WINTER 2012 Alumni Magazine & Dean’s Report A NEW ERA BEGINS Message from the Dean By now, I hoPe aLL of you have heaRD aBout the PhenomenaL GIft fRom BoB mcKInney to name ouR Law schooL. It would be almost impossible to overstate the significance of this for the future of the school and for the state of Indiana. the school is now positioned to take it to the next level (to borrow an oft-used phrase from the athletic world). I should emphasize that Bob would not have made this transformational gift if he had not had the vision to see what this law school can be and the confidence to believe that his investment will be used wisely to advance the school’s greatness. thus, while we certainly have to thank Bob for that vision and confidence, we also have to thank our superb, hard-working faculty and staff that make this the excellent school that it is, the great students who make all of us proud, as well as all of the many alumni and friends who have stepped up to support the school with their time, wisdom, and dollars. without the commitment and contributions of everyone in the law school’s wonderful extended family, it would not be the kind of place that would generate the great positive momentum that Bob’s gift and all of the school’s other recent accomplishments reflect. I have often argued that our law school is and has long been the single most important educational asset in all of Indiana inasmuch as it produces most of the lawyers and judges for the state as well as much of the business and political leadership. But with the resources that Bob’s marvelous gift will provide, along with the additional funds being raised in the capital campaign and the new base budget dollars being provided by a renegotiated deal with the university lowering our annual overhead charges, the school is now positioned to evolve from being an excellent Indiana law school to being one of the nation’s best and most respected public law schools. as I mentioned, the school’s faculty plays an integral part in making our school the fine institution that it is. this issue focuses on several of our outstanding faculty. I think you will be impressed with their passion and their accomplishments. and I hope that all of you will have the opportunity soon to get to know many of the faculty who have arrived since you left, and that you will follow their careers as they lead our school to greater national and international prominence. I am sure you will be as proud of them as I am. Gary R. Roberts Dean and Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law CONTENTS Alumni Magazine and Dean’s Report 2 News Briefs 4 Generosity Personified 8 Focus on Faculty 4 20 Health Law Compliance Program 23 Environmental and Natural Resources Law 8 24 Terror at the Super Bowl 28 Evening of Celebration 32 Commencement 36 Law School for Journalists 20 37 Labor-Management Seminar 39 James P. White Lecture 40 Annual CLE Program 24 41 Faculty News The alumni magazine is published by the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the IU McKinney School of Law Alumni Association. 51 Class Notes EDITOR Other photos courtesy of: 53 New Books by Mark Shaw ‘72 32 Jonna Kane MacDougall Americans for Community ASSOCIATE EDITOR Development Elizabeth Allington Azalea Assaf In Memoriam Cynthia Adams 57 EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Erin Albert Shari Baldwin Eric Dannenmaier Dean’s Report 2010-2011 Shaun Dankoski Frank Emmert 59 Amanda Kamman Indiana State Bar Association David Morton Indiana University Foundation Lisa Schrage 39 Indianapolis Colts WRITERS NCAA Elizabeth Allington Peter Prescott Alicia Dean Carlson Erin Radefeld Jonna Kane MacDougall Mark Shaw Rebecca Trimpe Tom Wilson PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGN John Fleck DesignMark: John Gentry Susie Cooper 59 Zach Hetrick Printing: IUPUI Visual Media: Fineline Printing Group David Jaynes Tim Yates The magazine is printed on Utopia Tyagan Miller #2 Extra Green On The Cover Dean Gary R. Roberts and Robert H. McKinney Sam Scott On The Web indylaw.indiana.edu IU ROBERT H. McKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW WINTER ALUMNI MAGAZINE & DEAN’S REPORT 1 News Briefs Professor Carrie Hagan Presents Professor Cynthia Adams Collaborates Judge Robb, ‘78, Receives Antoinette in Spain with Kenya Law School Dakin Leach Award Chief Judge Margret G. Robb, ON July 13, Professor Carrie AT THE invitation Of THE Kenya of the Indiana Court of Appeals, received Hagan presented a paper on “Marginalizing SCHOOL Of Law, PROfESSOR CYNTHIA the Indianapolis Bar Association’s 2011 Discrimination: How Social Justice, ADAMS made a presentation on clinical Antoinette Dakin Leach Award on October 5, Advocacy and LGBT Awareness on a skills curriculum development at the at the IBA’s Women and the Law Division’s Clinical Level Can Make Equality More of school’s Midterm Review, held in Nairobi on “Women, Law & Leadership Symposium.” a Reality,” at the 6th Global Alliance for September 21-23. Those attending included The award, established to honor outstanding Justice Education Worldwide Conference the Minister of Justice and Constitutional women in the legal profession, is named for in Valencia, Spain. The conference, which Affairs, Justices of the Kenyan High Court, one of the first female lawyers in Indiana. hosted approximately 285 delegates the Secretary of Kenya’s Council of Legal Chief Judge Robb expressed her from 43 countries, this year was held in Education, the Deans from Moi university gratitude, saying, “We’ve gone from partnership with the 9th International School of Law and Strathmore university Journal of CliniCal legal eduCation (IJCLE) Antoinette Dakin Leach and Helen Gougar School of Law, as well as administration Conference. The conference was hosted to this day. Who knows where the next 130 and law faculty from the Kenya Law School, by the Institute of Human Rights, faculty years will take us? —not only as a milestone Moi university, the university of Nairobi, and of Law, university of Valencia. The Valencia that commemorates women’s achievements, Strathmore university. Conference is an opportunity for law but the achievements of all who value The Kenya Law School is consulting with teachers, law students, legal practitioners, excellence and fairness and the promise of Professor Adams on enhancing its Advocates jurists and social activists to acquire new the law to treat all people equally.” Training Programme. Kenya Law School, ideas, models, and skills for the use of Appointed to the Court of Appeals in founded in 1963 as the country’s first law education to promote social justice. July, 1998, Chief Judge Robb holds B.S. and school, began its one-year Advocates Training Professor Hagan’s talk pointed out that M.S. degrees from Purdue university, a J.D. Programme in 2008 upon recommendation clinical students, through training regarding (magna cum laude) from the law school, and from the Ministerial Taskforce on the LGBT issues, can make a difference for a is a graduate of the Graduate Program for Development of a Policy and Legal framework vulnerable population that may not otherwise Indiana Judges. In 2011, she was elected for Legal Education in Kenya. The Advocates obtain legal assistance. by her colleagues as the first woman Chief Training Programme provides clinical skills Professor Hagan earned her B.A. from Judge in the Court’s 110-year history. training to prepare students for admission the university of Kansas and her J.D. from She has held numerous positions to the Roll of Advocates and to become the university of Cincinnati College of Law. in state and national bar and law-related officers of Kenya’s High Court. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of organizations and is a frequent speaker Law. Previously, she directed a family law/ Professor Adams is pictured above (front row, second on legal topics for attorneys, judges, domestic violence clinic in Rhode Island, from left) with dignitaries and representatives from the and professional, civic and community Kenya School of Law. and was supervising attorney for a domestic organizations. Chief Judge Robb has violence clinic in Ohio. Her research agenda received numerous awards for her focuses on interdisciplinary partnerships contributions to the judicial system. between law and social work. 2 IU ROBERT H. McKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW WINTER ALUMNI MAGAZINE & DEAN’S REPORT News Briefs Professor and Student Appear on Hershman Named to Director Position Janet Gongola, ‘03, Oversees New L3C Panel in Chicago INDIANA Senator BRANDT IP Law Enforcement Evening Division student, DR. Erin HERSHMAN has been named the Director Janet Gongola,‘03, has been Albert, ‘12, and Professor Antony Page of Educational Outreach for the Program appointed as Patent Reform Coordinator by on Law and State Government at the law spoke at the inaugural conference on the David Kappos, undersecretary of Commerce school. “L3C” (or low-profit limited liability company) for Intellectual Property and Director of Senator Hershman, also a second- in Chicago, June 6-7. The event examined a year student at the school, comes from the u.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In new paradigm in private-public partnerships. a rural background and has experience this role, she is the chief agency official Albert and Page spoke on a panel working with elected officials at the responsible for implementing the rules, entitled “The L3C: from Hypothetical to local, state, and federal levels. He has regulations, and studies in support of the Reality.” Albert presented the story of two represented Senate District 7 since 2000, Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the L3Cs, real and hypothetical, notably in health which encompasses parts of Jasper, biggest change in patent law since 1836.