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Faculty Profile

Robert A. Parrish

Lecturer in Law
Contact Information
raparris [at] indiana [dot] edu  
(812) 855-8485  
Lewis Building 205
 
Education
B.A. at Indiana University, 1999
M.A. at Duke University, 2001
J.D. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004
Courses
Legal Research & Writing I (B542)
Legal Research & Writing II (B543)
Robert Parrish
Background
  • Earned his B.A. with honors from Indiana University
  • Earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; articles editor for the North Carolina Law Review
  • Associate, Bose McKinney & Evans LLP litigation and appellate practice sections (2006-2007)
  • Clerk, Hon. Justice Frank Sullivan Jr., Indiana Supreme Court (2004-2006)
  • Oral historian and archivist, Center for Documentary Studies' Behind the Veil project, which produced Remembering Jim Crow, a compilation of interviews with African Americans born between 1900 and 1940 (1999-2002)
Biography

Professor Parrish joined the faculty in 2007 and teaches in the first-year Legal Research and Writing Program. His work as a practitioner was concerned primarily with commercial litigation issues. In addition to his legal work he also has experience as an oral historian and archivist having worked for the Center for Documentary Studies' Behind the Veil project.

Selected Works

• William Chafe et al., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (The New Press 2001).


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