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Indiana University Maurer School of Law Dean Lauren Robel announced the launch of the school's new Center on the Global Legal Profession. Based at IU Bloomington, the center will focus on the unprecedented challenges lawyers are facing around the world and develop research and training materials to assist current and future attorneys in their understanding of international legal systems.
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Beginning in early July, the IU Maurer School of Law will welcome law students currently enrolled in law programs outside the United States to a five-week program that allows them to earn up to eight course credits, most of which can be transferred to the Maurer School should they matriculate into its Master of Laws degree program. Participants who successfully complete their coursework will earn a Certificate in American and Comparative Law.
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A Congressional task force on judicial impeachment called on Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Charles G. Geyh today (Dec. 15) to testify as a witness in its hearing to consider the possible impeachment of U.S. District Judge Thomas G. Porteous. Geyh, the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law, was one of three national experts to appear before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, delivering his opinion on what he called "ethical concerns of the most extreme sort" by Judge Porteous.
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Judicial ethics expert Charles G. Geyh testified Thursday (Dec. 10) that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey serves as a "wake-up call" to state and federal courts to begin taking judicial disqualifications more seriously. Geyh, the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, was invited to testify before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Competition.
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Sir David Williams, the first Indiana University Maurer School of Law George P. Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor-Chair and frequent contributor to the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, died last month in Cambridge, England. He was 78.
Building on the foundation of a successful academic program and Conservation Law Center, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has appointed Carolyn Waldron as director of its Environmental Law Program. Waldron, a 20-year veteran of environmental advocacy, will lead a new program to strengthen partnerships and bridge the academic resources of IU to better serve today's emerging environmental challenges.
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Leaders from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Sungkyunkwan University's Graduate School of Business announced today (June 5) the creation of a joint J.D./M.B.A. program believed to be the first of its kind between an American law school and an international M.B.A. program.
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This weekend (April 18-19), the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will host FutureFirm 1.0, a strategic exercise in which participants are asked to create a new law firm business model that is likely to survive and thrive at least 20 years into the future.
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Joining other top law schools across the nation, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has adopted a Public Service Program, part of which will establish an aspirational level of pro bono work to be done by students. Beginning in fall 2009, students will be encouraged to fulfill 60 hours of pro bono work during their three years of schooling.
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Business partnerships among life sciences companies will be the focus of the third seminar in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series at the Eli Lilly and Co. Corporate Center in Indianapolis on Feb. 13.
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Protecting investments in intellectual property developed at life sciences companies will be the focus of the second seminar in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series at Cook Medical world headquarters in Bloomington on Friday, Nov. 14.
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