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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.

Benefactors

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

Historic Documents

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

Historic Documents

Typed manuscript (photocopy of original) of an unpublished, and never completed, history of the Indiana University School of Law, written by Robert G. Miller (LL.B, 1893).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

Historic Documents

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

A Question, Tamar Althouse

Historic Documents

Tamar Althouse, later to be Tamar Scholz, was the first female student to be enrolled at the Indiana University School of Law, graduating with her LL.B. in 1892. In November of that year she wrote this article (“A Question”) for the student newspaper of the day, The Indiana Student, addressing the importance of educating women.

Journal Of David Mcdonald, David Mcdonald

Historic Documents

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 …