From the Director
A belated Happy Labor Day and welcome back. After an exceptionally productive summer, we are excited to present our latest newsletter featuring highlights from the Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession.
Wishing you all the very best for the fall 2025 semester,
Jayanth KrishnanMilt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law, and
Director, Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession
Scholarly activity from the Center's core and affiliated faculty
- During the past several months, Center Director Jayanth Krishnan completed a series of papers on the role of lawyers in the immigration space and global philanthropy sector. The first paper, “Venue by Zoom: Embracing an Immigrant Choice Model of Litigation” is forthcoming in the UC Davis Law Review (2026). A second paper, “The Forgotten Lawyer: Donor Aid and Rule of Law Efforts in Our Current Political Moment,” will be published in the Virginia Journal of International Law in the spring. And a third paper, co-authored with Center research scholar Kunle Ajagbe, is entitled “Building a Professionally Socialized Immigration Bar: A Comparative Case Study” and is coming out early next year in the Fordham Law Review.
- Carole Silver (together with Ritika Giri) published “The Importance of Commonality and Difference in Global Legal Education Communities” in the European Journal of Legal Education.
- Kenneth Dau-Schmidt has co-authored a new edition of his employment law textbook Legal Protection for the Individual Employee (West Publishing Co., 7th ed., 2025) and has had accepted for publication “Beautiful Country”: An Empirical Study of the Experiences of Chinese Students in U.S. Law Schools,” forthcoming in the Cornell International Law Journal (co-authored with Xiaohan Sun and Zhenxing Ke).
- Charles Geyh just published “The Pressure Points of Professional Identity for Judges in the Modern Era” in the Mercer Law Review; “To Legitimacy and Beyond: A Reform Agenda to Restore Public Confidence in the Federal Courts” in Law & Contemporary Problems; and “Mending a Broken Ethics Culture: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct” in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. He will soon publish “The Brave New World of Judicial Elections” in the Kentucky Law Journal, “Judicial Ethics, The Supreme Court, and the Rule of Law” in the Connecticut Law Review, and the 2025 biannual supplement to his treatise, Judicial Conduct and Ethics (6th ed.) (with Alfini, Knake-Jefferson, and Swisher).
- Bill Henderson is working with the Indiana Supreme Court on a project to create a nonprofit operating business that will enable the first generation of allied legal professionals (ALPs) to provide low-complexity, high-volume legal advice and assistance to individuals of modest means. The ALPs will work under the supervision of Indiana-licensed lawyers. Much of the foundational infrastructure is being built through IU's Applied Research Practicum course, which is offered to both law students and undergrads.
- Christiana Ochoa, whose Minnesota Law Review article "Deals in the Heartland" was recognized by the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review as one of the top five environmental law and policy papers last year, will present her findings at the fall 2025 Indiana Judicial Conference.
The Stewart Center Fellows Class of 2025 returns
The Center’s latest cohort of Stewart Fellows returned from summer internships across various jurisdictions around the globe. We had 20 Fellows who worked in eight different countries, each of whom reported back to us about their wonderful experiences. Since 2010, the Center has sent more than 300 students to placements in 14 countries. We are grateful to our primary benefactors, Milt and Judi Stewart, as well as to the rest of our supportive donors and internship employers.
Read the latest issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, which is housed under the Stewart Center, released Volume 32, #1. Many thanks to Editor-in-Chief Nashuba Hudson, the IJGLS staff, and the contributing authors for producing such a fabulous issue.
Stewart Center activities in Latin America
Thanks to a generous grant from IU’s Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, the Stewart Center co-hosted a conference in Bogotá with faculty from Universidad del Rosario on the evolving roles of lawyers across various practice settings. Academics and practitioners from Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, and the U.S. were in attendance. The symposium provided a valuable platform for dialogue and collaboration, fostering new connections and reinforcing Maurer's engagement in the Latin American region.
In addition, the Law School signed a dual degree agreement with Universidad del Rosario and initiated a new partnership with Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. And we received a funding commitment from two prestigious law firms in Bogotá to host two Stewart Fellows for next summer.
Additional funding received
The Center received a generous grant from the Denver and Marsha Jordan Foundation. The funds received will go towards a range of programmatic efforts, including holding conferences, inviting speakers, and supporting student activities.
NAFSA and faculty exchanges
Lucero Guillen, the Center’s associate director, represented the Law School during this past summer’s annual NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference in San Diego. Lucero has been invaluable in the work she has done for our students, staff, and faculty going abroad and for our colleagues from abroad coming to Bloomington.
Additionally, together with Professor Timothy Waters, Lucero and the Center have welcomed Erasmus ELTE (Budapest) Professor Miklós Király who is teaching EU Law to our students, and the school will be hosting Professor István Erdős (also from ELTE) later this semester. Finally, Jayanth Krishnan will be serving as a visiting professor at ELTE this October and separately as a visiting scholar at the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for European Law as well.
We hope you have a productive remainder of your fall semester.
Jayanth Krishnan and Lucero Guillen