Center on the Global Legal Profession

Eleven students who are studying at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been named Milton Stewart Fellows and will participate as summer interns in Brazil, India, Japan and South Korea through the law school's Center on the Global Legal Profession.
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William D. Henderson of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has been named by National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
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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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Fourteen students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been selected to participate as summer interns in Brazil, India and South Korea through the law school's Center on the Global Legal Profession.
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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and India's Jindal Global Law School announced today, Feb. 20, a new initiative in which students can earn a law degree from both schools.
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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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Monday's decision by the 800-lawyer King & Spalding firm to drop its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) suggests that major U.S. law firms are risk-averse and care more about revenue than upholding the traditional norms of the legal profession, according to Visiting Professor John Steele, an expert on legal ethics.
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Two students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been named the 2011 Milton Stewart Brazil Fellows in the school's Center on the Global Legal Profession.
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Nine students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been selected to participate as summer interns in India through the Law School's Center on the Global Legal Profession. Inaugurated in 2010, this unique program offers students experiences in a variety of settings, including highly reputed law firms and rights-based, non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

A professor at the IU Maurer School of Law has been included in a National Jurist article listing "23 law profs to take before you die."
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Research findings by the IU Maurer School of Law's Center on the Global Legal Profession are featured in a cover story in the March 2011 issue of the ABA Journal.
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The job outlook for newly minted lawyers is grim, but not according to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. The most recent U.S. News report shows that 93 percent of graduates were employed nine months after graduation -- but under American Bar Association definitions, that includes working as a waiter or at Home Depot. In an article in the Jan. 9 New York Times, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor William Henderson calls the survey data "Enron-like" and says that it's time for law schools to step up and tell the truth about themselves.
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