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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Indiana University Maurer School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association
