Law
John S. Applegate, the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Indiana University vice president for planning and policy, has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board by Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, Chairman of the National Research Council. The NRSB is a unit of the National Academy of Sciences that organizes and oversees studies on safety, security, technical efficacy, and other policy and societal issues arising from the application of radiation-based technologies.
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A panel of distinguished jurists, including the Chief Justice of Indiana and one of the state's four appointees to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, will visit the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Friday (Feb. 26) at 7 p.m. to hear arguments on an issue at the forefront of debate over technology, privacy rights, and law enforcement: the constitutionality of collecting and storing DNA evidence from those arrested on certain federal charges.
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It has been four years since the longest and most prominent war crimes trial of the modern era was brought to an abrupt halt by the death of the defendant: Slobodan Milosevic. A conference today (Feb. 19) through Sunday at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law revisits the trial, which left the court, the people of the former Yugoslavia, and the world community without a definitive legal resolution.
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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law's Center on the Global Legal Profession has launched a new Web site, providing up-to-the-minute news and commentary on developments in the legal profession. The new Web site features blogs from the center's director, Professor William Henderson, and news on the center's activities; and it instantly allows visitors to translate the site's content into their native language.
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Laws that ban cell phone use and text-messaging while driving won't have much impact unless they are accompanied by well-designed enforcement and public awareness campaigns, according to a recent policy brief from an Indiana University research center.
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Court-ordered mediation in family law -- divorce, child custody, child support -- has been a regular practice for many years. But research now shows that mediators often overlook the role of intimate partner violence and abuse in family law cases, according to Amy G. Applegate, a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
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