Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1842 |
| Dean | Austen Parrish |
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Academic staff
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55 (full time) |
| Students | 681, plus about 100 graduate students |
| Location | Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Campus | Small city |
| Website | www |
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. IU Maurer is one of the top 10 public law schools in the United States, and tied for 25th overall, according to rankings published by U.S. News and World Report.
The school is named after Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, an Indianapolis businessman and 1967 alumnus who donated $35 million in 2008. From its founding in 1842 until Maurer's donation, the school was known as the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington.
The law school is one of two law schools operated by Indiana University, the other being the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) in Indianapolis. Although both law schools are part of Indiana University, each law school is wholly independent of the other.
According to the law school's ABA-required disclosures, 80.1% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Founded in 1842, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in the nation. The school is located on the southwest corner of the Indiana University Bloomington campus, which puts it in the center of Bloomington. The school maintains significant alumni bases in Indianapolis, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York.
Since its founding, IU Maurer has produced many notable alumni, including a Justice of the Supreme Court, numerous state supreme court justices and federal appellate and district court judges. The school has one of the largest academic law libraries in the United States with more than 450,000 volumes, and a beautiful location for academic study referred to by students and faculty as The Pit. Recent enhancements to the library include increased seating and study space, improved "green" lighting systems, and an online institutional repository. The library was ranked third in the country by National Jurist Magazine in March 2010.
IU Maurer is home of the Center on the Global Legal Profession, which conducts empirical research on the profession. This research helps inform the curriculum, with the goal of producing prepared, ethical, and educated lawyers for today's competitive world. As part of the enhanced curriculum, all first-year students are enrolled in a four-hour course on the legal profession, which examines not only the ethical responsibilities of the profession, but also the many career options that a law degree offers. The course also includes Career Choices, a series of sessions with alumni and other practitioners from a variety of settings, which exposes students to career options early in their law school experience.
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