Professor Jenn Oliva joined Indiana Law earlier this summer as a professor of law and as Val Nolan Faculty Fellow. Prior to joining the IU Maurer Law faculty, Professor Oliva served as Professor of Law and Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy at the University of California College of… Read more »

Associate Professor Yvette T. Butler joined the Indiana Law faculty this summer. She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, Morris, and her law degree from The George Washington University Law School. The most obvious one (to me, anyway!): What was the draw for you in terms of leaving Mississippi for Indiana? IU… Read more »

You’ve read about some of the amazing students we have starting with us next week. Now we’ll introduce you to some of the new faculty who have joined us over the summer. First up is Valena Beety, the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law. Prof. Beety was most recently Professor of Law and Deputy Director… Read more »

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law, working in collaboration with Indiana University Northwest, has established a new program to act as a pipeline into law school, the schools announced today (June 27). The Indiana University Northwest Law Scholars Program will substantially reduce tuition for up to four IU Northwest graduates interested in pursuing a… Read more »

Beginning on July 1, the Center for Constitutional Democracy will be welcoming two new members to its Advisory Board: former Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller ’82 and former CCD Senior Managing Affiliate Brady Harman ’15. Zoeller is currently chairman of the World Trade Center Indianapolis. He served as Indiana’s attorney general from 2009-17 alongside Governors… Read more »

Deans’ Statement We are deans of Big Ten law schools, joining together to affirm our commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through legally permissible means, regardless of the outcome of the cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. These are core values of our law schools and the universities of which we are part. … Read more »

Four Indiana Law students have been selected as Stevens Fellows, the John Paul Stevens Foundation announced today (June 20). Selection as a Stevens Fellow allows students to receive critical financial support while participating in unpaid summer legal internships serving the public interest. Named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the John Paul Stevens Foundation… Read more »

Judge Viola J. Taliaferro, a pathbreaking jurist in Monroe County and renowned advocate for its children, passed away Monday, June 12 in Bloomington. A 1977 graduate of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Taliaferro entered the legal profession later in life, but wasted no time making an immediate—and lasting—impact on her local community. By… Read more »

Twenty students bound for Indiana law schools this fall will spend the next six weeks at the Maurer School of Law for the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity (ICLEO) Summer Institute. Now in its 26th year, the ICLEO program was established in 1997 to help underrepresented, low-income, and educationally disadvantaged students pursue legal education… Read more »

James Romano’s interests are out of this world. The 2L at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law is intrigued by the futuristic sounding concept of space law, but is quick to note that there’s nothing futuristic about it. “More private companies are rapidly entering space,” Romano said, “and I’m deeply interested in the question… Read more »