Professor of Law
Interests: death penalty, criminal law, trial advocacy, evidence, child abuse and neglect
Education:
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J.D.
at University of Illinois, 1968
Biography:
Henry C. Karlson, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, served for eight years in the United States Army where he was appointed a Trial Judge as a member of the U.S. Army Trial Judiciary and served as a Trial Judge in Vietnam.
Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, he taught at the University of Illinois College of Law. Subjects he has taught include: criminal law, evidence, trial practice, and a seminar dealing with child abuse. In addition to co-authoring a book on child abuse, articles written by Professor Karlson have appeared in the APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, the Indiana Law Review, the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect, the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Defense Law Journal. In addition, he has delivered papers at more than one hundred continuing legal education programs.
Professor Karlson has been qualified as an expert witness on the issue of the proper methods for questioning very young children, and on the issue of lawyer competency. He is a member of the Association of Counsel for Children, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Order of the Coif and a former member of the Indiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Evidence and the Board of Examiners of the National Board of Trial advocacy
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