Write On! Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) Three units at Indiana University, Bloomington -- the Maurer School of Law, the Russian and East European Institute, and the Center for Western European Studies-- are seeking papers from scholars of international criminal law, transitional justice, or the former Yugoslavia for a conference entitled "The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy," to be held February 18-21, 2010. Papers should address issues related to the trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic (below right) -- a trial that, as we've posted, ended with his death in 2005 -- or to the trial's impact on the former Yugoslavia, on international criminal law, or on transition justice. Paper topics should fall within the themes of conference:

The trial's significance and legacy are strongly contested; the conference will examine both the causes of the trial's termination and its implications for post-conflict justice. Drawing on major trial participants, experts on the former Yugoslavia, and international criminal law scholars who have written on the trial, the conference will address issues such as:
► the proper role of historical truth-telling in war crimes trials;
► measuring the impact of trials;
► prosecutorial and judicial strategy in designing trials; and
► access to trial archives.

Preliminary program and other details here. Deadline's soon: send a 500-word abstracts, a 200-word biography, and a c.v. by December 5, 2009, to tiwaters@indiana.edu. (N.B. One version of this call put the deadline as early as "November 31," so better to inquire if you've any questions.)

Guest Blogger: Jeannine Bell

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure today to welcome guest blogger Jeannine Bell (left).
Jeannine is Professor of Law and Charles Whistler Faculty Fellow at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. (As blogreaders know, the law school also is the home institution of IntLawGrrl Christiana Ochoa and guests/alumnae Hannah Buxbaum and Dawn Johnsen.)

After earning her A.B. degree in government from Harvard College, Jeannine earned a J.D., as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science, from the University of Michigan. At Indiana she teaches Criminal Procedure, Property, and seminars on the First Amendment and Law and Society. She's active in the Law and Society Association (about which IntLawGrrls also posts today): in addition to having served on the LSA board and chaired several LSA committees, she's an associate editor of the Law and Society Review. Her publications, which have focused on matters of criminal justice, include Policing Hatred (2004), Police and Police and Policing Law (2006), and, with Martha S. Feldman and Michele Berger, Gaining Access (2003). In her guest post below, Jeannine describes her article on torture, which grew out of questions that arose when she served as a member of a political science special task force on terror and political conflict.

Jeannine would like to dedicate her post to a woman about whom IntLawGrrls has posted before: the activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977, in the foreground of the photo below). Jeannine writes: "Though largely known for her work on behalf of civil rights in Mississippi, Hamer was also an outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam. Rather that just fighting for the rights of Blacks from Mississippi, Hamer used her voice to call attention to injustice outside the U.S. Her fearlessness, courage, and refusal to accept the place to which society relegated her is truly inspiring." Today Hamer joins the list of IntLawGrrls' transnational foremothers, just below the "visiting from..." map in the righthand column.

Heartfelt welcome!

Lateral and Entry Level Hiring at Indiana Law

(As a member of the lateral appointments committee at Indiana, I've been asked to get out the exciting news of our plans to bring great people aboard. So, if you are interested in building a truly great law school and want a high quality life for you and your family, consider this opportunity, which has run on SSRN.)

In 2007, Indiana University School of Law–Bloomington received a $25 million gift from the Lilly Foundation for the purpose of attracting and retaining leading scholars and teachers. The gift will enable the Law School to hire up to five senior level professors without limitation to specific curricular subject. In addition, the Law School is seeking outstanding applicants for several entry level openings. Although the entry level and lateral hiring committees are particularly interested in hiring scholars that will leverage and extend the School’s current strengths, all qualified candidates will receive careful consideration. The attractions of Indiana Law include:
► Highly collegial faculty with a longstanding focus on globalization, international law, interdisciplinary research, and law & society scholarship.
► Attractive law school facilities, including a top-ranked law library.
► Integration with a major research university on one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses.
► Excellent, ambitious JD, LLM, and SJD students with strong entering credentials.
► Strong commitment to curricular innovation to keep pace with a rapidly changing legal profession.
► Three course teaching load, small average class size, and an excellent student-faculty ratio that will further improve through new faculty hiring.
► Excellent support for conference travel related to scholarship and professional service and development.
► A lovely, vibrant Big Ten college town.
► An active and supportive alumni base.
► Competitive salary and benefits.
The entry level and lateral appointments committees invite confidential inquiries from scholars at other institutions. Women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates should submit a c.v. and a letter summarizing their future career goals in the areas of scholarship, teaching, and service. Please direct these materials, either electronically or through regular mail (211 S. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, Indiana 47405), to the chair of the entry level or lateral appointments committees, as follows:
Entry Level: Jeannine Bell, Professor of Law & Whistler Faculty Fellow, jeabell@indiana.edu, (812) 856-5013
Lateral: Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Willard & Margaret Carr Professor of Law, kdauschm@indiana.edu, (812) 855.0697
Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Guest Blogger: Hannah Buxbaum

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Hannah Buxbaum (left) as today's guest blogger.

Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Hannah teaches Comparative Law, Contracts, International Business Transactions, and International Litigation. Her publications, which have appeared in English and in German, treat issues of of private international law and international litigation and jurisdiction. Her guest post below examines U.S. courts and what she call the "foreign-cubed" class action.

Hannah earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Before joining Indiana's faculty, she worked in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell. A member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, Hannah serves as co-book review editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and the American Law Institute, and has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (the last body, coincidentally, is discussed today in another post below).

Hannah would like to dedicate her guest post to a transnational pioneer: her mom, Wiebke Buxbaum, who was born and raised in Germany. She received her doctorate in law from the University of Cologne and then an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley. After deciding to make her home in the United States, she "started over," as Hannah puts it, earning a J.D. from Berkeley and joining Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, where she specialized in corporate and banking law and became the 1st woman to make partner at that San Francisco firm.