Contents 7 Dean’s Message ..................................... 2 The Vast Wasteland Revisited ................ 4 Academy of Law Alumni Fellows......... 10 Around the School .............................. 28 Faculty News ....................................... 32 Alumni News ....................................... 37 Help Us Stay in Touch .......................... 44 35 28 31 Bill of Particulars 1 WELCOMING OUR NEW DEAN n July 1, the Indiana University board of agreed to serve as dean. I know that she will advance the trustees made it official: Lauren Robel is the academic mission of both the school and the university as O 15th dean of the Indiana University School of a whole. We are very lucky to have her in this position.” Law—Bloomington. For the past year, Robel had served as Professor Dan Conkle was chair of the committee that acting dean, replacing Alfred C. Aman, who stepped down spearheaded the yearlong search. “Given our national as dean in 2002. search and an extremely strong pool of 25–30 candidates, “It is a real honor to be able to continue to serve the the fact that Lauren emerged as our new dean is testimony school as dean,” Robel said. “I look forward especially to to her enormous talent,” he said. continuing to work with the outstanding faculty and “She has proven herself an effective administrator and students at the Law School, and to the support of our academic leader, not to mention a delightful colleague, wonderful alumni in Indiana and around the world.” who has simply wonderful interpersonal skills and When Robel’s appointment was announced last spring, abilities.” IU Bloomington Chancellor Sharon S. Brehm praised her Robel brings to her new position an abiding commit- for both her scholarship and her administrative gifts. ment not only to the highest standard of legal education, “Professor Robel has been a superb faculty member but also to the particular people and traditions the Law and an excellent academic administrator. Her teaching is School comprises and to the community that is its home. extraordinary, her scholarship innovative, and she is highly Her career has been marked by rigorous scholarship, respected by both her students and her colleagues,” Brehm tireless community service, and a seemingly inexhaustible said. “She has also been very effective as acting dean this drive to improve the experience of students and faculty. year, in terms of both internal administration and reaching “The Law School is an academic community in the out to external constituencies. I’m delighted that she has finest and truest sense of that sometimes overused word,” A message from the dean by Lauren K. Robel I am delighted, honored, and deeply humbled graduation three years later. The Law School as I become the 15th dean of my alma mater. is an academic community in the finest and I come to this position with great love for truest sense of that sometimes overused Indiana University School of Law— word, and my challenge will be to assure, to Bloomington and full awareness the best of my ability, that this community is of its many strengths. My nurtured and supported. faculty colleagues are engaged, My fellow alumni are crucial to the committed scholars and strength and success of this school. Your teachers of the highest caliber. support, interest, criticism, suggestions, and The students are lively, ener- advocacy make us a better institution. It has getic, and — with more than been my great privilege to meet with many of 2,800 applications this year for you in your home cities and your offices this 200 seats — hugely talented. year, and a true pleasure both to learn of the The library is one of the top work you are doing and to personally bring academic law libraries in the you news of the Law School. I always country. And the administrative welcome your thoughts, letters, messages, staff is devoted to assuring that calls, and visits back to Bloomington. I hope students have the best educa- the years to come bring us many opportuni- tional experience possible, from ties to meet and to think together about the their orientation to their future of our school. 2 Bill of Particulars WELCOMING OUR NEW DEAN said Robel. “My challenge will be to assure, to the best Law School leaders since 1842 of my ability, that this community is nurtured and supported.” Robel received her BA from Auburn University and, in Department of Law, senior professors 1842–1853: David McDonald 1983, her JD from Indiana University Bloomington. 1853–1857: James Hughes Before coming back to her alma mater in 1985 as a faculty 1857–1861: James R.M. Bryant member, she served as a law clerk for Judge Jesse Esch- 1861–1870: George A. Bicknell bach, JD’49, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th 1870–1872: Samuel E. Perkins Circuit. For many years, she served as the associate dean 1872–1877: Baskin E. Rhoads for academic affairs. She is currently the Val Nolan Professor of Law. Robel’s research has focused on judicial federalism and School of Law, deans the role of federal courts in supervision of state judicial 1889–1896: David D. Banta administration. She has published many articles in leading 1896–1902: William Perry Rogers law journals and has spoken frequently on topics ranging 1902–1906: George L. Reinhard from procedural reform to sovereign immunity. She also 1906–1918: Enoch G. Hogate served as a visiting faculty member at the Université 1918–1925: Charles M. Hepburn Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Her book, Les États des Noirs: 1925–1933: Paul V. McNutt Fédéralisme et question raciale aux États-unis, with Professor 1933–1951: Bernard C. Gavit Elisabeth Zoller, a frequent visitor to the IU Law School, 1952–1966: Leon H. Wallace was published by the Presses Universitaires de France 1966–1971: William Burnett Harvey (2000). Robel regularly teaches courses in civil procedure, 1972–1976: Douglass G. Boshkoff federal jurisdiction, and constitutional law. 1977–1984: Sheldon Jay Plager Robel has been active in developing programs for 1985: Morris S. Arnold students outside the traditional classroom setting, such as 1986–1990: Bryant G. Garth the Protective Order Project and the Appellate Collo- 1991–2002: Alfred C. Aman Jr. quium. Because of her contributions, she has received the 2003– : Lauren K. Robel Law School’s Gavel Award, the Wallace Teaching Award, the Leonard D. Fromm Public Service Award, the Indiana Bar Foundation’s Pro Bono Publico Award, and the Indiana State Bar Women and the Law Recognition Award. Robel serves as the reporter for the Rules Commit- tee of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and as a member of the Indiana Supreme Court Rules Committee. Conkle lauds Robel for her “tremendous knowledge of the Law School and the university.” “She has working relationships with many of our alumni and with members of the bench and bar,” he said. “She combines exceptional energy with great personal warmth, fairness, and integrity.” Brehm added, “Lauren is truly good and kind and caring … and yet she is totally practical and very determined to do what’s right and beneficial for her school and her university. “Lauren is an exceptional human being, and I feel very, very fortunate to know her and to get to know her even Jackie Corgan better as we work together for the greater good of IU.” Bill of Particulars 3 The Vast Wasteland Revisited he Federal Communications Law Journal, the nation’s The anniversary issue of the Federal Communications Law oldest and largest-circulation communications law Journal looks at some of the questions arising out of the Tjournal, just celebrated its 10th year at the IU School changes that have transformed the industry during the last of Law. A spring semester speaker series, featuring distin- 10 years. This issue is also dedicated to the memory of Fred guished visitors and alumni, commemorated the anniver- Rogers, whose death in February marked the end of an era. sary. Earlier this summer, the journal, under Editor in Chief One of the greats of children’s programs, Rogers repre- Deborah Salons, JD’03, published a special 10th-anniversary sented and advocated for one vision of what the medium issue. can do. In a brief essay for the FCLJ, reprinted here, he Over the last decade, the emergence of the Internet has explained what, for him, TV was all about. dramatically changed the field of communications law. Like With his essay — not for the first time — Rogers weighed a new baby, the new technology imperatively demands a in on a debate that really began more than 40 years ago, great deal of here-and-now regulatory care and feeding. when the young chairman of the Federal Communications But that doesn’t mean that television — the big brother — Commission, Newton N. Minow, condemned television as a is going anywhere. In fact, TV is bigger than ever, fulfilling “vast wasteland.” Minow’s challenge to broadcasters to (depending on who you ask) the darkest prognostications make a commitment to public service is still in play. In the of the most grimly fanciful doomsayers or the innately journal, an array of distinguished commentators — Minow democratic mandates of the marketplace. himself, first of all — consider how well (or ill) the industry Whatever you love or hate about what’s on TV, there’s has met this challenge. unquestionably a lot more of it than there used to be. Cable Excerpts from a conversation between the journal’s channels proliferate like rabbits, and a joke of five years faculty adviser, Professor Fred Cate, and Minow appear ago — all golf, all the time, say — is now a perfectly below, along with Rogers’s essay. The complete Federal reasonable reality.