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Bicentennial Alumni Research Project, Indiana University Maurer School Of Law

Historic Documents

In summer 2020, eighteen incoming law students (0Ls) were chosen as IU Maurer School of Law Bicentennial Research Scholars to work with Dean Austen Parrish and Libby Steinbach (Executive Assistant in the Dean's Office) over a two-month period in June and July 2020. The scholars were asked to interview a range of alumni who volunteered to be interviewed and who have played an important role in the life of law school. Scholars were tasked with writing an alumni profile for each alumnus interviewed. This report is the result of those efforts and a compilation of the alumni profiles.

Lowell E. Baier

Benefactors

Lowell E. Baier, President, Baier Properties Inc., JD 1964

A native of Jasper County, Indiana, Lowell Baier received his B.A. in economics and political science from Valparaiso University in 1961 and his law degree from Indiana University in 1964. While practicing law in Washington, D.C., in 1967, he formed Baier Properties Inc., a Bethesda, Md., based developer of warehouses, residential properties and award-winning office buildings and shopping centers.

In addition to his work as a lawyer and businessman, Baier has been a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation. In the early 1970s, he was one of 14 founders …

Legal Ethics In The Digital Age, Susan David Demaine, Andrew R. Falk, Catherine A. Lemmer, Cheryl L. Niemeier

Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty

Ms. deMaine's contribution to the seminar is: "Legal Ethics in the Digital Age"

Michael S. Maurer

Benefactors

Michael S. Maurer, Chairman, IBJ Media Corp., JD 1967.

An Indianapolis native, Maurer graduated from North Central High School and received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from University of Colorado. He returned home for law school, earning a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University, where he was a writer and an editor of the Law Journal. He is admitted to both the New York and the Indiana Bars, and has also successfully completed the CPA examination. Maurer serves as Chairman of the Board of IBJ Corporation. IBJ owns and publishes The Indianapolis Business Journal, Court and Commercial Record …

Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family -- J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J.K. Jr. and Eli -- through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company.

On December 12, 2007, the Lilly Endowment awarded the law school a $25 million grant enabling the school to attract and retain exceptional teachers and scholars and to establish the School as one of the very best public universities in the country. “[The gift] will help us position our School of Law at the forefront of legal education …

Women In The Law: Milestones And Information, Colleen Kristl Pauwels

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Colleen Pauwels was the Director of the Jerome Hall Law for more than 30 years and wrote and researched about the history of the Maurer School of Law. This document details names and dates of major milestones of women in the law from 1892-1988.

Indiana University School Of Law: Notes And Material Gathered For The Preparation Of A History Of The Law School Of Indiana University, Robert G. Miller

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Typed manuscript (photocopy of original) of an unpublished, and never completed, history of the Indiana University School of Law, written by Robert G. Miller (LL.B, 1893). The history takes the form of a brief narrative, along with profiles of individuals who were influential to the school's early history. The history runs from the school’s founding to approximately the turn of the twentieth century.

Includes photocopies of photographs and newspaper articles related to the Law School. Also included are letters from relatives and friends of some of the people profiled, providing the author with details about those individuals

Indiana Law Club: Meeting Minutes, 9/26/1934-10/15/1940, Indiana Law Club, Indiana University School Of Law

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Meeting minutes of the Indiana Law Club (affiliate of the Indiana State Bar Association) from September 26, 1934 to October 15, 1940. Handwritten notes of meetings, with some typed notes pasted in chronologically. A small number of loose pages appear, out-of-order, following page 82.

Property note on inside cover reads: Property of the Indiana Law Club, affiliate of Indiana State Bar Assn., Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana

Petition Of The John W. Foster Law Club Of Indiana University For A Charter From Phi Delta Phi, John W. Foster Law Club

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Written in 1899, this is the petition of the John W. Foster Law Club of Indiana University to the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity for a charter membership into the organization. The following year marked the establishment of Phi Delta Phi at Indiana University.

Biographical Sketches Of Law Department Graduates And Professors (1844-1876), Theophilus A. Wylie

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Excerpts originally published in Indiana University, It's History, 1820. To view the full text of this title go to the HathiTrust here.

Journal Of David Mcdonald, David Mcdonald

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Handwritten journal of David McDonald who is recognized as the first Professor of Law at Indiana University. The journal is undated but contains a transcribed article from the Cincinnati Gazette dated April 17, 1865.

McDonald was born in Millersburg, Kentucky and moved to Indiana when he was 14, in 1817. He eventually became a school teacher in Washington, before meeting a local lawyer who encouraged him to study law. He was licensed to practice in the Circuit Courts in 1830. He served as a member of the Indiana Legislature (1833-34) as well as being elected judge of the 10th Circuit …