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Sara Hook

Sara Anne Hook

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Studies
Professor, Informatics
Director of Legal Informatics
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, IUPUI School of Liberal Arts
Adjunct Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis

E-mail
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Phone
317-278-7690
Office
535 W. Michigan St.
IT 475J
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3103

Education

J.D. Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, IN (1994) Executive Notes Editor, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review; Co-Chair, Dean's Tutorial Society; 2nd place, Client Counseling Competition; Phi Delta Phi) - admitted to the Indiana bar, 1994
M.B.A. Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University (1988)
M.L.S. Library Science, University of Michigan, (1980) Beta Phi Mu
B.A. History, University of Michigan (1978)

Introduction

Sara Anne Hook teaches I550 Legal and Business Issues in Informatics (entrepreneurship), I350 Foundations in Legal Informatics, I330 Legal and Social Informatics of Security, N480 Technology and the Law, D862 Intellectual Property Law (School of Law), N485/I400 Litigation Support Systems and A303 Music and Decorative Arts in American Studies (School of Liberal Arts).

Biography

Sara Anne Hook is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Studies, Director of Legal Informatics and Professor of Informatics at the Indiana University School of Informatics, IUPUI. Formerly, she was Head Librarian at the Indiana University School of Dentistry and Associate Dean of the Faculties for IUPUI. Dean Hook is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) the American Association for State and Local History and the American Musical Instrument Society.

Dean Hook plays a variety of musical instruments, including flute, viola and saxophone. She studies Baroque flute with Barbara Kallaur of the Early Music Institute, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is a deltiologist and organologist as well as a member of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis.

Research Interests

Dean Hook's research interests include the application of intellectual property law to informatics and the emerging field of legal informatics.

Research by Topic