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AN IDEA STARTED BY ALUMNA STEPHENIE
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PLAINTIFF’S ATTY: Yes, your honor. Ms. B.B. Wolf will demonstrate that on August 19, 2010, the defendant, Ms.
Curly Pig did attempt to cook the plaintiff by setting a trap in her fireplace.The evidence will show that Curly Pig placed a steaming cauldron of boiling water in a spot where she was sure that Ms. Wolf would show up, and that furthermore, Ms.
Pig’s cookbook was found open to a recipe for Poached Wolf.
Ladies of the jury, the evidence will make clear that Ms. Pig tried to harm Ms. Wolf so that she could eat her!
DEFENDANT’S ATTY: Your honor and ladies of the jury, the charges made by B.B. Wolf are ridiculous! We will show that the cauldron of steaming water was INSIDE Ms. Pig’s home—a home Ms. Wolf was trying to forcibly enter. We will also show that Ms. Wolf’s actions were just the latest in a long series of harassment of the Pig family—harassment that includes the eating of Ms. Pig’s two sisters, Laurie and
Bessie. The evidence will demonstrate that Curly Pig was merely protecting her home and her life.
[Plaintiff’s attorney calls the first witness, who is sworn in].
PLAINTIFF’S ATTY: Please state your name for the record.
WOLF: My name is Big Bad Wolf, but my friends call me B.B.
PLAINTIFF’S ATTY: Where do you live B.B.?
WOLF: Oh, I have a nice little den in the woods outside Indianapolis. You know with redwood paneling. It has one bedroom, a living room and a garage.
PLAINTIFF’S ATTY: A kitchen?
WOLF: Well, uh, I eat out a lot, you might say….
PLAINTIFF’S ATTY: Ah yes. Well let’s move on to the morning of August 19, 2010. Do you recall your whereabouts on that morning?
Excerpts from B.B. Wolf v. Curly Pig by Holly Wanzer
The girls in the jury found in favor of Ms. Curly Pig. Wanzer
(who played the role of B.B.
Wolf) says she plans to appeal.
1– Seventy-six Girl Scouts from 23 troops convened at Inlow Hall on March 26 for the Lady Justice program.
2– Girl Scouts pick up ISBA swag at the Lady Justice Program established by alumna Stephenie Joacham ‘01.
3– Holly Wanzer, ‘99, was instrumental in organizing the Lady Justice Program. She is shown with her daughter, Hannah.
LL.M. Students Host 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.”
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1– Ying Chen talked about traditional Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations.
2– Tuan Nguyen gave a presentation on Lunar New Year practices in Vietnam.
3– 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.
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On April 8-10, Kathy McKinney and Jessica Vandivier, students from the law school’s Wrongful Conviction Clinic, joined Professor Fran Watson at the 2011 Innocence Network Conference: An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction, held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The school’s 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 and Students from the Wrongful Conviction Clinic Attend International Innocence Network Event
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, and 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
Professor Works with Alumnus on Case Before U.S. Supreme Court
On January 12, 2011, Professor Emeritus William E. Marsh delivered his first oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Marcus Sykes v. U.S.A., No. 09-11311. Marsh represented Sykes in this case which came from the Southern District of Indiana, where alumnus James C. McKinley, ‘87 had argued the case. The two men worked together on the brief for the Supreme Court, and Marsh gave the argument.
The case hinges on whether fleeing police in a vehicle can be classified as “violent,” thereby leading to an enhanced 188-month prison sentence. A ruling on the case is likely later this year.
After practicing law in Phoenix, Arizona, Professor Emeritus Marsh joined the law school faculty in 1971, where he taught civil rights, constitutional law, and criminal procedure. He also established the law school’s clinical education program over 25 years ago.
Currently the Executive Director of Indiana Public Defenders, Inc., Professor Marsh served as president of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, and has served as chairman of the board of the Indianapolis Urban League, Inc. As a member of the Indiana Correctional Code Commission, he helped draft the Indiana Corrections Code, chaired the advisory board of the National Moratorium on Prison Construction, and has been actively involved in prison reform litigation.
McKinley is currently an adjunct professor at the law school,
teaching criminal procedure. A former law clerk for Indiana Supreme
Court Justice Brent E. Dickson, ‘68, McKinley was in private practice with
a concentration in federal litigation from 1987 to 1999. From 1999 to
2010 he was an assistant federal defender in the Southern District of
Indiana and is currently practicing law part time.
Cynthia adaMs co-presented on “The Use of Corpora in a Multi-Modal Approach to Teaching Legal English Writing,” at the International Conference on Academic Writing, Tel Aviv, Israel, August 2010. In April, Professor Adams presented a series of lectures on drafting international contracts at Shanghai International Studies University, Law School, in Shanghai, China. In addition, Professor Adams was named Co-Chair of the Legal Writing Institute’s Committee on Cooperation between Clinical/Externships and the Legal Writing Faculty. As a part of 2011 IUPUI Research Day, Professor Adams along with Professor Hagan, prepared and gave a poster presentation on clinical collaboration, which will also be presented at the June 2011 AALS National Clinical Skills Conference in Seattle, Washington.
In her role as faculty member on the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, clinical associate professor of law Cynthia Baker hosted a faculty leadership conference on behalf of the Commission on April 29, 2011. The conference’s topic, Faculty Engagement toward Student Learning Outcomes, addressed the financial, logistical, pedagogical and philosophical issues related to defining quality within higher education and what it means, or should mean, to earn or confer a postsecondary degree. Conference participants were faculty senate presidents and other faculty leaders from Indiana’s public and private colleges and universities.
baker gave comments entitled, A Faculty Member’s Conundrum:
Proving a Highly Educated Student and introduced the keynote speaker, Dr. Carol Geary Schneider, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Dr. Schneider has been a leader in helping our nation, and our nation’s faculty, think about and assess student learning outcomes in higher education. In addition, baker moderated a panel discussion in response to Dr. Schneider’s remarks, Student Learning Outcomes in Practice. Panelists included faculty representatives from public and private universities in Indiana who are actively involved in various initiatives focused on student learning outcomes including tuning, Degree Qualifications Profiles, and Liberal Education —America’s Promise (LEAP).
While the conference focused on undergraduate education, this work impacts the students admitted to our law schools, the shape of our nation’s many professions, and, ultimately, democracy itself.Held at the University Place Conference Center, the conference is the second of two such faculty leadership conferences hosted by baker, who was appointed by Governor Daniels to the Commission in 2009. baker’s two-year appointment to the Commission concludes in June of this year.
Former Chancellor Gerald l. BepkO authored a tribute to retiring Indiana Supreme Court Justice Theodore boehm, to be published in the spring issue of the indiana Law review.
On February 6, Chancellor bepko spoke to the Indiana University Alumni Association of Southwest Florida on “The Emerging Indiana University” in Naples. He then met with law school alumni at a reception hosted by Dean Gary Roberts and law alumnus barry L.
Meadow, who practices law in Miami. The reception took place in connection with IU’s Winter College in Coral Gables, FL, from February 25-27. IU alumnus and current U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Anne Slaughter Andrew, was the principal speaker at Winter
College. both Anne Slaughter Andrew and barry Meadow took courses from Professor bepko when they were in law school.
Michael S. Maurer, for whom the Maurer School of Law was named, has written two books titled 19 Stars of Indiana. The first of those books was published in 2009 and was devoted to 19 exceptional Hoosier women. The second of those books, published in 2010 in connection with the Indiana Historical Society, is devoted to “19 exceptional Hoosier men.” It includes a foreword by IU President Michael McRobbie and incorporates biographical profiles of Hoosiers such as Governor Mitch Daniels; Senator Richard Lugar; Jazz Composer and IU Distinguished Professor of Music David baker; Notre Dame’s Father Theodore Hesburgh; former Governor Joe Kernan; IU and NbA basketball star George McGinnis;
IU Distinguished Professor of Medicine Lawrence Einhorn; Garfield creator Jim Davis; nationally recognized entrepreneur, business leader, historic preservationist, and former IU Trustee, the late bill Cook; and IU Trustee’s Professor Gerald bepko.
Professor bepko gave his Annual Lecture to the Wells Seminar in the Kelley School of business on February 16 and spoke to the Freshman Honors Class at Kelley on February 17, both on the subject of “Herman Wells and Servant Leadership.”
Additionally, he attended the board Retreat of the Lumina Foundation for Education in San Francisco, March 22-25.
shawn BOyne was awarded an Overseas Research Grant by the IU Office of the Vice President for International Affairs to support her ongoing research in Germany, as well as a Summer Research Stipend from the Max Planck Institute for Foreign & International Criminal Law. She attended the 6th Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Conference held at Yale Law School on February 11-12.
Her paper entitled, “Uncertainty and the Search for Truth at Trial:
Defining Prosecutorial Objectivity in German Sexual Assault Cases,”
was one of six papers selected for discussion by the American Society of Comparative Law.
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, at the College of Law in East Lansing, Michigan, the symposium explored the effects on concepts of state sovereignty of 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.
Professor bravo discussed her research on human trafficking and the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the University at buffalo Law School (SUNY) on March 10. 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 was 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