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April 21, 2008 — Environmental advisors to U.S. Senator Barack Obama will participate in an environmental and energy policy roundtable on Wednesday (April 23) at IUPUI.

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April 21, 2008 — IU School of Law - Indianapolis' legal writing program, known as Legal Analysis, Research and Communications (LARC), was ranked 11th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2008.

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Law Clinic Attorney Announces Post-Conviction Trial, Seeks Public's Help

March 14, 2008 — The Law Clinic at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis today (March 14, 2008) announced an upcoming post-conviction proceeding on behalf of a Lake County man asserting he was wrongfully convicted of rape in 1993. Law Clinic attorneys representing the man are seeking the public's help in exonerating their client.   Full Story

Eleanor D. Kinney

Areas of expertise: health policy and law, medical malpractice, public health law

Publications: "Protecting American Health Care Consumers" (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002).

"Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals," Kinney (ed). (Chicago: ABA Publishing, 2002).

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Sheila Kennedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Executive Director, Indiana Civil Liberties Union 1992- 1998

• President, Kennedy Development Services 1987-92

• Partner, Mears Crawford Kennedy & Eichholtz 1980-86

• Republican Candidate, 11th Congressional District 1980

• Corporation Counsel, City of Indianapolis 1977-80

• Associate Attorney, Baker & Daniels 1975-77

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Indiana State Bar Association

• Indiana Leadership Celebration

• American Political Science Association

• Midwest Political Science Association

• Academy of Political Science

• American Society for Public Administration

• Indiana Society for Public Administration

• Law & Society Association

• Society of Professional Journalists

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

• Standing Panel on Social Equity, National Academy of Public Administration

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Charitable Choice

• Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

• Religion and Public Policy

• Nonprofit organizations

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Books

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Wolfgang Bielefeld. Charitable Choice at Work: Faith-Based Job Training in the States. (Georgetown University Press, 2006.)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. Pickin' Fights with Thunderstorms. C.S.Kern Publishing, 2005.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Ingrid Ritchie. To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis. University Press of America, 2001.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Free Expression in America: A Documentary History." Greenwood Press, 1999.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "What's a Nice Republican Girl Like Me

Doing at the ACLU?" Prometheus Books, 1997.

Book Chapters

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "The ACLU" and "Checks and Balances" in the Encyclopedia of the United States (forthcoming).

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "Religious Paradigms and the Rule of Law: Thinking in Red and Blue" in Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Austin Sarat, series editor. (forthcoming, Elsevier Science Inc.).

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Laura S. Jensen. "Outsourcing Patriotism: Privatization, Sovereignty and War." Transatlantic Public Policy Series, Vol. 2. Transaction Publishers, N.J. 2006.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "The Poor You Have Always With You: The Problem of the Sturdy Beggar" in Essays on Indiana Legal History. Bodenhamer, David and Randall Shepard, editors. Ohio University Press, 2006. pp.90-109.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Laura Jensen. "Government Ethics and Constitutional Accountability" in George G. Frederickson and Richard K. Ghere, Ethics in Public Management. M.E. Sharpe, 2005

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "Government Shekels and Government Shackles Revisited: Questions for Church and State." In Exploring Black Philanthropy: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, No. 48. Patrick Rooney, and Lois Sherman, eds. Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "The Bill of Rights," "The Incorporation Doctrine," "Congress and Civil Liberties," and "Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire" in the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties (2004)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Indiana." in Legal Systems of the World: a Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara. (2003)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Writing in Service of Thought." in Writing in the Arts, Sciences and Professional Schools at IUPUI, IUPUI Office of Campus Writing, (2002).

COURSES TAUGHT

• SPEA V540 Law and Public Affairs

• SPEA V376 Law and Public Policy

• SPEA V450/V550 Community and the Constitution

• SPEA V260 Sin and Crime

• SPEA V450/V550 Mass Media and Public Affairs

• SPEA V450/V550 Classic Confrontation: Policy Then and Now

SERVICE

• Regular columnist for Indianapolis Star, Indiana Word

• Associate Editor, Policy Sciences

• Indiana Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

• Co-chair, City-County Council Caucus 2003 Transition Team

• Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee Race Relations Advisory Council

• Board, Marion County Mental Health Assn.

• Board, American Values Alliance

• Steering Committee, Lawyers Council of the ACLU of Indiana

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability, 2005

• Champion of Liberty Award from the Marion County Libertarians, 2004

• Building Bridges of Understanding Award from Indy Choruses, 2004

• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004

• Citation of Excellence, Emerald Management Independent Review Board

• IUPUI's Outstanding Female Faculty (one of 47), 2002

• Who's Who in America 2002

• Jencks Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Law in Indiana (2002)

• Indiana Liberty Award, Lambda Legal Defense (2001)

• American Library Association, 30th Anniversary Roll of Honor, Office for Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation (1999)

Kenneth Crews

Professor Crews joined the faculty of the School of Law in 1994 was made full professor in 2000. He holds a unique position at the university, with a joint appointment in the School of Library and Information Science and an administrative post as director of the university's Copyright Management Center.

Before joining the IU faculty, he practiced law in Los Angeles, co-founded a nonprofit business association, and taught business law at a campus of the California State University. Much of his work today focuses on copyright law, and he is involved in many efforts to develop national policy, especially as applied to teaching and research in higher education.

He spent the academic year 2000-2001 on sabbatical and in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany. He teaches every year in The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (see www.miplc.de)

Among his publications are numerous articles and reports and two recent books on copyright law. For more information about Prof. Crews and a list of his recent publications, see http://copyright.iupui.edu/director.htm.