Profile

Deborah B. McGregor

Clinical Professor of Law Emerita
Founding Director, Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) Program

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225

E-Mail: dmcgreg@iu.edu

Education

B.A., 1973, University of Evansville
J.D., 1982, Georgetown University Law Center

Bio

Following graduation from the Georgetown University Law Center, Professor McGregor engaged in private practice in Boulder, Colorado, focusing primarily in the area of probate law and estate planning. Thereafter, she taught legal writing for three years at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law before joining the law school faculty in Indianapolis. She developed and ran an academic support program for fourteen years. For twenty-three years Professor McGregor served as the assistant director of the legal writing program and also developed the first writing course for LL.M. students and the summer legal process course for J.D. and M.J. students. Professor McGregor is the only legal writing professor to receive the student bar association's Best New Teacher’s Award. She has received the Black Law Student Association’s John Morton-Finney/Brenda Elise Bowles Award twice, the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award twice, and the Indiana University Trustee’s Teaching Award.

In 2013 Professor McGregor was named the Director of the law school’s new Master of Jurisprudence Program, which is designed for those students whose career focus is in a discipline other than law but who would benefit by learning about the law. The first class matriculated in the summer of 2014.

Professor McGregor has been an active participant in the national Legal Writing Institute (LWI), presenting at both national and regional conferences over the last twenty-seven years. She serves on regional, national, and international committees, including:

• Treasurer, AALS Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education
• Program Committee, Global Legal Skills Conference
• Co-Chair, Association of Legal Writing Directors’ Teaching Grants Committee
• Committee member, Association of Legal Writing Directors’ Scholarship Grants Committee
• Member, Central States’ Regional Writing Conference Planning Committee
• McKinney Representative, IU Indianapolis’ Graduate Affairs Committee
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Legal Writing Institute

Questions about the Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) program should be sent to mjlaw@iu.edu