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While Administrators Fret, Prospective Law Students Are Losing Interest In U.S. News Rankings, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Prospective law students across the United States are paying less attention and giving less credence to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of American law schools, according to new research from scholars at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law.

“The Decline and Fall of the U.S. News Rankings” was published this week on the Social Science Research Network by Indiana Law Professor CJ Ryan and Brian Frye, Kentucky’s Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law.

Contrary to what many in the legal education community believe, a rise in the U.S. News rankings …

Organized For Service: The Hicks Classification System And The Evolution Of Law School Curriculum, John L. Moreland

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article traces the origins and development of the Hicks Classification System, an in-house organizational scheme used by the Yale Law Library from the late 1930s to the 1990s. It explores the relationship between the Hicks Classification System and the changing pedagogical methods of the law school curriculum during the early part of the 20th century. It provides a brief biographical sketch of Frederick C. Hicks, creator of the scheme, the need for a legal classification system, a detailed analysis of Hicks’s scheme, its finding aids, and a discussion of the inherent cultural biases in the system.

Teaching Information Privacy Law, Joseph A. Tomain

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Teaching information privacy law is exciting and challenging because of the fast pace of technological and legal development and because "information privacy law" sprawls across a vast array of disparate areas of substantive law that do not automatically connect. This Essay provides one approach to teaching this fascinating, doctrinally diverse, and rapidly moving area of law. Through the framework of ten key course themes, this pedagogical approach seeks to help students find a common thread that connects these various areas of law into a cohesive whole. This framework provides a way to think about not only privacy law, but also …

Dean's Desk: New Wintersession Offers Learning, Networking Opportunities, Austen L. Parrish

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

No abstract provided.

Making Law School A Place For People Who Know What They Want To Do

Austen Parrish (2014-2022)

No abstract provided.

Admit That The Waters Around You Have Grown: Change And Legal Education, Mari J. Matsuda

Indiana Law Journal

Presented as the Addison C. Harris Lecture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, September 25, 2013.

Clark Kerr And Me: The Future Of The Public Law School, Rachel Morán

Indiana Law Journal

Jerome Hall Lecture, delivered on March 21, 2012, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana

Portrait Of Hugh E. Willis (Photograph)

Hugh Willis (1942-1943 Acting)

Photograph of a painting of Hugh Willis that hangs in the Indiana University Law School (photographer, Chris Meyer).

Hugh Willis, Acting Dean Of The Law School (Photograph)

Hugh Willis (1942-1943 Acting)

Photograph of Hugh Willis and Richard Stack sitting in a law office.

What The Bar Examiners Should Know About The Law Schools, Bernard C. Gavit

Bernard Campbell Gavit (1933-1951)

Address delivered at the meeting of the National Conference of Bar Examiners in Philadelphia, September 10, 1940.

University's Professional Schools Ranked Among Best, Wiiliam A. Rawles, Barton D. Myers, Charles M. Hepburn

Charles Hepburn (1918-1925)

No abstract provided.

Is Law A Field For Woman's Work?, William P. Rogers

William Perry Rogers (1896-1902)

No abstract provided.