Among Topics at Law School’s Annual Program
Top: The audience at this year’s Annual CLE Program enjoyed the presentations on a variety of topics related to patents and health law.
Right: Presenters included Professor Ralph Hall, John McGoldrick, Professor Nicolas Terry, Professor Andy Klein (moderator), Professor Mary Davis, and Teresa Stanek Rea.
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At the invitation of the Kenya School of Law, CyNTHIA ADAMS made a presentation on clinical skills curriculum development at the school’s Midterm Review, held in Nairobi in September. Those attending included the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Justices of the Kenya 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. In ensuing months, Professor Adams will continue to consult closely with the Kenya Law School on enhancing their Advocates Training Programme.
In June Professor Adams visited Turkey as part of a cultural exchange program where, as the guest of the Niagara foundation, she met with Turkish leaders in academia, business, and government. Also in June, at the Mid-Year Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools’ Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Professor Adams and Professor Carrie Hagan made a poster presentation, “Course Collaboration for a Richer Learning Experience and Institutional Change,” reporting on experiences and outcomes of their collaborative experience with students in Professor Adams’ legal writing course and Professor Hagan’s clinic, and providing advice for clinicians on collaborative efforts.
In July Professor Adams presented “Prometheus unbound:
Applying Creative, Critical Pedagogy in the Global Classroom,”
at the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the Sturm College of Law, university of Denver, in Colorado. The conference was sponsored by the Clinical Legal Education Association and the Legal Writing Institute.
Professor Adams is a member of the Association of American Law Schools’ newly created Section on Transactional Law and Skills and was named editor for that Section’s semi-annual newsletter.
Chancellor Emeritus GERALD L. BEPKO spoke on behalf of the alumni at an event on July 21 at the Chicago Cultural Center at the IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law celebration of the 50th year of teaching by Professor Ralph L. Brill. Chancellor Bepko was appointed Co-Chair with Indiana Commission on Higher Education Commissioner Marilyn Moran Townsend of fort Wayne, of the Indiana Reaching Higher Part 2 planning process. He was also appointed Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the ICHE and a member of the ICHE Executive Committee. On August 12, Chancellor Bepko served as an Honorary Pallbearer at the Memorial Mass for Iu President Emeritus John W. Ryan.
On October 1, Chancellor Bepko was a speaker at a program in memory of Robert Payton, first Director of the Iu Center on Philanthropy. He also was appointed to serve on the 2011 Rhodes Scholars Selection Committee for Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio which met on November 18 and 19, in Indianapolis.
SHAWN BOyNE was appointed to the IuPuI Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Council by Dean Roberts for the 2011- 12 year. On December 7th, Professor Boyne, with SPEA faculty member Jim White, made a report to the State of Indiana’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Council on the lessons learned
from the law school’s 2011 counter-terrorism simulation.
Additionally, Professor Boyne was recently appointed to the AALS Curriculum Committee based on the creative work that she has been doing on global curricular issues. The Committee studies changes in teaching pedagogy and disseminates information on innovations in legal education.
KENNETH CHESTEK participated in the third Applied Legal Storytelling Conference in July, 2011, held at the university of Denver, Sturm College of Law. He presented his latest paper,
“Competing Stories: A Case Study of Narrative Reasoning,” in which he analyzes the briefs and opinion filed in the recent nationwide litigation over national health care reform to see if the different results reached by the trial courts could be attributed, at least in part, on the different stories told by the plaintiffs in each of those cases.He also was part of a panel presentation (with two professors from the university of California—Irvine) at the Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, held in Chicago in September. The panel’s topic was “Just the facts, Ma’am: using Client Interviews and Role Play to Teach fact Investigation.”
JIM DIMITRI made a presentation at the Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago on friday, September 16. His presentation, entitled “Driven Away from Distraction: Teaching Students to unplug (at Least Periodically) in the Digital Age,” proposed tools to law professors to help them cultivate their students’ concentration and critical thinking skills by getting the students to periodically “unplug”
from digital devices and social media. Professor Dimitri emphasized the impairment that multi-tasking and distractions can cause to students’ short-term and long-term memories, which in turn hinders the students’ learning process.
This year’s Central States Conference included more than 80 speakers and was attended by more than 200 legal writing professionals and teachers from all over the country. It is believed to have been the largest regional legal writing conference to date.
JENNIFER DROBAC returned in the fall of 2011 to teach in Indianapolis after a sabbatical leave at Berkeley Law during the spring of 2010 and a visit at Santa Clara Law School during the 2010-2011 academic year. Professor Drobac was an invited presenter on: “Student Speech in the Wake of Morse v. Frederick,”
at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina in July.
GEORGE EDWARDS and the Program in International Human Rights Law hosted five women’s rights advocates and journalists from Yemen on October 11, at the law school. Professor Edwards talked with the visiting delegates about international human rights law education, research, advocacy for women’s right to freedom of expression and political participation. The visitors included Thuraya Ameen Qasem Dammag, project manager, International federation of Journalists in Yemeni Syndicates; Arwa Ibrahim Mohammed Al Shawafi, executive assistant and financial assistant, Academic for
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Education Development; Altaf Shaher Ali Mohammed Al Yousefi, coordinator, Civic Democratic Initiative Support foundation; Samia Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Saif, journalist, al Thori Newspaper; and Maha Naji Yahya Salah, author and human rights activist. 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.”
Professor George E. Edwards’ 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.
The event took place as part of “Harvard Literati: Celebrating the Works of Alumni Authors,” which was attended by numerous well- known authors. The following week, the European debut of the book took place in Paris, france.
Additionally, Professor Edwards was named a fellow of the American Bar foundation in July. The fellows are selected to participate in activities that advance justice through research and to address the changing needs of the system of justice and the legal profession. Professor Edwards published an article, “How to Choose the Best u.S. Law School for foreign Lawyers,” in the November, 2011 issue of The National Jurist. He also published “International Students and Master of Laws (LL.M.) Programs in the u.S.: What u.S. Law Schools Will Not Tell Your About Choosing the Best School, Getting Admitted, Succeeding in their LL.M. Programs, and Getting a Good Job Post-Degree,” in the fall issue of the ILSA Quarterly.
Professor Edwards gave a presentation on “China, the u.S. and Law—Opportunities for Continued Transnational Legal Education with Chinese Students Joining Master of Laws Programs in the u.S.,” in
Beijing, China at the invitation of the u.S. Embassy on July 26. Also, Professor Edwards was nominated for the John S. Ryan Award for International Distinction.
FRANK EMMERT was again teaching during the summer term in Indianapolis, this year adding “International Commercial Arbitration”
to “WTO Law.” In July, Professor Emmert also taught WTO Law in Cairo in the framework of the school’s LL.M. Program in Egypt. During the third week of August, he visited AlHosn university in Abu Dhabi to explore bringing the school’s LL.M. program to the united Arab Emirates. In the fall semester, Professor Emmert taught “European union Law - foundations” in Indianapolis. from September 19-23, he visited universidad Sergio Arboleda in Bogotá to promote the LL.M. Program and made a presentation on “The Draft Common frame of Reference as the Greatest Innovation in Contract Law since the french Code Civil and the German BGB” at a conference on the latest developments in international contract law.
In the first week of October, Professor Emmert visited Yerevan State university in Armenia to promote the LL.M. Program and to continue his support for the Chair of European and International Law in the framework of the Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Support Program, where Professor Emmert serves as an International Scholar. from October 10-18, Professor Emmert worked in Costa Rica and delivered a three-day training session on International Commercial Transactions at the Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas, the Costa Rican Bar Association, to approximately 300 attorneys, arbitrators, and other legal professionals. The American Ambassador to Costa Rica, Anne Slaughter Andrew, not only
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delivered the opening address for the training session but also invited Professor Emmert and the leaders of the legal profession in Costa Rica for a breakfast at her residence. Among the attendees were the Costa Rican Minister of Justice, His Excellency Hernando París, the Deans of the three leading law schools in Costa Rica, several of the country’s highest profile attorneys, as well as several representatives of various programs implemented or coordinated by the Embassy. Iu already has a relationship with universidad de Costa Rica and the Law School will now add a partnership with universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnologia (uLACIT). Professor Emmert is exploring opportunities for law school JD students to do summer internships in Costa Rican law firms and at the new Costa Rican regional arbitration center.
from November 10-12, he attended a conference of the OSI Higher Education Support Program in Istanbul and made a presentation on the development of successful research proposals. At the conference, Professor Emmert was also able to present his latest book, a work on the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights and fundamental freedoms in Central and Eastern Europe. The book is published by Eleven International Publishing of the Netherlands and brings together analysis on 20 countries in the region. Professor Emmert co-edited the work with Professor Leonard Hammer of Tel Aviv and wrote the overall conclusions.
As a consultant to the u.S. Department of Justice, Professor Emeritus JEFF GROVE completed a research project in connection with a federal prosecution, of a foreign national, under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996--a statute that has been successfully invoked in only a handful of past cases. During September-October 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at Renmin (People’s) university of China Law School, teaching a six- week accelerated course for Chinese Juris Master students on comparative elements of the u.S. legal system. He also delivered remarks to a class of international students enrolled in Renmin Law’s LL.M Program in Chinese Law, drawing on his experience over 24 years and 15 visits to Chinese law schools and legal institutions.
Professor Grove had principal responsibility for instituting the law school’s summer program with Renmin Law School, which was inaugurated in 1998 and has operated continuously for 14 years.
PRISCILLA KEITH served as a panelist for the CLE “Business of Healthcare: The Development of State Based Health Care Exchanges” sponsored by the ABA’s Business Law Section’s Government Affairs Committee and Health Care Committee and the ABA Health Law Section at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada in August. A major component of the
“Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” was the creation of State Based Health Care Exchanges. The State Based Health Care Exchanges would serve as the “store” for citizens to shop for health insurance. Professor Keith’s presentation explored the concept from the practicality of a state’s perspective.
In June, Professor Keith and Professor Emeritus Eleanor Kinney served as panelists in the Robert Wood Johnson foundation’s Public Health Law Network Webinar on “Comparative Effectiveness
in Public Health.” Professor Keith served as a panelist on the topic, “Accountable Care Organizations” at the 34th Annual Health Law Professors Conference in June at the Loyola university Chicago School of Law. Professor Keith’s discussion focused on antitrust and fraud and abuse legal issues associated with accountable care organizations. Professor Keith served as a panelist on the CDC’s Webinar titled “Public Health Law fundamentals: A Webinar for PHPS fellows” in September. The purpose of the webinar was to provide an overview of public health, its uses and its past and future impact on health, as well as the legal issues relevant to public health prevention service fellows as federal employees. Professor Keith’s area of interest was the impact of local public health departments.
Additionally, Professor Keith participated in Seton Hall Law Review’s 2011 Symposium “Implementing the Affordable Care Act,”
in October. A law review article related to this presentation will be published in the Seton Hall law review in the fall of 2012. Also, she moderated the panel discussion on the “Constitutionality of Health Care Reform” with David Orentlicher and Tom fisher, Solicitor General for the Office of the Attorney General’s Office of Indiana, at the Washington Health Care Summit sponsored by the American Bar Association Health Law Section in October.
ANDy KLEIN recently published a book, Craig, Green, Klein, and Sanders, Toxic and Environmental Torts: Cases and Materials (West 2011). Professor Klein was on a panel entitled “Leadership in the Law School Curriculum” last summer at the annual Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference.
In June, NORMAN LEFSTEIN, Professor and Dean Emeritus, spoke at a conference at the Cardozo School of Law in New York City sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. The conference focused on Padilla v. Kentucky, a 2010 united States Supreme Court decision dealing with collateral consequences of criminal convictions and effective defense representation.
In October, in New York City, he addressed a meeting of the American Branch of the International Law Association dealing with “International Perspectives on Indigent Defense.” Also in October, he was a featured speaker at the Annual Texas Indigent Defense Workshop in Austin where he discussed solutions to caseload problems confronted by lawyers representing the indigent accused. During the summer, his law review article, “Excessive Public Defense Workloads: Are ABA Standards for Criminal Justice Adequate?” appeared in 38 Hastings Const. L. Q. 949 (2011).
In October, the American Bar Association published his book, Securing Reasonable Caseloads: Ethics and Law in Public Defense, which was supported by a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies.
Professor Lefstein continues to serve as an expert witness in several criminal cases, including a class action lawsuit in Georgia related to the state’s failure to provide lawyers for defendants appealing their criminal convictions and an Alabama post- conviction death penalty case.
CATHERINE LEMMER, Head of Library Information Services, presented “Developing an Effective Online Legal Research Course
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Professor Pitts Wins Kiss-A-Pig Competition
During the fall 2011 semester, legal fraternity Phi Alpha Delta held a fund raising contest in which students voted for which faculty member they would most like to see kiss a pig. More than twenty McKinney Law faculty members volunteered to be on the voting list. After a hard-fought battle among finalists (Professors Mike Pitts, Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Jim Dmitri, and Jeff Cooper), Professor Pitts claimed victory! All funds from the contest went to Phi Alpha Delta to help fund annual academic lectures and philanthropic events.
for Law Students,” on October 20 at Navigating the Rapids of Change the Annual Conference of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
GERARD MAGLIOCCA was named the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and presented the Inaugural Rosen Lecture on “Constitutional Liability Rules,” on November 8 in the Wynne Courtroom at the law school.
Professor Magliocca made five presentations about his book, The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan. Three of those presentations were at law schools: Nebraska Law School, Marquette Law School, and Boston College Law School. He also made presentations about the book at the Indianapolis Law Club and at the faculty Club on the IuPuI Campus. Additionally, Professor Magliocca presented on “Constitutional Liability Rules” at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis in Bloomington, and also at Northwestern university Law School.
JAMES NEHF published a book chapter titled “Guaranties in Secured Transactions,” in Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code, ch. 8A (J. McDonnell, ed., 2011). He also agreed to assume the principal editing duties of that commercial law treatise after the retirement of a long-time friend from the university of Georgia, Julian McDonnell. He also published two articles: one for a symposium on e-commerce—
”The fTC’s Proposed framework for Privacy Protection Online:
A Move Toward Substantive Controls or More Notice and Choice,” 37 wm. mitCHell l. rev. 1727 (2011); and another on the recent financial crisis—”Preventing Another financial Crisis: The Critical Role of Consumer Protection Laws,” in a book being published in Brazil by the research institute Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad. Professor Nehf spoke at two conferences over the summer: “Consumer Law as a Bridge in a Global Legal System,” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and “Paying for the Internet: Implications of the fTC’s New Privacy framework,” at the biennial meeting of the International Association of Consumer Law, Brunel university (u.K.). He also taught a comparative consumer law course in the law school’s LL.M. program in Cairo in June.
In June, MICHAEL PITTS was named a John S. Grimes fellow and in August he was named a Dean’s fellow for scholarly excellence (both for the 2011-12 academic year). In June, he served as a guest-blogger at Concurring Opinions. In July, he appeared on Boston’s NPR affiliate discussing voter identification.
In September, he was elected to the law school’s Executive Committee, and in October, he appeared on a panel discussing redistricting law at the university of Kentucky College of Law.
FRAN QUIGLEy delivered presentations on “Indiana Drones:
International Law, Morality and Robot Warfare in the Heartland”
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at the university of Southern Indiana on November 10 and on “Strengthening Rule of Law—The Role of International Humanitarian Activities by Lawyers and Judges” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit in Washington, D.C.
on November 12. He wrote several articles on human rights issues in Haiti which were published in the Indianapolis Star and other media outlets. Professor Quigley teaches and directs the school’s new Health and Human Rights Clinic, which received the Indianapolis Bar foundation Impact fund award for 2011-12, along with support from the Health foundation of Greater Indianapolis.
FLORENCE WAGMAN ROISMAN, William f. Harvey Professor of Law, was named a John S. Grimes fellow. The fellowship supports her research into the current crisis in residential mortgage foreclosures.
Professor Roisman recently published two articles. “Thirteen Principles for Effective Advocacy,” 63 rutgerS l. rev. 985 (2011), was an invited contribution to a festschrift for the late Professor John M. Payne of Rutgers School of Law—Newark, a leading scholar in land use law, particularly with regard to the Mount Laurel doctrine in New Jersey. Her “Tribute to Professor Mary Harter Mitchell,”
44 indiana l. rev. 667 (2011), was part of a volume dedicated to Professor Mitchell. Professor Roisman had helped to organize that volume, which comprises articles on topics that had been important to Professor Mitchell. She also has helped to raise money for a scholarship honoring Professor Mitchell.
Students and Professors Pull All-Nighter During the “Red Eye Relay”
Members of the law school’s Running Club participated in the Red Eye Relay, a 100 mile odyssey which began at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 23 and ended at 8:12 a.m. on Sunday the 24th. Each team member ran three legs, and the legs ranged from 2.22 miles to 7.49 miles in length. The race started on the IU Bloomington campus and ran through countryside northeast of Bloomington,
including the Morgan-Monroe State Forest. The law school’s team placed first (out of 12 teams) in the Open Mixed category and 18th overall (out of 62 teams who started and 59 who finished).
Standing (left to right): Todd Hassee, Katie Brant, Professor Ken Chestek, Quinn Ladd Sitting (left to right): Aimee Heitz, Andrea Kochert, Professor Peter Prescott
Professor Roisman made three presentations recently. Two were at the Committee on Regional Training (CORT) housing training for legal services advocates from Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her plenary presentations, both made on June 15, were “The use of fair Housing and Other Human Rights Law in Legal Services Practice” and “A Call to Advocacy.” The third presentation was on September 24, at the ClassCrit IV Conference held at American university, Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C. The conference’s theme was “Criminalizing Economic Inequality”
and Professor Roisman was a member of a panel discussing
“Brick by Brick: understanding Systems of Domination in the Core Curriculum.” Her talk was entitled “The Property Course: A Manifestation of Systems of Domination.”
During the fall 2011 semester, Professor Roisman taught Property in the day division and Housing Discrimination and Segregation in the evening. She continues to supervise students in an Advanced Course-Related Experience addressing issues related to landlord-tenant court proceedings in Indiana. She also serves on the faculty Recruitment Committee; she continues to be the faculty advisor for the Equal Justice Works chapter at the law school, and helped to organize the student chapter of the American Civil Liberties union (ACLu) of Indiana.
Professor Roisman was selected to be a founding member of the board of the fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, Inc. that recently was established in Indianapolis. She was elected to a