Newsletter: Vol. 9, Issue 2, August 2023

Newsletter: Vol. 9, Issue 2, August 2023

From the Director

Happy start to the fall 2023 semester from the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession. This academic year is shaping up to be an exciting one. As you'll read below, this year the CGLP will serve as the home base for the prestigious Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, host a major symposium on law and food insecurity, and continue its important work on immigration and India. You'll also learn how this past summer’s CGLP internship class now marks more than 220 students who have served as Stewart Fellows, as well as how our center colleagues participated in June's Law and Society Conference. We've been quite active since our last update and are proud to bring you the latest highlights.

Best wishes

Jayanth Krishnan
Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law
Director, Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession

A report on the 2023 Stewart Fellows

Thanks to the continued generosity of our benefactors, Milt and Judi Stewart, and our partners around the globe, this summer we had our 2023 class of Stewart Fellows represent the Law School in a range of exciting legal internships. Our 18 Fellows spanned the globe, working for different legal employers based in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. We are also grateful to our Stewart Center Coordinator, Lara Gose, and to Lesley Davis, the Law School's assistant dean for international programs, for their amazing efforts that made these internships possible. Great thanks to everyone who was part of this year’s program, which raised our total number of students who have gone abroad to over 220 since we began this initiative in 2010.

Center to house the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Beginning this year, the long-standing and prestigious Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies will now be affiliated with the Center. The journal’s founding editor, Professor Alfred Aman, announced his retirement as faculty editor, and Professor Krishnan was named as his successor.

For more than three decades the IJGLS has been a leading publication for interdisciplinary research that connects international, global, transnational, and comparative law with the humanities, social sciences, and other liberal arts disciplines. With the tremendous assistance of IU Maurer’s student editorial board, the journal has attracted scholars from around the world who have written highly cited and influential papers that are rigorously researched and relevant for academics, the bench, bar, public policy makers, and civil society leaders.

CGLP/IJGLS to host major law and food insecurity symposium Jan. 19-20, 2024

As part of its annual symposium issue, the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies and the center will welcome an esteemed group of scholars to Bloomington, January 19-20, 2024, to explore issues related to law, globalization, and food insecurity for marginalized populations. The theme is "A Fragile Framework: How Global Food Systems Intersect with the International Legal Order, the Environment, and the World’s Populations."

The lineup of our scheduled participants includes:

• Michael Barsa (Northwestern)
• Alexia Brunet Marks (Colorado)
• Amy Cohen (Temple)
• Tammi Etheridge (Elon & Washington & Lee)
• James Farmer (Indiana)
• Robert Fischman (Indiana)
• Christine Frison (University of Antwerp)
• Allison Korn (Duke)
• Smita Narula (Pace)
• Michael Roberts (UCLA)
• Shellye Suttles (Indiana)

CGLP faculty participate in 2023 Law and Society Conference

Several Stewart Center faculty colleagues were part of this past June’s annual Law and Society conference in Puerto Rico. Participating in different workshops were Professors Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Vitor Dias, Ethan Michelson, Shruti Rana, and Carole Silver. Of particular note was a dedicated panel featuring Michelson’s recently released book Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts. Our Law School colleague Professor Aviva Orenstein was a discussant for this session.

Center's work on immigration and India continues

Professor Krishnan’s involvement with the ABA’s Commission on Immigration continues. In August, he was part of the Commission’s annual meeting, which had as its focus issues related to access to counsel for immigrants, work being done currently at the U.S.-Mexico border, pro bono initiatives, and recent scholarship on immigration advocacy.

The center also is working on an important comparative immigration project, examining how international migrant workers in India struggle to obtain due process within the Indian court system.

And the center worked with colleagues from its partner institution in India, O.P. Jindal Global University, to welcome a group of scholars and dignitaries from India for a seminar on law, democracy, and judicial independence. The event was held at the Harvard Club in New York City in July.