The John Paul Stevens Foundation has chosen four Indiana University Maurer School of Law students to serve as 2024 Stevens Fellows this summer. The Foundation made the announcement today (June 26). Selection as a Stevens Fellow comes with $12,000—half from the Foundation, half from the Law School—to help offset the cost of unpaid public interest… Read more »

For the third time in history, a faculty member of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will be honored with the university’s Sonneborn Award. Donna Nagy, the C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law and executive associate dean, will be recognized with a number of other distinguished award-winners at a ceremony this fall. She follows… Read more »

The Law and Society Association will honor an Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor this week at its 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver from June 6-9. Professor India Thusi will receive the John Hope Franklin Prize, recognizing exceptional scholarship in the field of Race, Racism and the Law. Thusi’s winning work, “The Racialized History… Read more »

Prospective law students across the United States are paying less attention and giving less credence to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of American law schools, according to new research from scholars at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. “The Decline and Fall of… Read more »

An environmental law professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has been elected to the board of directors of a national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of imperiled species and their habitats in North America. Rob Fischman, the George P. Smith, II Distinguished Professor of Law and an adjunct professor… Read more »

The American Constitution Society has named Indiana University Maurer School of Law second-year student Allyson McBride a Next Generation Leader—one of 34 across the United States—the organization announced April 11. She is the third Indiana Law student in as many years to earn the prestigious recognition. Launched in 2007, the Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program recognizes and… Read more »

Five members of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law faculty—including two who are in their first full year at Indiana Law—were honored today (March 22) with Teaching Awards, recognizing exceptional teaching over the course of the academic year. Professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer was honored with the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award, the highest teaching recognition… Read more »

Four distinguished alumni will join the Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows during a ceremony on April 12. The 2024 inductees include a former airport manager and tennis executive, a longtime private practitioner, and two alumni dedicated to education and protecting the environment. Induction into the ALAF is the highest… Read more »

The Hon. Doris L. Pryor, the first Black jurist from the state of Indiana to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will serve as the keynote speaker at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s graduation ceremony on May 4. Pryor, a 2003 alumna of the Law School, will address… Read more »

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…. Read more »