Admission
LL.M. Admissions
The LL.M. degree is designed to deliver in-depth knowledge in a specific area and can help you to take the next step in your career after you have earned a J.D.
The program includes five possible tracks of study:
- American Law for Foreign Lawyers
- Health Law, Policy, and Bioethics
- Intellectual Property Law
- International and Comparative Law
- International Human Rights Law
To be eligible for admission, an applicant must hold either a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school in the U.S. or an academic degree in law or comparable from an educational institution in a country other than the U.S. which makes the applicant eligible to become licensed to practice in that country. Documentation of all academic degrees and, where applicable, a license, is required.
Ordinarily, the academic degree of an international applicant must be comparable to a U.S. Bachelor's degree (for example, B.A., A.B., B.S.). A Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree will also qualify.
Applicants for whom English is a second language must have a paper-based TOEFL score of at least 560, a computer-based TOEFL of at least 213, an internet- based iBT TOEFL of at least 81+, or an IELTS score of at least 6. We will also accept a score of "First Grade" on the national Japanese English Proficiency STEP Exam. Qualifying language scores must be less than two years old.
Indiana University –Robert H. McKinney School of Law will also accept successful completion of Intensive English Masters Level 112 at the ELS Language Center - Indianapolis as satisfaction of the English Language qualification.
Application DeadlinesWe try to make the application process as easy for you as possible. We do not have any deadlines for you to meet, and we are currently waiving our application fee, so applying to McKinney Law for an LL.M. could not be any easier! We also offer two ways in which you can apply:
- Online-McKinney Law participates in the Law school Admission Council onl-ine application system, which includes an optional credentials assembly service.
- Directly to McKinney Law—simply complete our application form and send it to us in whatever manner you would like: postal mail, e-mail, fax, and of course you can stop in and hand-deliver it, as we always enjoy having you come to the school.
We use rolling admissions, which means there are no deadlines for you to worry about. You can start in either the fall (mid-to-late August) or the spring (early January) term.
Contact Noah Joseph by e-mail at nosjesep@iupui.edu
Last Updated: February, 2014.