Faculty Profile
Lauren Kay Robel
Dean and Val Nolan Professor of Law
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Background
- Earned her J.D. summa cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law; elected to the Order of the Coif; and wrote for the Indiana Law Journal
- Clerk, Hon. Jesse Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1983-85)
- Association of American Law Schools Executive Committee (2006-present); Chair, AALS Committee on Research, American Association of Law Schools (2006-2007); AALS Committee on Curriculum and Research (2005)
- Group Reporter, National Conference on Appellate Justice (2005)
- Law School Survey of Student Engagement Advisory Board, (2005-present)
- Member, Circuit Rules Committee, Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1994-present)
Biography
Dean Robel's research focuses on the federal courts. Her articles have appeared in numerous leading law journals. She is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from procedural reform to sovereign immunity and co-author of Federal Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and the Lawyering Process (LEXISNEXIS 2005), a casebook on federal jurisdiction written with Arthur Hellman.
Robel has also been as a visiting faculty member at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), where she published a book, Les États des Noirs: Fédéralisme et question raciale aux États-unis, (Presses Universitaires de France, 2000), with Professor Elisabeth Zoller, a frequent visitor to the Law School.
She serves as a member of the Association of American Law Schools Executive Committee and of the Rules Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Selected Works
- FEDERAL COURTS: CASES AND MATERIALS ON JUDICIAL FEDERALISM AND THE LAWYERING PROCESS (with Arthur Hellman), Lexis-Nexis 2005.
- LES ÉTATS DES NOIRS: FEDERALISME ET QUESTION RACIALE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS, (Presses Universitaires de France, 2000) (with Elisabeth Zoller)
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The Myth of the Disposable Opinion, 85 Michigan Law Review 940-962 (1989)
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Fractured Procedure: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 46 Stanford Law Rev. 1447 (1994)
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Impermeable Federalism, Pragmatic Silence, and the Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts, 71 Indiana Law Journal 841 (1996).
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Sovereignty and Democracy: The States' Obligations to Their Citizens Under Federal Statutory Law, 78 Ind. L. J. 543 (2003)
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