Seth M. Lahn
Senior Lecturer in Law
Office: Lewis Building 203Phone: 812-855-0905
Fax: 812-855-1122
E-mail: slahn@indiana.edu
B.A. History 1979, Yale University, summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Honors in History. Yale Law School, J.D. 1982. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 1975-77.
Professor Lahn directs the Law School's appellate advocacy program, teaching the Appellate Advocacy course and overseeing the Sherman Minton Moot Court competition. He also directs the Federal Courts Clinic and Inmate Legal Assistance Project and supervises students in the Public Interest Internship Program. He has taught legal research & writing, child advocacy, and mediation at the Law School as well. Professor Lahn joined the Law School faculty in 1995, bringing extensive legal experience in both government service and private practice.
For the past decade, Prof. Lahn has devoted much of his pro bono work to serving as faculty advisor to and volunteer attorney for the Protective Order Project, through which law students help victims of domestic violence in Monroe and surrounding counties secure relief from the courts and other community resources.
Lahn is a past recipient of the Law School's Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Student Award (2001), awarded by students each year to a faculty member who has done most to encourage public-interest work, and a University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (1998).
In 2005 and 2000, Prof. Lahn took his teaching abroad to our partner schools Assumption University, in Bangkok, Thailand and Adilet Law School in Almaty, Kazakhstan, respectively.
Prof. Lahn has argued cases in front of the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, and United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In addition to his work with POP, Lahn has represented pro bono clients through District 10 and other area volunteer attorney programs. Prof. Lahn is also an active member of the Indiana State Bar Association, having served as Chair of both the Clients' Financial Assistance Fund (2004-06) and Professional Legal Education, Admission and Development Section (2003-04) and as a member of the Association's Legal Ethics Committee since 1998.
Prof. Lahn is also actively involved with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, serving on its National Nominating Committee; as a member of the Central Region Steering Committee since 2001; and as a board member of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and its predecessors from 1997 to 2003.
Courses
- Federal Courts Clinic (B698)
- Public Interest Internship Program (B547)
- Appellate Advocacy (B642)
Current Teaching
Fall 2008 - 2009
- Appellate Advocacy (B642)
- Appellate Advocacy (B642)
- Federal Courts Clinic (B698)