The students received training from The Julian Center before starting their stay at the shelter. Melanie Rasmussen, ’04, confers with Professor Mary Therese Wolf about the work at the Julian Center.
PRO BONO PROGRAM HONORS STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
The program is a natural outgrowth of the law school's Center for International and Comparative Law. Due to the breadth of international human rights law and the scope of its impact and reach, the LL.M.
LAW SCHOOL ANNOUNCES NEW TRACKS IN MASTER OF
Professor Frank Emmert, who serves as the Center's Executive Director, is the faculty administrator of this LL.M. One of the first aspects of the Center to be put into motion will be the addition of a new track in the school's LL.M.
PUBLIC POLICY MEDIATION
LAW SCHOOL ESTABLISHES CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY LAW AND INNOVATION
NOT GETTING THE LAW SCHOOL'S ELECTRONIC
Archer addressed a diverse audience of students, judges, faculty and distinguished alumni in the Wynne Courtroom as he delivered his speech entitled “Legal Education and the Profession.” The former Michigan Supreme Court justice and former two-term mayor of the city of Detroit discussed both racial equality in the legal profession and the importance of pro bono work. Archer emphasized that “we need more judicial clerks [of color] for judges and justices.” He credited Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, who was in the audience that evening, for his service leading the. ABA Minority Judicial Clerkship Program, which aims to help correct the underrepresentation of minorities in the judiciary.
ARCHER DELIVERS JAMES P. WHITE
The Supreme Court's decision upholding the University of Michigan's "flexible admissions policy" as a step in the right direction, he said, left an imbalance in the legal profession. However, he agreed with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she stated in the majority opinion for the Michigan case that "The Court expects that in twenty-five years the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary . . ." We need more lawyers to promote the rule of law," he said, "and America will be much greater."
EVA CLARKE’S HOLOCAUST STORY IS ONE OF SURVIVAL
BRADEMAS PROUD OF HOOSIER ROOTS
His lecture, “Pinochet and Guantanamo Bay: The Role of Courts in Resolving Disputes with Foreign Policy Implications,” addressed whether courts should decide cases with foreign policy implications and how this affects the roles and responsibilities of the executive branches and government judiciary. Justice Sullivan was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1992 by then-governor Evan Bayh. Founded in 1991, II&CLR is devoted to the study and analysis of current international legal issues and problems and is published biannually by the law faculty.
INTERNATIONAL LAW LECTURE ADDRESSES PINOCHET AND GUANTANAMO BAY
Professor Margaret Ross from the University of Aberdeen spoke about alternative dispute resolution in Scotland. Judge Cynthia Ayers spoke about Diversity in the Legal Profession at the invitation of the student committee on Diversity Initiatives. Students at the annual Activity Fair learn more about the International Human Rights Law program.
LAW SCHOOL
HAPPENINGS
The festivities began on Friday, April 16, with a reception for health law graduates in the law school's Conour Atrium. On Saturday, April 17, former students of the clinic attended their first picnic in the school yard, and the class of 1979 organized a joint lunch. At the conclusion of the reception, many classes celebrating reunions met for joint dinners at various locations in Indianapolis.
ALUMNI WEEKEND BIGGER AND BETTER
Spring Alumni Weekend was an action-packed occasion this year, with receptions, a picnic and free CLE. Tax and economic laws.” Approximately 170 alumni attended the CLE lectures, both of which presented timely and relevant information. The CLE program was followed by an all-class reception in the atrium, where nearly 300 students honored Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dennis Bland, ’92, and Honorary Alumnus Award recipient Chancellor Emeritus and Trustee Professor Gerald L.
THAN EVER!
Dennis Bland, '92 is presented with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award by Alumni Association President, Adam Arceneaux, '93. Bland, president of the Center for Leadership Development, delivered an inspiring speech following the presentation.
GERALD L. BEPKO
IUPUI CHANCELLOR EMERITUS, IU TRUSTEE PROFESSOR AND
Ed Bayliff, '54 and Jim Burns, '75 talk at the Health Law Alumni Reception on Friday, April 16 at the law school. Bepko and his wife, Jean Bepko, talk with Dennis Bland at the reception for graduates of all classes.
2003 EMPLOYMENT SURVEY
Indiana's 7th Congressional District Representative and former Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr., '58, attended the Black Law Student Association's (BLSA) event to honor Henry J, a 1928 graduate of the Indiana Law School, the first predecessor school of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. A crowd of current students, faculty, alumni and community leaders, including Joe Slash, president of the Indianapolis Urban League, was on hand to pay tribute to Richardson and Bland. The Black Law Student Association welcomed Judge David Shaheed, '84, of Marion Superior Court for its first lecture celebrating Black History Month in February.
BLACK LAW STUDENT ASSOCIATION HONORS
A portrait of Richardson was displayed during the ceremony on February 27, 2004, a copy of which will be given to the law school. Richardson, a partner at the Indianapolis firm of Richardson & Richardson, spoke in tribute to their late father and his many accomplishments. Judge Shaheed spoke of Thurgood Marshall's commitment to ending the injustices of the death penalty.
SPEAKERS SHARE
Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, '86, (right) spoke to students about his recent trip to Iraq at an event co-sponsored by the National Security Law Society and the Republican Legal Coalition.
THEIR
EXPERTISE
Thomas Allington serves as reporter for a committee of the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Section of the Indiana State Bar Association. On September 23, Frank Bowman testified for the United States on sentencing deviations and the implementation of the PROTECT Act of 2003. In addition, Professor Bradford has performed consulting work on behalf of the defense in the case of the U.S.
FACULTY NEWS
He was one of the organizers and presenters at a multinational conference in the Netherlands and spoke at a publisher. He is also vice-chairman of the International Law Section of the National Bar Association. Edwards is Professor of Law and Director of the Law School's Program in International Human Rights Law.
PROFESSOR GEORGE E. EDWARDS RECEIVES PINNELL AWARD
Professor Edwards has been elected Co-Chair of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and was also elected to the Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools. In October, he also served as a panelist on a program entitled “The Morality of the Death Penalty,” which was jointly sponsored by the law school and the School of Liberal Arts. In November, she was a speaker on “Tort Reform, The Medical Liability Insurance Crisis and its Resolution,” part of the medical malpractice lecture series sponsored by the law school and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
NOVELLA NEDEFF RETURNS AS PROFESSOR
Additionally, at the beginning of the spring semester, he helped a group of students found a chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a liberal alternative and rejoinder to the Federalist Society, and now serves as its faculty advisor. Professor Kinney continues to serve as Chair of the Subcommittee on Safety for the Indiana Legislative Commission on Health Care, and as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
LAW SCHOOL RECEIVES GRANT TO DEVELOP PROGRAM IN CHINA
In the spring 2004 semester, Professor Roisman introduced a new course at the law school: Law and Social Change: Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, 1948-1968. White (Professor Emeritus) was appointed as a member of the International Advisory Committee for an Executive LL.M. In January, he attended the AALS Annual Meeting, where he served as Chair of the ABA Law School Graduate Committee.
WILSON STRENGTHENS TIES WITH EASTERN EUROPE
Association in January and joined the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Indianapolis in April. Gary Klotz, ’78, an attorney with Bingham McHale in Indianapolis, has been named president of the Indianapolis Bar Association. Trimble, ’81, was recently appointed to the board of directors of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar.
CLASS NOTES
She is currently the first vice president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, treasurer of the Indiana State Bar Association, and chair of the Indiana State Bar Association's Client Assistance Fund. She is also a member of the board of directors of Outrun the Sun, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of melanoma risk factors and raising funds for melanoma medical research. He is a member of the ABA, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Association (Current Board Member of the Finance Committee and Past Chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Section).
THE TORCH IS PASSED
He is a past president of the Indianapolis Estate Planning Board and is currently the treasurer for the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society. Jonna Kane MacDougall, '86 is a founding member and secretary/treasurer of the board of directors of Outrun the Sun, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the risk factors of melanoma and raising funds for melanoma medical research. Robinson, '91, recently became a shareholder in the firm of Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson in Indianapolis.
SOON-TO-BE PILOT LANDS DREAM JOB
Brent McCauley, ’93, was recently elected to partnership at the Chicago firm Ungaretti & Harris in the Financial Services Department. She serves on the Environmental Law Section of the Indiana Bar Association and on the association's Standing Committee on Women in Law. Toole, '96, recently became a shareholder in the firm of Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson in Indianapolis.
2003 GRADUATE ACES FLORIDA BAR EXAM
Sylvia interned for Judge Linda Chezem of the Indiana Court of Appeals before entering private practice. Remondini, '97 was selected by the Indiana Pro Bono Commission as the winner of the 2003 Randall T. Dean Espada. Dean Espada says of Green, "She approached law school and life with a positive attitude and a smile that sometimes hid how hard She worked.”
SARABIA ‘03, LEADS COMMISSION ON HISPANIC/LATINO AFFAIRS
Jenny Sarabia and other former participants of the law school's Program in International Human Rights Law undertake challenges in the public service arena,”. He works as an intern in the Treaty Division of the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations. Prior to his appointment as the president of Indiana University, he served as chancellor of the Florida State University System.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY INSTALLS 17TH PRESIDENT
He was also on the faculty of Arizona State, the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Bantz received a BA in English Education from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Speech Communication from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University. President Herbert graduated from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1966 with an M.P.A.
BANTZ IS CHANCELLOR OF IUPUI
Bantz took over the reins of Indiana's urban research campus on June 1, replacing Gerald Bepko who retired after 16 years as chancellor. From 1989 to 1995, Bantz chaired the ASU Department of Communication (now the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication). In his inaugural address, President Herbert honored Indiana University's history, reaffirmed its commitments, recognized new challenges and presented a vision for the future.
IN MEMORIAM
SCOTT GOODROAD, ‘99
TWO ALUMNI KILLED IN ACCIDENTS
