INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW - BLOOMINGTON

The 'Indiana University School of Law — Bloomington' is a law school located in Bloomington, Indiana. It is one of two law schools of its parent institution, Indiana University and is a part of the Indiana University System.

Contents

History and Background

Academics

Admissions

Degrees offered

Clinics

Academic reputation

Publications

Centers

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

See also

External links

History and Background

Indiana University School of Law — Bloomington was founded in 1842, making it one of the oldest law schools in the nation. The school is located at the edge of Indiana University, which puts it in the center of Bloomington. Many of the law school's alumni work in the Midwest, with the next largest numbers living and working in Washington, DC and New York.^[1] Since its founding, Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington has produced many notable alumni, including numerous state supreme court justices and federal appellate and district court judges, as well as one U.S. Supreme Court Justice. The school has the 20th largest academic law library in United States with more than 750,000 volumes. This library was named "Best Law Library in the Country" by National Jurist Magazine (Fall 2004). The Indiana Law chapter of the American Constitution Society was also recently distinguished, as the top chapter in the nation in 2006. The school engages in collaborative and study abroad programs with schools of law in China, South Korea, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, and Poland.

Academics

Admissions

The acceptance rate for full-time applicants in Fall 2005 was 38.1%.^[2] The entering class in 2006 had a median LSAT score of 163 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.57.^[3]

Degrees offered

Degrees offered by the school include: the juris doctor degree and combined degrees of JD/MBA, JD/MPA in accountancy, JD/MS in environmental science, JD/MPA, JD/MA in journalism, JD/MA or JD/MS in telecommunications, and JD/MS in library and information science. The school offers a masters degrees in law (LL.M and MCL), as well as a doctorate degree (SJD).

Clinics

★ Community Legal Clinic

★ Conservation Law Clinic

★ Disability Law Clinic

★ Elder Law Clinic

★ Entrepreneurship Law Clinic

★ Family and Children Mediation Clinic

★ Federal Courts Clinic

Academic reputation

In its 2008 publication, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school 36th among the nation's "Top 100 Law Schools".^[4]

Publications

★ Indiana Law Journal - Principal law review of the Indiana University System.

★ Federal Communications Law Journal - Official law review of the Federal Communications Bar Association

★ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Centers

The 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 focuses its 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.^[5]
The 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. The Center supports research related to the law in a broad sense, including cultural aspects of law expressed through political theory and the humanities, and scientific aspects of law expressed through technological advance in biotechnology, environmental science, and information technology.^[6]
The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
The center draws on Indiana University's wide range of scholarly expertise in computer science, informatics, accounting and information systems, criminal justice, law, organizational behavior, public policy, and related disciplines.^[7] Recently, the National Security Agency designated the center a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

Notable alumni

★ Hoagy Carmichael (1926), American composer

★ William E. Jenner (1930), U.S. Senator

★ Lee Hamilton (1956), U.S. Congressman and Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group

★ Sherman Minton (1915), U.S. Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator

★ Wendell Willkie, Presidential Candidate

★ Frank O'Bannon (1957), Governor of Indiana

★ Birch Bayh (1960), U.S. Senator

★ Feisal Istrabadi (1988), Iraqi UN Ambassador

★ S. Hugh Dillin (1938), U.S. District Court Judge

★ John D. Tinder (1975), U.S. District Court Judge

★ Rodolfo Lozano, U.S. District Court Judge

★ James E. Noland (1948), U.S. District Court Judge

★ Michael S. Kanne (1968), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

★ Jesse E. Eschbach, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

★ John S. Hastings, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

★ Walter Emanual Treanor, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Larry J. McKinney, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court

★ Shirley Abrahamson (1956), Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

★ Franklin Cleckley (1965), First African-American Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court

★ William Stewart (1959), Chief Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board

★ Pamela Jones Harbour (1984), Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission

★ Michael Uslan (1976), Executive Producer of Batman Begins, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Batman Returns

★ Frank Sullivan, Jr. (1982), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Dixon Prentice (1942), Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Richard Givan (1951), Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Roger O. Debruler (1960), Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Frederick E. Rakestraw (1947), Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Frederick Landis, Jr. (1934), Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ George Washington Henley, Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Harold E. Achor (1931) Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Paul G. Jasper, Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Curtis G. Shake, Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana

★ Mike Pence, U.S. Congressman

★ George N. Craig, Governor of Indiana

★ Vance Hartke, U.S. Senator

★ Willis Gorman, U.S. Congressman

★ Frank McCloskey, U.S. Congressman

★ Charles A. Halleck. U.S. Congressman

★ J. Keith Mann, Stanford Law Professor

★ Flerida Ruth P. Romero, (LLM 1955), Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

★ Masuji Miyakawa, (1905), The first Japanese American admitted to the bar in the U.S.

★ Jospeh Van Bokkelen, (1969), U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, U.S. District Court Judge

Notable faculty

★ Morris S. Arnold

★ Jerome Hall (1939-1970), Distinguished scholar in the field of jurisprudence and criminal law^[8]

★ Roger Dworkin

★ Leon Wallace

★ Patrick Baude

★ Craig Bradley

★ Susan Williams

★ David Williams

★ William Oliver

★ Gene Shreve

References

1. http://www.law.indiana.edu/careers/where/wherearethey.shtml
2. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/directory/dir-law/brief/glanc_03054_brief.php
3. [http://www.law.indiana.edu/prospective/etc/factsheet_2007.pdf School's "Fast Facts" (.pdf)
4. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php
5. http://ccdps.indiana.edu/
6. http://law.indiana.edu/curriculum/programs/centers/lawsociety/
7. http://law.indiana.edu/curriculum/programs/centers/
8. http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/volumes/v81/no2/1_Baier.pdf

See also

Indiana University

External links

★ www.law.indiana.edu Official site

★ usnews.com USNWR profile

★ review.com Princeton Review profile

★ [1] Indiana Law Journal Homepage

★ [2] Federal Communications Law Journal Homepage

★ [3] Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Homepage