achievement of certain employment, income and other program requirements.

“Lawyers who chose to work in public interest (law) generally make much less in terms of salaries than lawyers who work in the private sector. We are trying to assist students who work in public interest,” said Sonja Rice, LRAP administrator .

The LRAP Endowment is the culmination of years of advocacy by the law school's chapter of Equal Justice Works, according to Katie Rosenberger, president of the student organization. For the past decade the group has worked to make loan repayment assistance a reality for law students who wish to practice public interest law. Fundraisers include the annual Equal Justice Works Public Interest Dinner with the proceeds from ticket sales going directly to ensure the LRAP Endowment.

“While there is still a lot of work to be done, it is wonderful seeing the LRAP (Endowment) finally launching and enabling future attorneys to pursue their dreams,” said John Tao, Equal Justice Works vice president. “Many students, prior to law school, talk about their wish to help ‘save the world’ but find they cannot when they are faced with their law school debt. Now, with the LRAP Endowment we are able to enable students to pursue their dream of saving the world and making a difference.”

IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law J.D. degree recipients who are at least six months post-graduation are eligible to apply for loans from the LRAP Endowment. Federal Family Educational Loans including Stafford, Supplemental, Grad PLUS and Consolidation loans, Federal Perkins Loans, and educational loans borrowed through established student loan programs can be refinanced. Up to 50 percent of the applicant’s annual student loan payments, up to a maximum $5,000, may be awarded to each approved applicant.

An LRAP Endowment applicant must be employed in full-time, law-related public interest work. Examples of such employment include legal services offices, public defenders, prosecutors and other appropriate government agencies and advocacy groups. The employer must be a 501(c) (3) organization or the federal, state, or local government. Applicants must have annual household income from all sources at or below $50,000.

Graduates with delinquent or defaulted accounts are not eligible for assistance.

» Program Link (& Application Packet)

The deadline for application for loans for the 2012-2013 fiscal year is July 1.

Alumni with questions about loans from LRAP Endowment, may contact LRAP administrator Sonja Rice at sorice@iupui.edu or 317-274-8043.

05/01/2012

Co-chair of IMPACT Campaign Leads by Example

Lacy Johnson, ’81, won’t ask anyone to do something he’s not willing to do himself. That’s one of the reasons he and his wife Patricia have made a $250,000 gift commitment to the law school as part of the IUPUI IMPACT Campaign.

“As co-chair of the law school’s IMPACT Campaign, it would be hard for me to come and ask you for money if I’m not giving. It’s an example of leading by leadership,” Johnson said. “I knew that if I accepted the chair that I needed to step up and make a commitment myself.”

A portion of his gift will be channeled toward the Gerald L. Bepko Endowed Chair. Funding endowed chairs is one of the law school’s greatest challenges, Johnson said he learned from Dean Gary Roberts. “I was shocked to learn the extent to which we’re lacking in this area,” he said, “that we are behind other law schools our size concerning endowed chairs.”

He elected to have part of his gift be used toward the endowment of the Bepko Chair in Law because he’s worked alongside Chancellor Emeritus Gerald L. Bepko in several community organizations.

The other portion of his gift commitment established the Lacy M. Johnson Scholarship, which will help to fund scholarships for law students from underrepresented backgrounds. Johnson looks back on his law school experience and notes that he had very little student loan debt thanks to others who had come before him and set aside money for scholarships that he was fortunate enough to receive. “It is incumbent upon me to do no less,” he said.

Before he joined the Indianapolis-based law firm Ice Miller, he was an attorney in government relations services at Sagamore-Bainbridge, Inc.; director of security for the Indiana State Lottery; liaison with the Indiana General Assembly and lieutenant colonel and deputy superintendent for support services for the Indiana State Police. He’s also a former lieutenant commander of the United States Naval Intelligence Reserves.

In addition to serving as co-chair of the law school’s IMPACT Campaign, Johnson is a member of the Board of Visitors. His community involvement includes serving on the board of directors of the Indianapolis Airport Authority, and as a board member or member of the following organizations: IUPUI Advisory Board, Indiana University Foundation, Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, Skyline Club, Indianapolis Downtown Inc., Oaks Academy, American Pianists Association, American Red Cross National Diversity Advisory Council, United States Democratic Caucus PAC Board, Lawyers Council of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.

04/30/2012

Career Path Leads to Ambassadorship for Alumna

The first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Anne Slaughter Andrew, ’83, continues to follow an impressive career path. The Evansville native was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to the post in December 2009. Before that, her career path could be called somewhat conventional. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Law Review as a law student, and after earning her degree worked at Indianapolis law firms now known as Faegre Baker Daniels and Bingham Greenbaum Doll. In 2000, she and her husband, attorney Joe Andrew, the former Chair of the Democratic National Committee, moved the family to Washington, D.C., where she worked at the law firm Patton & Boggs.

From here, her career track goes a little off the beaten path. In 2004, she and a friend joined Anson Group LLC, a bio-tech consulting company she co-lead for three years. She formed the strategic consulting company called New Energy Nexus LLC in 2009 after networking and informally advising clean technology companies. She says this experience informs her work in Costa Rica, where her main goals in the country include “expanding shared prosperity; enhancing citizen security; and advancing environmental security particularly by promoting clean energy, conservation, and sustainable development.” Throughout her career, she has worked with organizations like The Clean Economy Network, The Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, and the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation.

04/30/2012

Professor Boyne is International Engagement in Action

Associate Professor Shawn Boyne was invited to present a paper to the inaugural New Perspectives on Comparative Law Conference at the George Washington University Law School on April 20, 2012. Her paper titled, “The Cultural Limits on Uniformity and Formalism in the German Penal Code,” was included in the program, hosted by the American Society of Comparative Law’s Younger Comparativists Committee. Research for the paper encompassed 150 interviews and participant observation studies of German prosecutors. “On paper and in practice, their process is not as adversarial as the American system,” she said. The paper was reviewed by Associate Professor David Wolitz of the University of Tennessee College of Law, and will appear in the peer-reviewed journal Crime, Law and Social Change. (Pictured Boyne with Mohammed Arafa, IU McKinney Law S.J.D. candidate who also presented at the conference.)

Professor Boyne, together with Dr. William A. Foley, Jr., lecturer in public safety and executive education and Jim White, public safety lecturer, both of them from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, were named recipients of IUPUI’s Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR) for 2012. PEAR recipients are faculty members who have been recognized by a national or international professional organization for their academic achievements. The award was for the work the three did designing and planning the 2009 anti-terrorism simulation and the documentary, “Tough Decisions: Defending the Homeland,” produced in partnership with public television station WFYI in Indianapolis. The exercise involved close to 50 students as well as 10 members of the law enforcement community. Boyne, Foley, and White are co-chairs of the Global Crisis Leadership Forum -- a joint collaborative project that provides training and expertise to both students and members of the public safety community throughout Indiana. The documentary won an Emmy Award in June 2011.

04/30/2012

SJD Candidate Presents and Publishes

Mohammed Arafa, an S.J.D. candidate at the law school, was a panelist at a Georgetown University Law Center event cosponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association, the International Law Society and the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association on April 19, 2012. He spoke on “Governing After the Arab Spring: Islam Plus Democracy Equal What?” He was also invited to take part in the inaugural New Perspectives on Comparative Law Conference at the George Washington University Law School on April 20, 2012. He presented a paper titled “The Rights of the Elderly in the Arab Middle East: Islamic Theory versus Arabic Practice” with co-writer Radwa S. Elsaman of Cairo University Law. The paper explores the differences of “Islamic theory versus Arab practice,” Arafa said, pointing out that the Islamic legal system is not applied, only the traditions.

Right now, Arafa is preparing three law review articles for publication. One is entitled: “Mubarak Criminal Liability: Is it a Fair Trial after the Revolution or a Drama Series?” for Michigan State International Law Review (Forthcoming in Issue 21.1, Fall 2012). Another focuses on “Rights of the Elderly in the Arab Middle East: Islamic Theory Versus Arabic Practice” (co-author with Professor Radwa Elsaman, American University College of Law) for Marquette Elder’s Advisor Law Review,(Forthcoming in Vol.14, Issue 2, Fall 2012). A third article concentrates on “Corruption and Bribery in Islamic Law: Are Islamic Ideals Being Met in Practice?” for Golden Gate University’s Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law (Forthcoming in Vol. XVIII, Spring 2012). In the fall, he will be a panelist/moderator for “Emerging Voices in Islamic Jurisprudence,” Journal of Law and Religion Annual Symposium hosted by Hamline University School of Law on September 27-30, 2012.

04/20/2012

Increasing Focus on Environmental Concerns Reflected in Law School's New Certificate

Green leaf A dozen law students were the first to be recipients of the new Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law when they graduated May 12, 2012.

“The ENR Certificate is one part of the law school’s 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,” said Dean Gary R. Roberts. “The ENR Program is an important and growing part of the law school’s educational mission, and I am pleased to see opportunities for our students expanding through this new Graduate Certificate.”

“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,” said 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 Graduate Certificate in ENR Law recognizes our school’s commitment to preparing our students to address these difficult issues. The ENR Certificate will provide academic grounding and analytical tools necessary to compete and lead effectively whether our graduates work at the local state, national, or international level.”

Students completing the concentration 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 Certificate 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 certificate will also benefit students interested more generally in public policy, public interest advocacy, or government at any level.

ENR Certificate students complete a research or experiential “capstone course” that may include externships, government placements, supervised research, and advanced field research. Already two groups of IU McKinney Law students are working on field research projects funded by external grants and dealing with topics as diverse as the governance of the Columbia River Basin and the Great Lakes, and campus sustainability. Full details on the Certificate can be found at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/ENR/Concentration.htm

04/11/2012

IP Center Hosts U.S. Copyright Office Senior Counsel

Karen Temple Claggett

The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation presented a talk by Karyn Temple Claggett, senior counsel for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office on April 10, 2012, in the Wynne Courtroom. She talked about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the Protection of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), and the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act. She spoke about the unexpectedly controversial proposed IP legislation designed to strengthen international enforcement of U.S. IP rights. Her lecture was part of the Distinguished Speaker Series

Claggett joined the U.S. Copyright Office in March 2011 as Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs. The Office of Policy and International Affairs assists the Register of Copyrights in advising the U.S. Congress and executive branch agencies on domestic and international copyright policy matters, and represents the Copyright Office in U.S. government delegations to international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization, and in meetings and negotiations with foreign governments.

Claggett received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law where she was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review . She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

04/11/2012

Bepko and Lefstein Honored for Philanthropy

Chancellor Emeritus Gerald L. Bepko and Dean Emeritus Norman Lefstein of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law have been honored with the IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy award for their leadership, expertise, and longtime support of the law school.

Spirit of Philanthropy awards recognize individuals, corporations, and foundations that have supported and contributed to university programs and departments through their gifts and voluntary service.

Chancellor Bepko joined the law school’s faculty in 1972 before becoming dean in 1981. Appointed as Chancellor of IUPUI in 1986, he headed the movement to unify the campus and led the first six years of the campus’s fundraising campaign that raised over $1 billion. He then served as Interim President of IU in 2002-2003. Chancellor Bepko was the inaugural director of the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence headquartered at IUPUI where he teaches courses on leadership and law. Chancellor Bepko also continues to teach courses in commercial law at the law school and serves on the boards of countless organizations.

Dean Lefstein served as dean of the law school for 14 years and led the fundraising efforts for the school’s current building, Lawrence W. Inlow Hall. During his tenure as dean, he significantly increased the number of programs the law school offers, as well as enhanced the school’s financial resources for faculty research and student scholarships. Dean Lefstein has been highly involved in furthering legal education and is recognized nationally for his efforts and research involving legal services for the poor in criminal defense cases.

The annual IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy luncheon and ceremony, which took place on April 10, 2012, was hosted by Chancellor Charles R. Bantz at the IUPUI Campus Center. The event was attended by more than 300 people including IUPUI students, administrators, deans, directors, faculty, staff, honorees and community members. Angela Cain, Community Affairs Director at WTHR Channel 13 served as the emcee. The event is sponsored by IUPUI, the Indiana University Foundation, and The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

04/03/2012

Dean Roberts Named to Court of Arbitration for Sport

Bill Brooks, '12; Dean Gary R. Roberts; and Julie Roe Lach, '04 Dean Gary R. Roberts has been appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with branch offices in New York City and Sydney, Australia, CAS is independent of any sports organization and provides services to facilitate the settlement of sports-related disputes through arbitration or mediation by means of procedural rules adapted to sports’ specific needs.

“It is a great honor and responsibility to be appointed as a judge/member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport,” Dean Roberts said. “The CAS is the single most important sports-related organization in the world making sure that athletic competition in over 100 different sports is honest and fair, and that commercial relationships are carried out in predictable and rational ways. Without the guiding leadership and oversight of the CAS, sports around the world would be chaotic and lack the integrity so critical to both athletic and commercial success.” Dean Roberts is one of the few sports law leaders across the globe entrusted with this decision-making responsibility.

Most CAS disputes are handled in much the same way a court case would be, under pre-hearing and hearing rules and procedures established by the court itself.

Dean Roberts said, “Shortly after the Butch Reynolds doping case in the early 1990s, it became clear how problematic it was to allow civil courts in every country to decide whether an athlete had violated doping rules in his or her respective country and was thus ineligible to represent that country in competitions.”

With the leadership of the International Olympic Committee, the CAS was allowed to become independent, which gave it international credibility. Over the following few years all international sports federations agreed that all disputes to which they or any teams, coaches, or athletes under their jurisdiction were parties would be submitted for final binding arbitration to the CAS, and not to national courts. Roughly 250 lawyers with extensive backgrounds in sports law have been appointed as judges or members of the CAS by the CAS’s governing board, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A recognized expert in sports law, Dean Roberts has published several articles and book chapters on antitrust, labor, and other issues in the sports industry, and has co-authored the leading casebook on sports law. He has served as president of the Sports Lawyers Association and as 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 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). He has led the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law since 2007.

Pictured: In front of Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, Bill Brooks, former wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts and a current student at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Dean Gary R. Roberts, and Julie Roe Lach, vice president of enforcement for the NCAA and 2004 graduate of the law school

04/02/2012

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr. to Join Indiana University McKinney School of Law Faculty

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., has been appointed to the faculty of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Dean Gary R. Roberts announced today. Sullivan’s appointment takes effect at the start of the Fall Semester.

“Having Frank Sullivan join our faculty is an exciting and extraordinary opportunity to bring in someone with a great mind and academic temperament to teach our students both theory and practice and to add to our scholarly culture,” said Dean Roberts. “At the same time Justice (soon to be Professor) Sullivan can connect the school more firmly with the practicing bar and bench through his extraordinary reputation and his extensive experience as a practicing lawyer, state budget director and Supreme Court justice. This is truly a unique and special hire for the IU McKinney School of Law.”

“I am honored to join the faculty at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law,” Sullivan said. “I have long admired the faculty of the law school and its commitment to the school’s students and to community service. I very much hope I can make my own contributions in those regards.”

Sullivan served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the school of law from 2007-2009, teaching a class in public finance law. Dean Roberts said that he expects Sullivan to teach classes in business law and corporate finance. Sullivan said that he will continue to serve as a member of the Court until near the start of the fall semester at the law school. He said he will notify the Clerk of the Court and the Judicial Nominating Commission as soon as a definite date for his departure from the Court is determined.

Sullivan has been a member of the Indiana Supreme Court since 1993 when he was appointed by former Governor Evan Bayh. During his tenure on the Court, he has authored approximately 500 majority opinions addressing a wide range of criminal, civil, and tax law issues. Several of his decisions have been selected for publication in law school casebooks.

Prior to his appointment to the Court, Sullivan served as State Budget Director (1989-1992) and Executive Assistant for Fiscal Policy to Governor Bayh (1993) during which time he directed the preparation of the Bayh administration’s budget proposals and oversaw implementation of state budgets passed by the Legislature. Prior to state service, he practiced corporate finance and securities law in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg, Indiana’s largest law firm. Sullivan served on the staff of former U.S. Rep. John Brademas from 1974 to 1979, ultimately assuming the position of staff director.

Sullivan has been active in national judicial and law reform organizations. He is a past chair of the ABA Appellate Judges Conference and the Appellate Judges Education Institute Board of Directors. He has been a leader of the ABA’s Judicial Clerkship Program that encourages minority law students to seek judicial clerkships and is the recipient of several awards for advancing opportunities for minority lawyers in the legal profession. And he is a member of the American Law Institute and has been selected as an Adviser to two of its Projects: “Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm” and “Principles of Election Law: Resolution of Election Disputes.”

Sullivan graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B., cum laude, 1972) and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington (J.D., magna cum laude, 1982; Order of the Coif). He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law (2001). He is married to Cheryl G. Sullivan; they are the parents of three adult sons. An avid runner, Sullivan has qualified for and competed in the Boston Marathon three times in the last decade.

04/02/2012

Four New Associate Professors to Join IU McKinney Law Faculty in Fall 2012

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is honored to welcome four new associate professors who will join the faculty for the fall 2012 semester: Yvonne M. Dutton, Margaret Ryznar, Lea Shaver, and Diana R. H. Winters.

“The new faculty who will be joining us in the fall are an extraordinarily talented and accomplished group of teachers and scholars who bring a great range of experience and perspectives to our classrooms and scholarly mission,” said Dean Gary R. Roberts. “They will be great additions to an already terrific faculty of teacher/scholars and will immediately help to enhance our rising reputation as a great law school.”

Dutton currently is a chair and instructor of lawyering skills at the University of San Diego School of Law. She also has taught as an adjunct at the University of Colorado School of Law, and was a fellow in the Careers in Law Teaching Program at Columbia Law School, where she earned her J.D. and was on the editorial staff for the Columbia Law Review. She also was a Stone Scholar throughout her law school career.

Ryznar is currently an associate at the Washington, D.C.-based firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. She also served as a clerk for the Hon. Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. She received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she was a note editor for the Notre Dame Law Review.

Shaver is associate professor at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches intellectual property, patent law, and transnational law. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law and was the submissions and articles editor for the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersand law school. She also served as a summer clerk to the Hon. David F. Hamilton when he was on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Winters is a visiting assistant professor of law and Health Law Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where she has taught environmental law, environmental litigation, and advanced civil procedures. She also worked as a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University, where she received her Ph.D. in the History of the American Civilization, and a master’s in history. She received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she received the Dean’s Scholarship throughout her law school career, and was staff editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.

03/23/2012

Mark S. Massa, '89 Named to the Indiana Supreme Court

Mark S. Massa, Class of 1989, executive director of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, has been named a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. He will take over the vacancy on the court created by Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard’s retirement.

Mark S. Massa, Class of 1989 Massa, who has devoted the bulk of his legal career to public service, was one of three finalists for the position, all of whom are Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law graduates. The Hon. Cale Bradford, ’86, of the Indiana Court of Appeals; and Jane Ann Seigel, ’79, executive director of the Indiana Judicial Center, also were finalists.

In addition to his work for the ICJI, Massa also has served as chairman of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, as general counsel to Gov. Mitch Daniels, and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, among other positions.

Massa will join two other IU McKinney School of Law alumni already serving on the court. Justice Steven David, ’82, was appointed in 2010. Justice Brent E. Dickson, ’68, has served on the court since 1986.

03/19/2012

IU McKinney Law Students Present Report at the UN on Corporal Punishment and Sexual Abuse of Kids in Cape Verde

Students from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law have teamed up with a nongovernmental organization in Cape Verde to write a shadow report for the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee on that country’s failure to combat corporal punishment and sexual abuse of school children.

The report provided to the UN was authored by law students and representatives of the NGO Delta Cultura Cabo Verde, an organization which seeks to help marginalized children in Tarrafal, island of Santiago, Cape Verde.

Key recommendations in the report include the establishment of governmental mechanisms for the mandatory reporting and investigation of corporal punishment and sexual abuse cases and the integration of the “best interests of the child” principle in those mechanisms.

The law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL), led by the program’s director, Professor George Edwards, endorsed the report entitled “Cape Verde Breaches its Duty to Prevent and Combat Corporal Punishment and Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Tarrafal, Santiago School Children, and Thus Violates Articles 2, 7 & 24 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR).”

Unlike periodic reports submitted by states parties, shadow reports provide UN human rights treaty bodies with various forms of information independently prepared by NGOs, including victims’ personal stories and statistical data that show violations by states parties of a specific treaty.

This report states that Cape Verde has breached its obligations under the ICCPR by failing to protect children from corporal punishment and sexual abuse, especially by teachers. The committee seeks to determine whether states that are party to the ICCPR appropriately implement and enforce the ICCPR.

The Indiana University student participants who initiated the project were part of the law school’s International Human Rights Law Society (IHRLS). The report’s principal authors, editors and researchers included Florian Wegenstein, founder and project manager of Delta Cultura; Dirce Helene Bettencourt Gomes, Delta Cultura volunteer; and the following J.D. students from IU McKinney Law: Leontiy Korolev, IHRLS president, who served as the student team leader and coordinator; Kate Cook; Aimee Heitz; and Timothy Weber. Other J.D. students who participated in the project included Ritu Chokshi; Mark Shope; Jessica Topor; David Wesche; and Guang Yang. IU McKinney School of Law Professor Lahny Silva also contributed to the report along with William Kurtz and Zuo Quan (visiting scholar from Southeast University, China). Law school staff who assisted in various ways included Boyet Caparas, David Plough, Kathy Roell, Christina Terkhorn, Jason Yavor, Cheri Bauder and Wendy Fisk.

Students were very enthusiastic about the experience of working on the report. According to Mark Shope, graduating J.D. student and former PIHRL intern, “Working with this team to write the shadow report has been great. From a legal education standpoint, it's all there - data mining, analysis, work-product development, review and faculty evaluation, and presentation. But what's more important is that we have utilized our education to provide access to the UN to those who would otherwise not have access. That is no small matter. I am thankful for the opportunities that the Program in International Human Rights Law has provided me.”

Caparas said, “The introduction and integration of the issue-rule-analysis-conclusion (IRAC) structure and system to UN shadow reporting, with modifications, were designed to complement and reinforce further our law students’ training in legal writing and analysis as future lawyers.”

J.D. candidate Timothy Weber said, “My experience with this shadow report has been inspirational. I feel that the children in Cape Verde deserve to have NGOs and individuals dedicated to improving their standard of living, and this report represents the cumulative efforts of a team dedicated to bringing the corporal punishment and sexual exploitation of Cape Verdean children by their teachers to light so that these serious issues might be addressed. For me, the goal of this report is, and has always been, to improve the lives of children in Cape Verde. The long hours put in by everyone involved wer worth it knowing that such an improvement may come about thanks to those hours.”

“Shadow reporting enables grassroots human rights defenders to engage in United Nations human rights monitoring and enforcement mechanisms,” Caparas explained.
With his experience as an investigative journalist and international human rights lawyer, Caparas conceptualized and established the Pro Bono UN Shadow Reporting Program and provided comprehensive training on human rights reporting and supervision to J.D. and international LL.M. students.

Students working on internships have also been a vital part of the PIHRL’s shadow report efforts. Leontiy Korolev, a third year law student, serves as the IHRLS president. In 2011, he received a PIHRL scholarship to work as an intern with the Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), based in Geneva, Switzerland. An NGO, CCPR works with the Human Rights Committee on reports that detail human rights violations by many countries.

The PIHRL’s work with the UN took on a whole new dimension in 2011 when it received special consultative status from the UN Economic and Social Council, allow easier access to UN proceedings for the law school’s students and supervising faculty.

The PIHRL has submitted the following shadow reports from 2006-2010:

• The United States of America: Juvenile Life without Parole (2010)
• Australia’s Breach of its Obligations Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to Protect the Rights of Women (2009)
• Chad's Breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Failure to Protect the Rights of Women and Girls (2009)
• Panama Shadow Report on Indigenous People, Human Rights Committee, New York (2008)
• USA Shadow Report on Hurricane Katrina, Race Committee, Geneva (2008)
• Zambia Shadow Report on Press Freedom, Human Rights Committee, Geneva (2007)
• Chile Shadow Report on Sexual Minorities, Human Rights Committee, New York (2007)
• USA Shadow Report on Hurricane Katrina, Human Rights Committee, Geneva (2006)
• USA Shadow Report on Sexual Minorities, Human Rights Committee, Geneva (2006)

A compilation of the reports can be accessed at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/humanrights/UNshadow.html

03/12/2012

First Annual Junior Faculty Scholarship Workshop to Focus on Objectivity in the Law

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law hosts its first Junior Faculty Scholarship Workshop March 23 to 24, 2012. This workshop and others to be offered in future academic years focus on a particular theme proposed by one of the school’s junior faculty members. The inaugural workshop, which focuses on the interdisciplinary topic of “Objectivity and the Law,” drew competitive entries from law schools and graduate programs throughout the country and indeed from across the ocean.

“The workshops will provide six untenured faculty members both in and beyond our law school with significant, thoughtful commentary on their works-in-progress to further develop and enhance their scholarship,” said Professor Cynthia Adams, chair of the law school’s Faculty Colloquia Committee. “In addition, the workshops will bring noted scholars from other law schools to our campus to participate in the program.”

The theme of the current workshop, “Objectivity in the Law,” featured the scholarship of two of IU McKinney School of Law faculty—Professor Shawn Boyne and Professor Lahny Silva, both of whom teach and research in the field of criminal law. They were joined by a a group of well-known junior faculty participants from other schools, including the following: Professor Patrick Charles (Cambridge, England), Professor Monica Eppinger (St. Louis University), Professor Meghan Ryan (Southern Methodist University), and Professor Meg Stalcup (University of Washington). The papers accepted for the workshop cover a broad range of topics, including objective reporting of suspicious activities; cultural limits of formalism and uniformity in the German Penal Code; the objectivity of state immigration verification laws; and new criminal rehabilitation based on altering an offender’s biochemical composition.

The law school is pleased to welcome the participation of twelve senior scholars who serve as commentators for the papers. The commentators include: Professor Frank Bowman (University of Missouri), Professor Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina), Professor Markus Dubber (University of Toronto), Professor Mark Goodale (George Mason University), Professor Michael A. Scaperlanda (University of Oklahoma), along with senior members of the law school’s faculty, Professor Jennifer Drobac, Professor Linda Kelly-Hill, Professor Gerard Magliocca, Professor Carlton Waterhouse, and Professor Cynthia Adams, as well as Professor Tracy Gunter (Indiana University School of Medicine).

03/09/2012

Work of Appellate Clinic Students Pays Off for Clients

Two law students enrolled in the Appellate Clinic recently won reversals for their clients. Emily Shrock (3L) represented a thirteen-year-old girl found delinquent for burglary, theft, and carrying a handgun without a license after her parent's home was burglarized. She argued the case before a three-judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals in December. In a published opinion, the Court found insufficient evidence to support the handgun offense and found the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence. Jarryd Anglin (3L) represented a man who was convicted of possession of marijuana. The Court of Appeals reversed his conviction, also in a published opinion, concluding "the evidence shows only that Yanez was at a flea market and was talking loudly to his female companion," which was an insufficient basis for an investigatory stop.

Since its founding in 2008, the Appellate Clinic has enabled twenty students to work on more than twenty cases. Professor Joel Schumm, ’98 who founded the clinic says, “We have obtained relief for clients in well over half the cases, which is a testament to the enormous commitment of time and creative energy students bring to each case.” The clinic provides second and third-year students the opportunity to represent indigent defendants on appeal through the Indiana Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Each student is assigned their own case while collaborating as a class and with appellate lawyers in the community in various stages of the brief-writing and oral argument process.

03/09/2012

Professor Boyne Named to SALT's LGBT Committee

Associate Professor Shawn Boyne has been named to SALT’s [Society of American Law Teachers] committee on LGBT issues. The committee increases the awareness of issues of concern to the LGBT community in American law schools. Professor Boyne also serves as the law school’s faculty contact for the Law School Admissions Council for prospective LGBT students.

03/08/2012

Five Chinese Graduate Law Students Spend Semester at Law School

During this Spring semester five Chinese graduate students in law are calling the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law home. The five are all students in the Juris Masters degree program at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing.

The five students, with their adopted American names, are: Chen Junjie (Kitty), Qin Lan (Lilian), Wang Yongyang (Eric), Wang Yuhan (Vera), and Zhang Wenqi (Cool). The students are taking classes alongside our school’s J.D. students and are participating in community life of the law school by attending organized events and forming friendships with our students.

The five visitors are the first of what Renmin University of China Law School and the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law hope will become an annual exchange of students.

Renmin University of China Law School is perennially ranked by the Ministry of Education of the Peoples’ Republic of China as one of the most prestigious law schools in that country. Renmin University of China Law School is host to the law school’s Chinese Law Summer Program and is a partner with the law school in the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies.

03/08/2012

Chinese Scholar is Visiting Professor at IU McKinney School of Law

Professor Ding Xiangshun The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law is pleased to welcome Chinese scholar Ding Xiangshun as a visiting professor for the Spring 2012 semester. Professor Ding is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Foreign Affairs at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Professor Ding also directs the Renmin office of the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies. The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law is home to the U.S. office of the Joint Center.

Professor Ding is an alumnus of the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, having obtained his LL.M. degree here in 2006. Professor Ding also holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Jilin University School of Law and a Ph.D. from Renmin University of China Law School.

In addition to his familiarity with U.S. law, Professor Ding is also an expert in Japanese law. He has been a visiting professor at Meiji University School of Law at Tokyo, a visiting scholar at Ritsumei Kan University School of Law at Kyoto, and Waseda University School of Law at Tokyo.

During his visit at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Professor Ding is teaching a course on the Law & Society of China.

03/07/2012

Visiting Scholar Zhu Bin Lectures at Hall Center for Law and Health

Professor Zhu Bin On December 17, 2011, Zhu Bin, a professor at the School of Health Policy & Management at Nanjing Medical University in Nanjing, China delivered a lecture at the law school’s Hall Center for Law & Health. In his lecture, entitled Medical Malpractice Law in China, Professor Zhu discussed Chinese medical malpractice claim procedures and proposed reforms to address a “crisis of medical injury disputes.”

Professor Zhu is currently a visiting scholar at the IU McKinney School of Law. He holds a Ph.D. from Nanjing Medical University, a J.D. from Nanjing University Law School, an LL.M. from Nanjing Normal University Law School, and an M.B.B.S. from the College of Health Management at Anhui Medical University.

Professor Zhu’s visit was hosted by the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies. The Joint Center coordinates visits by Asian scholars, including professors of all ranks and Ph.D. students working on their dissertations.

Pictured (left to right) are Hall Center Director of Research and Projects Priscilla D. Keith, Hall Center Co-Directors Professor David Orentlicher and Professor Eleanor Kinney, Professor Zhu, and Joint Center for Asian Law Studies Director, Professor Tom Wilson.

03/06/2012

Four Law Schools Affiliate with the Chinese Law Summer Program

The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Chinese Law Summer Program (CLSP) has attracted four affiliates — Boston College Law School, University of Minnesota Law School, University of Tennessee College of Law, and University of Oklahoma College of Law. These law schools were recruited to join the CLSP because they have conducted study abroad programs in China, have faculty members who have been Fulbright Scholars in China, or both.

The affiliation allows IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the affiliate schools to combine resources with Chinese law firms, universities, and government. “It also allows students at the affiliate schools to benefit from our law school’s twenty-five year involvement in China,”said Profesor Tom Wilson, director of the summer program as well as the law school’s Joint Center for Asian Law Studies. “Our CLSP began in 1987 and thus was one of the first summer programs after China adopted the opening-up policy.”

The CLSP takes place each summer on the campus of Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Forty-eight students will attend the 2012 CLSP, which will be conducted from May 18 to June 16. This year students will come from six U.S. law schools and one law school in the Philippines. The students will study Chinese law as it is impacted by China’s adoption of a market economy and its participation in international agreements, such as the World Trade Organization.

03/06/2012

Law School Announces New Summer Program for Chinese Students

Sun Yat-sen Univerity in China In summer 2012, students from Sun Yat-sen University Law School will travel outside China for that school’s first summer study abroad program, and their destination will be IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Professor Tom Wilson met with Sun Yat-sen officials on October 11, 2011, in Guangzhou, China, to finalize the plans. Professor Wilson met with Sun Yat-sen University Law School Vice-Dean Li Zhiping, Director of Career Development Wang Yi, and Dean’s Assistant for International Programs Zheng Liwei, regarding plans for the summer visit to the law school. Also involved in the discussion was Vice Dean Huang Yao, who is currently in residence at Cambridge University.

The meeting was followed by a signing ceremony at which Professor Wilson and Sun Yat-sen Law School Dean Xu Zhongming executed a partnership agreement between the schools. The agreement calls for Sun Yat-sen law students to come to the McKinney School of Law for three weeks, where they will receive classroom instruction and participate in law-related and cultural field trips. Two weeks will be spent in Indianapolis, and one week will be spent in Washington, D.C. Sun Yat-sen University Law School expects 30 to 40 students to enroll in the inaugural program which will take place from Monday, July 30 through Friday, August 17, 2012.

03/01/2012

Associate Dean Bravo appointed to the Helton Selection Committee of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)

Associate Dean Karen E. Bravo was appointed to the the Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program Commitee. The Helton Program, established in 2004 on the recommendation of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Honors Committee, recognizes the legacy of Arthur C. Helton , a remarkable ASIL member who died in the August 19, 2003 bombing of the UN mission in Baghdad along with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello and 20 others.

Professor Bravo says, "I was both honored and awed to participate on the selection committee. Honored to play a small role in carrying on the legacy of Andrew Helton, and awed by the commitment and creativity demonstrated by the young lawyers and law students who applied for the fellowship.”

Funded in part by contributions from ASIL members, the fellowship provides financial assistance in the form of micro-grants to ensure that these individuals have access to modest amounts of funding that can often stand between them and their first professional opportunities to become effective practitioners, experts, and scholars of international law. Fellows will undertake their project in association with an established educational institution, international organization, or non-governmental organization working in areas related to international law, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. Professor Bravo will serve on the 2012 selection committee which each year reviews applications for the fellowship.

02/29/2012

Professors Adams and Hagan Help Kenya Law School Train Faculty

Following Professor Cynthia Adams’ visit to Kenya in September 2011, the Kenya Law School invited Professor Adams back to the school to conduct a five-day clinical skills workshop for the school's faculty from January 30 to February 3, 2012. Professor Adams along with Professor Carrie Hagan and Professor Mimi Samuel of Seattle University School of Law presented on teaching methodology for clinical skills, including transactional and probate drafting, live client clinics, experiential learning, and pre-trial drafting.

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.

02/28/2012

Law School Students, Faculty and Alumni Participate in Annual Social Justice Event

Students from the Equal Justice Works chapter of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law traveled to Chicago to participate in the Annual Norman Amaker Midwest Public Interest Law & Social Justice Retreat. The event was hosted by Loyola University School of Law in Chicago and organized by IU McKinney School of Law graduate Emily Benfer, ‘05 who teaches as Clinical Professor at Loyola.

This year’s retreat, which took place February 24-26, focused on “Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Public Interest Initiatives for a Better Tomorrow.” According to organizers, this year’s event was inspired by a quote from United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--“The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me.” Benfer says, “The Amaker Retreat hopes to develop the next generation of public interest leaders who will build the bridges necessary to become stewards for society and protectors of the underserved.”

The IU McKinney School of Law students who attended were Cristin Just, Doneisha Sanders, Whitney Brockus, Alise Cool, and Katie Rosenberger.

"Attending the 2012 Amaker Retreat was exactly what I needed as a first-year law student to solidify my decision to devote my career to public interest,” said Alise Cool. “I was so impressed with the quality and the enthusiasm of the speakers. I made solid connections with the other student attendees that I'm sure will remain intact past graduation. I will definitely be attending next year."

Whitney Brockus was equally enthusiastic, “The retreat provided solidarity for law students who come to law school but want maintain involvement in their communities," she said.

IU McKinney School of Law Clinical Professor Fran Quigley, ‘87 participated in the event, speaking in a workshop session on breaking barriers to health care. Quigley recently started the law school’s Health and Human Rights Clinic which facilitates law student and alumni involvement in pro bono legal work through a medical-legal partnership with Wishard Westside Community Health Center. Florence Wagman Roisman, the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at IU McKinney School of Law also attended the working session on creating initiatives and spoke on Race Relations.

The retreat was also co-sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).

02/24/2012

All Three Indiana Supreme Court Justice Finalists are Alumni of IU McKinney School of Law

The next justice to be named to the Indiana Supreme Court will be a graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission selected Hon. Cale J. Bradford, ’86, Indiana Court of Appeals; Mark S. Massa, ’89, executive director of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute; and Jane Ann Seigel, ’79, executive director of the Indiana Judicial Center, as finalists for the position that will soon become available when Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard retires in March. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will select the next justice sometime in the next two months.

The newest justice will join two other IU McKinney School of Law alumni already serving on the court. Justice Steven David, ’82 was appointed in 2010. Justice Brent E. Dickson, ’68 has served on the court since 1986.

02/22/2012

Environmental Program Receives Grant for International Water Governance Research

The Columbia River region near the Canadian border A grant from the International Council for Canadian Studies will assist Professor Eric Dannenmaier and a student research team in their work on transboundary water resource governance. The $5,000 grant from the Canadian Government will help underwrite work by Professor Dannenmaier’s team as they conduct a comparative assessment of community involvement in the negotiation and implementation of transboundary agreements between Canada and the United States concerning the Columbia River and the Great Lakes. Their research seeks to assess the effectiveness of these negotiation processes in facilitating participation among stakeholders across borders.

Dannenmaier has been working with students on the project since last summer, and he is leading an Advanced Field Research (AFR) course this spring semester that will continue the work with the support of the new grant. The grant will be used, in part, to fund student travel to research areas in the Great Lakes and Columbia River basins to conduct interviews and gather information.

“This as an important confluence of research and experiential learning,” explained Dannenmaier. “It means that our students will have the benefit of externally-funded field travel to support their education, and our faculty’s contribution to scholarship on water resource governance will be even stronger. We are very grateful to the International Council for Canadian Studies for supporting our analysis of democratic institutions in the conservation of transboundary water resources.” Professor Karen Bravo, Associate Dean for International Affairs, echoed this sentiment, noting that “our students, our school, and the international community all benefit from the support of these international research funds.” She said, “ I welcome the initiative, drive, and international engagement goals demonstrated by Professor Dannenmaier.”

02/16/2012

Nobel Prize Recipient/Women's Rights Activist Speaks at Law School

Professor Karen Bravo, Ms. Laymah Gbowee, and Dean Marion Broome

A Nobel Peace Prize recipient discussed peace and women’s rights in West Africa during a guest lecture this week at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Leymah Gbowee, 2011 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize, spoke on“Women, Peace and Reconciliation in West Africa” on February 16, 2012, in the Wynne Courtroom of Inlow Hall.

She spoke before a capacity crowd in the courtroom and was welcomed by Professor Karen Bravo, IU McKinney School of Law; Dean Marion E. Broome, IU School of Nursing; Professor George E. Edwards, IU McKinney School of Law; Kathleen S. Grove, Director of IUPUI Office of Women; and Kenneth B. Durgans, Assistant Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

View the video.

Gbowee, founder of the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman, were the joint recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles Gbowee’s leading role in ending Liberia’s Second Civil War. The peace activist, who is based in Accra, Ghana, is the executive director of the NGO Women Peace and Security in Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), and heads the newly established reconciliation process in her native Liberia.

Pictured: Professor Karen E. Bravo, IU McKinney School of Law, Laymah Gbowee, Dean Broome, IU School of Nursing

02/02/2012

Professor Edwards Elected to AALS Positions and Named National Policy Fellow

On January 13, Professor George E. Edwards of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was appointed as the Center for National Policy’s Fellow in International Human Rights. The Center for National Policy is an independent think tank located in Washington, D.C. that focuses on national infrastructure, national and homeland security and resilience issues.

Professor Edwards says, “It is humbling to be appointed as a Fellow at such a highly respected institution with strong bi-partisan leadership that has fostered thoughtful and insightful dialogue on critical issues that have faced our nation over many decades.” He said, “I am honored to be appointed as the Center for National Policy Fellow in International Human Rights, and to join the ranks of esteemed leaders and colleagues who seek to bridge partisan divide in the U.S. and arrive at solutions that will benefit the United States and benefit all Americans.”

Edwards joins three other distinguished Center for National Policy Fellows: Gregory Aftandilian (CNP Fellow for the Middle East); Jessica Herrera-Flanigan (CNP Fellow for Cybersecurity); and Amit Kumar, Ph.D. (CNP Fellow for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism).

Professor Edwards also received national recognition at the annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) meeting in Washington, D.C. On January 7, 2012 Professor George E. Edwards, who serves as the IU McKinney representative to the AALS House of Representatives, was elected to three graduate and international legal education positions of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

He was selected as secretary of the AALS Section on Graduate Law Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers. This section is involved with Master of Laws (LL.M.) programs for international students at over 130 law schools in the U.S., which are subjects of Professor Edwards’ new book, LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (www.LLMRoadMap.com). Next year, Professor Edwards will become the chair-elect of the section , and the following year he will serve as chair.
Professor Edwards was also elected to serve as an Executive Committee Member of the AALS Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education (for U.S. and non-U.S. Lawyers). In addition, he was elected to serve as secretary of the AALS Section on International Legal Exchange.

Professor Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law and founding director of the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law.

02/02/2012

Professor Page Testifies in Support of Flexible Purpose Corporations

On January 20th, Professor Antony Page of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law testified before the Indiana Senate’s Committee on Commerce and Economic Development. He spoke in favor of Senate Bill 62, which introduces flexible purpose corporations to the state. A flexible purpose corporation is an organizational form for business entities that would like to pursue a social purpose in addition to making a profit. To date, one state has enacted a similar form. A related form known as the benefit corporation has already been enacted in seven states. Supporters expect that the new form would bring additional employment opportunities to Indiana, as well as allowing social entrepreneurs to achieve their visions.

Professor Page and Mike Delph '10 The bill was authored by Indiana State Senator Mike Delph (R-29), who graduated from the law school in 2010 (pictured with Prof. Page).

An expert in international securities and business law, Professor Page has written about and presented on the topic of social entrepreneurship on several occasions. He also spoke to Indiana's Business Law Survey Commission about the bill.

02/02/2012

Rivas, ’84 Named to Senior Legal Position at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Susan Rivas '84 Susan Rivas, ‘84 has joined the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) Corporation as corporate counsel and senior director of legal affairs.

Rivas will provide legal services to IMS and all of Hulman & Company, including INDYCAR, Clabber Girl, IMS Productions and INDYCAR Entertainment.

“I’m honored to have the opportunity to work for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the world’s epicenter for motor racing,” Rivas said. “As a native Hoosier, I’ve always had the greatest respect for everything that IMS means to so many fans around the world, and I greatly look forward to the challenges to come.”

Rivas was employed most recently as a compliance advisor for Eli Lilly and Company, where she developed compliance support for international corporate affairs functions. She spent most of her 26-year legal career as a partner at the Indianapolis law firm of Ice Miller, where she developed the firm’s antitrust investigation, regulatory and counseling practice. In her early career, Rivas worked for DowElanco and as an associate for Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Susan to our legal staff at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,” said Gretchen Snelling,’95, IMS vice president and general counsel. “She has a tremendous record of accomplishment throughout her career, and we’re confident that her abilities and experience will contribute greatly to our future success.”

Rivas holds B.A. and M.A. degrees and graduated summa cum laude from the law school.

01/24/2012

Law School’s New Health and Human Rights Clinic Needs Attorney Volunteers

With generous support from the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, the Health and Human Rights Clinic (“HHRC”) at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law invites local attorneys to team with clinical faculty in providing pro bono representation to low-income clients in the Indianapolis community.

Key Features of the Program include:

Screening of cases by the HHRC before referral to volunteers
Free full-day procedural and substantive training (CLE credit is pending) in practice areas including: Housing, Consumer, & Public Benefits Law in exchange for accepting pro bono cases
Guidance and support from experienced poverty law attorneys throughout the representation of clients
Volunteer recognition programs
Special recognition for volunteers who provide outstanding service

To participate in this program, volunteers must attend a free full-day training session that will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. An application for CLE credit is pending in anticipation of offering six (6) hours of free CLE credit to all attendees who accept pro bono cases. If you plan to attend this training, please R.S.V.P. no later than Friday, February 17, 2012 by calling 317-278-0202 or sending an e-mail to gsmallwo@iupui.edu.

»For more information about the Health and Human Rights Clinic visit: http://www.indylaw.indiana.edu/clinics/HHRC.pdf

» To learn more about the Indianapolis Bar Foundation please visit: http://www.indybar.org/about/bar-foundation.

01/06/2012

Professor Martin's Work on 'Hope Theory' Receives National Attention

Professor Allison Martin’s work on the role of hope in legal education was recently featured in The National Law Journal, ABA Journal, The American Lawyer and the Huffington Post. The original article, entitled “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades: Law School Through the Lens of Hope” was based on research conducted in 2007 by Martin and Dr. Kevin L. Rand, Assistant Professor of Psychology at IUPUI. Martin was lead author on the article which first appeared in the Duquesne Law Review. Duquesne University School of Law also built a conference around the topic in 2009, and in December 2011 a second social science article appeared based on the same study (with Rand as the lead author and a graduate student assistant as a third author).

The study receiving national attention examines the personality traits of law students as predictors of success. Martin and Rand then suggest 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.

Professor Martin says students from the Duquesne Law Review who attended the original presentation in 2009 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.”

Allison Martin is Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, in the nationally ranked Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC) department. She has taught extensively in the area of legal writing and moot court advocacy. She is the faculty advisor for the law school’s national and international moot court teams. She is also a contributing co-author of the Indiana Pleading and Practice Treatise.

“Hope — but not blind optimism — helps boost law school performance” by Karen Sloan, January 3, 2012, The National Law Journal
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202537219136&Hope__but_not_blind_optimism__helps_boost_law_school_performance&slreturn=1

“The Will and Ways of Hope” by Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D., January 3, 2012, The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/hope-success_b_1174856.html

“Hopeful Law Students Got Better Grades, Study Finds” by Debra Cassens Weiss, January 5, 2012, ABA Journal
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/hopeful_law_students_got_better_grades._study_finds/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_email

"The Careerist: Secrets to Good Grades and a Happy Career" by Vivia Chen, January 10, 2012, The American Lawyer
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2012/01/the-careerist-secrets-to-good-grades-and-a-happy-career.html

01/03/2012

Hall Center Welcomes Health Law Expert Nicolas Terry to the Faculty

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is honored to announce that 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 as of January 1, 2012. Prior to joining IU, Terry was the Chester A. Myers Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he taught Torts, Products Liability, Health Information Technology, Law & Science, and Health Care Quality. Terry, who co-directed SLU’s top-ranked Center for Health Law Studies from 2000-2008, will now lead the law school’s program here in Indianapolis along with Professor David Orentlicher, who joined the Center in 1995.

“We could not have asked for a more qualified addition to our health law credentials. Professor Terry is universally known and respected in the field of health law and will increase the national prominence our Hall Center enjoys,” says IU McKinney School of Law Dean, Gary R. Roberts. “We are happy to welcome him to our law school family.”
Born in England, Terry was educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, and first taught at the University of Exeter in England before joining the Saint Louis faculty. He has served as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and as a visiting faculty member at the law schools of Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Iowa. From 2008-10 Terry served as his school’s Senior Associate Dean. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology.

Terry replaces Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney who retired from Indiana University in June of 2011 after founding and leading the Hall Center for Law and Health for 24 years.

The Hall Center will celebrate its 25^th year in April of 2012.

12/30/2011

New Book on Public Defense in Criminal Cases Offers 'Clear Vision of a More Promising Future'

Dean Emeritus Norman Lefstein “Our nation’s public defense systems in state courts, with few exceptions, should be a source of great embarrassment for all of us,” says former FBI Director, William Sessions in his foreword to Securing Reasonable Caseloads: Ethics and Law in Public Defense. The book is written by Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus Norman Lefstein of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Calling Professor Lefstein “the nation’s leading scholar on indigent defense systems,” Sessions says that he “shows us a viable way forward…[and] a clear vision of a more promising future.”

This groundbreaking book, which is being sent nationwide to bar leaders, judges, and public defenders, was sponsored by the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (SCLAID) and supported by Atlantic Philanthropies. It can be accessed on the Internet at www.indigentdefense.org .

As explained by Professor Lefstein, his book recommends a number of reforms, including “more extensive involvement in public defense by private lawyers, who are supervised and adequately compensated, thus reducing excessive caseloads frequently imposed on public defenders, and the use of free market principles in which clients are able to select their own lawyers who are pre-qualified to furnish competent and diligent representation.”

A noted expert on legal ethics and representation of the indigent, Professor Lefstein has studied public defense for decades. Before teaching law, he served as director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, as an Assistant United States Attorney in D.C., and as a staff member in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice. His professional activities include serving as Chair of the ABA Section of Criminal Justice; as a member of the ABA SCLAID; as chair of SCLAID’s Indigent Defense Advisory Group; and as Chief Consultant to a Subcommittee on Federal Death Penalty Cases of the Judicial Conference of the United States. For seventeen years Professor Lefstein chaired the Indiana Public Defender Commission to which he was appointed by Indiana Governors. He also has frequently been an expert witness in proceedings concerned with professional ethics and/or defense representation.

Professor Lefstein was a member and co-reporter for the National Right to Counsel Committee, organized by The Constitution Project and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. In this capacity, he played a major role in writing Justice Denied: America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel, published in 2009. He also was a reporter for the 2009 ABA Eight Guidelines of Public Defense Related to Excessive Defender Workloads.

During the 1970’s, Professor Lefstein served as Reporter for the Second Edition of the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Relating to the Prosecution Function, The Defense Function, Providing Defense Services, and Pleas of Guilty. In 1982, he wrote Criminal Defense Services for the Poor: Methods and Programs for Providing Legal Representation and the Need for Adequate Financing; and in 2004 he co-authored Gideon’s Broken Promise: America’s Continuing Quest for Equal Justice. His law review articles concerned with indigent defense include an extensive study comparing public defense in the United States with criminal legal aid in the United Kingdom. He was the 2005 recipient of the Champion of Indigent Defense Award from the National Association of Criminal Lawyers.

12/01/2011

IU School of Law-Indianapolis Named for Business and Civic Leader Robert H. McKinney

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today announced the naming of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis in honor of Indianapolis attorney, banker and civic leader, Robert H. McKinney. (Watch the webcast)

The school will be known as the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in recognition of the largest gift ever received by the school and one of the largest in legal education.

McKinney’s gift of $24 million, along with matching funds committed through the IUPUI IMPACT fundraising campaign, will bring the total value of the gift to $31.5 million. The landmark gift will provide funding for five endowed chairs to attract and retain nationally recognized scholar-teachers to the faculty. The gift will also create a $17.5 million endowment to fund McKinney Family Scholarships for outstanding students.

“With this extremely generous gift, Bob McKinney will have a transformative impact on a law school that already has provided the academic foundation for a remarkable number of lawyers, judges and community and government leaders across Indiana and beyond,” McRobbie said.

“This gift will be instrumental in our efforts to attract nationally renowned legal scholars to our law school in Indianapolis, as well as top-flight students from around the country, and we are deeply grateful to Bob for his generosity,” McRobbie added.

IU School of Law-Indianapolis Dean Gary R. Roberts said the gift will make a major difference in the school's ability to achieve its long-term goals. "It is impossible to overstate the impact of this gift upon the law school, the campus and the state," Roberts said, adding that the McKinney School is believed to be one of just a few of the nearly 200 law schools in the country to be named for a major benefactor. "It provides for faculty chairs and student support to create an unparalleled resource with which to realize the aspirations of our school -- to become one of the finest public law schools in the nation. And because this law school produces so many leaders throughout the state, this is an investment in the future of the people of Indiana and beyond.”

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor Charles R. Bantz praised the gift as being consistent both with the school’s future vision and Bob McKinney’s commitment to legal education in Indiana. “This tremendous gift supports the McKinney School's commitment to being a leader in legal education,” Bantz said. “As a founding partner of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, one of the largest law firms in Indianapolis, Bob McKinney will lend his name to a school that can proudly claim many prominent lawyers, judges and public servants worldwide as its alumni.”

Approximately 80 CEOs of companies headquartered in Indiana are alumni of the school, as are the chief of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, a former U.S. vice president and members of Congress. In recent years, the school has strengthened its offerings in such areas as public health, intellectual property law, state and local government law, environmental law and international law.

“A law degree is a great introduction to broad areas of leadership -- political leadership, business leadership and civic leadership,” McKinney said. “The IU law school in Indianapolis plays a vital role in developing the leaders Indiana needs to succeed. I am excited to be able to make a commitment that will help the school build on its proud heritage and achieve its goal of being one of the best law schools in the country.”

Originally trained as an engineer, McKinney received his law degree from IU and also holds a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy. Until his retirement in 2005, McKinney served as chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation, parent company of First Indiana Bank (now known as M&I Bank). He was also a founding partner of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, an Indianapolis law firm, from which he retired in 1992.

Because of his commitment to community-based banking, McKinney was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to chair multiple federal banking, insurance, mortgage and loan agencies. In that role, McKinney established model non-discrimination regulations and pushed for community investment.

At IU, McKinney served as a trustee from 1989 to 1998 and was president of the Board of Trustees from 1993 to 1994. He was chairman of the Board of Advisors of IUPUI and is currently a director of the IU Foundation. McKinney’s previous gifts to IU include the Robert H. McKinney Law Professorship and the Bose McKinney & Evans Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition, and contributions to the V. Sue Shields Scholarship, all in the IU Maurer School of Law. He has also contributed to the Conservation Law Center and the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

“Bob is absolutely dedicated to excellence and to his community, and expresses that commitment with integrity, loyalty and grace,” said IU Foundation President Gene Tempel. “His gift today stands as a challenge and invitation to others who believe in the mission of the school and the importance of its contributions to the community and the state.”

McKinney’s gift, which will be administered and invested by the IU Foundation, was made through the IUPUI IMPACT campaign, a $1.25 billion fundraising campaign publicly announced in October 2010. As of September 2011, the effort had surpassed the $1 billion mark.

The IU Board of Trustees approved the naming at its October meeting. The name change will be effective as of today, Dec. 1. The school is planning a formal renaming ceremony and celebration to take place in the spring.

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 is offering 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 serves 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 also benefits 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 consulted 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 hosted five women’s rights advocates and journalists from Yemen on Tuesday, 11 October 2011, at Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis.

Professor Edwards discussed 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 included 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 sponsored 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 coordinated the visit.

The discussion was 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 welcome to attend. Refreshments 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 launched a major initiative in biomedical and health industry compliance law.

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

Dean Gary R. Roberts said, “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 offers expanded courses and clinical education offerings in the compliance field and develops a certificate program in health law with a specialty in biomedical and health industry compliance law by 2012. This specialty curriculum was 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 spoke at noon and Joyce R. Branda, Director of the Fraud Section of the Commercial Litigation Branch at the U.S. Department of Justice, gave 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 was 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 Speaks 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 published the article in Fall, 2012. Dr. Jeff Brenner was 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 represents the interests of over 36,000 members (attorneys and law students) in the United States. Benavides provides 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 attends four annual (domestic and international) ABA business meetings to assist in the development, execution, and marketing of substantive CLE programs; participates in Division Assembly meetings; and lobbies the Section on resolutions presented to the ABA House of Delegates. He reports to the Section Director and Division Chair on membership outreach initiatives, and actively liaises with all national and local bar associations. He assumed his post at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, in August.

06/08/2011

Professor Roisman Presents on Fair Housing and Human Rights

On June 15, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman gave two presentations at a training event in Ann Arbor, MI for legal services lawyers from Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. She presented 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 was 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 received 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) attended the ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, where IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz accepted 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 approximately 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 sponsored the Second Sino-U.S. Law Conference. Day one of the Conference, moderated by Professor Wilson, featured presentations by leading U.S. authorities on banking and real estate finance reform. Day two of the Conference, moderated by Professor Ding, featured 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 have the option of taking a new Concentration in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. The ENR Concentration would 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 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 assumed her new duties as Dean beginning summer 2011.

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 received 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 graduate and join that profession the Class, like others before it, was 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, challenged 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 Receives Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award

On March 29, 2011, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman received 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 received 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 labor dispute that threatened 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 travelled to South Africa where he presented his 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 also participated 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 presented his research as part of a conference panel on Law and the “Post-Racial/Ethnic State.” The conference included speakers from a variety of countries across the globe including Germany, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and South Africa. During his trip, Professor Waterhouse also conducted research and met 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 presented 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 joined 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 also chaired 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 delivered 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 highlighted 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 discussed the importance of using cutting edge teaching methods to teach decision-making skills. She shared 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 featured a host of experts from academia as well as the public and private sectors who convened 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 included Eli Lilly & Company Senior Vice President, Robert Armitage, who was chosen by The American Lawyer as one of the 25 most influential people in Intellectual Property Law. He discussed patent reform legislation. June Im, counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, focused on pharmaceutical patents and antitrust law from a Washington perspective, while Tom Barnett, a partner at Covington & Burling in Washington, presented 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 presented 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, added an employment law perspective, speaking 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

10/01/2010

Law School Program Focuses 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 hosted 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, were joined by experts from Indiana and around the nation who examined 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 included 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 centered 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 was 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 was entitled "Legal Framework for Performance-Driven Government," and she moderated 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."

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.

09/27/2010

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 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 Chairs 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 informed 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 led 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 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.

05/14/2010

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, was honored at a reception on May 14, 2010 at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. The event was hosted at the law school and members of the legal and international communities and the public were 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 accepted 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 received an honorary doctorate degree at the seminary commencement exercises.

This event was 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.

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.”

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 gave the commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. The law school’s dean, Gary R. Roberts, said, “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 as one of “ten legendary Washington lawyers who will forever leave their mark on the District’s legal landscape,” Dick Thornburgh is 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 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 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.

04/16/2010

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 marked its founding 190 years ago this spring, President Michael A. McRobbie presented 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, received 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.

“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 presented at the Washington & Lee Law School's "Prosecutorial Power: A Transnational Symposium" on 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 addressed 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 hosted "The Law of Democracy," a Symposium focusing on election law, on April 8-9 at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. The keynote speech was given by Professor Heather Gerken of Yale Law School on Thursday, April 8^th, in the Wynne Courtroom. Three panels over the two days featured 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 was no cost to attend the Symposium, and 5.0 hours of Indiana continuing legal education credits were 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 spoke 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 was 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 joined the IU School of Law – Indianapolis as Executive Director of the school’s Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. Schaibley retired 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 teaches 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.

10/15/2009

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 returned 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.

10/14/2009

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 faced these same questions during a groundbreaking counter-terrorism simulation at the law school. Students from both schools worked side-by-side with local and state government officials to respond to simulated counter-terrorism events taking place locally and throughout the world. The entire event wasbroadcast live over the internet so college or high school students in their class rooms, first responders in emergency networks, or private citizens at home could 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 acted in assigned roles that included 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 had 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 received information from live newsfeeds detailing events as they unfolded. They were then 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 received 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 were 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, gave 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 was 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" were be open to the public (and Continuing Legal Education credit 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.

10/08/2009

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

The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis hosted 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 looked forward to the week’s events as a way “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 kicked 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 was open to the public, featured 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 teamed up to present this entertaining event.

On Tuesday, October 6, Professor López organized a panel discussion on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Professor López was 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 was co-sponsored by the IUPUI Latino Faculty Staff Council and took place in room 375 of the law school at 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday evening, students, faculty and the public were invited to a Poetry Slam, entitled “The Beauty of Struggle” where members of the law school community presented their original poetic compositions. Local coffee house, Mo’Joe’s, provided free coffee for this social event. The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) organized this event. BLSA also be collected school supply donations for Indy School on Wheels, an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to homeless school-aged children.

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 presented a training workshop on “Diversity and Entering the Profession” on Wednesday, October 7. There were be two sessions open to law students, each limited to 50 participants per session.

Diversity Week culminated on Thursday, October 8, with a Keynote lecture by former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Myra Selby, 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 was open to the public. 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 Chairs Workshop Session in Geneva on Resolving International Development Conflicts

Professor Eric Dannenmaier facilitated 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 was co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the University for Peace, and the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability. Professor Eric Dannenmaier chaired 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 led 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 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 hosted a delegation of lawyers, judges, law professors, constitutional scholars, ministry officials and journalists from a dozen South American countries . The U.S. State Department sponsored 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 included 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 also focuses on legal education for foreign students and officials in the U.S. The proceedings were conducted in Spanish with interpretation. Professor George E. Edwards organized 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 presented 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 was 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 presented 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 discussed 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 becomes 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) was 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.

06/07/2009

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 travelled to Seoul, Korea, to attend the Indiana University International Alumni Event June 5-7, 2009.

From Seoul, they flew to Beijing, P.R. China, to visit the law school’s partners at Renmin University, which hosted the Chinese Law Summer Program for Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. In addition, Dean Roberts coordinated with graduates in Beijing to organize an alumni reception and dinner during the visit. Before returning to the U.S., the deans visited Nanning, P.R. China, where Dean Roberts and Dean Nehf gave 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 are the 2009 alumni award recipients at the annual Evening of Celebration on May 8, 2009 at Inlow Hall. All alumni were invited to attend the festivities, which included two one hour CLE presentations, 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 Honors John Okeson ‘89 on April 7

Friends and colleagues gathered for a resolution in memory of H. John John Okeson, '89 Okeson, ’89, on April 7, 2009 in the Senate Chambers, on 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 Speaks at Human Rights Event at Columbia Law School

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke at a conference entitled "Human Rights and State Law: New Strategies for Economic Justice Advocacy," sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. On April 17 in New York City, Professor Roisman's panel entitled "Why Human Rights?" explored reasons why social justice lawyers should consider using human rights standards to advocate for economic and social rights in state law. Panelists addressed the relevance of human rights standards in interpreting state constitutional provisions and statutes and in developing state common law. The panel also addressed 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) .

03/28/2009

Professor Bravo Presents Money Laundering and Human Trafficking Research at the 103rd ASIL Annual Meeting

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) invited Professor Karen E. Bravo to participate in its 103^rd Annual Meeting. ASIL is the premier U.S. international law organization. Professor Bravo presented 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 joined an international and multidisciplinary group of academics in introducing poster sessions to the ASIL. The event took place in Washington, D.C. on March 25-28.

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.

03/09/2009

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. He has been elected to membership in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also been elected to the Federation of Insurance & Defense Council and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Shoulders is a co-chair and founder of the Trial Advocacy Skills College presented annually by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum. He is a past chair of the ISBA’s Litigation Section and a past council member of the its Appellate Advocacy Committee. Shoulders was recognized in the 2005 and 2006 e ditions of Indiana Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 lawyers in the State of Indiana and has been included as an Indiana Super Lawyer in each annual publication since the magazine began. He has achieved an AV certification rating from the Martindale & Hubbell legal directory, an elite peer rating recognizing him as performing at the highest level of professional excellence based on ethical standards and legal ability. He is also a frequent presenter for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the Indiana School Board Association, and the Evansville Personnel Association.

He has served the legal profession as President of the Evansville Bar Association, as Chair of the Litigation and Citizenship Education Committees of the ISBA , as Chair of the Fellows of the Indiana Bar Foundation, and as a member of the State Bar Associations Board of Governors from 1998-2000. He is the recipient of the Evansville Bar Association’s highest honor – the James Bethel Gresham Award, in recognition of his service to the legal profession.

Originally appointed to the Indiana University Board of Trustees by Governor O'Bannon, Shoulders has been a Trustee of IU since January 1, 2002, and is currently VP of the board. He is a past national President of the Indiana University Alumni Association and the IU College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association. He also currently serves as a Director of the IU Foundation and the IU Varsity Club and is a member of the Board of Governors of the IU Center on Philanthropy and the Well House Advisory Committee. In February of 2005, Pat received the Maynard K. Hine Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the IUPUI Alumni Association, for his "unique and significant contributions" to that campus.

In addition to his volunteer works, Pat also co-hosts " Shively & Shoulders ," a local Public affairs television program on WNIN Channel 9 in Evansville.

12/11/2008

Appellate Clinic Law Student Argues Before the Indiana Supreme Court

Jonathan Bont arguing before the Indiana Supreme Court

Jonathan Bont (3L), argued before the state's highest court today (December 11, 2008) at 9:45 a.m.. Bont argued in Jeffrey Graham v. State as part of his Appellate Clinic experience which was 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 argument can be seen on the court's webcast site: http://www.indianacourts.org/apps/webcasts/

Stacy Uliana, ’97, an attorney at the Indiana Public Defender Council reacted to the oral argument, 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, “The Appellate Clinic has truly been a high point of my eight years of teaching.”

Bont said afterward that after all of the preparation, the fifteen minute argument seemed to go by quickly. Professor Schumm spoke for the rebuttal, after Bont presented the opening argument. “We had strong legal positions,” Bont said. “The Justices asked many of the questions for which we had prepared.” In preparation, Bont and Schumm mooted the argument before appellate and trial public defenders, local attorneys who had clerked for the Indiana Supreme Court, and faculty from the law school. Bont, who is a member of the Order of Barristers and the Indiana Law Review, says that today 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.

Tomorrow morning, however, Bont has his first final exam of the semester in Secured Transactions. Good luck, Jonathan!

12/05/2008

Alumni Organize Legal Aid Centre in Kenya

A trail blazing legal aid organization has been established in Kenya thanks to the efforts of Judge Patricia Riley, ‘74, Indiana Court of Appeals, and Fran Quigley, ‘87, director of operations for the IU partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. The Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE) officially started in September with a small staff and initial funding from the Reuben Family Foundation and the Indianapolis Rotary Club. LACE is currently located in the hospital where the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated AMPATH program has IU physicians and medical students helping Kenyans living with HIV/AIDS. Riley and Quigley started LACE because many of the medical patients are in need of legal as well as medical help, especially in the areas of land rights and family law.

The law school plans to collaborate with LACE by offering a Kenyan lawyer or lawyers a full scholarship to attend the LL.M. program in Indianapolis on condition that they agree to work at least two years as a staff attorney at LACE, as well as to coordinate legal work assistance for LACE from volunteer LL.M. graduates and students while enrolled as an LL.M. student.

The program is seeking other funding sources and hopes to expand its case load capacity. The organizers hope to arrange a trip for attorneys from Indiana to see the centre in action in the near future.

12/05/2008

Profesor María Pabón López Wins Diversity In Practice Award

Profesor María Pabón López was chosen as the recipient of the Indiana Lawyer’s 2008 Diversity in Practice Award on October 24 at the Conrad in downtown Indianapolis. She is pictured above with Greg Morris, IBJ media vice president and Byron Myers, chief managing par tner at Ice Miller.

Prior to joining the law school in 2002, Professor López worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, for the U.S. Department of Justice, District of Puerto Rico in San Juan and practiced law in San Juan and Philadelphia. At IU she has implemented new courses about issues related to diversity and ensuring an environment of inclusion. Her course, Race and the Law was first offered in the Spring of 2008.

Since June of 2003, Professor López has been an appointed member of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Court Interpreter Certification Advisory Board, a project of the Race and Gender Fairness Commission. She is also a member of the Latino Affairs Committee of the Indiana State Bar. In December 2007, Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard named Professor López, the only academic, to the State Board of Law Examiners.

In addition, Professor López is currently working on a book about the education of immigrant children. She was presented with the 2007 Rabb Emison Award from the ISBA recognizing her commitment to promote diversity and equality in the legal profession and in the membership of the Indiana State Bar.

12/05/2008

Law School Hosts Roundtable Discussion on the Economy

Law School Hosts Roundtable Discussion on the Economy Foreclosures rise. The stock market plummets. Credit markets freeze. Huge companies go bankrupt or are effectively nationalized. Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan says we’re in a “once-in-a-century” financial crisis. Politicians and pundits predict a depression.

The current economic crisis set the stage for a Roundtable Discussion: The Economic Crisis and The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, on Thursday, October 23 at the law school. Five members of the law school faculty discussed the issues that impact today’s economic woes, before a packed house of students, faculty and concerned members of the public.

The program was organized by Professor Max Huffman, who spoke on consumer credit ramifications. Other participants were Cynthia A. Baker, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law and State Government, who addressed the impact on state and local government finance; Antony Page, Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow, who spoke on “From Mortgage Crisis to Financial Meltdown;” Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos, Harold R. Woodard Professor of Law, who tackled the topic, “From Financial Crisis to ... (Great Depression?)” and Lloyd T. “Tom” Wilson, Jr., Professor of Law and Chair-Elect, AALS Section on Real Estate Transactions who provided comment on “Understanding the Mortgage Crisis.”

11/21/2008

Immigration Clinic Students Help Family Stay Together

Arguing before the Chicago Immigration Court, law students Lun Kham and Andrea Schmidt recently secured lawful permanent residency for the immigrant parents of three American-born children. The father and mother of the Barrios family (from Guatemala and Mexico respectively) had both resided in the United States for approximately 18 years. During that time, they raised a family of three boys, all U.S. citizens, now ages 15, 13 and 10.

Professor Linda Kelly Hill, director of the Immigration Clinic at the law school, says, “The boys excel in school, taking advanced classes and having high ambitions for their college educations and futures. One of the children also suffers from severe migraines and weight loss and is under close medical supervision. Through championship soccer teams, church and school, the parents are also extremely active in the community and their boys’ lives.”

Kham and Schmidt were able to persuasively argue the parents were eligible for “cancellation of removal” by proving the “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” that would have been imposed on these three U.S. citizen children if they were effectively deported upon their parents being ordered removed. Professor Kelly Hill says, “Because of the students’ terrific work, the parents are now lawful permanent residency and already look forward to the day they can be sworn in as United States citizens.”

The students’ representation included providing all necessary examination and argumentation in a four hour hearing, drafting a 50 page legal memo, submitting nearly 700 pages of documentary evidence and preparing over 10 witnesses, including family, teachers and doctors.

Third year student Andrea Schmidt says, “The Immigration Clinic has given me my first insight into what it really means to practice law. Since the clinic is made up of only six students and Professor Kelly Hill, we are able to function like a little law firm, with weekly meetings where we collaborate about creative ways to approach our cases. Professor Kelly Hill has a special talent for teaching students how to navigate complicated statutes and use case law. I have no doubt that these skills will serve me well in any area of law.”

Lun Kham, also a third year student, agrees and adds, “Although it was a lot of work on top of classes and other commitments, I am thankful for the opportunity to be able to make a difference in this family’s life.” Working with the clinic last fall, Kham also represented a Burmese refugee woman in her successful bid for asylum before the Immigration Court in Chicago.

The law school’s Immigration Clinic was established in 2006 by Professor Linda Kelly Hill, the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law. Clinic students represent non-detained immigrants in immigration matters under the supervision of Professor Kelly Hill. Since it’s inception approximately 30 students have assisted in Immigration Clinic cases.

11/21/2008

Law School Alum Fred Glass '84 Named IU Athletic Director

Photo of Fred Glass shaking hands with Michael A. McRobbie Fred Glass, ’84, has several goals for the Indiana University athletic department—and winning national championships isn’t the first.

Glass, who was named director of intercollegiate athletics by IU President Michael A. McRobbie on Oct. 28, says his top two priorities are to ensure that IU complies with NCAA rules and regulations and that IU’s athletes achieve success academically.

“I want to be excellent on the field, the court, the pool. I want to win championships and have winning records,” Glass said. “But I think we have to do the first two things first. We’re going to be known as a university that follows the rules, and our athletes are going to excel academically.”

Using a sports metaphor, Glass said the job offer from IU “came out of left field,” and that he was happy practicing law as a partner at the Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels.

But his secured transactions professor from law school—former IUPUI Chancellor Gerald Bepko—recommended Glass for the job.

“It a nice example of how those relationships you have in law school stay with you for a lifetime,” Glass said.

Glass recalled turning to Bepko for advice several times during his career, including once when he was preparing to graduate from law school and had two enviable positions on the horizon: an offer from a big Indianapolis law firm and a clerkship with U.S. Federal District Court Judge S. Hugh Dillin.

He chose the clerkship.

“He [Bepko] advised me that when trying to make a decision, choose the one that will give you the most opportunities for the future,” Glass said. “It’s advice I’ve followed throughout my career and I’ve been able to do a lot of different, interesting things.”

A native of Indianapolis, Glass also earned a bachelor’s degree from IU in 1981. He served as chief of staff to former Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh from 1989 to 1993 and was transition team chief for former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson when he took office in 2000.

Peterson appointed Glass to the Capital Improvement Board, which owns and operates Lucas Oil Stadium, the Indiana Convention Center, Conseco Fieldhouse and Victory Field. During his eight-year tenure as CIB president, Glass represented the mayor in successful negotiations to keep the Colts in Indianapolis and headed up the planning effort for construction of Lucas Oil Stadium and the expansion of the convention center.

Glass served on the organizing committees for the NCAA Final Four Tournament in 2000 and again in 2006 and negotiated a deal to make the city part of a permanent rotation to host NCAA Final Fours. He also was on the executive committee of the 2002 World Basketball Championship and co-chaired the 2006 local organizing committee for the Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments.

Most recently, he was president of the City of Indianapolis' 2011 Super Bowl Bid Committee, which although not successful for that year, laid the groundwork for a successful bid for 2012.

In making the announcement, McRobbie praised Glass’s leadership and understanding of the challenges—and importance—of IU athletics.

“He has a well-earned reputation as someone who can get the big things done. He is exactly the person we need to take on the challenges our Athletics Department will encounter in the next decade,” McRobbie said.

11/10/2008

Dean Emeritus Lefstein Quoted in New York Times on Public Defender Workloads

Photo of Professor and Dean Emeritus Norman Lefstein Professor Norman Lefstein, an expert on criminal justice issues, was quoted in the New York Times in an ariticle entitled, "Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases" by Erik Eckhom (November 9, 2008, pg. 1). Lefstein is Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.

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10/29/2008

Professor Karen Bravo Speaks on Global Social Contract at Oxford University

Professor Karen Bravo The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at the University of Oxford, in association with Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, has invited a select group of 16 international scholars to a workshop on October 29-31, 2008, to discuss an issue of pressing significance – the social contract and the modern welfare state. The workshop, entitled Work, Employment and Industrial Relations in the New Social Contract brings together scholars from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia, Belgium, Israel, and the Netherlands. Associate Professor Karen Bravo of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis was selected to participate based on her research on globalization, human trafficking and the transnational labor market. She will present and discuss her paper "Transborder Labor Liberalization: A Path to Enforcement of the Global Social Contract for Labor?"

Oxford’s Foundation for Law, Justice and Society has three principal objectives: to study and reflect on the role of law in international, regional, and national affairs; to identify issues of contemporary interest and importance for detailed study; and to inform policy by making the work of researchers and scholars more accessible to practitioners, whether in government, business, or the law.

Further information on this workshop is available at http://www.fljs.org/section.aspx?id=14.

10/23/2008

Professor Roisman Speaks at Fair Housing Conference

Professor Florence Roisman Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke at the "New Strategies in Fair Housing Conference" organized by the Housing Research & Advocacy Center in Cleveland, Ohio on November 14th. Professor Roisman participated in a panel discussion on "Exploring Legal and Enforcement Strategies."

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and an expert on housing discrimination issues. She also spoke at the 40th Anniversary of the National Housing Law Project in Oakland, California on October 3rd.

Roisman was also re-elected to the ACLU-Indiana Board. She has been elected to the local board three times and has served by appointment from 2007-2008. She is also a member of the ACLU's national board.

10/23/2008

Professor Dannenmaier gives Keynote at North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation workshop in Mexico City

Professor Eric Dannenmaier gave the keynote address at the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation workshop in Mexico City. His address on “Citizen Enforcement under NAFTA” opened the workshop, which is designed to advance public interest advocacy on environmental matters among the three NAFTA countries. The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) was created by the United States, Canada, and Mexico as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to help address environmental concerns associated with the trade pact. Professor Dannenmaier has been engaged with the CEC for many years as an advocate, advisor, and researcher - working to ensure that environmental issues associated with trade are addressed and that the citizen access mechanisms of NAFTA are effective. He was the lead attorney in the first Citizen Submission to the CEC after its creation (in re Silva Reservoir) and has since advised the Commission on its public participation procedures and authored a study on the CEC’s Public Advisory Committees as part of a ten-year review of the trade deal. Dannenmaier’s participation in the Mexico City workshop represents his latest effort to keep the public engaged in addressing the environmental impacts of international trade. The November 12 workshop, entitled “Environmental Law Education: A Clinical Approach,” was designed to advance the “citizen submissions on enforcement matters” process under the NAFTA Environmental Side Agreement and to raise awareness of the opportunities for developing environmental law clinics within Mexican universities that might engage in environmental advocacy before the Commission. Further details at http://www.cec.org/calendar/details/index.cfm?varlan=english&ID=2115

10/17/2008

Professor Karen Bravo Speaks at Conference Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Prohibition of Importation of Slaves into U.S.

Professor Karen Bravo On October 25, 2008, Associate Professor Karen E. Bravo joined an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars in commemorating the 1808 federal law banning the importation of slaves into the United States. Hosted by the University of Toledo College of Law, the conference is entitled "Commemorating 1808: Fighting for the Right to Dream."

The conference included discussion of developments that testify to the significance of 1808, including the founding of Liberia in 1847, the US Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, as well as the life of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, and the first African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prof. Bravo discussed her work on exploring the analogy between modern trafficking in humans and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

10/15/2008

Professor Page's Article Cited by Texas Supreme Court

Professor Antony Page's article, "Batson's Blind Spot: Unconscious Stereotyping and the Perempotry Challenge," was quoted by the Texas Supreme Court for the proposition that attorneys may make race-based or sex-based peremptory challenges unconsciously. Davis v. Fisk Elec. Co., --- S.W.3d ----2008 WL 4370670 (Tex., Sep 26, 2008). Page says, "This decision is particularly important because the conservative court assumed that the striking lawyer was 'pure of heart' and that that there was no suggestion of 'personal racial animosity,' but was still able to conclude that there had been impermissible race-based discrimination. I believe this is the first top court to order a retrial in this situation without also concluding that the striking attorney lied."

10/14/2008

Professor Katz Quoted in the New York Times on 'The Great Schlep'

Professor Robert A. Katz was quoted in the New York Times on October 14 regarding a web-based campaign pitch for Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama involving comedian Sarah Silverman called The Great Schlep. The organizers' intention is to exhort Jewish grandchildren to visit their grandparents in Florida in order to persuade them to vote for Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor. To date, only one hundred or so young Jews have answered the call. From the NYT “The Great Schlep isn’t really about changing Jewish votes,” said Robert A. Katz, 43, a law professor in Indianapolis and one of the roughly 20,000 people who have signed up as Great Schlep fans on Facebook. “Rather, it’s a humorous and self-deprecatory way for younger and more progressive Jews to signal to African-Americans that they’re ashamed of the outrageous rumors and slanders [about Obama] being circulated and swallowed in some Jewish circles.” Link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/politics/14schlep.html?ref=politics .

Katz has written a chapter exploring the American Jewish community’s relations with other groups and society in general. His chapter, “’PAGING DR. SHYLOCK...': Jewish Hospitals and the Prudent Re-investment of Jewish Philanthropy," will appear in Giving: For the Love of God (David Smith, ed., Indiana University Press, 2009). Katz argues that Jewish communities built non-sectarian hospitals in part to combat anti-Semitic stereotypes that Jews only took care of “their own.”

10/01/2008

Two IU Law-Indianapolis Professors Testify at Immigration Hearings

International symbol for immigration agency Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis professors Linda Kelly-Hill and John Hill testified on September 8 before a committee of the Indiana legislature on the matter of undocumented workers in Indiana. In 2007 the Indiana legislature was not able to agree on a bill to target the employers of undocumented workers.

Kelly Hill and Hill presented differing opinions on the topic and both were quoted in the media. Hill was quoted in The Indianapolis Star and and both were quoted in the Chicago Tribune and the Indianapolis Business Journal (link to IBJ article).

09/29/2008

Professor Orentlicher Quoted in Article on Assumed Consent and Organ Donation

Professor David Orentlicher, J.D., M.D. Professor David Orentlicher was quoted as an expert on assumed consent for organ donation in a recent article in The San Diego Union-Tribune. A nationally recognized expert on bioethics issues, Orentlicher is co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health as well as Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.

» Link to full article.

09/26/2008

Law School's Numbers and Ranking Jump

Students gathered in the Conour Atrium for Orientation The incoming class of J.D. students at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis is the highest credentialed class to date. The incoming class is made up of 78% Indiana residents and has a median LSAT score for full-time students that increased two points from the previous year’s score to 158. The median grade point average held at 3.56. Dean Gary R. Roberts says, “The law school, which jumped 17 places to 68^th in the U.S. News and World Report rankings for 2009, should go even higher next spring due to this superior first-year class. This is good news for our students, our alumni and the state of Indiana since our school produces over half of the lawyers and judges and much of the leadership for the state.”

Students in the incoming J.D. class attended a “Call to the Profession” on Saturday, August 23 at Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, the home of the IU School of Law – Indianapolis. Doug Church, President of the Indiana State Bar Association and a member of the Class of 1970, administered the “Oath of Professionalism” to the new students who pledged “to uphold the high honor, ideals and integrity of the legal profession” and to conduct themselves “with dignity, civility, and professionalism.”

With a total enrollment of over 1,000 students, the IU School of Law – Indianapolis is the largest law school in the state of Indiana and the only law school in the state to offer a part-time evening program in addition to a full-time day program. Inlow Hall, the school’s technologically advanced, contemporary building, is located in the urban environment of downtown Indianapolis, thereby affording students opportunities to interact with business, government, science, medicine, sports and the arts.

IU Law – Indianapolis has over 9,500 alumni located in every state in the nation and several countries around the world. The school’s professors are nationally recognized experts from both the public and private sectors. They collectively hold J.D., LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from more than 50 different schools.

Located on the campus of IUPUI, 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.

09/12/2008

IU to Present Judge G. Michael Witte with its Distinguished Asian Pacific American Alumni Award

photo of Judge Witte Judge G. Michael Witte, '82 was the 2008 recipient of the Indiana University Asian Alumni Association's Distinguished Asian Pacific American Alumni Award. This award recognizes outstanding professional achievements and community service of Asian/Pacific American Alumni of IU.

A lifetime member of the IU Alumni Association, Witte received his bachelor's degree in forensic studies in 1979 and his law degree in 1982, both from IU. Witte, who serves as judge for the Dearborn Superior Court No. 1, was the first Asian American trial judge to be elected in the state of Indiana.

A nationally recognized expert on highway traffic safety legal issues and known for his commitment to improving the public trust in the judicial branch of government and improving the performance of America's judges, Witte has been a faculty member with the National Judicial College of the University of Nevada since 1994.

Nominated to the Indiana Court of Appeals in 2008, Witte is the vice-chair of the judicial division of the American Bar Association and will become its chairman in 2011, another Asian American first. In addition, Witte belongs to the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Indiana State Bar Association, American Judges Association, Indiana Judges Association and was appointed to the Indiana Commission on Courts.

In August, Witte received the Franklin N. Flaschner Award from the American Bar Association National Conference of Specialized Court Judges. The award is given to the outstanding judge in the nation who presides in a court of limited jurisdiction.

An involved alumnus, Witte is the president for the IU School of Law - Indianapolis Alumni Association, has been president of the Dearborn County Chapter of the IUAA and served as the coordinator of the Dearborn County IU Varsity Club. Active in his community, Witte is recognized as a leader for diversity and has been instrumental in reaching out to Asian and other minority youth in programs across the nation. The Hoosier Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America named him a Distinguished Citizen in 1996, just one of many honors he has received.

Witte is the third recipient of the Distinguished Asian Pacific American Alumni Award, an honor established in 2006 by the IU Asian Alumni Association in conjunction with the IU Asian Culture Center. Witte, who was born in Batesville, Ind., lives with his wife, Dawn, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. They have a daughter, Christy.

The award was presented to Witte during a dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of the IU Asian Culture Center starting at 7 p.m., Oct. 3, in Alumni Hall in the IU Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St. on the IU Bloomington campus. The event was open to the public, but required advance tickets, which may be purchased online at: http://www.iub.edu/~acc/anniversary/reservation.html.

The IU Asian Alumni Association, http://alumni.indiana.edu/asianaa/, is an affiliate group of the IU Alumni Association. The IUAA is dedicated to serving the university and its diverse alumni, students and friends. As one of the nation's largest alumni organizations, serving more than 500,000 graduates worldwide, the IUAA provides many programs and services to its members, nonmember alumni and the university. For more information, visit http://www.alumni.indiana.edu or call 800-824-3044.

09/11/2008

Professor Jennifer Drobac Cited as Expert on Juvenile Law

photo of Professor Jennifer Drobac Professor Jennifer Drobac, an expert on juvenile law, was recently quoted on the legal rights of teenagers and young adults in an article entitled "Turning 18: What it really means for your child and you legally, medically and educationally" which appeared in the August 2008 issue of Indianapolis Woman (pp. 106-107, by Leslie Fuller Knox). Drobac's 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.

09/09/2008

Elizabeth Monroe '02 Receives Award for Scholarship on SCOTUS History

photo of Justice Kennedy and Elizabeth Monroe Elizabeth Brand Monroe, '02, Associate Professor of History at IUPUI, has been honored by the Journal of Supreme Court History Board of Editors for her 2007 article "The Influence of the Dartmouth College Case on the American Law of Educational Charities." It was chosen as the best article for the year and was published in the March issue of the journal.

Monroe’s article examines the 1819 Supreme Court case "Dartmouth College vs. Woodward" where the New Hampshire legislature attempted to revise the university’s charter to allow the reinstatement of the former Dartmouth president. The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Dartmouth College allowed the school to remain a private institution without state interference.

Monroe attended the Supreme Court Historical Society annual dinner in Washington, D.C. on June 2^nd at the Supreme Court, where she was presented the Hughes-Gossett Award by Justice Anthony Kennedy.

09/05/2008

Professor Roisman Speaks at Conference on Integration and Housing Law

photo of Professor Florence Wagman Roisman Professor Florence Wagman Roisman spoke on Friday, September 5 at the Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. Her presentation was entitled, “Constitutional and Statutory Mandates for Residential Racial Integration and The Validity of Race-Conscious, Affirmative Action to Achieve It.”

08/29/2008

Center for Law and Health Welcomes Faculty Fellow from Turkey

The Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis is hosting Professor Halit Yilmaz from the law faculty at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey . Professor Yilmaz will be a visiting fellow at the Hall Center during the 2008-09 academic year.

His main areas of interest are administrative law, mass communication law, urban planning and general theory of law. Professor Yilmaz is planning to work on articles on the international human right to health and the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.

Professor Yilmaz says, "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. At this point, studying the general principles of the right to health, and the comparable experiences under other modern legal systems will be essential for my book project."

08/29/2008

Professor Adams makes presentation at the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference

Professor Adams makes presentation at the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference Professor Adams participated in the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference held on August 4-7 at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. The conference, co-sponsored by Bahcesehir University and the Legal Writing Institute, was attended by Turkish lawyers, law faculty, and law students. Professor Adams spoke on negotiating and drafting alternative dispute resolution provisions in international commercial contracts. Professor Adams has written on drafting international contracts, published in The International Lawyer's Guide to Legal Analysis and Communicated in the United States, a book co-authored with Professor McGregor and published by Aspen Publishers in July 2008.

08/21/2008

Chinese Environmental Law Scholar in Residence at IU Law-Indianapolis

IU School of Law-Indianapolis' Environmental Law Forum hosted visiting Chinese Lawyer, Wang Xiaohui, this summer while she conducted comparative research on U.S. environmental law through a fellowship provided by Probe International. Xiaohui works with one of the most prominent Chinese Environmental Law organizations, the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) in Beijing. She is both a practicing lawyer and a Ph.D. candidate at China University of Political Science and Law, where her dissertation topic relates to environmental law in China.

Xiaohui was in Indianapolis during July and August. While here she had an opportunity to interact with members of the faculty who teach environmental law, Professors Dan Cole and Eric Dannenmaier, and to meet with Professors Tom Wilson and Gerard Magliocca, who co-direct IU-Indy’s China Summer Program. Xiaohui also had the opportunity to meet with practicing lawyers, public interest advocates, and government officials. At the close of her visit, Xiaohui gave a presentation to the faculty on Environment and Health Management in China - discussing the challenges of protecting human health and the environment in the face of enormous development pressures in the world’s largest developing country.

08/19/2008

Professor Edwards hosts International Colloquium on Multi Regional Approaches to Human Rights Problems

On 15 August 2008, Professor George E. Edwards hosted representatives of Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East for discussions about solving human rights problems globally, and in the participants' specific regions. In a colloquium discussion with law students, faculty, staff, and members of the Indiana community, Professor Edwards focused on commonalities among the human rights problems faced in different countries, rather than differences. He noted that everyone would benefit from learning about the strategies employed in different regions to curb human rights violations. “We can all learn from each other about tackling human rights problems.” He said that “we all benefit from exchanging ideas about our backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and using what we learn to combat violations.” The colloquium was held at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.

The International Visitors came from Bangladesh, Nigeria, Honduras, Panama, Namibia, Malaysia, and the West Bank. Participants at the colloquium, including Master of Laws students, also represented many nations and territories, including Cameroon, Southern Cameroon, India, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Bosnia.

The visitors work on a wide range of human rights issues in their home countries, including rights of and related to women, children, indigenous peoples, minorities, development, the environment, and general civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Professor Edwards congratulated the Delegation, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State International Visitors Program for visits to Indianapolis and to other cities around the country. He noted that everyone present was involved in “citizen diplomacy.” He said that “Condoleeza Rice is in the Republic of Georgia this week involved in official diplomacy. You—private citizens from around the world—are here on a citizen diplomacy mission. You are here to share your cultures, experiences, and other insights with us, as we are to share our cultures, experiences and other insights with you.” Professor Edwards continued, “When you return to your respective homes around the world, you will be able to tell your friends, families and colleagues about what you learned in the United States. And when those of us who live in Indiana leave this room, we will be able to speak about what we learned from our new friends from around the world. International barriers are breaking down. Mutual understanding is being enhanced. Our communities are closer together. We are all citizen diplomats.”

Professor Edwards’ presentation was entitled “Multi-Regional Approaches to Solving International Human Rights Problems.”

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. He recently returned from a trip to Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where he met with government officials and others about human rights law issues. He also held discussions about American Legal Education, as the law school is enhancing its Master of Laws (LL.M.) program, most students of whom are from overseas. Furthermore, he engaged in discussions about placing human rights law interns in Kuwait, Bahrain, Laos, Thailand, Japan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Ms. Habiba Akter, Executive Director, Ashar Alo Society (Bangladesh);
Mr. Jimmy Walter Andino Mejia, Executive Director, Guaruma Organization (Honduras);
Ms. Wai Ling Ho, Honorable Secretary, All Women's Action Society, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia);
Mr. Don Muroua, Program Manager, Rural People's Institute for Social Empowerment in Namibia (RISE): Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) (Namibia);
Ms. Safiya Tahir Abdullahi, Coordinator, Adolescent Girls Initiative (Nigeria);
and Ms. Mawakib S. A. Massad, Administrative Director, Health Development Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) (West Bank).
Mr. Leonides Quiroz, Coordinator, Negotiation Commission for the Wounaan Land, Wounaan Tribe Congress (Panama).

One of the International Visitors, Mr. Leonides Quiroz, Coordinator, Negotiation Commission for the Wounaan Land, Wounaan Tribe Congress (Panama), worked with the Program in International Human Rights Law and the International Human Rights Law Society in preparing and submitting a United Nations Shadow Report on Panama's indigenous people, which includes the Wounaan tribe. In March 2008, the law students presented the UN Shadow Report to UN Human Rights Committee experts at UN Headquarters in New York. The experts called the Panamanian government's attention to the human rights concerns bedeviling Panama's indigenous people.

Participants in the International Visitor Colloquium included Mr. William Hotham of the College of Law, United Kingdom, who is also a representative of Bridges Across Borders, an NGO based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, involved in a wide range of community activities. IU-Indianapolis law students Heidi Reed and Jeff Collins worked at Bridges Across Borders during the 2007 summer. Mr. Hotham is a Visiting Fellow at the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law.

Also participating was Professor Halit Yilmaz, from the Law Faculty at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. Professor Yilmaz is a Visiting Scholar at the law school’s Center on Health and Bioethics.

Professor Edwards asked participants how the Program in International Human Rights law might be able to assist their organizations. Several participants expressed an interest in collaborating with the Program on projects (including United Nations Shadow Reports), and receiving IU-Indianapolis international human rights law interns.
Professor Edwards spoke about his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, and how the Saudi government was keen on accepting an IU-Indianapolis intern to intern for the Saudi Arabia Human Rights Commission.

At least one participant— Mr. Leonides Quiroz, Coordinator, Negotiation Commission for the Wounaan Land, Wounaan Tribe Congress (Panama)—also expressed an interest in joining the Master of Laws program at IU School of Law – Indianapolis.

08/18/2008

Professors Adams and McGregor Publish Book on U.S. Legal Analysis and Communication for International Lawyers

Cover image from Professor Adams and Professor McGregor's new book Clinical Professors of Law, Cynthia M. Adams and Deborah B. McGregor, co-authored a new resource for international lawyers preparing to practice in the United States or deal with U.S. companies. The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States uses a global perspective to put the basic principles of legal reasoning and communication into context.

The book includes a concise introduction to the U.S. legal system, the common law as U.S. precedent and the anatomy of a U.S. lawsuit, as well as practical guidance for law study in the United States, including how to brief a case for class and other suggestions about the law school classroom. Read more about the book.

Deborah B. McGregor, Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director of Legal Analysis, Research, and Communication, directs the third semester legal writing program, focusing on transactional drafting. She has also taught the first-year legal writing courses, legal process, integrated legal analysis and torts for LL.M. students, and advanced persuasive writing and oral advocacy. Prior to teaching, Professor McGregor’s work included legislative drafting in the U.S. Senate and probate and estate planning law. She has organized both regional and national conferences for law professors; served on national and international committees, and given over 40 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences related to legal writing, learning styles theory, and teaching international students. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Cynthia M. Adams is Co-director of the Latin American Law Summer Program at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, where she teaches contract drafting; legal analysis and communication; integrated contracts; civil procedure; trusts and estates; and legal process. Cynthia M. Adams, Clinical Professor of Law, has taught legal writing, contract drafting, contracts, civil procedure, trusts and estates, and legal process. Before joining the law school faculty, Professor Adams practiced law at an Indianapolis firm. Her practice focused on acquisitions and mergers, commercial loans, general business law, and trusts and estates. She has taught courses to J.D. students and international students. She also serves as co-director of the school’s Latin American Summer Law Program. Professor Adams has made numerous presentations related to contract drafting, legal writing, and teaching international students at regional, national, and international venues.

08/14/2008

Prof. Ken Chestek Becomes President-Elect of LWI

At the recent Legal Writing Institute (LWI) conference held at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis in July, Clinical Associate Professor of Law Kenneth D. Chestek was chosen as President-Elect. He will succeed Ruth Anne Robbins of Rutgers-Camden as President for a two year term beginning in 2010.

"I am honored to be chosen as President-Elect of LWI," said Professor Chestek. "As the importance of skills education in American law schools grows, LWI will continue to be at the forefront of changes in the legal academy. During my term as President I hope to continue LWI’s growing outreach to the practicing bar nationwide, in order to help bridge the gap between law school and law practice."

He has been active in numerous capacities with the LWI, an organization of more than 2100 legal writing professionals in the United States and around the world. Previously, he served as a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of LWI. From 2005-2008 he co-chaired the ALWD/LWI Annual Survey Committee, and from 2004-2008 he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, a peer-reviewed academic journal. He currently serves as list manager for the LWI discussion listserv (hosted at IU-Indy law school).

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.

Professor Chestek joined the Legal Analysis, Research and Communication (LARC) team 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.

08/14/2008

Professor George Edwards Meets International NGO Leaders

Professor George Edwards, Founder and Director of the Program in International Human Rights Law, met and shared his insights and experiences on international human rights law promotion with leaders of non-governmental organizations from various countries Aug. 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Room 267 of the Law School.

One of the visitors, Mr. Leonides Quiroz, Coordinator, Negotiation Commission for the Wounaan Land, Wounaan Tribe Congress (Panama), has worked with the Program and Law students belonging to the International Human Rights Law Society in preparing and submitting the United Nations Shadow Report on Panama's indigenous people, which includes the Wounaan tribe. Last March, the Law students presented the UN Shadow Report to Human Rights Committee experts, who called the government's attention to the human rights concerns bedeviling Panama's indigenous people.

Quiroz, a Wounaan spokesman, earlier sent invitations to Panamanian government officials for them to attend the Wounaan regional congress, but the officials failed to attend the Wounaan congress.

J.D. candidate Megan Alvarez translated Quiroz’ invitations from their original Spanish into English and attached them to the UN Shadow Report as one of the pieces of evidence of the government's violation of the civil and political rights of members of the Wounaan tribe. Alvarez worked this summer as an International Human Rights Law Intern of the Comisión Justicia y Pazin, an NGO based in Panama, after personally meeting Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, who earlier served as an independent expert of the UN Human Rights Committee. Hoyos now leads the Red de Derechos Humanos de Panama - RDH-Panama, an NGO.

A copy of the UN Shadow Report on Panama is accessible at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/humanrights/shadowreports/Panama%20Indigenous%20People.pdf

Besides the UN Shadow Report on Panama, Professor Edwards served as the Director of other United Nations shadow reports on Chile, Zambia, and United States.
Since he started the Overseas Summer International Human Rights Law Internship Scholarship Program in 1997, Professor Edwards has helped facilitate more than 100 internship placements in over 50 countries for 81 J.D. and LL.M. candidates.

08/07/2008

Students in the Central and Eastern European Law Program Meet with Dignitaries

Students in the law school's Central and Eastern European Law Program on the Dubrovnik Riviera, Croatia met at the end of July with former U.S. Ambassador William Montgomery (pictured top right), who spoke on the recent war, the arrest of the alleged war criminal, Radovan Karadžić, and diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Eastern Europe.

Students also were invited to visit the Appellate Court in Dubrovnik where they met with the Chief Judge of the Court, Josita Begović (pictured bottom right) and two other district court judges. Additionally, students met with Mr. Davor Štern, former Minister of the Economy (and oil expert and former director of INA, the Croatian oil company) who spoke about the oil industry, relations with Russia, corruption in Eastern Europe, and the Eastern European economy. The program is under the direction of Professor Jennifer Drobac.

Back 2 rows, L to R: Matthew Weaver, Matthew Gilkey, Carlos Salazar, Blake Embry, Tim Van Rooy, Tim Mentkowski, Michael Zidanic, Bill Fisher, Marc Coda, Davor Mitrovic, Alex Chaiken, J.D. Brown, Casey Civiello, Ryan Worden. Front row, L to R: Carrra Tinges, Karrie Leak, Kateri Conahey, Jeanna Pitstick, Christine Reynolds, Ambassador William Montgomery, Josh Leightner, Jennifer Drobac, Marko Fak

L to R: Michael Zidanic, Allysyn Overton, Ryan Worden, Avalyn Taylor, Bill Fisher, Jeanna Pitstick, Josita Begović, Marko Fak, Jennifer Drobac

07/28/2008

Law School Hosts National Legal Writing Conference

IU Law-Indianapolis hosted the 13th national biennial conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 14-17, bringing more than 600 legal writing faculty members from 13 countries to Inlow Hall. The program kicked off with a reception at the Artsgarden in downtown Indianapolis.

Conference sessions covered more than 100 different topics, among them, Using 'Real World' Documents to Teach Persuasive Writing; The Changing Nature of Legal Research and Legal Authority in the Electronic Age; Dealing with Race, Culture and Gender in the Classroom; and Communicating with Millennials: Teaching and Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers.

The Site Chair for the national conference was Professor Deborah McGregor, Assistant Director of the Legal Analysis Research and Communication Program at the law school. All of the members of the school’s legal writing faculty were involved with the planning for the conference, including the director, Professor Joan Ruhtenberg, and Professors Cynthia Adams, Ken Chestek, Jim Dimitri, Allison Martin, and Joel Schumm.

The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving legal writing by providing a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis and research. The LWI has more than 2,100 members and includes representatives from 38 countries.

07/24/2008

Media Coverage for Judges' Medical School

The law school hosted the National Judges' Medical School at the end of May, bringing together more than 200 state and federal judges from 39 jurisdictions across the country. The program is part of a larger initiative, the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, or ASTAR.

The law school facilitated this year's program through the Hall Center for Law and Health and the work of Professor Eleanor Kinney and Heather McCabe, '03. The National Judges' Medical School was featured recently in the American Medical News' publication, amednews.com.

07/08/2008

Professor Roisman Testifies on Fair Housing

Roisman On July 15, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman testified in Chicago at the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Hearings. The Hearings were Co-chaired by former HUD Secretaries Jack Kemp and Henry Cisneros. Professor Roisman presented on the role of federal, state and local government in perpetuating segregation and their obligation to advance fair housing in their activities, including the perpetuation of segregation in subsidized and affordable housing programs.

Professor Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and an expert on housing discrimination issues.

06/24/2008

Judge Lawrence Unanimously Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee

image of Judge Lawrence On June 26, U.S. Magistrate Judge William T. Lawrence, '73 was unanimously approved by the United States Senate as the newest federal district judge for the Southern District of Indiana. President Bush selected Lawrence in February of this year to take the seat vacated by Judge John D. Tinder who now sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

While introducing Lawrence at the Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing, Senator Richard Lugar praised Judge Lawrence for his "high energy, resolute integrity, and remarkable dedication to public service."

Judge Lawrence has served as a public defender in Marion County and as a Master Commissioner of the Marion County Circuit Court. He was elected to the Marion County Circuit Court in 1996, and appointed to the Federal bench in 2002. Judge Lawrence has experience as a Public Defender in the Marion County Criminal Court and in private practice. Other community contributions have included his appointment as Executive Director of Indiana's first Merit Selection Commission on Federal Judicial Appointments (1980); service on the Indianapolis Fire Department Civilian Merit Board (1983-1989); and Chairmanship of the Indianapolis Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education Commission (1997-2003).

06/24/2008

Associate Dean Angela Espada Receives Award, Chosen as ACE Fellow

Angela Espada Angela M. Espada, Associate Dean for Student Services, was selected by her alma mater, the University of Indianapolis, as a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Dean Espada received A.A. and B.A. degrees from U of I in 1983. She also holds an M.A. from Indiana University (1986) and a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington (1987).

Espada joined the law school in August of 1990. Prior to coming to the law school, she held the position of staff attorney for the Indiana Supreme Court--Division of State Court Administration and staff attorney for the legislatively created Indiana Public Defender Commission. Her other professional experience includes practicing law as a deputy prosecuting attorney and teaching law-related courses at the undergraduate level at Indiana University-Bloomington and at the University of Indianapolis.

Dean Espada's responsibilities include coordinating the delivery of services to law students in the areas of admissions, registration, professional development, scholarships, financial aid and counseling.

She has also been selected as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year. The ACE Fellow program, established in 1965, is designed to mentor emerging leaders in higher education. ACE Fellows spend an extended period of time on another campus, working directly with college presidents, or other high-ranking administrators.

Espada says, "During the next academic year, I will be allowed the opportunity to look at the relationship between central administration and their professional schools as well as the relationship between the campus and the communities that they serve."

05/12/2008

Prof. John Krauss, '76 to Lead IU's New Public Policy Institute

Photo of Professor Krauss Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) has established the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Located near the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the new Institute will serve as an umbrella organization for research centers affiliated with the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, including:

The Center for Urban Policy and the Environment
The Center for Health Policy
The newly formed Center for Criminal Justice Research

It also will support the Office of International Community Development and the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

John L. Krauss, an adjunct professor of law and 1976 graduate of the law school will direct the Institute. Krauss is a SPEA faculty member and former Indianapolis deputy mayor. Krauss and his team of researchers recently staffed the Kernan-Shepard Commission on Local Government Reform.

Collectively, the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, its three centers and its team of experts from SPEA statewide will deliver research, service and consulting on the vital issues facing policy leaders today.

05/11/2008

PIHRL Students Featured in Indiana Lawyer

Students from the Program in International Human Rights Law were featured in an Indiana Lawyer article on April 30, 2008 for their United Nations advocacy work.

Of the five students in the photograph in front of the UN’s New York Headquarters, three are current or former interns, four are JD students, and one is an LL.M. student.

PIHRL students have researched, written and submitted "Shadow Reports" and made oral human rights presentations to United Nations Committees five times since 2006. They have also participated in other Shadow Reports over the years. Most of the Shadow Reports are posted on the United Nations website.

The following five Shadow Reports were researched, written, and submitted by students since 2006:

(1) UN Human Rights Committee – Violation of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (New York) (2008) (Students gave oral presentation; Students hosted private lunch with Human Rights Committee Experts)

(2) UN Race Committee – Discrimination Against Muslims, Arabs, South Asians Post 9-11 (Geneva) (Report to be supplemented) (2008)

(3) UN Human Rights Committee – Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Chile (New York) (2007) (Students gave oral presentation; Students hosted private lunch with Human Rights Committee Experts)

(4) UN Human Rights Committee – Violation of Freedom of Expression in Zambia (Geneva) (2007) (Students gave oral presentation; Students hosted private lunch with Human Rights Committee Experts)

(5) UN Human Rights Committee – Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in the U.S.A. (Geneva) (2006)

The first Shadow Report students researched, wrote and submitted was in 1999:

(6) UN Race Committee – Discrimination Against Dalits – The "Untouchables" of Nepal (Geneva) (1999)

Students assisted with the following two recent Shadow Reports that were submitted by the PIHRL and the National Bar Association:

(7) UN Race Committee – Race Discrimination Before, During & After Hurricane Katrina (Geneva) (2008)

(8) UN Human Rights Committee – Violation of Civil & Political Rights Before, During & After Hurricane Katrina (Geneva) (2006)

04/30/2008

Robert Hill, Jr. ’82 Named Chief Public Defender

At the April 14^th City County Council meeting, the Council chose Robert Hill, Jr., ’82 to succeed David E. Cook, ’77 as head of the Marion County public defender agency. Hill will now oversee the office which employs 160 full-time employees and 100 contract lawyers, has a $20-million-budget, and currently faces a caseload of about 37,000 per year.

Hill was a partner at Gilroy, Kamman & Hill. He stepped down from the Public Defender Agency's nine-member board in order to apply for the chief position. Hill had also worked as deputy chief public defender under Cook.

Cook is returning to private practice at Gresk & Singleton LLP, where he handles immigration or naturalization cases . He was chosen as an Indiana Super Lawyer ® in 2007 and 2008.

04/23/2008

Prof. Roisman Publishes Law Review Article on Security of Tenure

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman's article, “The Right to Remain: Common Law Protections for Security of Tenure: An Essay in Honor of John Otis Calmore,” was recently published in the North Carolina Law Review [86 N.C. L. Rev. 817 (2008)].

Her aritlce entitled“End Residential Racial Segregation: Build Communities that Look Like America” appears in the Harvard Law & Policy Review Online.

04/15/2008

School of Law – Indianapolis’ LARC Program Ranked One of the Best

IU School of Law – Indianapolis’ legal writing program, known as Legal Analysis, Research and Communications (LARC), was ranked 11^th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2008.

Ruth Anne Robbins, Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Camden and incoming President of the Legal Writing Institute, praised the program, calling it “one of the best” and a “model of excellence.”

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. Since 2006 the legal writing program at IU-Indianapolis has ranked in the top 15, steadily moving upward to its present 11^th placement. The IU-Indianapolis legal writing program has gained national attention in several ways: writing faculty members have given multiple presentations at regional, national, and international conferences, taken on board memberships and chairmanships with national and international committees, published articles and books in the field, and brought the spotlight to the law school by hosting conferences.

The Central States regional conference was held at the law school in 2005, and the 13th Biennial Legal Writing Institute Conference, “Racing Toward Excellence,” will be held here in July 2008. The national conference will draw up to 600 participants from across the nation and countries around the world, including Africa, Canada, Ukraine, and Mexico.

Clinical Professor of Law, Joan Ruhtenberg, director of the LARC program, said, “The legal writing profession has made remarkable strides during the past twenty-five years, and I am grateful that our school is recognized as a part of that progression. We have come a long way since I became director of our program in 1982, and I hope that we continue on the path toward excellence.”

04/02/2008

Prof. Edwards Featured in Kuwait's Al Jarida Newspaper

Professor George E. Edwards was featured in an article that appeared in the Arabic-language newspaper Al Jarida, published in Kuwait on 31 March 2008. In the article, he discussed a range of international human rights and other legal issues in Kuwait and the United States. He commented on the U.S. continued detention of Kuwaitis in Guantanamo Bay, an "Article 98 Agreement" by which Kuwait agreed not to surrender any U.S. soldier to the International Criminal Court, the Kuwait government's new legislation banning any person from dressing like a person of the opposite sex, and issues the United States State Department raised in its Annual Human Rights Report on human rights conditions in Kuwait. Read the article.

On 31 March 2008, Profesor George E. Edwards gave a lecture at the University of Kuwait Faculty of Law entitled "International Law and Torture: From the Anti-Terrorism Ticking Bomb Scenario to Abuse of Domestic Helpers in Kuwait." Professor Edwards was also invited to deliver a lecture at Kuwait University in 2003.

04/01/2008

Prof. James Dimitri Publishes a Lead Article and Gives a Presentation at a the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference

Professor James Dimitri's article, “Writing Engaging, Realistic, and Balanced Appellate Advocacy Problems,” was recently published as the lead article in the Winter 2008 edition of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing . The article, which is featured on the cover, can be found at 16 Persps. 93 (No. 2, Winter 2008).

On March 22, Professor Jim Dimitri gave a presentation at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. In his presentation, "Speaking to Millennials: Giving Feedback to the Latest Generation of Law Students,” Professor Dimitri discussed the learning styles of the latest generation of law students, the Millennial Generation, and how these learning styles impact the way in which law professors give feedback to them.

04/01/2008

Prof. Martin's Essay Appears on Cover of Legal Writing Institue Bulletin

Professor Allison Martin's article was recently published on the cover of Spring 2008’s The Second Draft – Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute. The article is entitled “Teaching to Different Learning Styles: Love Triangles, Role Playing & Videotapes.” The electronic version will be posted at www.lwionline.org/publications/seconddraft.asp.

Allison Martin, Teaching to Different Learning Styles: Love Triangles, Role Playing & Videotapes , 22 Second Draft (newsltr. of Leg. Writing Inst.) 1 (No. 2, Spring 2008).

04/01/2008

Prof. Roisman Gives Keynote Address on Abolitionist Advocacy for the 21st Century

Professor Florence Wagman Roisman has been invited to give the keynote speech at the North Carolina Legal Services Statewide Conference in Durham, NC, on April 1. Her speech is entitled "Abolitionist Advocacy for the 21^st Century."

04/01/2008

Prof. Bravo to Speak at Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law

On April 4^th, Professor Bravo will participate as a panelist in the St. Louis University School of Law Public Law Review’s symposium: The Changing Tide of Trade: The social, political and environmental implications of regional trade agreements (http://law.slu.edu/conf/trade/participants.html#contenttop). Professor Bravo will discuss her work on labor liberalization in the context of regional trade agreements.

Professor Bravo will participate in the American Society of International Law’s 102^nd Annual Meeting (April 9 – 12), during which she will discuss her work on a labor liberalization approach to the modern trafficking in human beings. Professor Bravo was selected from a competitive field as one of the New Voices in International Law for the Society’s 102^nd meeting.

04/01/2008

A Call to Action!

There’s a class action brewing at the law school. The Class Action Campaign of 2008 is an initiative to increase the participation, awareness and knowledge about the importance of private financial support for the law school. Leading the charge in this ground breaking campaign are the Student Ambassadors from each class. This year the campaign is being expanded to include all students, not just the graduating class. Everyone is being asked to contribute $10 to the Class Action effort.

Why this big push to have students contribute? And what difference will this amount of money make to the overall budget of the school? Good questions! We’re glad you’re paying attention!

Simply put, the primary focus of the campaign is to foster a culture of giving back. Thus, while the amount being requested is relatively small, $10, it makes a strong statement to our alumni and others and it will have an impact far greater than you may appreciate.

To show their commitment to the campaign, Dean Gary R. Roberts and several former deans of the law school are willing to provide up to $10,000.00 in matching funds to help encourage participation by the student body. So, here’s your opportunity to make the Dean(s) pay!

How can you give?

Students are asked to make gifts from now until April 21^st. Gifts can be made by:

dropping off your check or pledge card in room 227 (the Dean’s Suite)
dropping off your donation at one of the student-run campaign tables (available in the atrium at various times throughout the month of April)
dropping your contribution in the donation box in the Student Affairs Office
visiting the IU Foundation’s online giving site. Select 'Law School Indianapolis' (which appears 6th on the list) and add the item to your shopping cart. Once added to the cart, you’ll be able to specify the amount you wish to contribute.

For further information regarding the campaign, please contact either Amanda Kamman, Director for Development at akamman@iupui.edu or Jacob Manaloor, Assistant Director for Grant Administration at jmanalor@iupui.edu .

03/28/2008

Professor Dannenmaier to speak at Yale/UN Conference on International Environmental Governance and Democracy

Professor Eric Dannenmaier has been invited to present a research paper on building democracy in international law at a conference in New Haven this spring.

Professor Dannenmaier’s work examines the idea of citizenship and sovereignty in international law and argues that international institutions can and should become more democratic. His research paper addresses an ongoing debate about the role of citizens in lawmaking and the resistance of some governments to engage non-state actors at the international level. It explores practical solutions such as public advisory committees created to advise parties to international trade agreements and public forums organized to inform inter-governmental negotiations and international institutions.

Dannenmaier will join a panel on Institutional Democratization during the 2-day conference on May 10-11, 2008, which is meant to “take stock of contemporary research and knowledge gaps at the intersection of institutions, public participation and environmental sustainability [and to] develop a research program and network to strengthen institutional approaches for effective and context-sensitive public participation in environmental governance.”

The conference, hosted by Yale and co-sponsored by its Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the UN Institute for Training and Research, will draw together about 150 participants from dozens of countries, including scholars and practitioners from governments, inter-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector. It is being organized in conjunction with the 16^th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, which will be held in New York from 5-16 May.

Information on the Conference can be found at http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter/envdem/

Information on the Environmental Policy Forum at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis can be found at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/programs/environmentalpolicyforum/.

03/26/2008

Prof. Gerard Magliocca Receives Fulbright Award

Gerard Magliocca, professor of law at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, will hold the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Chair at the Roosevelt Center for American Studies in the Netherlands in the fall of 2008.

Magliocca joined the faculty 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. His research interests focus on constitutional law, legal history and intellectual property.

"I am incredibly excited about this opportunity to represent our country in the Netherlands," Magliocca said. "By interacting with European scholars interested in American studies, this Fulbright Award will enrich my scholarship on constitutional law and allow me to make friends and memories that will last a lifetime."

Magliocca is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

The Fulbright program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people -- 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

03/19/2008

Prof. Fran Watson Asks Public for Help in Cold Cases in Lake County

by Diane Brown, Assistant Director of Media Relations, IUPUI

The Law Clinic at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis today (March 14, 2008) announced an upcoming post-conviction proceeding on behalf of a Lake County man asserting he was wrongfully convicted of rape in 1993. Law Clinic attorneys representing the man are seeking the public's help in exonerating their client.

A post-conviction case for Roosevelt Glenn will be tried March 17 and 18, 2008, in a hearing room for the Lake County Superior Court One, 2293 North Main Street, Crown Point, Ind. Glenn continues to maintain his innocence and asserts that newly discovered DNA evidence demonstrates he was wrongfully convicted.

Glenn was convicted of one of a series of vehicular "bumps" followed by assaults against woman driving alone at night. The incidents occurred in Lake County from 1989 to 1990. Most of the cases remain unsolved. Professor Fran Watson of the Law Clinic at IU School of Law-Indianapolis is asking anyone with any information regarding the "cold" cases to contact her at 317-274-1911.

"Since the very first tests in 1990, two DNA profiles from the persons responsible for these crimes have been identified," says Watson. "If we could obtain information to locate either of the two persons for whom DNA profiles exist, it would be relevant to Mr. Glenn's petition. We ask for the public's help."

Professor Watson and her students from the Law Clinic are preparing the case on behalf of Glenn. Scientific experts in microscopic hair analysis and DNA will testify to challenge the proof offered to convict Glenn. During the 1993 trial, a hair recovered from the victim's sweater was said to be from Glenn's head. Recent DNA testing has revealed that the hair does not match Glenn's.

03/11/2008

Professors Katz, Mitchell and Wright Speak at Shakespeare in the Courtroom Event

Professor Robert A. Katz organized and moderated a panel exploring William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice from the perspectives of law, humanities, theology, and the history of anti-Semitism and Jewish-Christian relations. Professors Mary Harter Mitchell and R. George Wright also spoke and participated on the panel, along with professors of English and theology and a leader of the Indianapolis Jewish community. The event took place in the law school’s Wynne Courtroom on February 26 following the performance of the courtroom scene from The Merchant of Venice, performed by actors from the American Shakespeare Center on their Piercing Eloquence Tour. The event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Law Society and IUPUI's Department of English. (Photo: Christopher Seiler, American Shakespeare Company, played the role of Shylock)

An article appeared in The Indiana Lawyer entitled "The play's the thing: Shakespeare at law school sparks conversation" by Rebecca Berfanger. (Wed. March 5, 2008)

03/11/2008

Prof. Karlson Advises the Media on a Capital Murder Case in Connecticut

Professor Henry Karlson, an expert on criminal law and child abuse issues, was recently consulted by the media covering a capital murder case involving a young child in Connecticut. His comments appear in the Journal Inquirer.

02/29/2008

Professor Page Quoted on Recent Canceled Business Transactions in the News

Professor Antony Page has been quoted recently in media sources such as Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswire, The New York Post, The Indianapolis Star and The Tennessean, commenting on several threatened or canceled business transactions, including ADS/Blackstone, Sallie Mae/Flowers, and others.

02/04/2008

Chen-Ming Yang ’96 to Head International Health Office for Taiwan

Chen-Ming Yang, ’96 was appointed to be the Director General of the Bureau of International Cooperation (BIC), Department of Health (DOH), Taiwan. The BIC oversees the international affairs of DOH, including bilateral and multilateral cooperation, and international medical aid. The office is also responsible for communicating with health related NGOs and international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and other such entities. In addition, the BIC also facilitates the successful implementation of health related international regulations and conventions in Taiwan. In addition to his J.D. from the law school, he holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and an M.D. from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. Before joining the BIC he worked in several medical positions, including vice superintendent of Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, chief of staff of Taipei Medical University, and deputy executive officer of Taiwan Joint Commission of Hospital Accreditation. Most recently he was an associate professor of School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University. Yang is also board certified to be a nuclear