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Paul Babcock, a 4L evening student at IU McKinney, is editor-in-chief of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review for the 2014-2015 academic year. What follows is a Q and A interview Babcock gave to Graduate Studies Program Manager Perfecto ‘Boyet’ Caparas, ’05.

Please tell us a bit about yourself.

I am a 4L night student.  I work at the Marion County Public Health Department as emergency preparedness project liaison. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda after college. I spent two years doing HIV education.  I earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from Butler University.  I have a master’s in public administration from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI. I was able to spend summer 2013 in the Republic of Georgia and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, thanks to externships through the Program in International Human Rights Law.  I’m very interested in and passionate about international law. 

What are your plans for the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review?

We’re going to publish the symposium on human trafficking.  We’re going to hopefully publish three more issues on a wide range of topics from scholars around the world.  We’ll publish articles written by IU McKinney students.   We’re going to publish articles on Egypt, post-conflict administration in Kosovo, a wide-range of topics.

How would you like our constituency to get involved with the law review’s 25^th anniversary?

We want to invite all our alumni, past members of the law review, and alumni of the law school for the 25^th anniversary.  The symposium for this year will be on international criminal law.  It’s going to occur in February 2015.  We’re putting together an innovative, attractive presentation.   We’re going to talk about the challenges in the 21^st century of international criminal law.  We’re also going to talk about the United States’ relationship to international criminal law. We want the alumni to be more involved and increase the circulation, citation rate of the law review and to really highlight the scholarship of our students, alumni, and faculty across the world.  We think it’s first rate.

What’s the composition of the law review editorial board?

The executive board consists of 10 individuals, each are assigned a different area to operate the law review.  We have a new class of 18 note editors.  These are all 2L and 3L students who will contribute to making the law review better.  We have a bunch of international students.  We’re living up to our mission. 

How would you sum up the 25-year history of the law review?

We have published the work of  Frank Sullivan, Jr., former justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, Giuliano Amato, former prime minister of Italy, Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, ’67, United Nations war crimes expert, dubbed “The Godfather of International Criminal Law.”  We’ve developed the exposure and appreciation of international scholarship and international lawyers of our legal community in Indiana.  We’ve done the reverse where we’ve highlighted how Indiana, especially IU McKinney, has impacted international scholarship and debate.