Health Law Expert Joins IU

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January 4, 2012

News Release

INDIANAPOLIS, IN–The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is honored to announce that Professor Nicolas Terry has been appointed the Hall Render Professor of Law and also will serve as the co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health as of January 1, 2012. Prior to joining IU, Terry was the Chester A. Meyers Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he taught Torts, Products Liability, Health Information Technology, Law Science, and Health Care Quality. Terry, who co-directed SLUs top-ranked Center for Health Law Studies from 2000-2008, will now lead the law schools program here in Indianapolis along with Professor David Orentlicher, who joined the Center in 1995.

We could not have asked for a more qualified addition to our health law credentials. Professor Terry is universally known and respected in the field of health law and will increase the national prominence our Hall Center enjoys, says IU McKinney School of Law Dean, Gary R. Roberts. We are happy to welcome him to our law school family.

Born in England, Terry was educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, and first taught at the University of Exeter in England before joining the Saint Louis faculty. He has served as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and as a visiting faculty member at the law schools of Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Iowa. From 2008-10 Terry served as his schools Senior Associate Dean. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology.

Terry replaces Professor Eleanor DeArman Kinney who retired from Indiana University in June of 2011 after founding and leading the Hall Center for Law and Health for 24 years.

The Hall Center will celebrate its 25th year in April of 2012.

About Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
With an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, IU McKinney School of Law is the largest law school in the state of Indiana. Occupying a spacious, new, technologically advanced building, the school is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has enjoyed great success for more than 100 years in preparing students for legal careers. The success of the school is evidenced by the prominent positions graduates have obtained in the judiciary and other branches of government, business, positions of civic leadership, and law practice. The schools 10,000 alumni are located in every state in the nation and several foreign countries. More information about the law school is available at indylaw.indiana.edu.

Source: Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law