The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) is located on the campus of
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
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(IUPUI) in
Indianapolis,
Indiana
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, the urban campus of
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
*Indiana Universi ...
. 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
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
*Indiana Universi ...
, the other being the
Indiana University Maurer School of Law (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 (
Dan Quayle
James Danforth Quayle (; born February 4, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle served as a U.S. ...
and
Mike Pence) 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
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
*Indiana Universi ...
, 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
American Bar Association
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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) 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
The ''Indiana Health Law Review'' is a biannual student-edited law review at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Its primary focus is health law and related topics including bioethics, medical malpractice issues, managed care, c ...
'' 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 (
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
), and the
University of Basel
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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, cop ...
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 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.
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 the ...
(University of London), and the University of Basel School of Law in
Switzerland, with the assistance of a team of student editors from the ''II&CLR''.
Notable faculty
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Cleon H. Foust
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Lawrence Jegen
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Lawrence A. Jegen III (November 16, 1934 – May 17, 2018) was the Thomas F. Sheehan Professor of Tax Law and Policy at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney ...
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Edwin R. Keedy
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Jon Krahulik
Jon David Krahulik (December 31, 1944 – September 6, 2005) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from December 14, 1990 to October 31, 1993.Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Br ...
[Minde 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
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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 ...
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David Orentlicher
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Gary R. Roberts
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Florence Roisman
Florence Wagman Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She is best known for her work in low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation. In the fall ...
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
volume
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s in print and
microform
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. Included in the Library is a 20,000-volume
Commonwealth 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:
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Frederick Van Nuys (1900), U.S. Senator
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Harry G. Leslie
Harry Guyer Leslie (April 6, 1878December 10, 1937) was an American politician and Indiana Republican Party member, speaker of the state house and the 33rd governor of the state. His term as governor was marked by the start of the Great Depressi ...
(1907), Governor of Indiana
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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
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Samuel D. Jackson (1917), U.S. Senator
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Virginia Dill McCarty
Virginia Dill McCarty (December 15, 1924 – May 26, 2006) was an American lawyer who served as the U.S. Attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana from 1977 to 1981, and became the first woman to be appointed an ...
(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
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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
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Harriette Bailey Conn (1955), first woman and the first African American to serve as Indiana's state public defender
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Brent Dickson (1968), Chief Justice of the
Indiana Supreme Court
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Dan Coats (1972), U.S. Representative, Ambassador to Germany, U.S. Senator, and Director of National Intelligence
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Dan Quayle
James Danforth Quayle (; born February 4, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle served as a U.S. ...
(1974), former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and 44th Vice President of the United States
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Marilyn Quayle
Marilyn Tucker Quayle (born July 29, 1949) is an American lawyer and novelist. She is the wife of the 44th vice president of the United States, Dan Quayle, and served as the second lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.
Early life and e ...
(1974), American lawyer, novelist, and Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993
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Ahmad Natabaya (1981), former judge on the
Constitutional Court of Indonesia
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Brian Bosma (1984), former
Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives
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Willard Gemmill (1902), Justice of the
Indiana Supreme Court
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John R. Gregg (1984), former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana
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Lawson Harvey (1882), Justice of the
Indiana Supreme Court
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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
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Mike Pence (1986), U.S. Representative, Governor of Indiana, and 48th Vice President of the United States
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John S. Pistole,
Transportation Security Administration
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administrator
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Todd Rokita
Theodore Edward Rokita (born February 9, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from from 2011 to 2019. A membe ...
(1995),
U.S. Representative
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, former
Secretary of State of Indiana
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, and
Indiana Attorney General.
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Steven David, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
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Mark Massa, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
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George Tremain
George Lee Tremain (April 6, 1874 – February 8, 1948) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 1, 1935 to December 31, 1940.
Biography Early life and education
Tremain was ...
(1900), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
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Dan Flanagan (1921), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
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Jon Krahulik
Jon David Krahulik (December 31, 1944 – September 6, 2005) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from December 14, 1990 to October 31, 1993.Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Br ...
(1969), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
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William L. Taylor, Indiana Attorney General
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John J. Dillon (1952), Indiana Attorney General
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Marc Griffin (1992), American lawyer, world's youngest judge
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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
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