A panel of distinguished jurists will visit the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on March 1 to hear final arguments in a case involving judicial recusal and eminent domain.

Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research has announced that Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2012 CACR Cybersecurity Summit.

One of the four current commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission will present a public lecture this week at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Commissioner Julie Brill will speak on "The FTC and its Commitment to Consumer Privacy" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in Room 213 of the law school.

George P. Smith II, a visiting fellow at Indiana University's Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research in Health Information, will deliver the center's first public lecture in tribute to his late friend, former IU President Myles N. Brand. The lecture is titled "Managing End-of-Life Care: Medico-Legal, Social, Ethical, and Philosophical Challenges," and will be presented on Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend, inside the Maurer School of Law's Moot Court Room.

Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) and the University of Oxford's Internet Institute (OII) are co-hosting global leaders in the field of information innovation and management as part of the inaugural Oxford Digital Data Dialogue beginning today (Sept. 21).

Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research begins its annual Security Seminar Series today (Sept. 1) at noon. "Running for more than five years, our annual speaker series includes distinguished scholars, established practitioners, and other leading voices in the field of cybersecurity," said CACR Deputy Director Von Welch. "Our speakers come to us from around the country and cover a diverse range of issues, with topical and engaging presentations."

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.

Four nationally known experts on judicial selection will convene at the IU Maurer School of Law on Thursday, April 21, from 4-6 p.m. in the school's Moot Court Room for an interactive dialogue on the topic.

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.

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Dawn Johnsen will on Friday (Nov. 19) deliver her first public lecture in Bloomington since being named to President Barack Obama's transition team in late 2008 and her subsequent nomination to the Department of Justice.

Three alumni from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law were honored Friday (Oct. 8) with prestigious Distinguished Service Awards. The awards were established in 1997 to recognize Indiana Law graduates who have distinguished themselves in service to their communities and the IU Maurer School of Law in ways that exceed expectations in the course of their business, professional or civic duties.

In testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this morning (Sept. 23), Indiana University Maurer School of Law Distinguished Professor Fred H. Cate called for revisions to the Stored Communications Act, a piece of legislation that regulates how and when authorities can obtain electronically stored communications.

Many of the country's top intellectual property scholars and practitioners are expected to convene at the IU Maurer School of Law on Sept. 23-24 for a major conference on patent law. The conference coincides with the 20th anniversary of the publication of "On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope," a seminal work in the field of patent law by Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson.

The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Monday, Sept. 13, at noon in the Moot Court Room. The arguments are open to both the public and the media, though seating is expected to be limited. Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard described it as an opportunity for law students to see first-hand how the Supreme Court operates. "Holding an oral argument at one of our state's law schools offers the law students an up-close look at Indiana's appellate system. It is a good exercise for the students to consider the real world case and think about how they would argue or decide it."

Indiana University's Maurer School of Law today (Sept. 8) honored two current students and a recent alumnus for their commitment and dedication to pro bono work. Alex Haugh, JD'10, third-year student Gina Venturelli, and second-year student Rachael Steller were all presented with the Access to Justice Program's Pro Bono Award during a ceremony at the law school. The award is presented to the student from each class who performed the most pro bono work during the course of the year.

One of the most common problems journalists say they face in the post-9/11 world is the lack of access to government documents and other information that has traditionally been made public. A new DVD created by the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will help train professional journalists, students and the public on problems of accessibility to public documents and officials. Access Denied: Navigating the Legal Challenges to Newsgathering, is a round-table forum featuring scholars, journalists and attorneys.

A team from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law won top honors at a new competition that combines the detailed analysis of drafting legal documents with the intense strategies of business negotiations. The Law School's team swept the competition, winning Best Seller-Side Draft and Best Overall Team, in the First Annual Transactional Lawyering Meet, held at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University from March 4-5, 2010.

Indiana University's Venture Capital Investment Competition team won second place at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Final at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon. IU's team was comprised of third-year law students Casey Plant and Marshall Magaro, fourth-year JD/MBA Brian Villa, and second-year MBA students Emily Geiger and Perry Griffith. This same team won IU's internal VCIC contest last fall. At Tepper, the team beat out competitors from Maryland, Rochester, Virginia and Vanderbilt, taking second to a strong team from Georgetown.

A panel of distinguished jurists, including the Chief Justice of Indiana and one of the state's four appointees to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, will visit the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Friday (Feb. 26) at 7 p.m. to hear arguments on an issue at the forefront of debate over technology, privacy rights, and law enforcement: the constitutionality of collecting and storing DNA evidence from those arrested on certain federal charges.

It has been four years since the longest and most prominent war crimes trial of the modern era was brought to an abrupt halt by the death of the defendant: Slobodan Milosevic. A conference today (Feb. 19) through Sunday at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law revisits the trial, which left the court, the people of the former Yugoslavia, and the world community without a definitive legal resolution.

Court-ordered mediation in family law -- divorce, child custody, child support -- has been a regular practice for many years. But research now shows that mediators often overlook the role of intimate partner violence and abuse in family law cases, according to Amy G. Applegate, a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Kelley School of Business will be providing free tax assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled, and limited English-speaking residents over the next month. The students will be participating in the Internal Revenue Service's Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) program beginning Wednesday (Feb. 10) at the law school, 211 S. Indiana Ave. in room 122. The walk-in clinic will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays through March 12. All program volunteers are trained and certified by the IRS.

Besting last year's record-setting turnout, the Women's Law Caucus Auction raised more than $11,000 Friday (Feb. 5) for Bloomington's Middle Way House and Protective Order Project. The annual event features packages donated by Indiana University Maurer School of Law faculty and staff. Students from the Law School form small teams to bid on the items, which can include anything from a Trivial Pursuit competition to attending an afternoon of golf with members of the faculty and staff.

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.

Jon Rinehart and Chris Stoker are participating in a multi-disciplinary team that will develop a comprehensive design and development program for an actual large-scale site. The team is responsible for delivering drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. The other team members consist of graduate students in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Kansas.

As sweeping health care legislation moves through Congress, new laws would provide data exclusivity to innovator companies that introduce new biologic drugs and an expedited regulatory approval process for follow-on (generic) biologic drugs. In view of the importance of the topic, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's Intellectual Property Program has organized a conference, "Intellectual Property Rights and Health Care: Perspectives on Follow-on Biologic Drugs," to be held Jan. 21.

The Hoosier Environmental Council announced today that Brian J. Soden, a noted geophysicist and climate change expert, will present "The Reality of Global Warming: Cold Facts on a Hot Topic," on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. As part of his presentation, Soden will discuss the science of global warming and the struggle to educate the general public on an often confusing and polarizing topic.

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.

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.

Top scholars on Afghanistan and Iraq will meet on the Indiana University Bloomington campus Friday and Saturday (Nov. 13-14) for one of the first collaborative conferences on state-building in both nations. "State-Building in the Contemporary Islamic World: U.S. Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan" is being presented by the Indiana Democracy Consortium. The two-day event is being held in the Indiana Memorial Union's State Room East and is open to both the public and the media.

Sandra "Sandy" Froman, a former two-term president of the National Rifle Association, will visit the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Tuesday (Nov. 3) to discuss the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to review McDonald v. Chicago, a case that could have a widespread effect on state and local gun laws.

As congressional leaders continue the debate over health care reform, a workshop hosted by the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) on Oct. 26-27 will bring together national leaders to discuss two critical components of the American health care system: privacy and security.

Hundreds of university leaders, students, and alumni are expected to be on hand Friday (Sept. 25) for the official naming of the Indiana University Michael Maurer School of Law. The ceremony will coincide with the Law School's second annual Alumni Summit and celebrate a $35 million gift from Michael and Janie Maurer the Law School received last December.

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.

Speaking to the inaugural graduating class of the school that now bears his name, Michael Maurer encouraged law students to honor the profession, and to find ways to give back to those places and people who made them who they are. The IU Maurer School of Law honored the class of 2009 Saturday, conferring 194 JDs, 23 LLMs, and 16 SJDs to students at the IU Auditorium.

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law will partner with the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic this Friday (May 15) for an in-depth discussion on the human rights and political challenges facing the people of Burma.

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law recognized some of its finest teachers on April 20, during the School's annual Teaching Awards ceremony. David Williams, the John S. Hastings Professor of Law, was honored with the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award, the Law School's top teaching prize, which he also won in 1996.

The law firm of the future will have an increased focus on workplace culture and a target client base of small- and mid-sized businesses, according to the winning team at FutureFirm 1.0. The two-day competition, which concluded Sunday at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, charged participants with creating a business model for a fictional law firm that would not only survive the current economic downturn, but thrive 20 years into the future.

More than 25 tax scholars from law schools around the world convened earlier this month at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law for the 2009 Critical Tax Conference. Joshua Odintz, tax counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, delivered the conference's keynote address. His speech, "Infinite Jest: Tax Stimulus Bills," drew a large audience of faculty and students.

Five alumni from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law were inducted Friday (April 17) into the School's Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. Two other alumni were awarded President's Medals from the IU Foundation. Induction into the ALAF is the highest honor the Law School bestows upon its graduates, in recognition of personal achievements and dedication to the highest standards of the legal profession.

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.

In just eight years, Scott Tittle has gone from graduating from the IU Maurer School of Law to advising Gov. Mitch Daniels on last-minute clemency requests and researching controversial state policies like the adoption of daylight saving time.

Proving that lawyers really do have a sense of humor, students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will bring back the Ambulance Chase 5k on Saturday, April 18. Runners will wind through the Bloomington campus on the 3.1-mile course. Race organizers said that an actual ambulance may be used to lead the participants through the course.

Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik, delivering the 2009 Harris Lecture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on March 31, argued that today's opulent federal courthouses are not designed to efficiently carry out justice, but rather to serve as elegant reminders of how powerful the American federal court system is.

Richard G. Fentiman, a University of Cambridge legal scholar, will deliver the 2009 Snyder Lecture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Fentiman will present "Trading Debts -- A European Solution?: Addressing the Fallout from the U.S. Mortgage Crisis," on Tuesday, April 7, at noon in the Moot Court Room. His talk is free and open to the public.

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan said he usually takes three different approaches into consideration when deciding the outcome of a pending case. He tries to address constitutional issues only when necessary; he considers how he believes lawmakers would want legislation interpreted; and finally, in common law issues, Sullivan looks for neutral principles that bear on the issue.

A distinguished panel that includes two federal appeals court judges will preside over the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's 2008-09 Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition finals on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. This year's panel also includes a state appellate court judge, the Indiana solicitor general and an attorney in private practice.

Alternative legal careers were explored in an IU Maurer School of Law panel discussion by IU Dean of Women's Affairs Yvette Alex-Assensoh, IU Foundation Vice President and General Counsel Philippa Guthrie, IU Assistant Dean of Students Suzanne Phillips, IU Maurer School of Law Director of Student Services Catherine Matthews and Kelley School of Business Professor Jane Mallor.

The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has voted unanimously to rename the school's annual Barrister's Ball after alumnus Rapheal Prevot Jr., who died last June at the age of 49.

As a law student, Brian Williams did not know he would find his professional calling overseeing fundraising efforts for non-profit organizations. But after several job changes, Williams, vice president of development for The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, knows all too well the benefit of keeping job options open, especially in a tough economy.

The Women's Law Caucus at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law raised more than $9,000 at its annual charity auction last weekend for two local domestic violence programs . Both Middle Way House of Bloomington, Ind., and the school's Protective Order Project will use the proceeds to continue providing services to local victims of domestic abuse.

Whenever attorney Marc Kadish hears a joke about the legal profession, he reminds himself of all the good work lawyers do for others, often free of charge. Kadish, director of pro bono activities at Mayer Brown in Chicago, joined panelists discussing the virtues of pro bono work at "Pro Bono Stories: Building Careers, Changing Lives" Feb. 4 at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Six Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni will be inducted this April into the Academy of Law Alumni Fellows, the highest honor the law school bestows upon its graduates. The awards go to alumni who have distinguished themselves in their careers through personal achievements and dedication to the highest standards of the profession. Previous honorees include U.S. senators, federal judges and managing partners of national law firms.

Facing an uncertain job market, law students are seeking more than the traditional options to put their degrees to work. Indiana University Maurer School of Law spotlights several of these options in its Alternative Legal Careers panel discussion series. All events are free and open to the public.

Loane Skene, a renowned Australian expert in medical law and genetics, will deliver the George P. Smith II Lecture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Feb. 12. Skene's presentation, "Recent Developments in Stem Cell Research: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues for the Future," begins at noon in the Moot Court Room and is free and open to the public.

Tax law experts from across the country will visit the Indiana University Maurer School of Law--Bloomington during the spring 2009 semester as part of the Law School's inaugural Tax Policy Colloquium.

With the predicted retirements of Judges John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg looming within the next four years, President-elect Barack Obama could have the rare opportunity to appoint two new judges to the U.S. Supreme Court during his first term in office. Curt Levey, director of the Committee for Justice, will discuss Obama's potential federal court appointees on Tuesday (Nov. 18) at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington.

Alumni from Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington's seven advisory boards will convene in early October for the School's inaugural Alumni Summit. The Alumni Summit is a re-structuring of Indiana Law's traditional Alumni Weekend, and will allow for greater opportunities for networking and allow current students to interact with alumni.

Leading researchers and scholars from social science and legal fields will be at Indiana University Bloomington this week for a conference aimed at learning about and developing better interventions for families in conflict. The conference, "For the Sake of the Children: Advances in Family Dispute Resolution," is co-sponsored by the IU School of Law-Bloomington and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IUB.

The Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and the American Constitution Society are hosting a conference to examine presidential power in conventional armed conflicts as well as in the "war on terror." The conference, "War, Terrorism, and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century," will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, in the law school's Moot Court Room. The keynote speaker for the conference is Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.