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Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
Alfred C. Aman Jr.
A.B., 1967, University of Rochester; J.D., 1970, University of Chicago. Executive Editor, University of Chicago Law Review. Clerk, Hon. Elbert P. Tuttle, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1970-72. Associate, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., 1972-77. Faculty, Cornell Law School, 1977-1991. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Since 1991, Professor Aman has served as dean, sharing his ideas for the education of global professionals. He believes that lawyers of the twenty-first century will have to be versatile professionals, capable of understanding the laws of different legal systems and the basics of other disciplines, such as anthropology, economics, philosophy, and political science, and for some legal issues, the hard sciences.
An internationally known scholar and lecturer, Dean Aman has held a Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Trento, Italy, and visiting professorships in England, France, and Italy. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on administrative and regulatory law, especially as it relates to the global economy. He is the faculty editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.
John Strait Applegate
B.A., 1978, Haverford College; J.D., 1981, Harvard Law School. Clerk, Hon. Edward S. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1981-83. Associate, Covington & Burling, 1983-87. Neighborhood Legal Services Program, 1986. James B. Helmer Jr. Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Law, 1987-98. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Applegate, a distinguished environmental law scholar, joined the faculty in 1998. Nationally recognized for his work in environmental risk assessment and policy analysis, he has written numerous articles on the regulation of toxic substances and public participation in environmental decisions. He is a member of the Environmental Management Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences on these topics, and has testified before Congress on risk assessment within the U.S. Department of Energy.
In addition, Professor Applegate is an award-winning teacher, known for his ability to present complex information with an engaging style and wry wit. His courses include Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, International Environmental Law, and Property.
Patrick L. Baude
A.B., 1964, J.D., 1966, University of Kansas; LL.M., 1968, Harvard University. Editor-in-Chief, Kansas Law Review. Associate, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1966-67. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Baude's teaching goes beyond the fundamentals of his subject, blending history, philosophy, popular culture, and current events to stretch the students to examine established institutions in light of new ideas. He has won both university-wide and Law School teaching awards. His courses include Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, and The Legal Profession.
Active in the legal community, he has been a special counsel to the Office of the Governor of Indiana, and is a member and former president of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners. From time to time, he handles test cases in the state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
A noted scholar, Professor Baude is currently researching issues of state constitutional law and editing a hypertext edition of Indiana constitutional documents.
Jeannine Bell
A.B., 1991, Harvard College; M.A., 1995, J.D., 1999, Ph.D., 2000, University of Michigan. Book Review Editor, Michigan Journal of Race and Law. Law Clerk, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1997.
With an academic background in government and law, Professor Bell brings to the classroom the perspectives of both disciplines. She joined the faculty at Indiana in 1999, and teaches in the Department of Political Science, as well as in the Law School. Her courses include Criminal Process, and Seminars on the First Amendment, and in Law and Society.
Professor Bell is currently completing a book entitled Policing Hatred: Police Officers, Hate Crimes, and the Politics of Civil Rights Law Enforcement, and she is co-editing another volume, The Inside Story: Gaining Access to Research Sites. She has written articles on the Family and Medical Leave Act, and on the legal response to hate crimes. She is active in both law and political science organizations where she has presented numerous papers.
Terry A. Bethel
B.A., 1968, J.D.,1971, Ohio State University. Managing Editor, Ohio State Law Journal. Private Practice, Columbus, Ohio, 1971-77. Faculty, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, 1977-80. Member, Order of the Coif.
Highly regarded for both his scholarship and practical expertise in the area of labor arbitration, Professor Bethel has been appointed to many noteworthy public and professional service forums. He is co-author of Common Law of the Workplace, a project of the National Academy of Arbitrators. He serves on Indiana's Public Employee Relations Board, which he chairs at the request of Governor O'Bannon. But it is his outstanding work in the classroom, especially the sharp-witted, intellectual skirmishes he conducts in his Contracts course, for which he is especially known. In addition to Contracts, he teaches Labor Law and Labor and Employment Arbitration.
Professor Bethel has been honored with the Gavel Award, and has served as the associate dean for academic affairs and as acting dean during the academic year 1990-91.
Douglass G. Boshkoff
A.B., 1952, LL.B., 1955, Harvard University. Private Practice, Buffalo, New York. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1957-59. Faculty, Wayne State University School of Law, 1959-63.
Over the course of three decades, Professor Boshkoff has taught many courses including Bankruptcy, Contracts, and Secured Transactions. His excellence as a teacher has been recognized by generations of law students and by his peers, who have honored him with the Gavel Award, the Leon Wallace Teaching Award, and the Indiana University Distinguished Teaching Award-the university's highest award for teaching.
Professor Boshkoff has compiled a remarkable record of service and scholarship. He served as dean of the Law School from 1972 to 1975 and as program coordinator of the London Law Consortium at the time of its inception. He is the author of three books and more than 70 articles, and in 1992, he was awarded the McKinney Professorship for his excellence in scholarship.
Although he retired in 1996, Professor Boshkoff continues to teach one course each year.
Craig M. Bradley
A.B., 1967, University of North Carolina; J.D., 1970, University of Virginia. Attorney, Criminal Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970-72. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Washington, D.C., 1972-75. Clerk, Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, 1975-76. Senior Trial Attorney, Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1976-78.
Professor Bradley believes that the best way to fully understand and critique American law is to become familiar with foreign legal systems. Consequently, he has worked extensively abroad. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law in Germany and a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the National University. He lectured on criminal law and procedure throughout South Africa as a guest of Rand Africaans University in Johannesburg.
He has written extensively including three books and more than 30 articles. His most recent book, Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study, was published in 1998.
His courses include Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Procedure.
Kevin D. Brown
B.S., 1978, Indiana University; J.D., 1982, Yale University. Associate, Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1982-86.
Professor Brown joined the faculty in 1987 and has taught a variety of courses including Torts, Criminal Law, Law and Education, Law and Development, and Race, American Society, and the Law.
In 1997, Professor Brown was a Fulbright Lecturer at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India, and the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, India. He has been a visiting professor with the law faculties at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; the University of Capetown in Capetown, South Africa; and the Universities of Texas, San Diego, and Alabama.
The author of numerous articles and book chapters on the convergence of law, education, and race theory, Professor Brown is currently working on a book entitled Race, Law, and Education in Post-Desegregation America. A frequent speaker, Professor Brown has served as a panelist and delivered papers at scholarly conferences all across the country, as well as in India and South Africa.
Keith A. Buckley
B.S., 1977, M.L.S., 1980, J.D., 1989, Indiana University.
Mr. Buckley was appointed reference librarian in 1980 and has set the standard for excellence in the public services operation within the Law Library. Whether it concerns the most current legal precedent, obscure Latin legal phrases, or information about the last three decades of rock music, students and faculty have come to rely on Mr. Buckley's expertise.
In addition to his reference duties, he oversees the faculty current awareness service, the Jump Start Program for summer associates, and the university outreach program. In 1999, he was appointed Collection Development Librarian.
He teaches legal research in the Legal Research and Writing Program and Legal Bibliography and Law Library Administration through the School of Library and Information Science.
Mr. Buckley is well known in the Law School as the author of Res Ipsa Jocular, the library's satirical April Fool's Day newsletter. His professional writing includes Legal Research: Traditional Sources, New Technologies, which he co-authored in 1999. Mr. Buckley also writes fiction, poetry, and music.
Hannah L. Buxbaum
B.A., 1987, Cornell University; J.D., 1992, Cornell Law School; LL.M., 1993, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Articles Editor, Cornell Law Review. Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York, 1993-97. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Buxbaum joined the faculty in 1997 following four years in corporate practice at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, working primarily in the areas of banking, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law. While at Davis Polk, Professor Buxbaum worked for two years in the firm's Frankfurt office where she was responsible for global capital-market transactions and securities issues for her international client base.
Her research focuses on conflict of laws in the international regulatory arena. She teaches International Business Transactions, Secured Transactions, and Securities Regulation.
Fred H. Cate
A.B.,1984, J.D., 1987, Stanford University. Book Review Editor, Stanford Law Review. Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, Washington, D.C., 1987-90. Senior Fellow, The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1990-96. Senior Counsel for Information Law, Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1997-present. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Cate specializes in information law issues, particularly in the context of digital networks. He is a frequent speaker and has testified before Congress, directed the Electronic Information Privacy and Commerce Study for the Brookings Institution, and chaired many academic and professional committees relating to these issues. He is the author of many articles and monographs, including The Internet and the First Amendment and Privacy in the Information Age, and he writes widely for the popular press and has appeared on CNN, PBS, and many local television and radio programs.
Professor Cate is director of the Information Law and Commerce Institute and faculty advisor to the Federal Communications Law Journal.
Daniel O. Conkle
B.A., 1976, J.D., 1979, Ohio State University. Research Editor, Ohio State Law Journal. Clerk, Hon. Edward Allen Tamm, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-80. Associate, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1980-83. Member, Order of the Coif.
A member of the faculty since 1983, Professor Conkle teaches Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and Law and Religion. His research addresses constitutional law and theory, religious liberty, and the role of religion in American law, politics, and public life.
Professor Conkle has been honored for his achievements both within and beyond the classroom. He is a recipient of the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award and has twice won the Gavel Award for outstanding contribution to the graduating class. He has received six faculty fellowships for outstanding scholarship. In 1999, he was named the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law.
In addition to his law school appointment, Professor Conkle is an adjunct professor of Religious Studies and a Nelson Poynter Senior Scholar at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.
Stephen A. Conrad
B.A., 1973, Haverford College; M.A., 1974, Ph.D., 1980, Harvard University; J.D., 1982, Yale University. Attorney, Ropes & Gray, Boston, Massachusetts, 1983-84.
Professor Conrad's academic background is based in history. His writing has appeared in a variety of history and law journals. His dissertation, Citizenship and Common Sense, focuses on history and theories that greatly influenced the eighteenth-century constitutional framer James Wilson. Professor Conrad has been a resident fellow at the National Humanities Center and has been selected as a fellow for the East-West Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin.
In his American Legal History courses, Professor Conrad encourages law students to read history as they would a legal brief. He challenges the students to discover the strategies of argumentation used by the historian. This approach to the study of legal history enables the students to acquire analytical skills that broaden their ability to structure and evaluate effective arguments.
He teaches American Legal History, Family Law, Remedies, and Equity.
Yvonne Cripps
LL.B., LL.M., 1978, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Ph.D., 1982, University of Cambridge. University Reader in Law, Cambridge, 1994-2000, Member, American Law Institute, 1993- .
Professor Cripps, an internationally acclaimed scholar and teacher, joined the faculty at Indiana in 2000. Her book, Controlling Technology: Genetic Engineering and the Law, published in 1980, was the first comprehensive treatment of the legal implications of biotechnology. She is also the author of a second book, The Legal Implications of Disclosure in the Public Interest, now in its second edition, and more than 40 articles on intellectual property, privacy law, and biotechnology.
Formerly on the faculty at Cambridge University, she has taught as a visitor at the law schools of Cornell University and the University of Texas. Professor Cripps is a barrister in both England and New Zealand, and has served as an advisor on intellectual property law and biotechnology to the House of Lords, on biotechnology issues to the New Zealand Government, on constitutional matters to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Justice, and as a consultant on intellectual property to various law firms and industrial companies.
Her courses include Seminars in Comparative Law and in Intellectual Property and Biotechnology.
Cathy Elizabeth Crosson
B.A., 1975, J.D., 1982, Indiana University. Clerk, Hon. James B. Young, Indiana Court of Appeals, 1984-86. Associate Of Counsel, Weston, Sarno, Garrou and DeWitt, Beverly Hills, California, 1986-present.
Professor Crosson is active in appellate work and negotiations in state and federal courts, and her work with Weston, Sarno has been primarily at the appellate level. She has authored numerous petitions and briefs in four cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. The most recent, Alexander v. U.S., concluded almost a decade of litigation on the use of RICO forfeitures in obscenity cases before state and federal courts from Florida to California. She also serves as a briefing attorney with Feminists for Free Expression.
Laura B. Daghe
B.S., 1989, Illinois State University; J.D., 1992, University of Illinois; Associate, Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, 1992-1997. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Daghe began teaching at the Law School in 1997 following five years of practice in an Indianapolis law firm as a member of the litigation section. As a member of the employment litigation group, she handled all phases of litigation process, including document drafting, depositions, negotiation, and mediation. She teaches Legal Research and Writing in the first-year program.
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
B.A., 1978, University of Wisconsin; M.A., 1981, J.D., 1981, Ph.D., 1984, University of Michigan.
Professor Dau-Schmidt's interest in labor law evolved out of his background in economics and his appreciation of the central importance of the employment relationship to the individual and society. "I am fascinated by the fundamental conflict between the parties' individual interests in gaining at the expense of the other, and their collective interest in cooperating for mutual benefit," he says. "It has been one of the most intellectually satisfying accomplishments of my life to model this fundamental conflict and incorporate this model into my scholarship and teaching." He joined the faculty in 1991 and teaches courses in Labor Law, Employment Law, Law and Economics, Antitrust, and Poverty Law.
Professor Dau-Schmidt has written extensively on labor-related matters and presented papers at conferences throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Cincinnati, and Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany.
Jost Delbrück
LL.M., 1960, Indiana University; Diplome, 1968, The Hague Academy of International Law; Dr. Iur. Habil., 1968, University of Kiel. Dean of the Faculty of Laws, 1979-81, President and Rector, 1985-89, University of Kiel. Judge, Administrative Court of Appeal, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower-Saxony at Lüneburg, 1978-present. Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, 1985.
Professor Delbrück is a renowned scholar, author, and teacher of international law and German constitutional law. He is the director of the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, Germany, and has served as a judge of the Administrative Court of Appeals at Lüneberg. He was appointed to the faculty at Indiana in 1991. His courses include European Union Law, International Human Rights, and Comparative Constitutional Law.
Professor Delbrück has authored numerous books and articles in the areas of protection of human rights and international law. His revision of Dahm's Treatise on Public International Law has been acclaimed as a preeminent contribution to German scholarship in the area.
Roger Barnett Dworkin
A.B., 1963, Princeton University; J.D., 1966, Stanford University. Board of Editors, Stanford Law Review. Private Practice, San Diego, California, 1967-68. Professor of Biomedical History, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1980-82. Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif.
A nationally recognized expert on the responses of the legal system to medical and biological technology, Professor Dworkin is the author of three books and dozens of articles. He is a Nelson Poynter Senior Scholar and director of medical studies at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.
Professor Dworkin is a winner of the Wallace Teaching Award. Students for decades have named him among the finest teachers in their lifetime, waxing eloquent about his ability to teach them to think carefully and critically about the substance of the law.
In his more than 30 years of teaching, Professor Dworkin has taught many courses including Torts, Communications Torts, Law and Medicine, and Law and Biomedical Advance.
Linda K. Fariss
B.S., 1973, M.L.S., 1980, J.D., 1988, Indiana University. Public Services Librarian, 1980-83. Member, Beta Phi Mu, Order of the Coif.
In the 20 years since Ms. Fariss joined the Law School, the Law Library has experienced remarkable growth. She has been instrumental in all areas of this growth and especially in expanding the public services within the library. She also serves as personnel officer for the Law Library and is the liaison to the Law School for all personnel matters.
Ms. Fariss is the editor for Res Ipsa Loquitur, the library's monthly newsletter, and is active in Law School and university committees. She teaches legal research in the Legal Research and Writing Program and Legal Bibliography and Law Library Administration through the School of Library and Information Science. She writes in the area of legal research and administration. In 1999, she co-authored Legal Research: Traditional Sources, New Technologies.
Lisa A. Farnsworth
B.A., 1977, J.D., 1982, Indiana University. Clerk, Hon. James B. Young, Indiana Court of Appeals, 1982-84. Lecturer, Indiana University School of Law, 1984-86. Deputy Public Defender, Monroe County, Indiana, 1985-87. Supervising Attorney, Indiana University Student Legal Services, 1987-92. Section Chief, Office of the Indiana Attorney General, 1993-94.
As a deputy public defender, Professor Farnsworth counseled and represented indigent clients at the trial and appellate levels. At Indiana University's Student Legal Services, she supervised and instructed law students in their representation of Bloomington campus students. In the Indiana Attorney General's Office, she supervised attorneys in contracts, advisory, and constituent services sections, and she advised boards in administrative proceedings and state agencies in state and federal litigation.
Returning to the faculty at Indiana in 1994, Professor Farnsworth is the director of the Graduate Legal Studies Program. She teaches the Introduction to the American Legal System, as well as Legal Research and Writing.
David P. Fidler
B.A., 1986, University of Kansas; J.D., 1991, Harvard Law School; M. Phil. International Relations, 1988, B.C.L., 1991, University of Oxford. Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, London, 1991-93. Associate, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, 1993-95. Lecturer, University of Oxford, 1990-93.
Professor Fidler joined the faculty in 1995 to teach public and private international law. He has been a consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program on the Palestinian Investment Law, and had responsibility for drafting a revised version of the law for the United Nations to use in its work with the Palestinian Authority.
He is one of the world's leading experts on international health law. He is the author of International Law and Infectious Diseases, and he serves as an international legal consultant (pro bono) to the Federation of American Scientists in connection with the drafting of a protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention.
Robert L. Fischman
A.B., 1984, Princeton University; M.S., 1987, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources; J.D., 1987, University of Michigan. Contributing Editor, Michigan Law Review. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law, 1991-92. Environmental Law Institute, Washington D.C., 1988-91. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Fischman believes that rules of law are essential tools for establishing agreed-upon standards of behavior with respect to the environment. His research seeks to strengthen the legal connections between the fragmented strands of pollution control and resource management in environmental law. He has written on public land law, biological diversity, property interests, global climate change, endangered species, administrative appeals, and environmental impact analysis.
Professor Fischman teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Public Natural Resources Law, Water Law, and a Seminar in Advanced Environmental Law. Prior to his academic career, Professor Fischman served as a staff attorney and director of the Natural Resources Program for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C.
Leonard Fromm
B.A., 1965, Conception College; M.A., 1968, Marquette University; J.D., 1977, University of Wisconsin.
With more than 12 years of university administrative experience at four different colleges, Dean Fromm came to IU as assistant dean of students in 1979. He is responsible for advising and counseling students on matters ranging from academic concerns to personal problems. He also oversees the Fellowship/Scholarship Program, Commencement, and state bar certification, as well as all other aspects of student life at the Law School.
Although Dean Fromm strongly believes that his primary teaching function is in his "one-on-one" counseling role, he has been active in the classroom as well, teaching Legal Negotiations.
Warmly regarded by countless students and alumni for his enduring support for student interests, Dean Fromm has been awarded the Law School's Gavel Award five times for his contributions to students.
Ralph F. Gaebler
A.B., 1981, Brown University; J.D., 1984, M.L.S., 1985, Indiana University; Certificat, École de Langue Française de Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, 1991. Computer Services Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library, 1986-87. Reference Librarian, 1987-88, Lecturer and Associate Director for Collection Development and Computer Services, University of Pennsylvania, Biddle Law Library, 1988-90.
Mr. Gaebler returned to the Law Library in 1990, assuming the position of international and foreign law librarian. He is responsible for development of the foreign and international law collection, and provides reference assistance in that area, as well as in the area of American law. He provides special assistance to the international graduate law students, working individually with them in developing their research strategies.
He teaches legal research in the first-year Legal Research and Writing Program and has taught International and Foreign Legal Bibliography in the School of Library and Information Science. He has published articles in the area of international and foreign legal bibliography and in the area of moral philosophy.
Ann J. Gellis
B.A., 1968, Case Western Reserve University; J.D., 1971, New York University. Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York, 1971-78. Chief, Economic Development Division, Law Department, New York, New York, 1978-80. Member, Order of the Coif.
Active in university and professional committees, Professor Gellis is the chair of the Bloomington Campus Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects and co-chair of the University Research Policy Committee. She is on the Executive Committee of the State and Local Government Section of the Association of American Law Schools and serves on the Executive Committee of the Bloomington Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Professor Gellis' scholarship includes articles on the municipal securities market, local finance, and governmental tort liability. She teaches Corporations, Property, Real Estate Finance, State and Local Government, Municipal Finance, and Land Use.
Charles Geyh
B.A., 1980, J.D., 1983, University of Wisconsin. Law Clerk, Hon. Thomas A. Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1984-89; Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, 1989-91. Widener University School of Law, 1991-98. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Geyh joined the Indiana faculty in 1998, bringing to the classroom a rich diversity of experience in both scholarship and public service. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, he has served as director of the American Judicature Society's Center for Judicial Independence, reporter to American Bar Association commissions on judicial independence and (more recently) the public financing of judicial elections, consultant to the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee, and a member of the American Law Institute.
The author of numerous articles and book chapters, Professor Geyh in his recent scholarship has explored issues relating to judicial administration, independence, and accountability. His courses include Civil Procedure, Courts and Congress, the Legal Profession, and Federal Courts.
Donald H. Gjerdingen
B.A., 1971, Carleton College; J.D., 1976, William Mitchell College of Law; LL.M., 1978, Yale Law School. Editor-in-Chief, William Mitchell Law Review. Clerk, Minnesota Supreme Court, 1976-77. Faculty, University of Tulsa College of Law, 1978-88.
Professor Gjerdingen currently teaches courses including Torts, Legal Theory, and Wills and Trusts. He has also taught extensively in Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, and Administrative Law.
Professor Gjerdingen's research is primarily in the area of legal theory and jurisprudence, particularly the nature of American legal thought in the Civil War-to-1937 period. His articles also include analyses of law and economics, legal education, and intellectual structure of legal thought.
Sophia C. Goodman
A.B., 1985, Bryn Mawr College; J.D., 1990, Case Western Reserve University. Executive Articles Editor, Case Western Reserve Law Review. Law Clerk, Hon. Sarah Evans Barker, U.S. District Court, Indianapolis, 1991-92. Law Clerk, Hon. S. Hugh Dillin, U.S. District Court, Indianapolis, 1992-95. Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of General Counsel, Washington, D.C., 1992-95. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Goodman teaches in the first-year Legal Research and Writing Program. Her research interests include employment law, federal courts, and civil rights. During her work in the Office of General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., she specialized in appellate litigation and argued numerous cases before the federal courts of appeals. She joined the faculty in 1995.
Edwin H. Greenebaum
A.B., 1958, LL.B., 1961, Harvard University; LL.M., 1967, University of Michigan. Teaching Associate, 1961-62, Northwestern University School of Law. Faculty, University of Arkansas School of Law, 1963-67.
For many years, Professor Greenebaum's teaching and writing have focused on the professional development of individuals, the organizations in which they work, and how the two relate to one another. His courses included Alternative Dispute Resolution; Mediation, Roles, and Relations in Legal Practice; and Understanding Clinical Experience. Although retired, he continues to teach one course each year.
Professor Greenebaum has served as a visiting social scientist at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He has published numerous articles and clinical studies in many national law journals.
Professor Greenebaum has participated for many years in campus and university governance and served as president of the Bloomington Faculty Council and co-secretary of the University Faculty Council. In 2000, he was awarded both the W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service, and IU's Distinguished Service Award.
Robert H. Heidt
B.A., J.D., 1972, University of Wisconsin. Clerk, Hon. John W. Reynolds, U.S. District Court, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1972-73. Trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, San Francisco, California, 1973-78. Faculty, University of Nebraska College of Law, 1978-82. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Heidt began his teaching career at the University of Nebraska, and joined the faculty at Indiana University in 1982. He teaches Antitrust, Torts, Law and Economics, and Products Liability.
A recipient of the Charles Whistler Faculty Fellowship, Professor Heidt writes in the field of antitrust as well as other areas. He has served as a consultant for the Asia Foundation with the National Law Development Agency of Indonesia and with other third world organizations. As a part of that consultancy, he taught legal drafting to third world governments. He attended the founding meetings of both the Conference on Critical Studies and the American Association of Law and Economics.
J. William Hicks
A.B., 1962, Notre Dame University; J.D., 1965, University of Michigan; A.M., 1968, New York University. Michigan Law Review. Associate, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, New York, New York, 1965-68. Faculty, Syracuse University College of Law, 1968-78.
Long considered one of the school's finest teachers, Professor Hicks teaches Corporations, Securities Regulation, International Securities Regulation, and Contracts. He is a past recipient of the Leon Wallace Teaching Award.
A nationally recognized expert in securities law, Professor Hicks has written many articles and books. Most notable among his publications is his five-volume treatise entitled Exempted Transactions Under the Securities Act of 1933. In 1991 he was awarded the C. Ben Dutton Chair in Law for his excellence in research and teaching.
Professor Hicks is a frequent speaker at professional conferences throughout the United States. He has been a visiting professor at universities in China, Ireland, and Germany, and was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College in Cambridge, England.
Mark S. Hilycord
B.S., 1982, Arizona State University; M.B.A., 1987, Indiana University. Corporate Accountant, Arvin Industries, Columbus, Indiana, 1982-87; Accounting Manager, Reliance Electric, Columbus, Indiana, 1987-88; Manager of Cost Accounting, Sunrise Publications, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 1988-96; Manager of Cost Accounting, Golden Castings, Inc., Columbus, Indiana, 1996-99.
Dean Hilycord joined the administrative team of the Law School in 1999. His responsibilities include oversight of budgets in the Law School, working with all departments within the school to maximize fiscal efficiency. Additionally, he serves as a liaison for budgetary affairs to the university Budget Office and to the Indiana University Foundation, and oversees issues pertaining to the Law Building. His administrative duties include management of the faculty secretaries and the AV department, surveys, and serving as the Human Resources representative for the school.
Elizabeth Perry Hodges
B.A., 1966, Hollins College; Diplôme D'Études de Civilisation Française, Sorbonne; M.Phil., 1976, Ph.D., 1980, Columbia University. Lecturer, Albertus Magnus College, 1980-81. Lecturer, Yale University, 1982-83.
Professor Hodges has held lectureships at Yale University and Albertus Magnus College, and taught writing at Columbia University.
For several years, Professor Hodges worked in a variety of positions at Simon & Schuster in New York. She held a position with the Indiana University Department of English, Honors Division, for six years before joining the faculty at the Law School. Her courses include Strategies of Legal Writing, and Law and Literature.
Professor Hodges has written in both English and law journals, and has spoken at conferences in both fields.
Joseph L. Hoffmann
B.A., 1978, Harvard College; J.D., 1984, University of Washington. Note Editor, Washington Law Review. Clerk, Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1984-85. Clerk, Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, 1985-86. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Hoffmann is an award-winning scholar and law teacher. He is a recipient of the Law School Gavel Award, the Ira Batman and John Hastings Faculty Fellowships, and the university-wide Outstanding Young Faculty Award.
His courses include Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law, the Law and Society of Japan, a Seminar on Death Penalty Law, and a Seminar on Law and the Psychology of Criminal Law.
A nationally recognized authority on the death penalty, Professor Hoffmann has also written extensively about habeas corpus and federal criminal law.
Professor Hoffmann was a Fulbright professor in 1996 at the University of Tokyo, and in 1997-98 was a visiting professor at its International Center for Comparative Law and Politics.
Sarah Jane Hughes
A.B., 1971, Mount Holyoke College; J.D., 1974, University of Washington. Board of Editors, Washington Law Review. Federal Trade Commission, Seattle, Washington, and Washington D.C., 1974-88.
Professor Hughes is a dedicated and dynamic teacher, and for her enthusiastic focus on students she was honored with the Law School's Leon Wallace Teaching Award in 1993 and the Gavel Award presented by the graduating classes of 1996, 1997, and 2000. Her courses include Sales, Negotiable Instruments, Secured Transactions, and Regulated Industries-Banking Law.
Professor Hughes is a nationally recognized expert on payment systems (domestic, international, Internet banking, smart cards, wire transfers, checks, embezzlement, credit cards); public and private methods to deter, detect, and prosecute domestic and international money laundering; and consumer protection and privacy.
Professor Hughes is a member of the American Bar Association's Subcommittee on the Law of Cyberspace, Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce, Subcommittee on Payments Systems, and Subcommittee on the Uniform Commercial Code.
Dawn E. Johnsen
B.A., 1983, Yale College; J.D., 1986, Yale Law School; Article and Book Review Editor, Yale Law Journal. Clerk, Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1986-87. Staff Counsel Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union, 1987-88. Legal Director, National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League, 1988-93. Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, 1993-96. Acting Assistant Attorney General, 1997-98.
Professor Johnsen joined the faculty in 1998, following a distinguished career in Washington, D.C. After five years as legal director of NARAL, Professor Johnsen was a deputy assistant attorney general and then the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, where she advised the attorney general, the White House counsel, and the general counsels of all the executive departments and agencies. Her teaching specialties include Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and a Seminar on Congress and the President..
Professor Johnsen has testified before Congress, is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and has appeared on many national television and radio news programs.
Steve R. Johnson
B.A., 1976, St. Francis College; J.D., 1981, New York University. Senior Managing Editor, New York University Law Review. Associate, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York, New York, 1981-86. IRS Chief Counsel Office, 1986-94. Special Assistant, U.S. Attorney, 1990-92. Instructor, IRS Chief Counsel Tax Litigation School, 1992. Visiting Professor of Taxation, Illinois Institute of Technology—Chicago Kent College of Law, 1992-93.
Professor Johnson joined the faculty at Indiana in 1994 after five years in private practice and eight years as senior attorney with the Chief Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service. He teaches Income Tax, Taxation of International Transactions, Taxation of Business Entities, Tax Crimes, Tax Procedure, Estate and Gift Tax, and Administrative Law.
Because of the depth of his experience and his lively and literate humor, students credit him with the ability to make presentation of federal tax law not only intelligible but entertaining. He has written many articles on tax and procedure and is a popular speaker at conferences around the country. He has received the Gavel Award and the Leon Wallace Teaching Award.
Rachel B. Kearney
B.A., 1975, Indiana University, J.D.; 1978, New York University School of Law. Associate, Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Rubenstein, Columbus, Ohio, 1978-79. Associate, Baker & Hostetler, Columbus, Ohio, 1979-81. Senior Attorney, American Electric Power Service Corp., 1982-90. Director, Career Services and Continuing Legal Education, University of Arkansas School of Law, 1991-1994. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis, 1994-1997. Senior Vice President—Financial Services, Citizens National Bank, 1997-2000. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Dean Kearney came to Indiana in 2000 with significant experience in student services in law schools. Beyond this, however, her work in both corporate and private law practice gives her special insight as she counsels law students seeking positions, and facilitates contact between students and employers.
The Career Services Office provides career planning and employment counseling to law students and graduates. Dean Kearney oversees the staff, programming, and budgetary matters of that office, and serves as a member of the Law School administrative team.
Active in professional and civic organizations, Dean Kearney has held office with the National Association for Law Placement.
Seth M. Lahn
B.A., 1979, Yale University; J.D., 1982, Yale Law School; 1975-77, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Law Clerk, Hon. Edward Cahn, U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, 1982-83. Associate, Webster & Sheffield, New York, 1983-89. Assistant Commissioner, Indiana Department of Human Services, 1989-91. Deputy General Counsel, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, 1991-93. Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Indiana, 1993-95. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Lahn joined the Law School in 1995 bringing significant public interest and government legal experience to the school. He teaches in the first-year Legal Research and Writing Program, where he provides instruction on legal analysis, writing, and first-year advocacy training. In addition to Legal Research and Writing, he also teaches Mediation.
Julia C. Lamber
B.A. 1969, DePauw University; J.D., 1972, Indiana University. Note Editor, Indiana Law Journal. Attorney, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1972-75. Faculty and Assistant Dean, University of Nebraska College of Law, 1977-79. Member, Order of the Coif.
As the former dean for women's affairs and longtime university leader, Professor Lamber brings a unique perspective to her teaching. She has taught Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Family Law, Women and the Law, and the Clinic in Federal Courts.
Professor Lamber has served the university in a variety of administrative positions, including co-director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. From 1993 to 1998, she served as dean for women's affairs and from 1996 until 1998 she was interim director of the Office of Affirmative Action.
Professor Lamber has been awarded numerous research grants. Her scholarship is in the area of employment discrimination, civil rights, and feminist jurisprudence. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at scholarly conferences.
Marshall A. Leaffer
B.A., 1964, University of Texas; M.A., 1968, University of Illinois; J.D., 1971, University of Texas; LL.M., 1977, New York University. Attorney, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1972-74. Corporate Practice, 1977-77. Attorney, The Copyright Office, Washington, D.C., 1977-78. Professor, University of Toledo College of Law, 1978-97.
Professor Leaffer, formerly the Anderson-Fornoff Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law, is an internationally known intellectual property law scholar. He is the author of eight books and numerous articles, including the best-selling treatise, Understanding Copyright Law.
He is a popular speaker in both the United States and Europe on all areas of intellectual property law, and has been honored as both a scholar and lecturer.
At Indiana since 1997, Professor Leaffer teaches Copyright Law, Trademark Law, Intellectual Property Survey, and International Intellectual Property.
Angela S. Lieurance
B.A., 1989, University of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Foundation, Assistant Director of Development, 1989-92; Geographic Campaign Coordinator, 1990-92. Indiana University School of Law, Director of Capital Campaign, 1993-96; Assistant Dean for Development, 1996.
Coming with substantial development experience, Dean Lieurance joined the Law School as it began planning for its $15 million capital campaign. In 1996 the campaign was launched and the goal was met and surpassed, now-totalling $20 million.
In addition to her development responsibilities, Dean Lieurance coordinates the Law School's alumni activities, including all alumni reunions and events, and oversees the Board of Visitors and Alumni Board meetings.
She is active in fundraising efforts throughout the university and serves on the dean's administrative team.
Michael M. Maben
B.S., 1980, Portland State University; M.L.S., 1988, University of Washington.
Appointed to his position at the Law Library in 1988, Mr. Maben supervised the retrospective conversion project, which created electronic records for all the library holdings. Since the library online catalog has been implemented, he has continued in the technical services department overseeing cataloging and cataloging projects.
Active on committees both locally and nationally, Mr. Maben has served on the Bloomington Library Faculty Council and as the chair of the Promotion and Tenure Committee for the University Library System. He has served on numerous national committees and was a column editor for the American Association of Law Libraries Newsletter. He has written in the areas of legal history and the cataloging of legal materials
Marianne Mason
B.S., 1974, Ball State University; M.L.S., 1988, Indiana University.
Appointed in 1988, Ms. Mason is responsible for government documents reference and the U.S. government depository program. She has special expertise in online government resources and has developed a Web site for U.S. government material.
Ms. Mason has held various leadership positions on the Government Documents Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, and was a founding member and secretary/treasurer of INDIGO, Indiana Networking for Documents Information and Organizations. She teaches legal research in the Legal Research and Writing Program and Legal Bibliography and Law Library Administration through the School of Library and Information Science.
Val Nolan Jr.
A.B.,1941, J.D., 1949, Indiana University. Editor-in-Chief, Indiana Law Journal. Deputy U.S. Marshall, Southern District of Indiana, 1941-42. Agent, U.S. Secret Service, White House Detail, 1942. Faculty, Indiana University Bloomington since 1949. Guggenheim Fellow, 1957; Resident Scholar, Zoology, 1956-68; Professor of Zoology since 1968; Acting Dean, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington 1976, 1980. Member, Order of the Coif.
After a career in the Secret Service and the U.S. Navy, Professor Nolan joined the faculty in 1949, teaching Property, Wills, Land Titles, and Conflicts.
Having a lifelong interest in ornithology, Professor Nolan pursued his study privately, while teaching and researching law. In 1966 he was given a tenured joint appointment in the Law School and the Department of Biology. He retired from teaching in 1985.
In his 36 years of teaching, Professor Nolan inspired thousands of law and biology students with his keen intellect, his precision, and his scholarship. He has written several books and scores of articles in journals throughout the world.
William W. Oliver
A.B., 1946, University of Kentucky; J.D., 1949, Northwestern University. Associate Editor, Illinois Law Review. Trial Attorney, Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1949-52. Law Clerk, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court, 1952-53. Head Law Clerk, Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-54. Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif.
Professor Oliver joined the faculty at Indiana in 1954, and retired in 1991. The recipient of the Law School's Gavel Award as well as the Indiana University Foundation Teaching Award, Professor Oliver taught for 41 years, influencing generations of law students.
An active scholar in tax planning and reform, his most recent book is entitled Why We Should Abolish the Income Tax: A Guide to the Principal Proposals.
Professor Oliver is Of Counsel with the Bloomington law firm Mallor, Clendening, Grodner and Bohrer. He is the founder of Bloomington's Oliver Winery.
Aviva Orenstein
A.B., 1981, Cornell University; J.D., 1986, Cornell Law School. Articles Editor, Cornell Law Review. Law Clerk, Hon. Edward R. Becker, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1987-88. Faculty, Rutgers Law School, 1989-92. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Orenstein writes and teaches in the area of evidence and is co-authoring the hearsay-exceptions volume of the evidence treatise, The New Wigmore. She also teaches Legal Profession and Children and the Law.
She founded the school's Children and the Law Discussion Group, and coordinates Outreach for Legal Literacy where law students teach constitutional and everyday law to local fifth-graders. She also participates in the Bloomington Court-Appointed Special Advocate Program for abused and neglected children and serves on the board of the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Project.
Professor Orenstein is an active participant in the informal life of the Law School, serving as auctioneer for the Women's Law Caucus and attending other student events.
Colleen Kristl Pauwels
A.B., 1968, Barat College; M.L.S., 1975, J.D.,1986, Indiana University. Public Services Librarian, 1975-78. Acting Director, 1978-80. Interim Director, 1980-83.
Professor Pauwels teaches in the areas of Legal Research, and Legal Bibliography and Law Library Administration. Her writing includes articles on legal research and legal history, including historical pieces about the Law School. In 1999, she co-authored Legal Research: Traditional Sources, New Technologies. Her current research includes work on the legal profession in Indiana in the twentieth century and early women lawyers in Indiana.
As an active member of the Indiana Bar, Professor Pauwels serves on the Bench-Bar Historical Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. She is a regular law school site evaluator for the sabbatical inspections of law schools conducted by the American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.
William D. Popkin
A.B.,1958, J.D.,1961, Harvard University. Fulbright Student, India, 1961. Associate, Hess, Segall, Popkin & Guterman, New York, New York, 1963-66. Teaching Fellow and Research Associate, International Tax Program, Harvard Law School, 1966-68.
Professor Popkin is a nationally recognized scholar in tax and legislation. His Fundamentals of Federal Income Tax Law and Materials on Legislation: Political Language and the Political Process are widely used texts in the nation's law schools. His most recent book, Statutes in Court, was published in 1999. He was awarded the Law School's first named professorship for his excellence in research.
Professor Popkin has taught for the school's London Program, and has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, the Southern California Law Center, the University of Virginia, and Hangzhou University in China. He teaches Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Legislation, and Tax Policy.
An influential leader in the university, Professor Popkin has chaired many major committees and served as the associate dean of the Law School.
Harry Pratter
J.D., 1950, University of Chicago. Editor, University of Chicago Law Review. Graduate Cardoza Fellow, Columbia University, 1958-59. Faculty, Indiana University Bloomington, 1950-84. Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, 1974-75. Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, 1976. Acting Dean, Indiana University Bloomington, 1976-77.
Since his appointment in 1950, Professor Pratter has taught many subjects, including Commercial Law, Conflicts, Contracts, and Family Law. He retired in 1984, but continued to teach until 1994.
Professor Pratter's articulate and comfortable blending of law, ethics, and humor has delighted students for generations. Although he no longer teaches, he remains an active part of the Law School community, speaking and giving counsel to current and former students.
Professor Pratter's research is on the influence of the writings of twentieth century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein on the case method in law teaching. His early writing includes a book on the Uniform Commercial Code.
Lauren K. Robel
B.A., 1978, Auburn University; J.D., 1983, Indiana University. Indiana Law Journal. Clerk, Hon. Jesse Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1983-85. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Robel has published numerous articles in leading law journals and spoken frequently on topics concerning the federal courts. She teaches Civil Rights, Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, and the Federal Courts Clinic.
Professor Robel is equally active in developing programs for students outside the traditional classroom setting, such as the Protective Order Project. As associate dean, she is a liaison on faculty and student matters. Because of her many contributions, she was awarded the Law School's Gavel Award and the Wallace Teaching Award, and she recently received the Indiana Bar Foundation's Pro Bono Publico Award.
Professor Robel serves as the reporter for the Rules Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, and as a member of the Indiana Supreme Court Rules Committee and the Rules Advisory Group for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Kevin R. Robling
B.S., 1984, J.D., 1997, Indiana University; Indiana Law Journal. Associate, Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A./Jennings Strouss & Salmon, Phoenix, Arizona, 1997-99. Attorney, Donald J. Bolinger Law Firm, 1999. Member, Order of the Coif. Member, Arizona and Indiana State Bars.
Dean Robling joined the Law School in 2000, from private practice. His practice concentrated in all phases of commercial litigation with emphasis in products liability defense and general insurance defense. Prior to law school, he served with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in Alaska and California, and with the Boonville Police Department in Indiana.
As assistant dean for admissions, Dean Robling is primarily responsible for recruitment, selection, and admission of applicants to the Law School, serving on various committees in the Law School and around the university.
John Scanlan
A.B., 1966, J.D., 1978, University of Notre Dame; M.A., 1967, University of Chicago; Ph.D., 1975, University of Iowa. Editor, Notre Dame Lawyer. Editor, Estate and Gift Tax Project, 1978- 80. Instructor, 1979-80, Assistant Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, 1980-84, University of Notre Dame. Visiting Fellow, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1982-83. Director, Center for Law and Sports, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington, 1984-86.
A widely published author in the area of immigration law, Professor Scanlan came to the Law School in 1984 to serve as the director of the Center for Law and Sports. He joined the teaching faculty in 1986, and teaches Immigration Law, Law and Political Theory, Introduction to American Legal Institutions, and Law and Sports.
The co-author of an award-winning book, Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's Half Open Door, 1945-Present, Professor Scanlan has written extensively in a variety of journals in the United States, Europe, and Canada. He has been awarded numerous fellowships and grants to support his research.
F. Thomas Schornhorst
B.A., 1956, University of Iowa; J.D., 1963, George Washington University. Managing Editor, George Washington Law Review. Associate, Patton, Boggs, & Blow, Washington, D.C., 1963- 66. Member, Order of the Coif.
In more than 30 years of teaching, Professor Schornhorst has taught primarily in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Torts, and Admiralty. He retired in 1998.
He approached his teaching with the same "fire in the belly" style that punctuates all his work, and it is this energy and enthusiasm that made him a legend in the Law School.
At the same time Professor Schornhorst has been an inspiration to students for his tireless commitment to the representation of indigent clients in death penalty cases. Because of his extraordinary record of public service, he was awarded the university's Distinguished Service Award.
Professor Schornhorst developed several clinical programs in the school including the Inmate Legal Assistance Clinic, ILAC, a clinical experience for law students who assist federal prisoners in evaluating post-conviction claims.
Patrick Schrems
B.A., 1977, Earlham College; J.D., 1983, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington. Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender's Office, 1983-92, 1997-99; Deputy Prosecutor, Monroe County Prosecutor's Office, 1992-1997.
Professor Schrems came to the Law School with years of trial experience. While with the Public Defender's Office, he assisted indigent clients defending criminal charges ranging from truancy to murder at both the trial and appellate level. As deputy prosecutor, he had special responsibility for cases involving child support and civil forfeiture as well as prosecuting major felonies.
Active in civil organizations in Indiana, Professor Schrems is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Organization of Indiana, and has served on the board of Shelter, Inc. He has guest lectured and served on various panels and conferences on topics such as civil commitment law, prosecution of rape and sexual abuse cases, and domestic violence.
Professor Schrems administers the Child Advocacy Clinic, supervising the legal interns and advising them as they serve their clients.
Gene R. Shreve
A.B., 1965, University of Oklahoma; LL.B., 1968, LL.M., 1975, Harvard University. Massachusetts Department of Attorney General, 1968-69. Clerk, Hon. Sarah T. Hughes, U.S. District Court, Dallas, Texas, 1969-70. Boston Legal Assistance Project, 1970-73. Harvard Law School Teaching Fellow, 1973-75. Faculty, Vermont Law School, 1975-81. Faculty, New York Law School, 1983-87.
Professor Shreve's research includes numerous law review articles, his treatise Understanding Civil Procedure 2nd, and his book A Conflict-of-Laws Anthology. A nationally recognized scholar, he was named to the Richard S. Melvin Professorship for excellence in research.
He has received both the Leon Wallace Teaching Award and the Gavel Award. His courses include Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, and Jurisprudence.
He has chaired the Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws Sections of the Association of American Law Schools. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Journal of Legal Education. He has been elected to the American Law Institute and to the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy.
Earl R. C. Singleton
B.A., 72, Oberlin College; J.D., 1986, Indiana University. Associate, Howard & Howard, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1986-89.
Prior to his legal education, Mr. Singleton held a variety of administrative positions at the university level. He was in private practice following graduation from law school where he specialized in litigation. He joined the Law School at Indiana in 1989 as the supervising attorney of the Community Legal Clinic and in 1991 was appointed the director of Legal Services. Mr. Singleton supervises and evaluates the performance of the legal interns and administers the operation of the clinic. He has teaching responsibilities as part of the Seminar in Clinical Experience.
A member of the Indiana and Michigan bars, Mr. Singleton is an active participant at state and national law conferences.
Jeffrey Evans Stake
B.A., 1975, University of Illinois; J.D., 1981, Georgetown University. Georgetown Law Journal. Clerk, Hon. Oscar H. Davis, U.S. Court of Claims, Washington, D.C., 1981-82. Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1982-85.
Professor Stake teaches Property, Trusts and Estates, Land-Use Controls, and Landlord-Tenant. His effective teaching style coupled with his ever-present sense of humor has made Professor Stake an engaging and popular teacher. He is a recipient of the Leon Wallace Teaching Award.
Professor Stake's research focuses primarily on property law. His interdisciplinary approach brings principles of economics, psychology, and socio-biology to bear on legal issues ranging from alimony and adverse possession to the Rule against Perpetuities. He has published in leading legal periodicals and has presented papers at scholarly conferences throughout the United States and Europe, and was nominated to participate in the Leadership Fellows Program sponsored by the Committee for Institutional Cooperation.
J. Alexander Tanford
A.B., 1972, Princeton University; J.D.,1976, LL.M., 1979, Duke University.
Professor Tanford's major scholarly contributions are in the areas of trial procedure and law and psychology. He is a leading authority on trial practice and procedure—the law, tactics, ethics, psychology, and procedural rules of trials. He is the author of The Trial Process, the Indiana Trial Evidence Manual, and numerous articles and chapters on trials and evidence, concentrating on the psychology of jury behavior. He is a frequent participant in interdisciplinary conferences in law and psychology. He also writes on civil liberties issues, and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his research and service.
Professor Tanford's involvement in state legal activities includes serving as president and cooperating attorney for the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, helping draft the Indiana Rules of Evidence, and representing a psychologist expert witness in the Exxon Valdez case.
Professor Tanford teaches Trial Process, Evidence, Expert and Scientific Evidence, and Insurance Law.
F. Richard Vaughan
B.A., 1980, Hampshire College; M.L.S., 1983, Indiana University. Head, Acquisitions and Periodicals, Austin Peay State University, 1983-87. Assistant Technical Services Librarian, University of Maryland, 1987-90.
Mr. Vaughan joined the Law Library staff in 1990, bringing his broad experience to the technical services department. As the acquisitions and serials control librarian, he oversees both the financial and procedural aspects of the area.
Active in university and national committees, he has served on the Bloomington Library Faculty Council and has chaired the American Association of Law Libraries, Committee on Relations with Information Vendors. He has served on the board of directors of the IU School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association for many years and is past president of the board.
Although he has written numerous articles on issues within librarianship, the main focus of his research is a study of the life of George Bird Grinnell, American ethnologist, naturalist, and newspaper editor born in 1849.
Nona K. Watt
B.A., 1977, M.S., 1979, University of Illinois. Circulation Librarian, Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, 1980-82. Information Systems Specialist, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1983-84; Librarian, Hogin, Guyton, London & Montgomery, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1984-85. Acquisitions Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library, 1987-90.
Ms. Watt joined the Law Library staff in 1985, and after two years in the serials department and three years as acquisitions librarian, she was appointed head of technical services. Since that time, she has skillfully guided the library through the implementation of the computerized library system.
She has held many leadership posts on national and university committees, including the chairs of the NOTIS Users' Group and the Serials Standing Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries, and served for three years as the AALL representative to the Serials Industry System Advisory Council. She currently is the co-chair of the SIRSI Communication and Training Committee and serves as the convener of the IU Libraries Technical Services Cluster.
Ms. Watt is particularly interested in automation issues pertaining to law libraries and has published in this area.
David C. Williams
B.A., 1982, Haverford College; J.D., 1985, Harvard University, Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review. Law Clerk, Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1985-86. Cornell Law School, 1989-93.
A noted constitutional law scholar, Professor Williams has written numerous articles in major journals throughout the country. He is a popular lecturer on Native American people and on the Second Amendment. Winner of the Leon Wallace Teaching Award, Professor Williams teaches Constitutional Law and Native American Law.
In recent years, his research has focused on two aspects of constitutional law—the right of Native American tribes to self-government within the American constitutional system, and the alleged constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to make revolution against government. These two seemingly unrelated topics raise the common theme of examining the possibility of popular government outside the normal channels of state and federal elections, and more specifically the claimed right of an "organic" people to resist the encroachment of an "alien" government.
Susan Hoffman Williams
B.A., 1982, J.D., 1985, Harvard University. Law Clerk, Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1985-86. Cornell Law School, 1989-93. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Williams has written numerous articles in constitutional law and feminist legal theory. She is the co-director of the Feminist Curricular Resources Clearinghouse of Women in Legal Education. In 2000, she won IU's Office of Women's Affairs Scholar of the Year Award.
Regarded as an insightful teacher and scholar, Professor Williams believes that the best lawyers do not conduct legal analysis in a vacuum. "We must train our students to think and argue clearly and critically," she says. "But at the same time, we must encourage them to bring their own values and experiences to bear on the legal issues they are studying. Law is a mirror in which we can read our character as a society, both as it presently exists and as we would ideally like it to be."
Professor Williams teaches Property, Family Law, First Amendment Law, AIDS and the Law, and Feminist Legal Theory.
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