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Supervisory Attorney, Federal Communications Commission
"Work on the Federal Communications Law Journal during law school gave me exposure to workings of the regulatory aspects of the communications practice and insight into some of the bigger policy debates at play. It was a stimulating academic experience that left me with strong friendships—and useful professional contacts.”
Deputy Chief, WCB, Federal Communications Commission
“I still hear many professors’ lessons in my head as certain things cross my desk, even when the subject matter is completely different from what was addressed in class that day.”
Information services and products constitute the world’s largest and fastest-growing economic sector. Banking, insurance, transportation, health care, manufacturing, education, entertainment, communications, and service industries—the bedrock, in other words, of the modern economy—are being transformed by information technologies. But the proliferation of digital information and related technologies presents challenging new legal issues about the ownership, use, and protection of data. The demand for graduates skilled in this field is enormous and rapidly expanding.
Our program covers information law’s traditional bailiwick and also keeps up with the ways in which new technology is constantly pushing the boundaries of the law. We are also home to the Federal Communications Law Journal, the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association.
We offer a wide range of courses in information, communications, and privacy law in the United States and around the world.
We offer students a variety of other opportunities to gain valuable experience and study the field in more depth outside the classroom. For example, you might want to work on the staff of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association and the nation’s oldest and largest circulation communications law journal. Published three times a year, the journal examines a wide range of U.S. and international communications and information issues, including telecommunications, the First Amendment, broadcasting, telephony, computers, intellectual property, and policy making.
Students also extern at the Federal Communications Commission and in law firms and high-technology companies in Indiana and throughout the country; participate in IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; serve on our national telecommunications moot court team; and compete in national writing competitions.
A wide variety of joint degree programs are available, including:
Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts/Master of Science in Telecommunications: The Law School and the Department of Telecommunications offer joint Doctor of Jurisprudence—Master of Arts/Master of Science degrees. Under the program, students may complete both the JD and the MA or MS in telecommunications in eight semesters.
Students customarily spend the first year in the School of Law and thereafter divide the second, third, and fourth years between the two units. Requirements for graduation are 79 credit hours in law (including all degree requirements) and 27 credit hours in telecommunications courses.
Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts in Journalism: The School of Law and the School of Journalism offer a joint Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts in Journalism degree.
Students would customarily spend the first year in the School of Law and thereafter divide the second, third, and fourth years between the two units. The joint program requires a minimum of 79 hours in law and 30 hours in journalism, including a thesis.
New programs in biology and informatics have been developed for students interested in combining advanced work in these fields with their Indiana Law degree.
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