For the first time in its 32-year history, the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies will be led by a Black woman this fall.
Nashuba Hudson, a second-year student from Chicago, was selected as the journal’s editor-in-chief for the 2024-25 academic year, a historic milestone that is being celebrated by the Maurer School of Law.
“It is truly an honor and privilege to be elected as the Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies,” Hudson said. “Since my first year of law school, I aspired to serve in this esteemed position. I have intentionally prepared for this role by taking law courses surrounding international law and relying upon my political science degree to ensure that the journal will continue to offer groundbreaking and robust legal content. To discover that I will be the first Black woman to lead the IJGLS, my excitement has felt magical. The professional and personal importance of this moment is one to celebrate and I look forward to sharing the success of Vol. 32 with my fellow board members.”
Founded in 1992 by then-Dean Alfred C. Aman Jr., the journal has fostered dialogue among international communities of scholars in law, sociolegal studies, politics, economics, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and other disciplines. The intersection of those issues with the rapid spread of globalization over the past three decades has made the journal one of the leading outlets to publish such interdisciplinary scholarship.
“The election of Nashuba Hudson to the post of editor-in-chief of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies marks a transformative and historic moment for our publication,” said Professor Jayanth Krishnan, the journal’s faculty advisor. “As the first Black woman to be EIC, Nashuba brings her brilliant intellect, compassionate spirit, hard work ethic, and deep sense of leadership commitment to the IJGLS. Additionally, she will be able to draw upon her distinct and valuable set of professional and personal experiences as she leads an extremely talented Board in publishing Volume 32 of the IJGLS. We celebrate this day at IU Maurer Law, and we are excited for what lies ahead.”
The peer-reviewed IJGLS publishes two issues a year and focuses on the ways transnational law shapes and is shaped by the circumstances of its development, application, interpretation and contestation in a wide variety of contexts – some of them transcending national borders. But its leaders are also interested in studies that improve scholarly understanding and analysis of domestic involvements in globalization and transnational law – since globalization and transnationalism alter the very meaning of territory in various ways.
Hudson currently serves as an associate for the journal, where she’s impressed her peers. Tyler Parrish, the journal’s current student leader, said Hudson is an exceptional choice to continue the journal’s legacy of publishing timely and engaging scholarship.
“As the student editor-in-chief of Volume 31 of the IJGLS, I could not be happier for Nashuba to be serve in this role for Volume 32,” Parrish said. “The global scope of our journal proudly attracts students from various backgrounds and with diverse identities, and it is an honor to work with Nashuba as the first Black woman editor-in-chief of our journal. In addition to her brilliant work as a 2L associate, Nashuba is a natural leader and integral part of the Maurer community, and I am excited to see the heights to which the Journal will ascend under her guidance.”
Hudson is also the current president of the Law School’s Black Law Students Association, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Board member, director of outreach for the Outreach for Legal Literacy Association, an Admissions Fellow, and part of a number of other Law School organizations.