Shreve 'Awarded' for Public Interest Support
"He supports students who want to pursue a career outside the law firm partner track, and says 'their idealism and social commitment should be rewarded.' Now we would like to award him," said Emily Tamlyn, Public Interest Law Foundation vice president, introducing Gene Shreve as the 2007 Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Faculty Award-winner."
The Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Faculty Award was established to
recognize annually the outstanding commitment of Indiana Law faculty to
public service and to public interest law. Shreve is wholly humble, but
he has, indeed, given much to Indiana Law's public interest efforts.
Last year he gifted $1 million to the School in support of public interest students. His financial contributions also helped to make possible the PILF relief trip to Biloxi, Miss.
"I'm proud of all of our graduates," Shreve said. "I am just especially grateful to students I get to meet and work with who are committed to the very special concerns of public interest law. I am just very delighted to be in a position to do anything at all about that."
Shreve's award comes on the heels of both the Leon Wallace Teaching Award and the Gavel Award. Shreve's work in civil procedure, conflict of laws, and jurisprudence is nationally recognized. His scholarship includes numerous law review articles, his treatise, Understanding Civil Procedure 2nd, and the recent A Conflict-of-Laws Anthology. For his excellence in research, Shreve holds the Richard S. Melvin Professorship at Indiana Law.
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