Indiana University and Zhejiang University, one of China's leading universities, held their first-ever joint symposium focusing on university research commercialization and technology transfer and involving senior leaders of both institutions. In addition to the symposium, IU and Zhejiang formally strengthened their partnership by signing a new agreement that renews for five more years an agreement first signed in 1982.

Leading researchers and scholars from social science and legal fields will be at Indiana University Bloomington this week for a conference aimed at learning about and developing better interventions for families in conflict. The conference, "For the Sake of the Children: Advances in Family Dispute Resolution," is co-sponsored by the IU School of Law-Bloomington and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IUB.

A military appeals court hearing and talks by IU alumni who have achieved highly successful careers as military attorneys will highlight Military Justice Week Oct. 22-26 at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington. IU Law graduates Neal Puckett, J.D.'84, and Major Nicholas Lancaster, J.D.'99, will serve as practitioners-in-residence during the week, providing advice and information for students who are pursuing or interested in legal careers in the military.

The Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Indiana University will be dedicated Friday, Oct. 5. The dedication will take place from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the clinic, located on the third floor of the Lewis Building, 116 S. Indiana Ave. in Bloomington. The clinic was renamed in recognition of a $3 million gift from IU alumni David Elmore and D.G. Elmore.

Six years after the 9/11 attacks, David Cole argues that the U.S. has become less secure against terrorist attacks -- despite the sacrifice of civil liberties in the war on terror. Cole, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and a professor of law at Georgetown University, will speak Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington.

Constitutionalists from around the world will gather Oct. 25-27 at Indiana University Bloomington to consider the dynamic processes of constitutional narrative during "Paths to Democracy: An International Conversation about Constitutional Stories," an interdisciplinary conference.