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“Indiana Law attracts professors with passion who have identified important problems and want to solve them, all while engaging and inspiring students.”

—Indiana Law Dean Lauren Robel
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Recent Publications

David Fidler and Sarah Jane Hughes

Responding to National Security Letters: A Practical Guide for Legal Counsel (American Bar Association, 2009).

John Applegate

"Bridging the Data Gap: Balancing the Supply and Demand for Chemical Information" (86 Tex. L. Rev. 1365, 2008).

William Henderson

"The Elastic Tournament:  A Second Transformation of the Big Law Firm" (60 Stanford Law Review 1867, 2008). Co-authored with Marc Galanter.

Ajay Mehrotra

"Mergers, Taxes, and Historical Materialism" (83 Indiana Law Journal 881, 2008). 

See our faculty bibliography for up-to-date information on publications.

Faculty: Creating a Collaborative Environment

Indiana Law’s faculty scholars are internationally recognized for their research, and they also share a deep commitment to teaching and ensuring student success. Our faculty members include former Supreme Court Clerks, practicing attorneys from some of the nation’s top firms, former U.S. government administrators and legal consultants, and visiting professors from around the world. Drawing on their varied experiences and in close collaboration with one another, Indiana Law faculty members consistently produce work that has a tangible impact on the legal profession.

Research

Indiana Law is defined by collaborative, interdisciplinary work.

In 2006–07, our faculty members produced 117 scholarly works, including four books and five new casebook editions. Faculty scholars also presented their research at 180 universities, academic and professional organizations, and governmental or NGO meetings in 2006. This important work is featured prominently in the media, with more than 150 recent placements that included the nation’s top five newspapers as well as the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Law Journal, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.

Indiana Law scholars earned $4.8 million in research grants in 2005. Congress, the LSAC, Microsoft Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are among granting institutions that continue to support our top-notch legal research.

For more than 30 years, we have led law and society research, housing the Center on Law, Society, and Culture and editing the SSRN Journal of Law & Society. Our integral role in one of the nation’s great research universities also includes the path-breaking Center for Constitutional Democracy and the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, each headed by a Law School faculty member. Learn more about the centers.

Journals

Indiana Law is home to three highly regarded law journals that enable second- and third-year students to conduct and publish original legal research. Student editors solicit and review submissions by prominent legal scholars from around the country.

Indiana Law Journal

The Indiana Law Journal is one of the nation’s oldest public university law reviews.

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

One of the only journals on this topic, the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies is an innovative faculty-student partnership that highlights interdisciplinary work by researchers from around the world.

Federal Communications Law Journal (official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association)

The Federal Communications Law Journal (FCLJ) is the nation’s oldest communications law journal and has the largest circulation among journals of its kind. It is the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association.