Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington
Indiana University
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington
211 South Indiana Avenue
Law Building, Room 230
Bloomington, IN 47405
www.law.indiana.edu
Law School Pro Bono Programs
Contact Information
Jan TurnerAssistant to the Dean
turnerj@indiana.edu
812-855-1862
Category Type
Independent Student Pro Bono Group Projects with no school-wide program.
Description of Program
Location of Program
Staffing/Management/Oversight
Funding
The Law School provides shared office space to student pro bono groups as well as some financial support.
Student Run Pro Bono Groups/Specialized Law Education Projects
Environmental Research Project– Students provide research assistance to attorneys working on environmental cases on behalf of the public. The work is supervised by the attorneys with whom they are paired. A faculty member works with the group to assure continuity with the handling of cases. Inmate Legal Assistance Projec (ILAP) – Volunteer students give approximately seven hours per month to work on intra-institutional problems at the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana. Student work is supervised by non-clinical faculty.
Legal Services Organization Project – Volunteer students work on administrative law projects and cases as organized by the local LSO offices. This project is coordinated by the student PILF chapter.
Protective Order Project– POP is a student-directed project designed to help victims of domestic abuse obtain civil protective orders from the court, with the ultimate goal of preventing further abuse, both by restraining the abuser and by empowering the victim. Members of the law schools non-clinical faculty supervise the student work.
Public Interest Law Foundation Pro Bono Project – Each semester, PILF arranges a sign-up day for pro bono work with the area non-profit employers. Employers come to the law school to meet with students and discuss various opportunities within the organization. Roughly 50 students participate and perform the work at law offices and non-profit area locations. Lawyers not on the faculty or staff supervise, and non-lawyers supervise work that is non-legal.
Faculty and Administrative Pro Bono
Awards/Recognition
Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Award – Professor Amy G. Applegate received the award for pro bono work on children's causes in the community and throughout the state.
Community Service
The Outreach for Legal Literacy is a community service program in which students teach law at local elementary schools. The Tenant Assistance Project (TAP) provides legal help to tenants facing immediate threat of eviction.
Law School Public Interest Programs
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Contact Information
Certificate/Curriculum Programs
Public Interest Centers
Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies – The Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies (CCDPS) at Indiana University seeks to study and promote constitutional democracy in countries marked by ethnic, religious, linguistic, and other divisions. Founded and directed by John S. Hastings Professor of Law David Williams, the CCDPS will focus its initial work in Burma, Liberia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, training the reform leaders of these countries in constitutionalism, parliamentary process, and legal ordering. The Center focuses its efforts on the constitutional aspects of democratic reform, enabling plural societies to peaceably provide meaningful self-governance to all their citizens. The CCDPS is the only educational institution in the United States that offers students the chance to work directly and regularly with foreign reform leaders to support constitutional democracy. The Center's recent work includes a working conference, "Constitutional Reform: Burma, Liberia, and Azerbaijan," attended by democracy reform leaders from Burma, Liberia, and Azerbaijan at the School of Law.
Center for Law, Society, and Culture – The fundamental mission of the Center for Law, Society, and Culture is to promote and disseminate a multidisciplinary understanding of law through scholarship, teaching, and discussion. The Center produces, presents, and coordinates research conducted by exceptional scholars in schools and departments across Indiana University on the subject of law and legal problems.
Pro Bono Project – Students work with local attorneys on a variety of cases, and can request a specialty area of interest. Students participating in this project receive credit through the School's B710 Independent Clinical Project mechanism. They receive credit only when their internship is with a not-for-profit organization or government agency.
Public Interest Clinics
Community Legal Clinic Family and Children Mediation Clinic
Federal Courts Clinic
Independent Clinical Project
Student Legal Services Externship
Externships/Internships
The Law School permits students engaged in unpaid legal work for nonprofit, government agencies, judges, or legal services organizations to receive up to four credits during the summer through this program. In order to participate, a student must secure an internship and complete an academic component for credit.The major categories of internship opportunities include: Legal Services for poor/special populations; Advocacy Nonprofits; Other Nonprofits; Judicial; and Government. It is possible to find a good internship anywhere in the country. http://www.law.indiana.edu/careers/internships/index.shtml
Classes with a Public Service Component
Immigration Law – This course examines the rights of aliens to enter the United States, to remain in the United States after arrival, and to secure or retain citizenship. It includes special restrictions imposed on aliens that restrict their opportunity to secure employment, welfare benefits, or other entitlements, and the judicial response to those restrictions. The course explores a significant number of Supreme Court decisions that have addressed the many important constitutional issues lurking in immigration law.Intellectual Property Practicum – This quasi-clinical course allows students the opportunity both to learn about the substantive law and business underlying independent filmmaking and to gain invaluable experience in researching and drafting related work product. A set of local independent filmmaker "clients" meets with the class periodically throughout the semester, and students participate in a series of workshops with motion picture professionals (in 2005, guests included writer/producer Angelo Pizzo, producer Michael Uslan and film festival producer Jeff Sparks, among others). The course includes assigned readings from Gregory Goodell's "Independent Feature Film Production" and other sources.
Public Interest Journals
Public Interest Career Assistance
Career Related Services: - Lunch with a Lawyer series -- public interest attorneys discuss the public interest field; DC Networking Opportunities event; Finding Public Interest Opportunities program; the School also provided administrative support to the summer public interest internship program.
- Midwestern Public Interest Law Conference
Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAP)
The program, which began in October 2006, is funded by an endowment.
Post-Graduate Fellowships/Awards
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Term Time Fellowships/Scholarships
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Summer Fellowships
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The Public Interest Law Foundation (student group) hold an annual "Singing for Summer Salaries" fundraiser. Monies raised are matched by law school funds.
Extracurricular and Co-Curricular Programs
PILF Student Retreat – retreat held at Bradford Woods, a property owned by the universityLecture Series – Speakers are invited to the School to discuss a wide variety of public interest issues.
Student Public Interest Groups
