News for alumni and friends of Indiana Law
February 2023
ALAF inductees announced
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law will add four members to its prestigious Academy of Law Alumni Fellows this April. Terry Morehead Dworkin ’75, Fred J. Logan, Jr. ’77, Holiday Hart McKiernan ’83, and Luis Felipe Sanchez ’76 will receive the highest honor the Law School can bestow on its alumni when they are inducted April 14 in a ceremony inside the Indiana Memorial Union.
“Terry, Holly, Fred, and Luis have all led remarkable careers and lives, and we’re honored to welcome them into the Academy of Law Alumni Fellows this spring,” said Dean Ochoa. “They have represented themselves, the Maurer School of Law, and the legal profession with distinction and honor in a variety of fields, and their induction into the ALAF is well deserved.”
Learn more about this year's ALAF inductees
Orenstein to deliver inaugural Buttrey Chair Lecture Feb. 23
Professor Aviva Orenstein and the Maurer community will celebrate the Karen Lake Buttrey and Donald W. Buttrey Chair on February 23 with the inaugural Buttrey Chair Lecture. Orenstein, who holds the newly established chair, will present "The Evidence of Religion and the Religion of Evidence" at 4 p.m. in the DeLaney Moot Court Room. One credit of Indiana CLE has been approved for the event, which will also be livestreamed.
Watch the Buttrey Lecture at 4 p.m.
Michael Uslan to serve as graduation speaker
Film producer, teacher, and writer Michael Uslan ’76 will serve as the Class of 2023's graduation speaker May 6. Holder of three degrees from Indiana University, Uslan is credited with helping to make the Batman franchise one of the most successful film projects of all time. He has served as executive producer on each one of the films, ranging from 1989’s Batman to the conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy. He served as executive producer on the award-winning Joker in 2019 and his latest project, Joker: Folie à Deux, is currently in production.
Hammond, Williams join faculty
Two new renowned scholars joined the Law School faculty in January. Professor Andrew Hammond arrived in Bloomington from the University of Florida Levin College of Law while Professor Cindy Williams joined the school full-time after serving as a visiting professor for the fall semester. Hammond has quickly emerged as a vital scholarly voice in the areas of administrative law, civil procedure, and poverty law. His recent publications have appeared in the California Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. Williams, most recently at the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, is a leading expert in the use of corporate governance tools to improve climate outcomes. She writes in the areas of securities law, corporate law, corporate responsibility, comparative corporate governance and regulatory theory, often in interdisciplinary collaborations with professors in anthropology, economic sociology, and organizational psychology.
VITA students helping local taxpayers
With tax season now in full-swing through April 18, a dedicated group of volunteers is making the filing process easier—and cheaper—for many local community members. Local taxpayers with an annual income under $57,000 are eligible for free tax preparation help from students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. through March 28.
Remembering Tim Morrison
Tim Morrison '74, a distinguished member of the Law School's adjunct faculty, passed away January 6. Morrison retired from the US Attorney’s Office in Indianapolis in 2011 after 23 years of service. He litigated violent crime, firearms, public corruption, white collar, and national security cases. When he retired he was First Assistant U.S. Attorney, and he had served as interim leader of the office three times during his 23 years--briefly in 1993, from 2000 to 2001, and again for more than three years from 2007 to 2010. He joined the Law School's adjunct faculty in 2011 and was instrumental to Maurer’s criminal law program. Morrison was a beloved member of our community and his contributions to the Law School and to the legal profession leave an enduring legacy. He shared his story of public service with former Dean Austen Parrish for an episode of the "One More Cold Call" podcast in late 2021.
January/February in photos
Faculty news
Read In the media for faculty quotes and op-eds in state and national media.
- The Conservation Law Center's Christian Freitag co-authored a Sustainability article on sustainable development in Costa Rica's “blue zone.”
- Prof. David Gamage was the 10th-most downloaded U.S. tax law professor of 2022, according to SSRN data.
- Prof. Andrew Hammond's "On Fires, Floods, and Federalism" is forthcoming in the California Law Review.
- Prof. Bill Henderson's interview with the Technically Legal Podcast was named a top episode of 2022.
- Prof. Asaf Lubin posted "Selling Surveillance" to SSRN. Lubin will also participate in The Georgia Law Review's Symposium on The Intersection of Law and Technology next month.
- Prof. Jody Madeira participated in a fertility fraud roundtable discussion with a bipartisan group of elected officials in Washington, D.C.
- Prof. Michael Mattioli's latest work, "Conjuring the Flag: The Problem of Implied Government Endorsements" is available on SSRN. Mattioli also participated in Pitt Law's Three Rivers IP and Tech Law Colloquium.
- Dean Christiana Ochoa and IU Professors Scott Shackelford, David Bosco, and Kerry Krutilla authored "Deep seabed mining plans pit renewable energy demand against ocen life in a largely unexplored frontier" for The Conversation.
- Prof. Tim Waters was a featured speaker at the Princeton University's Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination's workshop on "The Question of Self-Determination."
Class notes
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