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• Excellence in Civic Engagement
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• 2003 Performance Report
• 2002 Performance Report
• 2001 Performance Report

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Teaching and Learning

1. Three professors were appointed to named professorships: George Edwards is the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law, Nicholas Georgakapoulos is the Harold R. Woodard Professor of Law, and Linda Kelly Hill is the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law.

1. In November, The law school’s immigration clinic was selected to receive $25,000 from the Vera Institute of Justice, Inc. for implementing and operating a Legal Orientation Program for unaccompanied immigrant children residing in Vincennes, Indiana.

1. In January, Gary R. Roberts, Deputy Dean of the Tulane Law School was appointed as Dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis.  Term scheduled to begin July 1, 2007.

1. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the law school as the James P. White Lecturer on Legal Education.  She spoke to students, faculty and alumni on March 8, then addressed students in the Women and Law class, and in an open forum on March 9.

1. Also in March, three IU Law “Kennedy Scholars,” visited Washington, D.C. to hear oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and attend a private luncheon with Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, accompanied by Interim Dean Susanah Mead and Professor Emeritus James P. White.

1. Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis was one of only two universities in the U.S. to co-sponsor the Asia Pacific Law School Dean Joint Conference & the Inauguration of Asia Pacific Comparative Law Society, May 19 – 20, 2007 at Shantou University School of Law in Guangdong Province, China. The purpose of the conference was to enhance development of cooperation on legal education and comparative law studies in the Asia-Pacific Region. The conference was open to the deans of law schools, professors of law and senior practicing lawyers.

1. Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis has received a grant from USAID to offer a track of the school’s LL.M. program in collaboration with the law schools of Alexandria University and Cairo University on-site at both institutions in Egypt.

Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

1. Professor Dan Cole, the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law, published a new casebook, Natural Resources Law (with Jan Laitos, Sandra Zellmer and Mary Wood) (West 2006).

1. Professor Gerard Magliocca published a book, Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes (University Press of Kansas 2007).  He gave two talks related to the book—one at George Washington Law School on April 5 and one at Chapman Law School in Anaheim on April 13.  The talk at George Washington Law School aired on C-Span2 on April 22.

1. Joan Ruhtenberg is a co-author of the third edition of A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method (Aspen 2007).

Civic Engagement

1. In August, 2006, law student David Nguyen, an intern with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation through the law school’s Program on Law and State Government, accompanied Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman on a mission to Taiwan and Vietnam, as part of a 33-member delegation from Indiana to promote Indiana’s agricultural products.

1. Professor George Edwards, Carl M. Gray Professor of Law, received the Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement from IUPUI for his work with the law school’s Program in International Human Rights Law.

1. Professor Eleanor Kinney has been awarded a subcontract (with SPEA) from the Indiana Department of Family and Social Services to support the Indiana University Work Group on Indiana Health Care Reform, 2007-09.

1. In March, Dean Emeritus and Professor Norman Lefstein testified as a pro bono expert witness in a test case challenging the workload of a New Orleans public defender.

1. During Spring Break (March 12-16), four students and one LL.M. graduate traveled to New York at United Nations Headquarters where they presented a report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. Their report argued that the government of Chile breached the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by discriminating against gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual people.

1. On April 13 the law school’s Health Law Society hosted a “Hawaiian Party” for patients at Riley Hospital for Children.

1. The ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project announced its findings following a study of Indiana’s implementation of the death penalty. Professor Joel Schumm chaired the committee of seven experts from Indiana who examined the issue for the ABA as part of a nation-wide effort to ensure the utmost fairness in capital proceedings.

1. The law school hosted its first alumni event in China in May.  More than 30 people attended each event, the first on May 26 in Beijing and the second in June in Shanghai.

Diversity

1. Professor Maria Pabon Lopez was the inaugural speaker at the Diverse Researchers Forum at the IUPUI University Library in September 2006.  She also serves on the IUPUI Diversity Cabinet, at the invitation of Chancellor Charles Bantz.

External Awards and Appointments

1. Chancellor Emeritus Gerald Bepko was appointed by Governor Mitch Daniels to a four-year term as an at-large member of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.  He also received an Honorary American Degree at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis.

1. Professor Florence Wagman Roisman served as the J. Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School during the Fall 2006 semester.

1. Professor Emeritus James P. White was appointed by AALS President Judith Areen to the American-Chinese Joint Commission on Legal Education, which held its initial meeting in Beijing in December.

1. Professor Karen E. Bravo assumed the chairmanship of the AALS Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers in January.

1. In April, Professor James Nehf chaired a workshop on fair information practices at an international consumer law conference in Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the University of South Africa and the International Association of Consumer Law.

1. Professor Lloyd T. “Tom” Wilson was elected Secretary of the AALS Section on Real Estate Transactions.

• Professor Cynthia Adams was elected Secretary of the AALS Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers.  She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the AALS Section on International Exchange.  At the request of the President of the Legal Writing Institute, she has created and is the chair of a Committee on Global Legal Writing Programs.