Media Relations
Thursday,
January 24,
2008
Faculty & Research
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.
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A federal appeals court decision this week on prayer at the Indiana Statehouse rests on a procedural issue and doesn't settle the question of whether opening sessions of the Legislature with sectarian prayer is constitutional, says Daniel O. Conkle, the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law at the IU School of Law-Bloomington.
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In recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen said it is essential for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to provide the U.S. President with accurate and honest legal advice -- regardless of whether he wants it. "In short, OLC has to be prepared to tell the President 'no,'" she said.
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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.
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Professor Fred H. Cate and former head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and Professor Dawn Johnsen are available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to hear rendition case of Khaled el-Masri, a German man who claims the CIA kidnapped and tortured him. Both are faculty members at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision to review Indiana's voter ID law "raises the possibility of another self-inflicted wound, like the Court's decision to resolve the 2000 election in favor of George Bush," say Patrick Baude, the Ralph F. Fuchs Professor of Law and Public Servic at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Baude said whatever the Court decides will favor either Democrats or Republicans, a partisan result that could weaken its moral authority.
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