Faculty news

ALFRED C. AMAN, JR.

ROBERT L. FISCHMAN

JAYANTH KRISHNAN Aman announces retirement

Alfred C. Aman, Jr., Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law, is retiring from full-time

teaching on June 30. Aman came to Bloomington as dean in 1991 and served in that

capacity until 2002. He is a prolific scholar and author of books and articles on admin

istrative, regulatory, and deregulatory law, especially as these topics relate to the

global economy. Aman will continue to teach as an emeritus professor and serve as

faculty editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, which he co-founded.

A feature article on Aman’s storied career will be included in the December issue

of ergo.

Fischman, Krishnan elected to American Law Institute

Robert L. Fischman, George P. Smith II Distinguished Professor of Law, and

Jayanth Krishnan, Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law and director of the Milt and

Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession, are the Law School’s newest mem

bers of the American Law Institute.

Fischman’s research explores the relationship between law and conservation im

plementation. He is one of very few professors to publish in high-impact, peer-reviewed

scientific journals as well as in law reviews. He is a co-author of the leading casebook

on public land and resources law. His book on management of the National Wildlife Ref

uge System has become the standard reference in the field. In 2017 Fischman helped lead a team of professors in winning a $55 million Grand Challenge grant to establish

an environmental resilience institute at IU.

Krishnan is a socio-legal researcher who focuses on the legal profession, law and

globalization, access to justice, and legal education. Much of his work has examined

how these areas intersect in India, but he has also written on the ways these issues

operate in places such as Anglophonic Africa, Brazil, the Middle East, and other

parts of Asia. His work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer

the Undocumented: Addressing a Split Circuit Dilemma for Asylum-Seekers,” will be

published this year in the Ohio State Law Journal.

ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing schol

arly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. Worldwide membership

is limited to 3,000. Fischman and Krishnan join 16 other Indiana Law faculty in ALI

membership. (See ergo, December 2019, p. 15.)

Three faculty note retirements

Faculty, staff, and friends gathered on January 30 to salute Keith Buckley, ’89, and

Ralph Gaebler, ’84, who retired as director and international services librarian, respec

tively, of the Jerome Hall Law Library. W. William Weeks III, ’79, was also saluted for

his years of service to the Conservation Law Center.

Maben honored by library association

Mike Maben, cataloguing librarian in the Jerome Hall Law Library, has named the

2020 recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award from the American Associa

tion of Law Libraries’ Technical Services Special Interest Section. This is the highest

award TS-SIS bestows, and it “recognizes extended and sustained distinguished ser

vice to technical services law librarianship and to AALL.” Maben has been and con

tinues to be an active member of TS-SIS; he has presented and published on numerous

occasions on issues related to technical services and served as managing editor of the

section’s publication, Technical Services Law Librarian, from 2013 to 2018. He joined the

Law Library in 1988 and has been instrumental in developing its online catalogue. More

recently, he has been leading a project to digitize the Law School’s audiovisual materi

als in conjunction with the university’s Bicentennial.

KEITH BUCKLEY

RALPH GAEBLER

W. WILLIAM WEEKS III

MIKE MABEN