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2014/15, Indiana University Maurer School Of Law

Dean's Reports

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faculty achievements..........................................................1

major lectures and conferences..........................................3

curriculum and programs....................................................4

student achievements.........................................................4

staff achievements..............................................................5

student recruitment............................................................5

student employment...........................................................6

alumni and development.....................................................6

seven years of planned achievements.................................7

2015 Recognition Ceremony Program

Recognition Ceremony

No abstract provided.

The Naming Of Baier Hall And The Jerome Hall Law Library Program

Law School Building

A video of the ceremony can be viewed here.

Dean's Desk: Stewart Fellows Bring Global Experience To Indiana, Austen L. Parrish

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

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May 2015 Newsletter

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Legal Education Reform In Saudi Arabia: A Case Study Of Taibah University, Rayan Alkhalawi

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

Legal education reform is a hot topic today. However, legal educators generally avoid discussing this important topic. Although legal education in Saudi Arabia is unique and complex, it is very hard to find academic literature about it. While this paper provides a brief explanation of legal education in Saudi Arabia, the main purpose of this paper is to discuss whether or not the current program at the College of Law prepares graduates for the best opportunities available in the legal market. And if not, how it could do a better job of making the program reach its full potential to …

Vol. 48, No. 14 (April 20, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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2015 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Dinner And Induction Ceremony Program

Academy of Law Alumni Fellows

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Vol. 48, No. 13 (April 13, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 12 (April 6, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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April 2015 Newsletter

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Vol. 48, No. 11 (March 30, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Indiana Schools Rise And Fall In Recent National Law School Rankings, Marilyn Odendahl

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

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Vol. 48, No. 10 (March 23, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 09 (March 9, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 08 (March 2, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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March 2015 Newsletter

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Vol. 48, No. 07 (February 23, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 06 (February 16, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 05 (February 9, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 04 (February 2, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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February 2015 Newsletter

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Vol. 48, No. 03 (January 26, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 02 (January 20, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 48, No. 01 (January 15, 2015)

Indiana Law Annotated

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At Play In The Field Of Law: Symbolic Capital And Foreign Attorneys In Ll.M. Programs, Jan Hoffman French

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this Comment, I would like to pick up a thread of the authors' analysis and, in so doing, shift the emphasis a bit. That thread relates to their use of Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical conceptualizations of "field" and "forms of capital." In their analysis of admissions essays submitted by foreign-lawyer applicants, Lazarus-Black and Globokar consider how the discursive genre of the admissions essay orients itself to the powerladen structures that constitute the particular field within which the essay is playing, or to which it is addressed.8 They also use the Bourdieusian concepts of "cultural and linguistic capital" in relation to …

The Metaculture Of Law School Admissions: A Commentary On Lazarus-Black And Globokar, Bonnie Urciuoli

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

What does it mean for law school applicants to become, as Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar put it, "what the ranking[s] count[]"? What does it mean for foreign applicants to develop responses to the application process by writing essays in certain ways, to project themselves (again as Lazarus-Black and Globokar put it) as "commodified persona[s]"? The application process analyzed by Lazarus-Black and Globokar exemplifies what Greg Urban calls metaculture: cultural forms that point actors toward recognizing and understanding what they do as exemplifying a particular cultural pattern. Metaculture is the mechanism by which culture is reproduced, moving through time and …

Immigrant Lawyers And The Changing Face Of The U.S. Legal Profession, Ethan Michelson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this Comment, I extend Lazarus-Black and Globokar's analysis further downstream to consider the stakes for the U.S. legal profession as a whole. Gatekeepers to LL.M. programs are doing far more than determining individual fates and collectively shaping the future of U.S. legal education. I will demonstrate in this Comment that their work helps shape-in concrete, measurable ways-the demographic composition of the U.S. legal profession. In so doing, I will contribute to the emerging field of legal demography, which refers to the study of lawyers through the analysis of data not collected for this specific purpose.

Notes Toward An Understanding Of The U.S. Market In Foreign Ll.M. Students: From The British Empire And The Inns Of Court To The U.S. Ll.M., Bryant G. Garth

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar's article on "Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who They Are" uses interviews, LL.M. student observations, and actual admissions committee documents from one Midwest and one East Coast law school to confirm the tremendous growth of those programs over the past two decades in the United States and indicate who makes the journey to the United States; how foreign LL.M. candidates pitch themselves to admissions committees; how those admissions committees evaluate candidates; and what candidates expect from LL.M. programs. The voices that come through are quite compelling. We now know …

Foreign Attorneys In U.S. Ll.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, And Who They Are, Mindie Lazarus-Black, Julie L. Globokar

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In recent decades, there has been a remarkable growth in the number of foreign attorneys enrolled at U.S. law schools and particularly in LL.M. programs. To learn more about these students and how they fare, we conducted research in two law schools, one in the Midwest and the second on the East Coast. We examine the admissions process for foreign attorneys from the perspectives and experiences of both the administrators who make admissions decisions and the students who seek admission. We consider the layered international, national, state, and local laws that complicate the selection process, as well as the standards …