GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH, GLOBAL IMPACT
FACULTY AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Over the past two years, Maurer School of Law faculty have received numerous international, national and university awards. Nearly 25% of the school’s faculty have recently been recognized for their outstanding contributions. Examples include:
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Charles Gardner Geyh was a Carnegie Fellow, one of 33 chosen from about 200 nominees in the fields of science, law, technology, business and public policy. Hannah Buxbaum was elected to the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law; she is the only member from the United States.
Buxbaum Leandra Lederman and Deborah Widiss received Fulbright grants to conduct research in Luxembourg and Australia. Joseph Hoffmann received the American Bar Association’s RaederTaslitz Award, which recognizes law professors who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, teaching or community service and have
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made a significant contribution to promoting public understanding of criminal justice and justice and fairness in the criminal justice system. Jeannine Bell, Mark Janis, Leandra Lederman, and Austen Parrish were elected to the American Law Institute. Sixteen Law School faculty are now members of this prestigious organization, whose
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membership is limited to 3,000. Jeannine Bell served as co-editor of the Law and Society Review, the leading journal in its field. Pamela Foohey was recognized by the American Bankruptcy Institute as one of its 2019 “40 under 40,” which honors emerging leaders in
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Deborah Widiss received a 2019 Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity issues, from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. Susan Williams won the 2019 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal
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Research, awarded by Federal Law Review, the flagship journal of the Australian National University College of Law. Alfred Aman held the Chair of Excellence at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid during the fall semester of 2019. The Indiana Lawyer presented Norman Hedges with its Distinguished
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Barrister Award in 2019. The university also recognized five faculty members for their academic achievements. Jessica Eaglin received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award; Leandra Lederman was selected to deliver the Sonneborn Lecture in January 2020; Victor Quintanilla was named one of IU’s 25 Bicentennial Professors; and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
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and Christiana Ochoa were named Herman B Wells Class of 1950 Endowed Professors.
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CENTER RESEARCH SUPPORTS COMMUNITIES HERE IN INDIANA― AND AROUND THE WORLD Aman
The Law School’s research centers address critical challenges facing society. They support innovative research and initiatives that provide opportunities for our students to work collaboratively with leading experts. Since 2017, almost $8 million has been raised to support the research and other activities of four innovative centers: MILT AND JUDI STEWART CENTER ON THE
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GLOBAL LEGAL PROFESSION Jayanth Krishnan, Director Supporting empirical research on the work of lawyers, particularly in the Global South, and international conferences on legal education and the legal profession. CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
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David Williams, Executive Director; Susan Williams, Director Supporting peace through constitutional reform in emerging democracies. CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESEARCH Mark Janis, Director Spurring innovation by matching inventors with patent attorneys who
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provide pro bono assistance. CENTER FOR LAW, SOCIETY & CULTURE Victor Quintanilla and Jody Madeira, Co-Directors Pamela Foohey, Chair of the Advisory Board Identifying gaps in legal services available in Indiana; developing and
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evaluating intervention strategies to help close achievement gaps on the bar exam; and providing resources for IU college students at risk of substance abuse.
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GROUNDBREAKING AND INFLUENTIAL RESEARCH Law School faculty routinely publish their research in top law journals
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and interdisciplinary journals, and many publish full-length books with highly respected university presses. Illustrative examples of recent and forthcoming publications include: Brian J. Broughman, Merger Negotiations in the Shadow of Judicial Appraisal, 62 Journal of Law and Economics (2019) (with Audra Boone and Antonio Macias).
D. Williams Daniel Cole, Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts, 13 Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 23 (2019) (with Maria Damon, Elinor Ostrom & Thomas Terner). Jessica M. Eaglin, Beyond the Equality Paradox: Limiting Sentencing
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Technologies through the Jury Trial Right, 105 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2019). Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, Engineered Credit Default Swaps: Innovative or Manipulative?, 94 New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2019).
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Pamela Foohey, Life in the Sweatbox, 94 Notre Dame Law Review 2019 (2018) (with Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter, and Deborah Thorne) (featured in a front-page article in the New York Times). Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Judicial Intervention as Judicial Restraint, 131 Harvard Law Review 236 (2018) (with Guy-Uriel E. Charles) (cited in Rucho v. Common Cause, 139 S. Ct. 2484, 2523 n.5 (2019) (Kagan, J.,
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dissenting)). David Gamage, The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches under the 2017 Tax Legislation, 103 Minnesota Law Review 1439 (2018) (with David Kamin et al.) (featured in Forbes).
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Charles Gardner Geyh, Who Is To Judge? The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges (Oxford U. Press, 2019). Dawn Johnsen, Toward Restoring Rule-of-Law Norms, 97 Texas Law
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Review 1205 (2019). H. Timothy Lovelace, Civil Rights as Human Rights, 70 Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2020). Jody L. Madeira, Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility
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Clinics Collaborate in Conception (U. of California Press, 2018). Timothy William Waters, Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale U. Press, forthcoming 2020). Ethan Michelson, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce
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Courts (Cambridge U. Press, forthcoming). Deborah A. Widiss, Intimate Liberties and Antidiscrimination Law, 18 Dukeminier Awards: Best Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Review Articles of 2019 (forthcoming 2019) (reprinting article originally published in 97 Boston University Law Review 2083 (2017)).
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