President Joe Biden announced three judicial nominees on May 25, including the Hon. Doris L. Pryor—a 2003 graduate of the Maurer School of Law—to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Pryor has served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2018. Before that role, Judge Pryor… Read more »
Month: May 2022
Madeira serves as legal commentator in Netflix’s “Our Father”
A new Netflix documentary utilizes the expertise of an Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor to help explain the legal ramifications of an extraordinary fertility fraud case. Jody Madeira, an internationally recognized expert in fertility fraud, bioethics, and law and medicine, with a focus on reproductive endocrinology, is featured as a legal expert in Our Father. The… Read more »
Conor Delehanty is a standup guy
As the Limestone Comedy Festival takes over downtown Bloomington for the ninth consecutive year, Indiana Law rising 3L Conor Delehanty will be a familiar face, hosting or performing in three different shows throughout the weekend. The Indianapolis native studied philosophy, criminal justice, and religious studies at Indiana University as an undergraduate from 2008 to 2012…. Read more »
Law article by Prof. Rob Fischman selected for Land Use & Environmental Law Review
After two rounds of peer review, Indiana Law Professor Rob Fischman’s “Collaborative Governance Under the Endangered Species Act: An Empirical Analysis of Protective Regulations” has been judged one of the five best environmental law articles published in 2021. The Land Use and Environment Law Review will reprint the article, originally published in the Yale Journal… Read more »
Kat Grant, ’22, earns prestigious Equal Justice Works Fellowship
An Indiana University Maurer School of Law graduate is one of 84 recipients of a 2022 Equal Justice Works Fellowship from the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law. Kat Grant, who graduated May 7, will spend two years working to improve the legal landscape for LGBTQIA+ people in the United States through… Read more »
Class of 22 Spotlight: Heather Gin, JD
Heather Gin was five when she announced to her mother that she would be going to law school one day. While the prospect of having an attorney in the family made her mother proud, the reality of affording a legal education was daunting. Upon hearing the news of her daughter’s intention to pursue a law… Read more »
Class of 22 Spotlight: Charles Westerhaus, JD
Watching the afterburners of F-15s and F-16s take off from Elmendorf Air Base in southern Alaska lit a fire in Charles Westerhaus as a kindergartener. His passion for aviation led him to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and later to the Navy’s flight school where he learned to operate the Lockheed P-3 Orion and… Read more »