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Major Events Spring 2003

May
April
April 2 American Constitution Society program on Bush v. Gore and voting rights
April 4 Janet McLean (George P. Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor-Chair): "Transnational Corporations in History: Lessons for Today?" 3 p.m., Moot Court Room
April 7 Dirk Hartog, (Princeton), Harris Lecture: "Someday All This Will Be Yours: Adoption, Contract, and Duty in Capitalist America," noon, Moot Court Room
April 11-12 Global Symposium: Globalism and Courts
April 23 David Williams, 2003 Indiana University Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture: "Civic Constitutionalism, the Second Amendment, and the Right of Revolution," 3:30 p.m., Moot Court Room
March
March 1 Barrister's Ball: 6:30 p.m. - midnight, Chapman's Restaurant
The Black Law Student Association is dedicating this year's Barrister Ball to our former dean of admissions, Frank Motley, who is now the associate vice chancellor for academic support at Indiana University. The last class Dean Motley recruited for the Law School will graduate this May. Alumni, faculty, and students are all invited to the Law School's swankiest event of the year. Cost: $30/ticket or $45/couple. There will be a reception at 6:30, dinner at 7:00, a program at 8:00, and dancing will begin at 9:00.
March 3 Jeff Riffer: 3:00 p.m., Moot Court Room (reception to follow)
Federal Communications Law Journal 10th Anniversary Speakers Series
March 4 Judge Marc Kellams: On legal ethics, noon, Moot Court Room
March 4 Bill Stants: "Investing for the Public Good," noon, room 122
March 5 Singing for Summer Salaries: noon, Moot Court Room
Raise funds to support public interest summer internships by paying to hear your favorite (or least-favorite!) professor sing. Donations/votes being accepted in the lobby noon-1 p.m. March 3-4.
March 6 Paul Simon (former senator of Illinois): A campus forum dealing with one of the world's most precious resources. Water may be the next resource wars are fought over. Human survival is dependent upon it. However, water will not be an inalienable right in the future. Comments and questions will be welcomed following the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
7:30 p.m., Moot Court Room
March 10 Jamison Prime: Brown Bag Lunch, noon, room 124
Federal Communications Law Journal 10th Anniversary Speakers Series
March 10 Ke-Young Chu (Wesleyan University): lecture, noon, room 123
March 11 Ke-Young Chu, careers talk, noon, room 122
March 26 Lee Hamilton, Chancellor's Forum, 7:00 p.m., Moot Court Room
March 27 Wallace Teaching Award and PILF Award presentations, noon, Law School lobby (refreshments will be served).
March 27 Journalist Panel: 1:00 p.m., Moot Court Room (reception to follow)
  • Ian Marquand, SPJ National Freedom of Information Chair
  • Diana Penner, Indianapolis Star (witnesed McVeigh execution)
  • David Protess, Medill School of Journalism Innocence Project
  • John Bessler, JD'91, "Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America"
  • Moderator: Professor Joseph Hoffmann
Federal Communications Law Journal 10th Anniversary Speakers Series
March 28 Karen Coulter and Mike Ferner: "Wresting Governing Authority from the Corporate Class," noon, room 123.
March 29 Parents & Partners Day
February
Feb. 7 Women's Law Caucus Auction: 6:15 p.m. - 9:45 p.m., Axis Nightclub (419 N. Walnut).
Feb. 12 Diversity in Admissions: Bakke, Grutter, & Us, noon, Moot Court Room.
With Professor Patrick Baude, Professor Kevin Brown, and Kevin Robling, assistant dean for admissions.
Feb. 12 Constructing the Post-Brown Road: Mobilizing for a Just 21st Century, 5:00 p.m., Moot Court Room.
A discussion of affirmative action led by Dr. John Stanfield, chair and professor of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Feb. 13 Roundtable on Rankings, with Professor Jeff Stake, 9:00 a.m., Moot Court Room.
Feb. 27 Katherine Franke: "Theorizing Yes," 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Moot Court Room
A public lecture on the conundrum of bringing law to bear on expanding sexual liberty for women. Law has done a more than adequate job of addressing sexually inflected danger experienced by women, but is there a productive — as opposed to regulatory — role for law when it comes to enabling sexual pleasure and sexual autonomy for women? (Part of the Kinsey Institute 50th Anniversary Celebration of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.)
January
Jan. 16 Paul Simon (former senator from Illinois):
RESCHEDULED: SEE MARCH 6
Jan. 24 The Indiana Court of Appeals will hold oral argument at the School of Law at noon.

Events for Fall 2002 are in the events archive.