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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law celebrated its 2025 Pro Bono Award winners this week, honoring students, faculty, and community members who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to serving others through legal advocacy and volunteer work. The student awards recognized the individuals in each class who logged the highest number of pro bono hours during… Read more »

Ashley Ahlbrand, Associate Director for Public Services and Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the Jerome Hall Law Library, has been elected Secretary of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the organization announced this week. Her three-year term will run from July 2026 through July 2029. Ahlbrand’s election by AALL’s more than 3000 members follows… Read more »

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Cindy Williams is representing the school this week at the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils (GFC) Annual Meeting in Dubai. As a member of the GFC on Climate Change and Nature Loss, Professor Williams is contributing to discussions that frame environmental challenges as key financial risks and… Read more »

America’s safety net is failing to protect its most vulnerable citizens from the growing pressures of climate change, according to new research from an Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Andrew Hammond. In a new article forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Hammond argues that while policymakers, the press, and the public tend to… Read more »

Three alumni of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will be honored with Distinguished Service Awards later this month, in concert with the Law School’s fall Alumni Board meeting. Matthew Metz ’19, Delanie Pope ’93, and Hannah E. Wilson ’22 will each receive the award, which was established in 1997 to recognize graduates of… Read more »

It was a banner year for the Law School’s moot court competitors, as one team brought home a championship trophy, multiple teams made deep runs in national tournaments, and several students earned impressive individual honors. “For our external competitions against other schools, we had to have tryouts this year because we had a record number… Read more »

Nicholle Vandy, a rising 3L from Knox, Ind., has become the first Indiana University Maurer School of Law student to earn top honors at the American University Washington College of Law National Health Writing Competition. Vandy’s paper, “True Man, Captive Mother: Abortion as a Fundamental Self-Defense Right,” was named the winning entry of the 10th… Read more »

A new Indiana law that expands the state’s prescribed burning capacity was signed by Indiana Governor Mike Braun on April 30, in part due to efforts by Indiana University Maurer School of Law students through the school’s Conservation Law Clinic. The law expands a prescribed fire training program administered through the Indiana Department of Natural… Read more »

One of the world’s most influential leaders in the health ecosystem never thought he’d make it to college, let alone to the C-Suite of a major corporation helping diversify the American health care workforce. But Steve Beard isn’t your average CEO. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Beard just assumed he was destined for… Read more »

Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Hannah L. Buxbaum has been elected to the American Journal of International Law’s Board of Editors. She will serve a four-year term running through April 2029. The AJIL is a leading peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly since 1907, that serves as the flagship publication of the American Society of… Read more »