From the Director
Season’s Greetings. Our colleagues at the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession have been busy during 2018 working in key markets around the globe on issues relating to legal education, judicial reform, the legal profession, and the impact of globalization on all of these areas. Here is a sample of some of the exciting projects that have been happening at the Stewart Center. As always, we thank you for your support, and we wish you the best for 2019.
Sincerely
Jayanth Krishnan
Milt & Judi Stewart Professor of Law
Director, Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession
IU Maurer School of Law
Country reports
China
Ethan Michelson was recently appointed to serve as Indiana University's China Gateway Director. Regarded as one of the foremost experts on law-and-society in China, Michelson helped host an important delegation from IU this fall to China, which included President McRobbie and several colleagues from around the university. In addition, Michelson has a book manuscript upon which he is working that focuses on Chinese divorce and the role of lawyers and judges on the larger family law sector in the country.
Mexico
Christiana Ochoa was appointed to serve as Indiana University's Mexico Gateway Director. An expert on business law and human rights, Ochoa was also recently named the Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor. Also, this year, Ochoa played a leading role in hosting two key delegations from IU to Mexico; the first involved Chancellor Nasser Paydar from IUPUI, and then President McRobbie and a team of colleagues traveled to Mexico City in May. Ochoa has played an instrumental role in helping IU develop strong ties with the National Autonomous University in Mexico, and in establishing an internship placement for IU Maurer students at IMUMI, which is an NGO that looks to assist the needs of migrant women.
Russia
Over the past year, Lara Gose and Carwina Weng have been working closely with Russian legal educators from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad) and Lomonosov Moscow State University. Both Gose and Weng have given multiple presentations and served as key resources for our Russian colleagues who are seeking to learn best practices on issues relating to pedagogical instruction and clinical legal education. Most recently, in Moscow, Gose gave presentations on how to study in a foreign law school and on student reflections to improve learning outcomes. In Krasnovidovo, Russia, Weng discussed techniques relating to lawyering skills and led a training session on how best to develop learning assessments. Both Gose and Weng have also been working with their Russian counterparts on the use of game mechanics to enhance student learning.
India, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates
Jayanth Krishnan has been working in these markets intensively on three different projects involving lawyers, court reform, and globalization. In India, Krishnan has been re-evaluating the Bhopal Union Carbide toxic tort disaster, which, next year, will mark the 35th anniversary from when this tragedy occurred. In Nigeria, he has been focusing on the role of foreign lawyers seeking to enter the Nigerian legal labor market. And in the UAE, he has just published a book on the history of a set of English-speaking, common law financial courts that the Emirate of Dubai imported, as a means of promoting foreign investment.
Stewart Center faculty news
- Hannah Buxbaum was named Vice President for International Affairs of Indiana University at the end of 2017. During the fall of 2018, Buxbaum accompanied President McRobbie on an important trip to Asia, which included meetings in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing and Tianjin, China. Her recent publications include: "Transnational Legal Ordering and Regulatory Conflict: Lessons From the Regulation of Cross-Border Derivatives," (forthcoming in the UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law); an article forthcoming in Duke Law School's international journal, titled "The Role of the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality in Determining the Scope of Statutory Law: Interstate and International Conflicts;" and a book chapter on Transnational Antitrust Law, which will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law.
- Charles Geyh has published a hornbook, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and the Legal Profession (West Academic Press 2018) (with Sisk, Fortney, Hamilton, Henderson, Johnson, Kruse, Pepper, & Weresh); a co-authored treatise, Understanding Civil Procedure (6th ed. Carolina Academic Press 2018) (with Shreve & Raven-Hansen); and the 2017 supplement to his treatise, Judicial Conduct and Ethics (5th Ed. Lexis Law Publishing 2013) (with Alfini & Sample). His book, Who is to Judge: The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges, which he wrote with the support of a Carnegie fellowship, is scheduled for publication in 2019, as is the third edition of his monograph, Judicial Disqualification: An Analysis of Federal Law, which is forthcoming from the Federal Judicial Center.
- Bill Henderson: Since the summer of 2017, Bill Henderson has been part of the founding team for the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP, called “I-flip”), a nonprofit that creates training programs and organizes paid internships for law students in areas of practice that rely upon data, process, technology, design thinking, and non-hourly business models. IFLP currently has 18 member law schools in the U.S., Canada, and Europe and a diverse array of more than 50 employers that include law firms, in-house legal departments, LegalTech, NewLaw companies, and public interest organizations. The Maurer School of Law was one of four founding law schools. He also continues to publish his research on Legal Evolution, which was recently honored by the ABA Journal as part of its annual Web 100 competition.
- Kenneth Dau-Schmidt recently presented a lecture at the University of Oxford. His talk was entitled "The Impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence on the Employment Relationship: New Gigs for Labor and Employment Law,” Roundtable On Artificial Intelligence and Employment, hosted by Oxford University and the University of Otago, Jesus College, Oxford University, Oxford, England (November 27, 2018). In addition, in September, he spoke at the University of South Carolina’s Thirteenth Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL), where he delivered a talk entitled “Teaching Labor Law as a Simulation: Twenty-Two Years as President of Labor Law I, Inc.” on September 28, 2018.