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Robert “Bob” Force has influenced generations of lawyers in maritime law as a professor and legal icon, and after 54 years “the Force” is retiring, leaving an unmatched legacy at Tulane Law School.
After teaching thousands of students over 108 semesters – more if you include summer programming... 
Maritime Law Center marks 40th anniversary
Since its founding in 1982 under the guidance of Professor Robert Force, the Maritime Law Center has graduated hundreds of students and firmly entrenched Tulane as a global behemoth in maritime law.
In its 40 years, Tulane’s maritime law program has become the best in the world, its scholarly... Read more November 01, 2022
Tulane Law Professor Gordley honored for a lifetime of achievement in comparative law
A renowned scholar of comparative law and legal history, Tulane Law Professor James Gordley has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Comparative Law.
The ASCL award is given for a lifetime of work that has provided extraordinary contributions to comparative law in... Read more October 27, 2022
Tulane Law, Baker Botts host Houston energy law event Nov. 4
Tulane University Law School’s Energy Law Center is holding an Energy Litigation Seminar in Houston focusing on data as a tool for better legal advocacy and representation.
Titled "The Power of Data in Litigating and Persuading Today's Jurors in Oil & Gas Cases,” the seminar will be held... Read more October 27, 2022
The Arbor Day Foundation, one of the largest conservation non-profits in the U.S., is more synonymous with planting trees than the law.
But as it began building up its own legal department, it chose one Tulane Law student as its first-ever summer legal intern. Second-year law student Cassie... Read more 
Tulane Law alumna Judy Barrasso (L’81) has received the 2022 Hannah G. Solomon Award from the Greater New Orleans National Council for Jewish Women, the most prestigious award conferred by the organization.
Barrasso, a founding member of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, received the... Read more 
Tulane Law School’s First Amendment Clinic will expand its staff and its impact in educating students and aiding local journalists thanks to a $375,000 grant from the Legal Clinic Fund for Local News.
The clinic defends core First Amendment principles through legal representation of members of... Read more 
Following a national search, Tulane Law has named its first Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Law Dean David Meyer announced.
Tracie Ransom will join Tulane Law School as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, bringing a wealth of legal experience as... Read more 
A second-year Tulane Law student is the runner-up in the National Mediator Competition hosted by the University of Houston Law Center, becoming one of two Tulane students clinching top spots in the final competition.
Annie Cleveland (L’24) is the 2022 National Mediator Competition Runner Up,... Read more 
Vanessa Beary to lead Tulane Law's Career Development Office
Vanessa Beary (NC '98), an experienced litigator, law professor and career adviser, has been named Tulane Law School’s Assistant Dean for Career Development.
Beary, who has served for the past five years as a counselor in Tulane’s Career Development Office, specializing in assisting students... Read more October 14, 2022
Tulane U.S.-China Energy and Trade Law Forum to be held Oct. 28.
Growing trade and investment between the U.S. and China is the subject of the annual Tulane Center for Energy Law ‘s U.S.-China Energy and Trade Law Forum Oct. 28.
The event, to be held at the law school’s John Giffen Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret St., from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., features four... Read more October 12, 2022
Tulane Law School – in partnership with a scholar at Boston University and an interdisciplinary team – has been awarded a grant to study the role that race plays in mass and prolonged detention of immigrants across the country.
Immigrant Rights Clinic Director Professor Mary Yanik and Co-director... Read more 
Tulane Law Professor Amy Gajda's latest book, “Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, tracing the origins and evolution of legal protection for privacy in the US, has put her in the center of some of the country’s most contentious unfolding debates about the future of data and... Read more 
Just in time for the twisted court battle between Elon Musk and Twitter, Tulane Law Professor Ann Lipton is offering a crash-course orientation on everything observers need to understand the unfolding legal drama.
Lipton, who has emerged as the country’s leading academic expert on the legal... Read more 
Judge Sarah Vance (L’78) receives highest judicial honor
Tulane Law alumna Judge Sarah Vance (L’78), who serves in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, has joined an elite group of federal judges who have received the nation’s highest honor bestowed on a member of the federal judiciary.
Vance is the 2022 recipient of the... Read more September 28, 2022
Tulane Maritime Law Center to host U.S. Coast Guard panel Oct. 5
A part of its celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Tulane Maritime Law Center, Tulane Law is hosting an evening U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Law & Policy Advocacy panel Oct. 5.
The event, which is focused on law and policy at the port level, begins at 6 p.m. at Tulane Law’s John Giffen... Read more September 26, 2022