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“There’s a wonderful dynamic between students and professors at Maurer,” he said. “Legal education works best when it’s a two-way street. You need students who are passionate about learning and developing, and you need professors invested in helping students grow. That dynamic doesn’t just happen automatically, but it’s clear that students and faculty at Maurer have it, and continue to work at it.”
TWO FACULTY POST MOST-CITED RANKINGS CORPORATE LAW EXPERT JOINS INDIANA LAW FACULTY
Two Law School faculty members ranked among the most cited in the fields of legal ethics and the legal profession/professional responsibility, according to data analyzed by Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.
Aneil Kovvali, an expert in corporate law and governance, joins the Law School faculty this fall from the University of Chicago Law School, where he is currently a
CHARLES GEYH
Professor of Law, and William D. Henderson, Stephen F. Burns Professor of Law, tied at
Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. ANEIL KOVVALI
Charles Gardner Geyh, IU Distinguished Professor and John F. Kimberling
number seven on Leiter’s list, which uses Sisk data compiled between 2016 and 2020 to
“It’s an amazing intellectual community,” Kovvali said of his decision to join Indiana Law. “The faculty includes leading experts in a broad range of important fields,
track citation counts. The list recognizes faculty for whom roughly 75 percent or more
and it’s also a faculty that is willing and eager to try unconventional approaches and
of their citations (based on a sample) are in either the legal ethics or legal profession/
consider new ideas.”
professional responsibility fields. The Maurer School of Law is one of only three law schools to have two faculty members ranked among the top 10.
Kovvali graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2012, going on to clerk for Judge Christopher F. Droney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
WILLIAM D. HENDERSON
Geyh teaches and writes in the areas of judicial conduct, ethics, procedure,
He served as a litigation associate with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 2014 to
independence, accountability, and administration. His latest book, Who Is to Judge:
2020 before joining the University of Chicago Law School.
Judicial Elections, Judicial Appointments, and the Perennial Debate over Judicial
“We’re excited to welcome Aneil and his family to the Law School this summer,” said Dean Parrish. “He’s a fast-rising superstar in the area of business
Selection in America, was released by Oxford University Press in 2019. Geyh was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to research and write the book. Henderson researches and writes primarily on the empirical analysis of the legal
and corporate law.” Having taught the last two years at the University of Chicago and with published
profession and has appeared in leading legal journals, including the Stanford Law
or forthcoming pieces in journals including the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law
Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. In 2015 and 2016, he was
Review, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Northwestern University Law
named the Most Influential Person in Legal Education by the National Jurist.
Review, and University of Chicago Law Review, Kovvali comes to the Law School with significant scholarly and teaching credentials.
Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School.
“Aneil is exactly the type of dedicated and thoughtful scholar, who cares deeply about the community and his students, that we look for to join the Law School. He’s a fabulous addition to our innovative scholarly community,” Dean Parrish said. Kovvali will teach corporations and corporate finance in the 2022–23 academic year, and he said he’s eager to begin working with Maurer students.
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LUBIN RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS BAXTER PRIZE The Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict has named Associate Professor Asaf Lubin the winner of the 2022 Richard R. Baxter Military Writing Prize. The award
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