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Two graduates were honored by the Tulane Law faculty with the school’s highest honors, one for academic excellence and the other for service to Tulane and the community.
Tulane Law School’s top student honors, the John Minor Wisdom Award, focused on academics and writing, and the ...
Tulane Law School students enrolled in a class taught by Alan Childress, Conrad Meyer III Professor of Civil Procedure, can add “published author” to their list of accomplishments.In the recent spring seminar ”Advanced Legal Profession,“ students wrote essays and research chapters exploring legal... Read more
75 students enrolled in online course visited campus in July
Tulane Law School welcomed 75 students enrolled in its online Masters of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law (MJ-LEL) to campus for its first “Immersion Weekend“ on July 28-29.
The degree program was launched in 2016 and is designed to give Human Resources professionals a solid grounding in... Read more August 04, 2017
Prof. Gajda probes Trump’s Twitter defense in Slate
In an essay published in Slate, Professor Amy Gajda critiques an emerging legal theory advanced to defend President Donald Trump against defamation claims: that his Twitter rants are not to be taken seriously.
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July 20, 2017
Tulane alumnus Richard Weiss has not only received a very prestigious award but also made history along the way. Weiss is the recipient of the 2017 Claude Pepper Outstanding Government Lawyer Award, presented by the President and Government Lawyer Section of The Florida Bar, and became the first... Read more
Tulane Law School’s Mark Davis, a leading authority on water law and policy, has been named interim director of the ByWater Institute at Tulane University, a new riverfront campus dedicated to coastal restoration and protection.
Davis is the founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water... Read more
Law Researchers Map Strategies To Save Coast
Law Researchers Map Strategies To Save Coast June 22, 2017
From the uncertain future of the Paris climate accord to the first-ever export of U.S. liquefied natural gas (from a Louisiana port, no less) to central Europe to emerging cyber threats against global power grids, a succession of headlines confirms that energy policy is central to the future... Read more
Tulane University Law School has named Kim Talus, a renowned European scholar of energy law, as inaugural holder of the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law. Talus also will become founding director of the new Tulane Center for Energy Law when he joins the law faculty in January 2018.
The chair was... Read more
Law faculty conclave focuses on provocative research
With exams and the spring semester behind them, Tulane Law faculty gathered looking out over the Mississippi River on a sparkling sunny day for rejuvenating debate: What about trust in government in the Trump era? Can a legal case be made supporting reparations for wrongful enslavement? How can the... Read more June 08, 2017
Attorney/playwright tackles climate change on stage
By Mary Cross
In March, “Fairly Traceable,” the newest play by Tulane Law School alum Mary Kathryn Nagle (L ’08), premiered in the Wells Fargo Theater at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. Delving into climate change’s impact on Native American communities, the work was inspired... Read more June 06, 2017
Walter E. Blessey Jr. (A&S ’67, L ’70) says that some of his earliest childhood memories were of toddling on Tulane University’s leafy campus. On May 19, he was back under the oaks at the Audubon Tea Room, just a stone’s throw from campus, accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from Tulane... Read more
Tulane Law mourns legal pioneer Marian Mayer Berkett
Feisty and fearless, Marian Mayer Berkett fought government corruption as a law student and forged a path for other women in the legal profession.
The last surviving member of Tulane Law School’s famed Class of 1937 and Louisiana’s oldest attorney, Berkett died June 4, 2017, at age 104. But she... Read more June 05, 2017
Tulane Law School Professor Guiguo Wang, a leading authority on international trade and economic law, visited Oxford University on June 1 to discuss ways in which China’s “Belt and Road” trade initiative might spur new forms of international legal cooperation.
In a lecture at Oxford’s China Centre... Read more
Webbs extend family legacy with excellence fund
ing up, siblings Ann and George Webb knew Tulane University from the inside out. Their father, also named George, taught electrical engineering for 37 years. Their mother, Dorothy Webb (L ’80), started Tulane Law when Ann was in high school and George III in middle school, one of several women in... Read more May 26, 2017
Quoting statesman Daniel Webster, Chinese philosopher Confucius and even legendary pro baseball slugger Hank Aaron, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond urged Tulane University Law School graduates to make sure that “justice and equality are more than just words on a page.”
Richmond (L ’98) welcomed members... Read more