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IU expert: Recent limits on lawsuits should not apply to case before the Supreme Court
Hannah Buxbaum

In recent years, the Supreme Court has dramatically curtailed the involvement of U.S. courts in deciding claims arising from activities outside its borders. According to IU Maurer School of Law professor Hannah L. Buxbaum, an appeal currently before the court calls for a different result.   Full Story »

Committee named for IU Maurer School of Law dean search

A search and screen committee has been formed to identify finalists for the position of dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel has announced.   Full Story »

Libor scandal creates complex legal issues for U.S. financial market: IU Maurer School of Law expert
Hannah Buxbaum

The growing scandal over the manipulation of Libor by British banks creates complex legal issues for U.S. financial regulation, according to IU Maurer School of Law professor Hannah L. Buxbaum.   Full Story »

Newly named provost looks to extend IU Bloomington's global outreach
Lauren Robel

Before she officially lands in her new role as Indiana University Bloomington provost, Lauren Robel will seek to further the university's international engagement efforts while on a trip to China and Australia.   Full Story »

Lauren K. Robel appointed Indiana University Bloomington provost
Lauren Robel

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has announced that following a search, Lauren K. Robel has been appointed executive vice president and provost of the IU Bloomington campus effective July 1.   Full Story »

IU Maurer School of Law to host Minority Law Day
Frank Motley

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law will host its annual Minority Law Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at the law school, 211 S. Indiana Ave. in Bloomington.   Full Story »

IU Maurer School of Law dean visits Indian law schools
Lauren Robel

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Dean Lauren Robel is visiting several leading Indian law schools as part of an IU effort to explore educational partnerships among the university, Indiana and India.   Full Story »

IU Maurer School of Law inaugurates John E. Schiller Chair with lecture
Hannah Buxbaum

Hannah L. Buxbaum, executive associate dean for academic affairs and John E. Schiller Chair of Legal Ethics at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, will inaugurate the creation of the Schiller Chair with a lecture on Wednesday, April 20 at 4 p.m. in the law school's Moot Court Room.   Full Story »

IU Maurer School of Law dean named president-elect of Association of American Law Schools
Lauren Robel

Lauren K. Robel, dean and Val Nolan Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, was elected president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) at the annual meeting of its House of Representatives on Friday (Jan. 7). She will serve a one-year term as AALS president beginning in January 2012.   Full Story »

Law School, LSSSE welcome Carole Silver

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) announced the addition of Georgetown Law Center's Carole Silver to both organizations. Silver became a professor of law effective Thursday (July 1) and will begin directing LSSSE later this summer.   Full Story »

Applegate article selected as one of the best environmental law articles in 2009
John Applegate

An article by Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor John Applegate has been selected as one of the top five environmental law articles of 2009. "Synthesizing TSCA and REACH: Practical Principles for Chemical Regulation Reform" will appear in Volume 41 of Thomson-West's Land Use and Environmental Law Review. Articles that appear in this annual publication are selected through a peer review process that considers all major land use and environmental law articles that appeared in the previous year.   Full Story »

John S. Applegate appointed to Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of National Academy of Sciences
John Applegate

John S. Applegate, the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University vice president for planning and policy, has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board by Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, Chairman of the National Research Council. The NRSB is a unit of the National Academy of Sciences that organizes and oversees studies on safety, security, technical efficacy, and other policy and societal issues arising from the application of radiation-based technologies.   Full Story »

IU Maurer School of Law launches Center on the Global Legal Profession
Jayanth Krishnan and Bill Henderson

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.   Full Story »

Summer Law Institute launching this summer

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.   Full Story »

Law professor serves as witness in judicial impeachment hearing
Charles Geyh

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.   Full Story »