Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

{{Short description|Law school in Indianapolis, Indiana, US}} {{about|the school in Indianapolis|the school in Bloomington|Indiana University Maurer School of Law}} {{Infobox law school |name = Indiana University<br />Robert H. McKinney<br />School of Law |image = Lawrence W. Inlow Hall.jpg |caption = Lawrence W. Inlow Hall in 2011 |logo = Indiana_University_Robert_H._McKinney_School_of_Law_logo.jpg |logo_size= 250px |established = {{start date and age|1894}} |type = Public law school |dean = Karen Bravo |ranking = 107th (tie) (2025)<ref name="usnews">{{cite web |title=Indiana University—Indianapolis (McKinney) |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/indiana-university-purdue-university-indianapolis-03055 |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=2020-06-01 |archive-date=2020-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903041304/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/indiana-university-purdue-university-indianapolis-03055 |url-status=live }}</ref> |city = Indianapolis |state = Indiana |country = U.S. |students = 773 (2024)<ref name="ABA"/> |faculty = 44 (2024, full time)<ref name="ABA"/> |website= {{URL|mckinneylaw.iu.edu}} }}

'''Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law''' ('''IU McKinney''') is the law school of Indiana University Indianapolis, a public research university in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has been based in Lawrence W. Inlow Hall in Indianapolis since 2001.<ref name="SmithGroup">SmithGroup | Case Studies | School of Law - Lawrence W. Inlow Hall | http://www.smithgroup.com/index.aspx?id=427&section=38 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129225149/http://smithgroup.com/index.aspx?id=427&section=38 |date=2010-11-29 }} | accessdate=2012-03-19</ref> IU McKinney is one of two law schools operated by Indiana University, the other being the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. Although both law schools are part of Indiana University, each law school is wholly independent of the other.

According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 59% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/careers/_docs/employment-summary-2018_ABA.pdf|title=Employment Summary for 2018 Graduates|access-date=March 12, 2020|archive-date=July 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720001409/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/careers/_docs/employment-summary-2018_ABA.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

== History == The school's name was changed in December 2011 in recognition of a $24 million gift from Robert H. McKinney, who previously served as chairman and CEO of First Indiana Corporation and is among the founders of the Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Indianapolis law firm.<ref name="Law School Headlines">Law School Headlines | http://indylaw.indiana.edu/news/current.cfm?nid=567 | accessdate=2011-12-01</ref> The gift was the largest in school history and was part of an arrangement to match funds with an IUPUI fundraising campaign, for a total value of $31.5 million.<ref>Scott Olson, "[http://www.ibj.com/iu-law-school-in-indianapolis-gets-24m-from-mckinney/PARAMS/article/31085 IU law school in Indianapolis gets $24M from McKinney] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203085810/http://www.ibj.com/iu-law-school-in-indianapolis-gets-24m-from-mckinney/PARAMS/article/31085 |date=2012-02-03 }}" (December 1, 2011). ''Indianapolis Business Journal''.</ref> The school was renamed after McKinney.<ref>Tierney Plumb, "[http://www.nationaljurist.com/content/indiana-university-indianapolis-changes-name-after-big-donation Indiana University - Indianapolis changes name after big donation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217081642/http://www.nationaljurist.com/content/indiana-university-indianapolis-changes-name-after-big-donation |date=2012-02-17 }}" (December 12, 2011). ''National Jurist''.</ref>

==Admissions== For the class entering in 2024, the law school accepted 492 out of 782 applicants (a 62.92% acceptance rate), with 263 of those accepted enrolling, a 53.46% yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who enrolled). Six students were not included in the acceptance statistics. The class consisted of 269 students. The median LSAT score was 155 and the median undergraduate GPA was 3.59. Five students were not included in the GPA calculation and seven not included in the LSAT calculation. The reported 25th/75th percentile LSAT scores and GPAs were 152/159 and 3.31/3.83.<ref name="ABA">{{cite web |title=Robert H. McKinney School of Law - 2024 Standard 509 Information Report |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/requiredDisclosure |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=American Bar Association |access-date=October 16, 2025 |archive-date=October 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251008180841/https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/requiredDisclosure |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Online programs== IU McKinney has been an early mover in online course development, with a regular offering of up to ten courses per semester, including the Summer term, offered online. Most of these classes are asynchronous online courses taught by full time tenured members of the law school faculty. IU McKinney Online courses are available to students in the JD, LLM, and Masters of Jurisprudence programs; and to visiting students earning credits to transfer back to their home institutions. These online offerings include core, required, and highly recommended courses, as well as upper level specialty courses. Most IU McKinney Online courses have been produced in a 1-1 partnership with Ph.D. course designers working with Indiana University e-Learning Design and Services or the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning. The director of online programs is a senior member of the tenured law faculty, Max Huffman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/courses/online-program/index.html|title=Online Course Information|access-date=2020-08-07|archive-date=2020-08-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814131825/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/courses/online-program/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Employment== According to IU McKinney's 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 61% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within ten months after graduation. Across the three categories of employment ordinarily considered to be appropriate for comparison, the ABA 2019 summary reports that IU McKinney graduates were employed at an 88% rate, compared to a national average of 86% and an Indiana average of 88%.<ref>abarequireddisclosures.org/employmentoutcomes.aspx</ref><ref name="auto"/>

==Costs== The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at IU McKinney for the 2019–2020 academic year for an Indiana resident was $49,710, and $69,770 for a non-resident.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/admissions/_docs/2019-2020_CostofAttendance.pdf|title=Tuition and Expenses}}</ref> The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $185,611 for an Indiana resident and $258,039 for a non-Indiana resident.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/indiana-indy/costs/|title=IU - McKinney Law School Profile|access-date=2014-07-09|archive-date=2014-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716233735/http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/indiana-indy/costs/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Rankings == In 2025, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school tied for 107th out of 197 schools.<ref name="usnews"/> In its 2019 edition, ''U.S. News'' ranked the school 98th, 8th in legal writing, 10th in healthcare law (tied with Harvard) and 18th in part-time legal programs.<ref name="USNWR">USNWR Indiana University--Indianapolis (McKinney) | http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/indiana-university-indianapolis-mckinney-03055 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003183544/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/indiana-university-indianapolis-mckinney-03055 |date=2016-10-03 }} | accessdate=2014-03-11</ref><ref>USNWR Health Care Law | http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/clinical-healthcare-law-rankings {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222090719/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/clinical-healthcare-law-rankings |date=2017-02-22 }} | accessdate=2014-03-11</ref>

==Law reviews== The ''Indiana International & Comparative Law Review'' (''II&CLR'') has been published annually since 1991.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indiana International & Comparative Law Review|url=http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/iiclr/|publisher=Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law|access-date=November 18, 2013|archive-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012203432/http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/iiclr/|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Indiana Health Law Review'' addresses issues related to "bioethics, malpractice liability, managed care, anti-trust, health care organizations, medical-legal research, legal medicine, food and drug, and other current health-related topics".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ihlr/ |title=IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indiana Health Law Review |publisher=Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law |website=mckinneylaw.iu.edu |access-date=January 7, 2020 |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606020056/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ihlr/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was first published in the 2004–2005 academic year. IU McKinney also publishes the ''Indiana Law Review''<ref>{{cite web|title=European Journal of Law Reform|url=http://www.elevenpub.com/law/catalogus/european-journal-of-law-reform|publisher=Eleven International Publishing|access-date=November 18, 2013|archive-date=January 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109091835/http://www.elevenpub.com/law/catalogus/european-journal-of-law-reform|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''European Journal of Law Reform'' and the ''Indiana Law Review''.

== Center ==

===William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health=== {{excerpt|Lawrence W. Inlow Hall|William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health}}

== Notable faculty == {{Missing information|section| the professors' positions, and dates when professors taught, at the law school |date=October 2025}} * Cleon H. Foust<ref>{{cite web |title=Senior Lawyers Project Records, 1968-1991 |url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/senior-lawyers-project-collection-1968-1991.pdf |website=Indiana Historical Society |access-date=2022-09-13 |archive-date=2022-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913230407/https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/senior-lawyers-project-collection-1968-1991.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> * Lawrence Jegen<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=IU McKinney Mourns the Passing of Professor Lawrence A. Jegen III |url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/news/releases/2018/05/iu-mckinney-mourns-the-passing-of-professor-lawrence-a-jegen-iii.html |work=Indiana University Robert H. Mckinney School of Law |access-date=2020-01-07 |archive-date=2024-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240731143347/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/news/releases/2018/05/iu-mckinney-mourns-the-passing-of-professor-lawrence-a-jegen-iii.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * Edwin R. Keedy<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R-ZkwEOglkYC&q=%22Edwin+Roulette+Keedy%22&pg=PA894|title=University of Pennsylvania Law Review|date= 1915|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Law School|via=Google Books}}</ref> * Jon Krahulik<ref name="IndBio">Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt, "[https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/browning.pdf Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices]", ''Indiana Law Review'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced in [https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/justice-bios.pdf#page=108 Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page].</ref> * Gerard Magliocca<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?gerardmagliocca |title=Gerard N. Magliocca |publisher=National Cable Satellite Corporation |website=C-SPAN |access-date=2020-01-07 |archive-date=2019-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019094036/https://www.c-span.org/person/?gerardmagliocca |url-status=live }}</ref> * David Orentlicher<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Courts narrowing government power to preserve public health |url=https://archive.news.iu.edu/releases/2013/07/orentlicher-free-speech-cigarettes.shtml |work=Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law |agency= The Trustees of Indiana University |date=2013-07-08 |access-date=2020-01-07}}</ref> * Gary R. Roberts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/faculty-staff/profile.cfm?Id=313|title=Gary R. Roberts: Robert H. McKinney School of Law: Indiana University|website=mckinneylaw.iu.edu|access-date=2020-01-08|archive-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165728/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/faculty-staff/profile.cfm?Id=313|url-status=live}}</ref> * Florence Roisman<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/instructors/roisman/ |title=Florence Wagman Roisman |last=Roisman |first=Florence |website=mckinneylaw.iu.edu |publisher=Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law |access-date=2020-01-07 |archive-date=2023-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606074046/https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/instructors/roisman/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * John Lawrence Hill<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-05 |title=Prof. John Lawrence Hill |url=https://fedsoc.org/bio/john-lawrence-hill |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=The Federalist Society}}</ref>

== Ruth Lilly Law library == The Ruth Lilly Law Library is the school's law library, holding approximately 603,000 volumes.<ref>"[http://indylaw.indiana.edu/library/about.htm Ruth Lilly Law Library: The Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425072004/http://indylaw.indiana.edu/library/about.htm |date=2012-04-25 }}." Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.</ref>

== Alumni == {{Missing information|section| the kind of degree and, for some, the date granted, usually supplied for alumni |date=October 2025}} {{div col|colwidth=}} * Frederick Van Nuys (1900), U.S. Senator * Harry G. Leslie (1907), Governor of Indiana * Arthur Raymond Robinson (1910), U.S. Senator * Samuel D. Jackson (1917), U.S. Senator * Virginia Dill McCarty (1950), first woman appointed to full four-year term as a U.S. Attorney (Southern District of Indiana), first woman to run for Governor of Indiana<ref>[http://www.in.gov/icw/files/2015-03-19_Virginia_Dill_McCarty.pdf Virginia Dill McCarty (1924-2006)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224051940/https://www.in.gov/icw/files/2015-03-19_Virginia_Dill_McCarty.pdf |date=2017-02-24 }}. Indiana Government website, 19 March 2015. Accessed 19 July 2017.</ref> * Edgar Whitcomb (1950), Governor of Indiana * Harriette Bailey Conn (1955), first woman and the first African American to serve as Indiana's state public defender * Brent Dickson (1968), Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Dan Coats (1972), U.S. Representative, ambassador to Germany, U.S. Senator, and Director of National Intelligence * Dan Quayle (1974), former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and 44th Vice President of the United States * Marilyn Quayle (1974), American lawyer, novelist, and Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993 * Ahmad Natabaya (1981), former judge on the Constitutional Court of Indonesia<ref>[http://www.unsri.ac.id/?act=tokoh_detil&id=7 Prof. H Ahmad Syarifuddin Natabaya, SH, LLM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905070445/https://unsri.ac.id/?act=tokoh_detil&id=7 |date=2023-09-05 }}. Sriwijaya University website, 6 December 2008. Accessed 18 October 2016.</ref> * Brian Bosma (1984), former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives * Willard Gemmill (1902), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * John R. Gregg (1984), former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana * Lawson Harvey (1882), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Susan Brooks (1985), U.S. Representative * Mike Pence (1986), U.S. Representative, Governor of Indiana, and 48th Vice President of the United States * John S. Pistole, Transportation Security Administration administrator * Todd Rokita (1995), U.S. Representative, former Secretary of State of Indiana, and Indiana Attorney General. * Steven David, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Mark Massa, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * George Tremain (1900), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Dan Flanagan (1921), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Jon Krahulik (1969), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * William L. Taylor, Indiana Attorney General * John J. Dillon (1952), Indiana Attorney General<ref>{{cite news |title=Steers, Dillon Are Opponents In Legal Contest |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/valparaiso/valparaiso-vidette-messenger/1960/10-29/page-5/ |agency=Valparaiso Vidette Messenger |date=29 Oct 1960}}</ref> * Marc Griffin (1992), American lawyer, world's youngest judge * Todd Young (2006), U.S. Senator {{div col end}}

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