This week in the Law School
This is Wellness Week. See the OSA on Instagram @maurerlawosa and Announcements.
Monday
LLSA general body meeting
Noon - 1 p.m. in 121
Join the Latinx Law Student Association for our March in-person general body meeting. We look forward to sharing with you our upcoming events and opportunities available to students.
Anyone interested in joining LLSA this semester should feel free to attend!
Tuesday
Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in Baier Hall
JLAP will be in Baier Hall meeting with students. Please make an appointment in advance by calling 317-833-0370. Tell them you’re calling to set an appointment with a counselor at the Maurer School of Law. You will be provided a date, time, and room number.
Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed? Caregiving or grieving? Maybe you are concerned for someone else. Don’t wait; help and support are available now. When lawyers don’t care for their mental well-being, we can’t do our best for our clients, and we can’t be the person we want to be for our community and family.
All contact with JLAP is confidential under Admission and Discipline Rule 31 §9 and Rules of Professional Conduct 8.3 (c).
Reducing the Toll of Vicarious Trauma
Noon - 1 p.m. in 122 and on Zoom
Front-line workers, including direct legal services attorneys, serve many clients impacted by numerous types of trauma. Providing services to people impacted by trauma and high exposure to secondary or vicarious trauma can take a tremendous psychological toll. This talk will give a brief overview and definition of vicarious trauma, provide warning signs of accumulating vicarious trauma, and provide some tools for mitigating its impact.
The featured speaker is Asher Waite-Jones of Indiana Legal Services.
Sponsor: National Lawyers Guild.
CLS weekly Bible study
Noon - 1 p.m. in 125
The Christian Legal Society will meet for community, fellowship, and to study the Word each week.
Indiana Bar Exam information session
Noon - 1 p.m. in the Moot Court Room
Rescheduled from Tuesday, March 1.
The Indiana Bar Examiners will be in Baier Hall today. 3Ls who intend to take the Indiana Bar exam should attend this session. It will not be recorded, but handouts will be made available afterward. Contact Director Beck with questions.
Faculty exchange: Prof. Krisztina Rozsnyai (ELTE Law School)
12:15 - 1 p.m. in Hamilton Lugar School GA 4067 and on Zoom
This presentation is part of Maurer School of Law and ELTE Law School’s Erasmus+ EU-funded faculty exchange program.
Prof. Krisztina Rozsnyai, from ELTE Law School in Budapest, Hungary, will talk on "Bureaucracy Reduction and Oversimplification of Administrative Procedures à la Hongroise.” Professor Rozsnyai’s main fields of research are administrative procedure, administrative justice, and court administration. She is responsible for drafting the Hungarian Administrative Court Procedure Act at the Ministry of Justice and has served as the chief advisor for administrative law matters at the Curia, Hungary’s Supreme Court. Rozsnyai will be on campus all week; anyone wishing to meet with her may contact Dean Davis at leedavis@indiana.edu.
Introducing the Brahmavihāras: A lawyer's love letter to Maurer students
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room
You are invited to join Jill Carnell, an Indiana lawyer who recently completed a Master of Arts in Mindfulness Studies degree. Jill will discuss the state of law student well-being while she weaves in findings from neuroscience and invites students to learn more about the Buddhist psychology practices of the heart, known as the Brahmavihāras. The offering will include a mettā (lovingkindness) meditation practice. Students will leave with resources to support continuing mindfulness meditation practice.
Register on CareerNet. Space is limited.
OSA and DEI Present: Managing Student Loan Repayment
7 - 8 p.m. on Zoom
We will hold a virtual loan repayment counseling session for members of our graduating class. We hope that this session will be more helpful to you as a law student than the basic online federal exit counseling that you were recently invited to complete. During the session we will discuss your loan repayment timeline, finding an affordable repayment plan, strategies for repayment, consolidation and refinancing options, how to postpone repayment, and loan forgiveness options.
Wednesday
CCD call-out meeting
Noon - 1 p.m. in 124
This information session for 1Ls who are interested in learning more about the Center for Constitutional Democracy's JD Fellows program.
Live from Baier Hall: Grace Elmer, guitarist
Noon - 1 p.m. in the lobby
Grace Elmer was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She began playing guitar around the age of ten and immediately fell in love with the instrument. She then began studying at the Alabama School of Fine Arts with Paul Hicks, the foremost instructor of classical and fingerstyle guitar in Alabama. At the age of 15, she began studying with rising star Russian guitarist Piotr Pakhomkin. Grace is a prize-winning participant of several national and international guitar competitions. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music from the Jacobs School of Music as Barbara and David Jacobs Scholar. Under the tutelage of Petar Jankovic and Maestro Ernesto Bitetti at the Jacobs School of Music, she has flourished as an artist and a performer. Grace is currently an associate instructor of guitar at the Jacobs School of Music and President of the IU Guitar Club. She currently plays a handmade 1984 Kohno guitar.
Thursday
CCD Speaker Series: Asaf Lubin
Noon - 1:30 p.m. in the Henderson House conference room and on Zoom
Prof. Asaf Lubin will discuss the regulation of foreign intelligence collection and constitutional protections on the right to privacy. In particular, he will examine recent European Court of Human Rights case law on bulk interception of communications and its implications for the protection of digital rights.
Faculty and students affiliated with the CCD may attend in person.
Crafternoon!
Noon - 1 p.m. in the Law Library lobby
Join your fellow crafty students for any or all of this semester’s “Crafternoon” sessions in the Jerome Hall Law Library lobby. Bring your own project to work on, or come to learn. We’ll have plenty of yarn and knitting/crochet needles.
CLSC Speaker Series: Dr. Bonnie Ernst
4 - 5 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room
The Center for Law, Society, and Culture welcomes Dr. Bonnie Ernst of the University of Florida's Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, for a talk, "Prison Activism among Women in Michigan, 1979-1999."
Friday
Kaplan Virtual Bar Open House
Noon on Zoom every Friday
Attendees will receive a $20 Amazon gift card just for attending! Learn more about the bar exam and receive a demo of the Kaplan course. Email questions to Sarah Chaney at chaneys@iu.edu or Cody Byrd at cody.byrd@kaplan.com.
Announcements
Wellness Week March 7-11
This week is Wellness Week!
The Office for Student Affairs and the Jerome Hall Law Library have a number of programs and fun surprises planned for students throughout the week. Check out @maurerlawosa on Instagram and the law school calendar, and visit OSA in the office or while they are tabling in the lobby Monday - Wednesday for more info!
Opportunity for rising 2Ls and 3Ls: Become a Dean’s Writing Fellow
The legal writing faculty are seeking students who will be 2Ls or 3Ls in 2022-23 to be selected as Dean's Writing Fellows. Successful candidates will receive a $1,500 scholarship per semester. The position description and application requirements are posted on CareerNet. The deadline is Tuesday, April 12.
Summer 2022 Public Interest funding
Are you working at a nonprofit or other public interest organization this summer? Did you know that the Law School has funding opportunities available for 1Ls and 2Ls working for these organizations? There is funding available for all students, as well as funding specifically for students in PILF (both pools of funding will go through the singular application below). The application is now open — and will remain open until Thursday, March 24. Students who have been selected for funding will be notified in April. Students who are interested in the funding but have not yet secured a position may also apply (they will need to update their applications once they receive a summer job offer). The application should take between 30-45 minutes to complete. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Justin Zuschlag at jzuschla@iu.edu or stop by the Career Services Office.
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