Education

• BA, magna cum laude, University of South Carolina Honors College, 1998
• JD, cum laude, New York University School of Law, 2002

Courses

• B734 Appellate Advocacy (External Moot Court Competitions)
• B542 Legal Research and Writing I
• B542 Legal Research and Writing II
• E476 (SPEA) Environmental Law and Regulation

Biography

Lane McFadden joined the Maurer School of Law faculty as a full-time lecturer in 2021. In his first year, he received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award, an award given by a committee of students to recognize excellence in classroom teaching. Professor McFadden teaches first-year Legal Research and Writing, and directs the appellate advocacy program at the Law School. He teaches the introductory Appellate Advocacy course and is the faculty advisor for the Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition. He also oversees the appellate moot court competition teams at Maurer, and coaches many of them.

Prior to joining the Law School, Professor McFadden was an environmental attorney with over 16 years’ experience as an appellate practitioner for the federal government. After law school, he clerked for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (in Fairbanks, Alaska) and Judge Loren A. Smith on the United States Court of Federal Claims (in Washington, DC). In 2004, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an appellate attorney in the Environment & Natural Resources Division, where he served as lead counsel for the United States in approximately 75 matters and presented more than 40 oral arguments to federal courts of appeals around the country. His practice addressed a wide range of environmental, aviation, land-management, nuclear, religious freedom, and Indian-law issues. After moving to Bloomington in 2018, he joined the Federal Aviation Administration as senior counsel, managing that agency’s air-pollution and noise-pollution docket nationwide. Between 2018 and 2021, he also advised many of Maurer’s moot court teams and taught undergraduate courses, before joining the Law School as a Lecturer.

Areas of expertise

• Administrative law
• Conservation law
• Environmental law