A piece of new, bipartisan legislation that would make knowingly misrepresenting the nature or source of DNA used in assisted reproductive procedures or other fertility treatments a federal crime has a tie to the Maurer School of Law. Jody Madeira, a nationally recognized expert on fertility fraud, bioethics, and law and medicine, worked with victims… Read more »

The 2022 Student Leadership in Fostering Community and Inclusiveness Award was presented earlier today to 3L Abby Akrong. Established in 2018, the award, which comes with a $2,000 scholarship, celebrates a student who “goes above and beyond to foster our diverse, inclusive, supportive, and welcoming community.” Recipients are honored for their work in the previous… Read more »

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Jody Madeira has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the nation’s leading independent organization producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. Madeira, the Louis F. Neizer Faculty Fellow and co-director of the Center for Law, Society & Culture,  becomes the 19th member… Read more »

An Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumnus has been appointed by President Joe Biden to serve on a prestigious national committee that oversees the selection of some of the nation’s best and brightest high school students as Presidential Scholars. The White House announced the appointment of Terrance Stroud ’03 on July 15. The Commission… Read more »

A group of 24 young leaders from 18 Sub-Saharan African countries is visiting the Indiana University Maurer School of Law today (July 8) as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The Fellows are in Bloomington as part of the six-week Leadership in Civic Engagement Institute at IU, and will connect with… Read more »

A new collaboration between the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and John Paul Stevens Foundation will expand financial support to students working in unpaid summer public interest positions. Five Indiana Law students, working in a variety of capacities around the country this summer, have been selected as inaugural Stevens Fellows. They are: Olivia Allen,… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »