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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... 
Martinet Society honors alumna Rachael Johnson, awards scholarships to Tulane students
Two Tulane Law students received scholarships and alumna Judge Rachael Johnson (L’05) received the prestigious Ernest M. Morial Award at the Sept. 24 Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society Annual Scholarship and Jazz Brunch.
Law students Clarence “Trey” Roby, III and Kayla Williams... Read more September 26, 2022
This year’s Tulane Law School Constitution Day commemoration will attempt to unpack the history of abortion rights in the United States.
Law alumna and reproductive rights expert Ellie Schilling (L ’03) will discuss “How We Got to Dobbs: A Constitutional History of Abortion Rights” on Friday,... Read more 
Jameasha Pierce was ready for law school – she just wasn’t sure her application was law-school ready.
In the first few months of Tulane Law’s new pipeline program for minority college students who want to go to law school, Pierce received enough feedback – and the confidence – to submit her... Read more 
Tulane Law names Matambanadzo to lead legal online programs
Tulane Law School, an early national leader in online legal education, announced a dynamic new leadership team for its innovative degree and certificate program.
Tulane Law launched its first online degree, a Master of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law (MJ-LEL), in 2015, and has since... Read more August 25, 2022
Tulane Law alum launches fund to support Law Review
A Tulane Law Review alumnus has endowed a fund that will support scholarly excellence at Tulane Law School’s oldest law journal.
The gift by Tulane Law alumnus Kenneth A. Weiss (A&S ’72, L’75) will go to support the student editors, and symposia and other scholarly activities of the law school... Read more August 18, 2022
The Fifth Worldwide Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists will be held June 14-16, 2023 in Malta, and Tulane's Eason-Weinmann Center is co-sponsoring the event.
The theme of the Congress is “Mixity in the Private and/or Public Law."
The World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction... Read more 
With media demand for her expertise already soaring thanks to the Twitter-Elon Musk saga, Tulane Law Professor Ann Lipton is now a most-wanted expert to explain the recent fight between Ben & Jerry’s and its corporate parent, Unilever, over ice cream sales in Israeli settlements.
Appearing in... Read more 
Tulane Law Prof. Ann Lipton has become one of the most prominent expert voices in the ongoing saga between Tesla CEO and mercurial entrepreneur Elon Musk and the social media giant, Twitter.
Lipton has made the rounds all summer cementing herself as the leading legal expert in the Musk-Twitter... Read more 
Tulane Law Vice Dean Sally Richardson, an international scholar of property rights, has been elected by her peers to join the American Law Institute, the nation’s most influential legal reform organization
Richardson is one of 22 new members elected this month to ALI, an independent organization... Read more 
Two Tulane Law students have embarked this summer as 2022 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellows, selected from hundreds of applicants around the nation.
Hannah Davis (L'24) and Olivia Marks (L'23) are among 40 students nationwide chosen for the prestigious 2022 Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship. This... Read more 
For most of his lifetime, Tulane Law Professor Joel Friedman wanted to teach, and more specifically, he wanted to teach labor law.
How he made it his life’s work is a story of dedication, a little luck, and the smarts to seize opportunities.
For more than four decades, Friedman has taught scores... Read more 
Tulane Law Professor and Law Library Director James Duggan has been featured in the July/August edition of Spectrum, the journal of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Duggan has been a longtime leader in the AALL, serving as president in 2008-2009 and inducted into the AALL Hall of Fame in... Read more 
Law student logs 418 pro bono hours, wins LSBA Award
Tulane Law student Jacob Edwards – who performed a whopping 418 hours of pro bono work – is the 2022 Tulane Louisiana State Bar Association Pro Bono Award recipient.
Edwards (L’22) is originally from San Jose, Calif., and performed his pro bono service at Disability Rights Louisiana, where he... Read more June 15, 2022
She spent time at Tulane Law researching how often Black families have historically lost land and property under systemic legal loopholes that denied them generational wealth.
Mikayla Mangle (L’22) parlayed her law school research into an Equal Justice Works Fellowship, one of the most... Read more 
Edward Sherman, former Tulane Law Dean, has died
To know Edward Sherman, former Dean of Tulane Law School and a preeminent scholar in complex litigation, was to have a lifelong friend. His empathetic leadership style helped move the law school into the future.
“He was the nicest guy, almost too nice to be the Dean,” said longtime law school... Read more June 12, 2022