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Areas of Focus

We offer particularly strong opportunities in emerging areas of legal research and practice.

• Business and Commercial Law Program

  Recent surveys suggest that approximately 60% of all lawyers practice some form of business law. Chances are good you'll be one of them. Our wide selection of courses, including an excellent curriculum in international business law, extracurricular offerings, and joint degree programs with the Kelley School of Business, ensure that you'll be ready.

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• Criminal Law and Procedure

  The moral and physical force of the law is nowhere more evident than in the criminal law. It is here that the law authorizes the government to take a person's property, liberty, or even life. The law must both empower government to protect its citizens from lawless behavior, but also protect citizens from the wrongful or mistaken application of the ultimate governmental power. In a nation such as ours, which is dedicated to the rule of law, the criminal demands of government that it define and prove crimes with specificity and that it exercise its power within strict limitations, many of them found in the U.S. Constitution.

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• Program in Environmental Law

  Clients call on environmental lawyers to grapple with difficult legal, scientific, and economic questions. Our program will prepare you for these demands. Our faculty are top scholars in the field, and they're known for their accessibility. You can also take advantage of our close relationship with the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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• Family Law

  The family is one of the most fundamental and important institutions in our society. Family law concerns the rights and responsibilities of individuals in the sphere of their home and intimate relationships. This program prepares students to confront the important practical and theoretical legal issues surrounding marriage, divorce, and child welfare. Our offerings in this area, which include several clinics and IU programs, are in high demand.

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• Information, Communications, and Privacy Law

  As pundits in every medium, old and new, are constantly informing us: in our era, information is king. Our program covers information law's traditional bailiwick and also keeps up with the ways in which new technology is constantly pushing the boundaries of the law. We are home to the Federal Communications Law Journal, the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

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• Program in Intellectual Property Law

  The growing importance of ideas as property is expanding the need for attorneys who have mastered the complexities of the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Our intellectual property faculty are established experts in these fields and offer a range of courses from broad surveys to specialized seminars focused on specific timely and relevant issues in the field.

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• International and Comparative Law, and Globalization

  Globalization is changing the world politically, economically, culturally, and legally. The Global Legal Studies Program will help prepare you for the global era in the classroom and out, thanks to our outstanding faculty, exchange programs, guest lecturers, and the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.

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• Labor and Employment Law

  For virtually everyone, the employment relationship—as employer or employee, or both—is the most significant legal relationship, apart from marriage and parenthood, that they will experience throughout their lives. The law has a great deal to say about the employment relationship: when it exists and when it doesn't, what conditions always apply to it and what can never apply, the responsibilities of employer to employee and the duties of employee to employer, and the ways in which an employment relationship can be ended, voluntarily and involuntarily. Labor Law addresses the relatively narrow but enormously important relationship between employers and organizations of employees; that is, labor unions or employees seeking to form a union. Employment Law covers a much wider range of topics, including discrimination, wage and hour standards, pension plans, employment contracts, and termination of employment.

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• Tax Law Program

  Tax issues are relevant to almost every area of law, and can arise in transactional and litigation contexts. The courses we offer provide the opportunity to study income tax issues applicable to individuals, corporations, and partnerships; transfer taxation and charitable giving; tax policy; and tax procedure. The Tax Program has close ties to the Kelley School of Business.

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