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Indiana Law students can work on constitutional reform efforts through our Center for Constitutional Democracy.
From helping bring order to countries struggling for constitutional democracy to breaking new ground in cybersecurity, Indiana Law is the leader on issues that will affect future lawyers, public policy, and business practices while strengthening our international relationships and global reach. Indiana Law students have the opportunity to gain in-depth research experience and attend talks, conferences, and seminars that bring scholarship into the classroom.
Indiana Law is deeply connected to a university-wide emphasis on internationalization and globalization through our work with the following centers, each of which is headed by a faculty member:
Students can participate in each of these centers in a variety of ways, including events, conferences, research assignments, classroom seminars, and journal work.
The Law School's newest addition, the Center on the Global Legal Profession is focused on the unprecedented challenges lawyers are facing around the world and developing research and training materials to assist current and future attorneys in their understanding of international legal systems. The center will examine data compiled by the Law Firms Working Group and other sources to identify distinctive patterns and trends across different legal systems and cultures. By finding common ground, legal advocates from across the world will discover new ways of communicating and collaborating, essentially using legal practices as a new international language.
Director:
William Henderson,
Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow
The Center for Constitutional Democracy (CCD) studies and promotes constitutional democracy in countries marked by ethnic, religious, linguistic, and other divisions. Founded by David Williams, the center works primarily in Burma, with other projects in Liberia and Central Asia. The CCD brings together reform leaders in countries struggling for constitutional democracy and university scholars who have expertise in this area. Indiana Law students working with the CCD have had the opportunity to work on the first-ever constitutional commentary on Liberia’s constitution, and to travel to Thailand for consultation with Burmese democratic reformers.
For more than 30 years, Indiana Law has been on the cutting-edge of law and society scholarship. The Center for Law, Society, and Culture promotes a multidisciplinary understanding of law through scholarship, teaching, and discussion. Students have the opportunity to attend lectures and conferences on contemporary issues of law and society, such as stem-cell research, the legal profession, and criminal justice.
Co-Directors: Michael Grossberg, Adjunct Professor of Law; Ajay Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Law
Recognizing that cybersecurity is an intrinsically interdisciplinary undertaking, the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research draws upon IU’s wide range of scholarly expertise in computer science, informatics, accounting and information systems, criminal justice, law, organizational behavior, public policy, and related disciplines. Fred Cate, the center’s director, is a member of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, among several other high-profile memberships.
Director: Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law
Established in March 2007, the Center on American and Global Security (CAGS) is a university-wide research center that seeks to enhance and expand the teaching, research, and service mission of Indiana University concerning the security challenges facing the United States and the global community in the 21st century. Founded and directed by David P. Fidler, the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, CAGS builds on IU's nationally and internationally recognized expertise and experience in many academic fields relevant to security policy. CAGS has initiated many multidisciplinary activities, working on issues that range from analyzing lessons the United States and other countries can learn from India's counterinsurgency campaigns to formulating practical guidance for corporations and other entities that may receive national security letters from the U.S. federal government. CAGS also regularly hosts a speakers' series and policy workshops on topics such as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the future of U.S. relations with Pakistan.
Director: David P. Fidler, James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law
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