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Dean’s Message A Lawyer’s Calling The paths that led the current first-year Bouslog fought ferociously in courts class, the Class of 2005, to the School of throughout the islands for the union’s Law are as varied as the paths they — poorest members, who were jailed like you — will follow after graduation. during a paradigm-altering strike Students come to law from other right after World War II. Bouslog professions, from the study of many other imagined and advocated for a vision disciplines, from communities across the of the constitutional rights of those country and around the world — both workers that would not become communities based on proximity and common for two decades more, those based on affinity. While the study of demonstrating the kind of creativity law presents new vocabularies, skills, and and courage that distinguishes many ideas, that study does not require leaving of the alumni you see represented scholarly, professional, and personal there. histories at the door. Quite the contrary Near Bouslog you will find — what makes law a particularly Wendell Wilkie, a 1916 graduate of powerful and humane force is its ability our school, whose visionary view of Annalese Poorman to absorb wisdom from multiple international relations helped the Lauren Robel experiences, perspectives, and disciplines. United States overcome an instinct Virginia Supreme Court. The following is from Dean Robel’s 2002 toward isolationism after the Second There are entrepreneurs, like address to the entering class. World War. Michael Maurer, JD’67, whose success While these three alumni — Hoagy in business — in the early 1970s, he n the halls of the Law School Carmichael, Wendell Wilkie, and pioneered the initial development hang pictures of some of our Harriet Bouslog — could not have and operation of the cable television I graduates, members of our gone from the Law School into more system — has been followed closely Academy of Law Alumni Fellows. different careers and worlds, all three by a life dedicated to community These alumni are honored for their shared vision, imagination, and the service. And there are a great number dedication to the highest standards of courage to create a life that none of of lawyers who served their commu- personal excellence and to the them probably imagined in their nities with passion, excellence, and profession. They have followed many Indiana childhoods. professionalism during long and and varied paths. On that wall as well are a number distinguished legal careers, from the This fall, at the Buskirk-Chumley of graduates whose careers are largest cities to the smallest towns. Theater downtown (formerly the pathbreaking not only for themselves As an alumna of the Law School Indiana), the Bloomington commu- but for others: Shirley Abrahamson, myself, I am proud of my fellow nity celebrated the music and life of JD’56, the first woman on the Wiscon- graduates — proud of their reputa- Hoagy Carmichael, whose beautiful sin Supreme Court and now its first tions for integrity and deep compe- song “Stardust” many of you know. female chief justice; Flerida Romero, tence. And as I talk to our alumni, I A 1926 graduate of the Law School, LLM’55, one of the first women on find they uniformly cherish the Carmichael went on to a career in the Supreme Court of the Philippines; friendships they made with the music and films, to concerts at the Juanita Kidd Stout, JD’48, the first faculty and administrators here, and London Palladium and movies in African American woman in America with their colleagues. I believe that Hollywood. to be elected to the judiciary; Sue what binds us together is our shared Near him is Harriet Bouslog, a Shields, LLB’61, the first woman in sense of calling, as advocates. 1936 graduate of the school. As the Indiana to hold an appellate judge- The root of the word “advocate” is only Hawaii lawyer willing to ship; Franklin Cleckley, JD’65, the the Latin word “vocare,” which means represent the longshoreman’s union, first African American on the West “to call.” The word “advocate” comes Bill of Particulars / 1 into being through the addition of spirit, excitement, anger — but the be, or that their clients deserve. “ad” to “vocare,” changing its mean- locus of these emotions is the student. Advocacy is an awesome responsi- ing from “to call” to “to summon to The addition of a client changes this bility. Law school can hardly prepare one’s aid.” Advocacy has the same locus to the human being whose you for the feeling of having clients root as vocation — meaning a calling cause is now yours. In the best of entrust their liberty, or their business, away from ordinary life, a summons advocates, this change of locus or their children, to your skills. In from God to undertake service to stimulates both a deep fear and a some sense, we should all feel others. And advocacy shares its root kind of fearlessness. Both the fear and inadequate to this task. But that sense term — “vocare” — with the word the fearlessness come from a full of inadequacy needs to be the goad to “voice.” The roots of the word understanding of the responsibility a thoroughgoing honesty about our “advocate” break open its true lawyers take on. Lawyers who forget responsibility to prepare well and to meaning: Advocates give voice to the this lesson or never learn it — those think hard. That responsibility is people they are called to serve, a whose arguments are infected by what it means to be part of our calling that has at its center a deep their own need to win approval from particular professional community; and awesome responsibility, as well a teacher or a judge, or who let their underlying all of our divergent paths, as, at its best, a touch of the divine. sense of competition get the best of it is our common ground. Law study stimulates many the primacy of their client — are — Lauren Robel, JD’83 emotions — pride, fear, competitive never the advocates that they could Acting Dean, Val Nolan Professor of Law Spring semester at the Law School At this time of year, almost every free room in the Law gives a lecture on the role of the IMF in an integrated School building is booked for meetings, lectures, or world economy. visitors. Listed below are some events that have taken • March 27: Journalist Panel (part of the Federal place during the semester. More are listed at Communications Law Journal Speaker Series) features Ian www.law.indiana.edu/calendar/calendarevents.shtml. Marquand, SPJ National Freedom of Information chair; At any time of year, we are delighted to welcome our Diana Penner, Indianapolis Star (witnessed McVeigh alumni back to the school. execution); David Protess, Medill School of Journalism • Jan. 24: The Indiana Court of Appeals holds oral Innocence Project; John Bessler, JD’91, Death in the arguments at the School of Law. Dark: Midnight Executions in America. Moderated by • Feb. 12: Diversity in Admissions: Professor Professor Joseph Hoffmann. Patrick Baude, Professor Kevin Brown, and Kevin • March 26: Lee Hamilton, JD’56 Robling, assistant dean for admissions, speak on legal • March 29: Parents & Partners Day and policy implications of the Supreme Court’s rulings, • April 2: American Constitution Society program past and upcoming, on affirmative action. on Bush v. Gore and voting rights • Feb. 27: “Theorizing Yes,” a public lecture by • April 7: Harris Lecture by former faculty member Katherine Franke on the conundrum of bringing law to Hendrik Hartog, of Princeton University bear on expanding sexual liberty for women. • April 11–12: Symposium on Globalization, Courts, • March 1: The Black Law Student Association’s and Judicial Power annual Barristers Ball, the swankiest event of the school year, honors Frank Motley, our former dean of admissions. • March 3: Jeff Riffer, JD’78, gives a public lecture as part of the Federal Communications Law Journal 10th Anniversary Speaker Series. • March 4: Judge Marc Kellams, JD’78, on legal ethics. • March 6: Paul Simon, former senator from Illinois, speaks at a campus forum about one of the world’s most precious resources: water. • March 10: Jamison Prime, JD’96, gives a talk for the Federal Communications Law Journal Speaker Series. Chadon Photographers • March 10: Ke-Young Chu, former deputy director Tony Prather, JD’83, left, Frank Motley, and Rapheal of fiscal affairs for the International Monetary Fund, Prevot, JD’84, attended the Barristers Ball. 2 / Bill of Particulars Feature Story Advocating for the Smallest Clients: IU’s Child Advocacy Clinic Students who work for the Child Advocacy Clinic, housed across the street from the School of Law in an unassuming bungalow, characterize the experience as stressful, insanely time-consuming, and emotionally harrowing. They also generally describe it as the best part of law school. Serving as guardians ad litem to children in contested custody cases, students come face to face with the practical realities of lawyering, as they investigate, report, file, and testify in court — and also with the power they can have, as lawyers, to change people’s lives for the better. Amy Applegate, who has been director Annalese Poorman of the Child Advocacy Clinic since 2001, Annalese Poorman talks about the clinic and its role in Amy Applegate Michael Jenuwine educating future lawyers. — Leora Baude put a lot of work — and their heart we have classes for two hours each and souls — into it, and they really week. Students are paired up in What happens in the Child Advocacy care about the children they are teams of two: Each student is a Clinic? What do you all do over there on representing. guardian ad litem in one case and a the other side of Third Street? Right up front, we spend 10 to 15 student attorney in another case.

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