This page lists all currently offered McKinney courses & their official course descriptions in alphabetical order.
All Courses
Immigration Law and Procedure (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 709 - Elective - covers citizenship, acquisition, and maintenance of major immigrant and nonimmigrant classifications, along with admission into and exclusion or deportation from the United States. Topics addressed include the structure and procedures of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Immigration Law Clinic (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 808 - Clinic Course - Students represent both detained and non-detained clients in immigration matters before federal administrative agencies under the supervision of the professor/counsel. Typical cases involve claims of asylum, family-based immigration petitions (including domestic violence), special immigrant juvenile petitions, and crime victim visas. Students are encouraged to enroll in the clinic for two consecutive semesters. The Course will be operated in conjunction with the Immigrants' and Language Rights Center at Indiana Legal Services. The Course is open to upper level J.D. students and LL.M. students. Completion of or enrollment in Immigration Law is strongly recommended. Students must receive instructor approval prior to registration.
In-House Counsel Seminar (2 cr.) D/N 700 - Seminar - Unlike most law school classes, this class focuses on lawyers practicing as employees of public and private for-profit corporations and nonprofit organizations. In-house lawyers face a combination of business and legal issues that differ from law firm practice. In-house lawyers must balance their duties as a lawyer with their business and leadership responsibilities within the organization. In-house lawyers play several roles including legal technician, trusted counselor, and business leader. In addition, the general counsel serves as a lawyer-statesman, setting the moral compass for the organization. This course addresses both what is legal and what is right for the organization. It also seeks to provide an understanding of the practical skills for in-house practice, building a foundation for the student to address complex problems and be an effective contributor to the organization. A substantial research paper may satisfy the Advanced Research and Writing Requirement if approved by the instructor.
Income Taxation of Corporations and Pass-Through Entities (2 cr.) D/N 869 - Elective - examines the basic federal and state income tax and other tax laws which are applicable to corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies and to the owners of such entities. Some of the specific topics which are covered include: organization; operation; elections; redemptions of owners interests; non-liquidating and liquidating distributions; reorganizations; and other major transactions of such entities. Statutory and policy interpretation is emphasized, with extensive use of problems. P: Income Taxation (DN648) or permission of instructor. This course may be listed either synchronously or asynchronously online.
Income Taxation of Individuals, Fiduciaries and Business Associations (4 cr.) D/N 648 - Elective - addresses basic problems of income taxation of individuals, trusts, estates, partnerships, and corporations. Topics covered include gross income, deductions, tax computations, rates, credits, accounting methods, accounting periods, as well as practice before the United States Department of the Treasury, federal courts, and tax court. The course emphasizes statutory and policy interpretation, using problems extensively. This course may be listed either synchronously or asynchronously online.
Indiana Constitutional Law (2 cr.) D/N 757 - Required (HR) - offers a survey of the Indiana Constitution, including its history and text, historical and modern analytical approaches applied in landmark cases, and consideration and appreciation of its differences with the United States Constitution. P: Constitutional Law (DN620).
Indiana Health Information Exchange (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - The Indiana Health Information Exchange, or IHIE, is a non-profit organization that enables hospitals, physicians, laboratories, payers, and other health service providers to avoid redundancy and deliver faster, more efficient, higher quality healthcare to patients in Indiana and beyond. This externship should be of interest for students interested in where technology and healthcare intersect with real world patient care. Externs can expect to work with the General Counsel and other senior leadership on both legal and business related issues ranging from privacy and security, data governance, contract drafting and negotiations, information technology, intellectual property, general corporate law, and labor and employment.
Indiana Legal Services Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - This externship placement provides students with a mentored learning environment focused on the experience and insight derived from working with the staff attorneys in the various divisions of ILS. Duties vary based on the specific placement, but every student will engage in substantive legal work typical of that performed by a junior lawyer, learn essential practical lawyering skills, and receive regular feedback from an attorney supervisor. Externs will also benefit from regular advising sessions with the faculty supervisor.
Indianapolis and Marion County Office of Corporation Counsel Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - The Office of Corporation Counsel serves as the law firm for Indianapolis and Marion County. Its functions include prosecuting violations of the civil code; counseling city/county parties; investigating and seeking to resolve claims of discrimination; and defending city/county parties in court cases. This externship will provide experience and insight to students derived from working with corporation counsel in the various functions of the agency.
Information Privacy Law (3) D/N 913 - Elective - will provide an understanding of privacy law as it relates to torts, contracts, constitutional, and statutory law. Specific topics will include both domestic and international developments in data privacy, security, the impact of the Global Data Protection Regulation, and emerging regulations establishing fair information practices for the Internet and global ecommerce. The course will touch on emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things, and discuss their impact on society and privacy. The course is taught synchronously online during the scheduled hours and may be accessed from any location. This course may be listed either synchronously or asynchronously online.
Insurance Law (2 cr.) D/N 851 - Elective - covers contract, indemnity, persons and interests protected, risks transferred, disposition of claims, liability claims, and defense and settlement.
Intellectual Property Law (3 or 4 cr.) D/N 862 - Elective - surveys the legal principles and management of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and patents. This course may be listed either synchronously or asynchronously online.
Intellectual Property Licensing: Drafting Skills (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 905 - Simulation - course will provide fundamental understanding of licensing intellectual property laws and practices. It is a "skills" course with intensive weekly drafting assignments of various licensing provisions. P: Intellectual Property Law (D/N 862).
Intellectual Property Taxation (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 906 - Elective - course explores the U.S. tax consequences of creating, acquiring, exploiting, and transferring various IP assets (including patents, trade secrets, know how, copyrights, trademarks, and computer software) in both domestic and international transactions. The course also explores popular tax-planning strategies used in connection with IP (e.g., the use of domestic and foreign IP holding subsidiaries), and raises tax policy questions. Valuation of IP, the use of IP by non-profit organizations, and special business and estate planning considerations involving IP are also addressed
Intellectual Property Transactions & Licensing (2 cr.) D/N 627 - Elective - facilitates an appreciation of how intellectual property issues arise in the context of various transactions and explores the possible responses to those issues. Where applicable, this class will consider international aspects of IP issues.
Internal Revenue Service Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - Externs work on a variety of Internal Revenue Service issues relating to federal and state taxation, including research on estate and gift tax law and review of trusts and wills to determine tax consequences. Externs also assist IRS staff attorneys in the valuation of assets included in tax returns.
International Business Transactions (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 783 - Elective - analyzes the most common issues related to international sales and other business transactions, in particular the choice of law, drafting of the main contract, methods of financing problems related to shipping, passing of property and risk, insurance, as well as related issues, such as licensing and technology transfer. May be taught as a short course on a compressed schedule (students should check the schedule online before enrolling).
International Commercial Arbitration (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 784 - Elective - provides a thorough introduction to this modern method of choice for disputes arising from international commercial transactions, including the specifics of the arbitration agreement, selection of arbitrators, presentation of cases, and the effect, limits, and enforcement of arbitration awards.
International Commercial Arbitration – Moot (2 cr.) D/N 753 - Seminar - Participants work on the case provided for the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The most qualified participants register as the Robert H. McKinney School of Law team and travel to Vienna, Austria to represent the school in the orals.
International Criminal Law (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 713 - Elective - covers the application of domestic and international law to questions of jurisdiction over international criminal activities, granting of amnesty to persons responsible for international crimes, international cooperation in criminal matters, substantive international law as contained in multilateral treaties concerning war crimes and terrorism, and the permanent International Criminal Court.
International Environmental Law (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 754 - Elective - examines how international law and legal institutions are responding to transboundary and global environmental challenges. Students review prominent issues such as climate change, water scarcity, deforestation, biodiversity loss, ozone depletion, mineral extraction, and marine resource threats, in the context of international development and transboundary trade. Students then analyze selected issues in depth, looking at the science and law of specific environmental challenges as well as the political, economic, and cultural context within which solutions must be formulated.
International Human Rights Law (3 cr.) D/N 813 - Elective - considers selected problems in international human rights law, including problems related to U.S. law and practice. The course focuses on the growing role of human rights in international relations, emphasizing the United Nations system for the promotion and protection of human rights as well as the regional systems in Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
International Intellectual Property Law (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 634 - Elective - examines the international context of the development of copyright, patent, and trademark law, with an emphasis on multinational treaties, developments in the European Union and other jurisdictions, and enforcement of international claims. P: completion of any other law school course on intellectual property law or permission of the instructor.
International Investment Law (3 cr.) D/N 900 - Elective - International Investment Law grew out of efforts dating back hundreds of years at protecting investors from one country who make substantial investments in another. Rather than putting the investors at the mercy of the host country government and any remedies against expropriation or regulatory interventions that the local courts in the host country may or may not provide, international investment law provides international standards for fair and equitable treatment and for compensation in case of interference. This includes international arbitration procedures and other effective remedies. More recently, the system started to evolve into a broader regulatory regime for medium- and long-term commercial activity by individuals from one country in another. The course complements International Business Transactions where the focus is on one-off or short term trading activities.
International Law (3 cr.) D/N 818 - Elective - introduces basic concepts and principles such as sources of public international law, the law of treaties and international agreements, states and recognition, state liability and human rights, and jurisdiction and immunities from jurisdiction. The course also covers act of state doctrine, law of the sea, and resolution of transnational disputes through national and international courts, arbitration tribunals, the United Nations, and diplomatic exchanges. Course topics include terrorism and hostage-taking, U.S. executive-legislative conflict in the conduct of foreign relations, suits by and against foreign states, worldwide improvement of civil and political rights, extraction of seabed resources, and prohibition of the use of force in international relations. This course may be listed either synchronously or asynchronously online.
International Tax (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 674 - Elective - This course introduces the fundamental U.S. income tax issues arising when (1) U.S. persons or entities earn income outside of the U.S. or (2) foreign persons or entities earn income inside the U.S. Depending upon the number of credit hours, specific topics may include the rules for classifying income as U.S. or foreign-source income, transfer pricing, income deferral and controlled corporations, double taxation and the foreign tax credit, foreign currency transactions, and the role of tax treaties. Although the course will not study non-U.S. tax systems in detail, it will highlight significant differences between the U.S. approach to cross-border transactions and those adopted by other taxing authorities. P: Income Taxation (DN 648) or permission of instructor.
International Trade Law (2 cr.) D/N 857 - Elective - addresses theory and practice of international business law issues likely to be encountered by attorneys representing clients engaged in international operations. Topics include foreign investment by U.S. companies, foreign investment in the U.S., international joint ventures, licenses, exporting of goods, international marketing, U.S. trade controls, customs, antidumping, and international antitrust.
Internet Law (2 or 3 cr.) D/N 732 - Elective - examines a wide variety of legal and policy issues raised by the internet, involving many areas of law. The questions addressed may include issues of copyright, trademark, defamation, the Communications Decency Act, cybercrime, contracts, privacy and personal jurisdiction.
Interviewing and Counseling (2 cr.) D/N 606 - Simulation - covers interviewing and counseling in the context of legal representation. This simulation course addresses theories and techniques used in interviewing and counseling.
Intramural Moot Court Competition (1 cr.) D/N 746 - Seminar - Students research and prepare a brief and oral arguments in preparation for participation in the intramural moot court competition. Full-time students who wish to become members of a national moot court team, and subsequently serve as a national team coach or as a Moot Court Board member, should take Intramural Moot Court Competition during their second year. Full-time students who take Intramural Moot Court Competition in their third year may be considered for national teams during their final semester. Part-time students who wish to become members of a national moot court team, and subsequently serve as a national team coach or as a Moot Court Board member, should take Intramural Moot Court Competition no later than their third year. Part-time students who take Intramural Moot Court Competition in their fourth year may be considered for national teams during their final semester. Intramural Moot Court does not satisfy the experiential learning requirement. (More info about Moot Court can be found at: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/moot-court/)
Introduction to Business Entities (3 cr.) D/N 645 - Required (HR) - (formerly Closely Held Business Organizations) - study of formation, management and control of partnerships and closely held corporations including the distribution of powers within such organizations and the application to them of agency and fiduciary principles.
Introduction to Health Care Law and Policy (3 cr.) D/N 785 - Elective - This introductory health law course is designed to introduce students to the legal issues that arise between and among patients and health care providers and surveys current federal and state regulatory schemes of health care law and policy, quality, access and cost containment. Topics surveyed will include accreditation and licensure, individual and institutional liability, the legal and ethical properties of the hospital/medical staff relationships, the regulation of health insurers, funding mechanisms such as Medicare/Medicaid, federal self-referral and "anti-kickback" prohibitions, and other topics.
Introduction to the American Legal System (2 cr.) D/N 500 - Graduate - introduces LL.M. students to the judicial function in tripartite government (judicial independence and judicial review of legislative and executive authority), the structure of American judicial systems (organization and functions of trial and appellate courts), the role of the federal courts in the federal system (subject matter jurisdiction and allocation of power), the meaning and use of judicial precedent, and the work of lawyers in an adversary system. J.D. students shall not be permitted to enroll. Required in the first semester of enrollment for all LL.M. students who have not completed a J.D. or LL.M. degree at an ABA-accredited law school.
IU Health Revenue Cycle Services Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - The IU Health Revenue Cycle Services (RCS) Department externship offers students interested in health care law and corporate law the opportunity to develop formal entry-level experience in a corporate law setting. IU Health RCS is responsible for securing payment for medical services provided to victims of personal injury through creation and enforcement of hospital liens, mediation, and litigation. Exceptional research and legal writing skills are required. Applicants must be able to timely communicate complex legal concepts in a concise, professional manner. Applicants should also be quick-thinking, thorough, flexible, and exercise a high degree of attention to detail. The externship is ideal for those students interested in health care law, litigation, negotiations, and process management. Although there are no course prerequisites for this externship, externs may benefit from prior or concurrent familiarity with, exposure to, or coursework in health law (e.g., “Introduction Health Care Law and Policy”), administrative law, health administration, the Affordable Care Act, and/or HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
IU Indianapolis Athletics Department/Compliance Externship (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - Students provide assistance to the IU Indianapolis Athletics Department/Compliance Office by helping to interpret and enforce NCAA rules and regulations. Students spend sixty hours for each credit hour earned, which is approximately eight hours per week, working under the supervision of the Associate Athletics Director and the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance. Students meet with the law school faculty supervisor during the semester, keep a journal of their experiences, and submit a reflection paper at the end of the semester.
IU Research Integrity Office (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - The IU Research Integrity Office, in the Office of Research Compliance, supports the integrity of the IU research enterprise by receiving and investigating allegations of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism in research. Externs may participate in the investigative process, or gain compliance experience through special projects such as policy writing, evidence review, and legal research.
IUSM Department of OB/GYN research (2 or 3 cr.) D802 - Externship - The IU OB/GYN Department has a large portfolio of research studies in pregnant patients. One of our current projects, the Heartland Study, involves working with a relatively new nonprofit organization (the Heartland Health Research Alliance) as our funder. The externship involves working with our research team to revise and formalize publication policies and conflict of interest policies in an effort to create a formal arrangement and separation between the funding agency and their advocacy work and the research that is being conducted at IU. We anticipate that the extern would utilize similar nonprofit funding organizations and research study documents as models and the end product would be adopted by the Heartland Study management team and the Heartland Health Research Alliance funding agency.
