The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) is located on the campus of

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(IUPUI) in

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, the urban campus of

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. In the summer of 2001, the school moved to its new building, Lawrence W. Inlow Hall.SmithGroup , Case Studies , School of Law - Lawrence W. Inlow Hall , http://www.smithgroup.com/index.aspx?id=427§ion=38 , accessdate=2012-03-19 IU McKinney is one of two law schools operated by

, the other being the

Indiana University Maurer School of Law The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The school is named after Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, an Indianapolis businessman and 1967 alumnus who donated $35 million in 2008 ...

(IU Maurer) in Bloomington. Although both law schools are part of Indiana University, each law school is wholly independent of the other. According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 59% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation. Several of IU McKinney's programs have drawn national attention and honors. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranks the school 11th in the nation for its health care law program, 23rd for legal writing, and 23rd for the part-time law program. Additionally, IU McKinney counts among its alumni many distinguished leaders in politics, public service, and the judiciary, including two United States Vice Presidents (

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and

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) and numerous senators, representatives, governors, and ambassadors. In a listing of "The 50 Most Impressive Law School Buildings in the World," IU McKinney's building, Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, ranked 13th.

History

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law traces its origins to the late nineteenth century when the first of its private predecessor schools, the Indiana Law School, began operating in 1894. A full-time day school, the Indiana Law School was part of a newly formed University of Indianapolis that also included Butler University, the Medical College of Indiana and the Indiana Dental School. All three professional schools later became part of Indiana University. Among the first trustees of the school were former United States President,

Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia–a grandson of the ninth pr ...

, and Indiana industrialist,

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and ...

. In 1898, a second predecessor school, the Indianapolis College of Law, was founded, offering a two-year evening program. This school, located in the Pythian Building in downtown Indianapolis, was advertised in 1906 as "known everywhere for its successful graduates," and boasted a tuition of $10 per term. A few years later, another evening school, the American Central Law School, was established. In 1914, the Indianapolis College of Law and American Central Law School merged to become the Benjamin Harrison Law School, which was also an evening school. In 1936 the Benjamin Harrison Law School and the Indiana Law School merged, taking the name of the latter, and offering both day and evening programs. In 1944, the Indiana Law School affiliated with

, becoming the Indianapolis Division of the Indiana University School of Law. Beginning the following year, the school was housed in the Maennerchor Building, an architectural landmark in Indianapolis. The school gained autonomy in 1968, becoming the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, the largest law school in the state of Indiana and the only law school in the state to offer both full- and part-time programs. The school moved into a new building at 735 West New York Street in 1970 where it remained until moving to Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, located at 530 West New York Street, in May 2001.Law School About Page , http://indylaw.indiana.edu/admissions/about.htm , accessdate=2011-02-16 The school's name was changed in December 2011 in recognition of a $24 million gift from Robert H. McKinney, who previously served as chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation and is among the founders of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, one of the largest law firms in Indianapolis.Law School Headlines , http://indylaw.indiana.edu/news/current.cfm?nid=567 , accessdate=2011-12-01 The gift was the largest in school history and was part of an arrangement to match funds with an IUPUI fundraising campaign, for a total value of $31.5 million. The school was renamed after McKinney.

Online programs

IU McKinney has been an early mover in quality online course development, with a regular offering of up to ten courses per semester, including the Summer term, offered online. Most of these classes are asynchronous online courses taught by full time tenured members of the law school faculty. IU McKinney Online courses are available to students in the JD, LLM, and Masters of Jurisprudence programs; and to visiting students earning credits to transfer back to their home institutions. These online offerings include core, required, and highly recommended courses, as well as upper level specialty courses. Most IU McKinney Online courses have been produced in a 1-1 partnership with Ph.D. course designers working with Indiana University e-Learning Design and Services or the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning. The director of online programs is a senior member of the tenured law faculty, Professor Max Huffman.

Employment

According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 61% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation. Across the three categories of employment ordinarily considered to be appropriate for comparison, the ABA 2019 summary reports that IU McKinney graduates were employed at an 88% rate, compared to a national average of 86% and an Indiana average of 88%.

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at IU - McKinney for the 2019-2020 academic year for an Indiana resident was $49,710, and $69,770 for a non-resident. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $185,611 for an Indiana resident and $258,039 for a non-Indiana resident.

Rankings

Of the 203

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(ABA)-accredited law schools evaluated for its 2019 edition, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school in the top 100 (#98) best law schools, 8th in legal writing, 10th in healthcare law (tied with

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

) and 18th in part-time legal programs.USNWR Indiana University--Indianapolis (McKinney) , http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/indiana-university-indianapolis-mckinney-03055 , accessdate=2014-03-11 In 2010, based on the number of graduates selected for inclusion in ''Super Lawyers'' magazine in 2009, that publication ranked the school 44th out of 180 law schools considered.Super Lawyers Law School Rankings , http://www.superlawyers.com/toplists/lawschools/united-states/2010/ , accessdate=2014-03-11 The school has also sat atop the Top 10 Law Schools in Indiana Super Lawyers list since the list's inception in 2010.Top 10 Law Schools in Indiana Super Lawyers 2010 , http://www.superlawyers.com/toplists/lawschools/indiana/2010/ , accessdate=2014-03-11 The school also found itself listed in the top 10 (#9) by US News in 2014 for highest yield – i.e., percentage of accepted applicants who enroll.10 Law Schools Where Accepted Students Usually Enroll , https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/2014/03/13/10-law-schools-where-accepted-students-usually-enroll , accessdate=2014-04-2 The publication "Best Choice Schools" has consistently ranked the school's facility as one of the nicest law school building in the world.

Law reviews

Indiana Law Review

The ''Indiana Law Review'' is a legal periodical edited and managed by students of the law school. Each year, the Law Review publishes one volume, which consists of four issues. Generally, the first three issues contain two to four lead articles and three to five student Notes. The fourth issue is the final and longest issue of each year. The ''Survey of Recent Developments in Indiana Law'' contains fifteen to twenty articles written by professors and Indiana practitioners summarizing the significant changes and developments in Indiana law during the prior year (October to October).

Indiana International & Comparative Law Review

The ''Indiana International & Comparative Law Review'' (''II&CLR'') is published annually and has been published continuously since 1991. Although the ''II&CLR'' has typically published three issues per year and held symposia biennially, it now hosts symposia annually and is slated to publish four issues for Volume XXIV. The ''II&CLR'' is devoted to the study and analysis of current international and comparative legal issues and problems.

Indiana Health Law Review

The '' Indiana Health Law Review'' addresses issues related to bioethics, malpractice liability, managed care, anti-trust, health care organizations, medical-legal research, legal medicine, food and drug, and other current health-related topics. The Law Review was first published in the 2004-2005 academic year.

European Journal of Law Reform

The ''European Journal of Law Reform'' was launched in 1998 to provide a forum for interdisciplinary debate on proposals for law reform and the development of private and public international law in Europe. The Journal is jointly edited by faculty of IU McKinney, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (

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), and the

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School of Law in Switzerland, with the assistance of a team of student editors from the ''II&CLR''.

Centers

Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation

The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation is a center for

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, co ...

law and related transactional areas. It is affiliated with both Purdue University and Indiana University, with strong ties to the IU Medical Center and the IU Kelley School of Business.

William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health

IU McKinney houses the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health. The Center for Law and Health was established in 1987 to conduct legal and empirical research on

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health pr ...

law and policy issues in Indiana and the nation and was later renamed in honor of William S. and Christine S. Hall. The Center houses the ''Indiana Health Law Review'', a health care law and policy-focused

law journal A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also p ...

Center for International and Comparative Law

The Center for International and Comparative Law is the nucleus for all of the law school's international law programs, including two international related law reviews. The ''Indiana International & Comparative Law Review'' was launched in 1991, devoted to the study and analysis of current international legal issues and problems. The ''European Journal of Law Reform'' was launched in 1998 to provide a forum for interdisciplinary debate on proposals for law reform and the development of private and public international law in Europe. That journal is jointly edited by faculty of IU McKinney, the

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Founded in 1947, it is a national academic centre of excellence, serving the legal community and universities across th ...

(University of London), and the University of Basel School of Law in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, with the assistance of a team of student editors from the ''II&CLR''.

Notable faculty

* Cleon H. Foust * Lawrence Jegen *

Edwin R. Keedy Edwin Roulette Keedy (January 19, 1880 November 25, 1958) was Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1941 until 1945, as well as the law school's Algernon Sidney Biddle Professor of Law. Biography Keedy was born in Boonsboro, ...

* Jon KrahulikMinde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices
, '' Indiana Law Review'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced i
Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page
*

Gerard Magliocca Gerard Magliocca is an American law professor, the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is a noted scholar and expert on constitutional issues, particularly its historical underpinnings. Biogra ...

* David Orentlicher * Gary R. Roberts * Florence Roisman

The Ruth Lilly Law library

The Ruth Lilly Law Library is the school's

law library A law library is a special library used by law students, lawyers, judges and their law clerks, historians and other scholars of legal history in order to research the law. Law libraries are also used by people who draft or advocate for new la ...

. The Library has an estimated 603,000

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s in print and

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. Included in the Library is a 20,000-volume

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collection.

Alumni

The law school has over 10,000 alumni located in every state in the nation and several foreign countries. IU McKinney counts among its alumni many distinguished leaders in politics, public service, and the judiciary: * Frederick Van Nuys (1900), U.S. Senator * Harry G. Leslie (1907), Governor of Indiana *

Arthur Raymond Robinson Arthur Raymond Robinson (March 12, 1881March 17, 1961) was a United States senator from Indiana. Early life Born in Pickerington, Ohio, Robinson attended the common schools, graduated from the Ohio Northern University in 1901 ( B. Comm. Sci ...

(1910), U.S. Senator * Samuel D. Jackson (1917), U.S. Senator * Virginia Dill McCarty (1950), first woman appointed to full four-year term as a U.S. Attorney (Southern District of Indiana), first woman to run for Governor of Indiana *

Edgar Whitcomb Edgar Doud Whitcomb (November 6, 1917 – February 4, 2016) was an American attorney, writer and politician, who served as the 43rd governor of Indiana. His term as governor began a major rift in the Indiana Republican Party as urban Republica ...

(1950), Governor of Indiana * Harriette Bailey Conn (1955), first woman and the first African American to serve as Indiana's state public defender * Brent Dickson (1968), Chief Justice of the

Indiana Supreme Court The Indiana Supreme Court, established by Article 7 of the Indiana Constitution, is the highest judicial authority in the state of Indiana. Located in Indianapolis, the Court's chambers are in the north wing of the Indiana Statehouse. In Decem ...

Dan Coats Daniel Ray Coats (born May 16, 1943) is an American politician, attorney, and former diplomat. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a ...

(1972), U.S. Representative, Ambassador to Germany, U.S. Senator, and Director of National Intelligence *

(1974), former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and 44th Vice President of the United States * Marilyn Quayle (1974), American lawyer, novelist, and Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993 *

Ahmad Natabaya Ahmad Natabaya, also known as HAS Natabaya, is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. He completed his Bachelor of Law degree at Sriwijaya University in Palembang in 1967, his master's degree at Indiana University Robert H. McKin ...

(1981), former judge on the

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Brian Bosma Brian C. Bosma (born October 31, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006 and 2010 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Bosma has served in the Indiana Hous ...

(1984), former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives * Willard Gemmill (1902), Justice of the

* John R. Gregg (1984), former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana * Lawson Harvey (1882), Justice of the

Susan Brooks Susan Lynn Brooks (née Wiant; born August 25, 1960) is an American prosecutor and politician. She is a Republican Party (United States), Republican and the former United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative for . She was elected ...

(1985), U.S. Representative *

(1986), U.S. Representative, Governor of Indiana, and 48th Vice President of the United States *

John S. Pistole John S. Pistole (born June 1, 1956) is the former administrator of the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is currently the president of Anderson Unive ...

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administrator * Todd Rokita (1995), U.S. Representative, former

Secretary of State of Indiana The Secretary of State of Indiana is one of five constitutional officers originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816. Since 1851, it has been an elected position. The Secretary of State oversees four divisions, and is the third ...

, and

Indiana Attorney General The Indiana Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Indiana in the United States. Attorneys General are chosen by a statewide general election to serve for a four-year term. The forty-fourth and Attorney General is Todd Ro ...

. * Steven David, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court *

Mark Massa Mark S. Massa (born March 6, 1961) is an American judge who has served as an Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court since April 2, 2012, when he succeeded Randall T. Shepard. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Massa moved to Indiana in 19 ...

, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * George Tremain (1900), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Dan Flanagan (1921), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Jon Krahulik (1969), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * William L. Taylor, Indiana Attorney General * John J. Dillon (1952), Indiana Attorney General * Marc Griffin (1992), American lawyer, world's youngest judge *

Todd Young Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Young previously served as the U.S. re ...

(2006), U.S. Senator

References

External links

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