Inclusive community is a core value of Tulane University, and we strive to live this value out in practice at the Law School. You can learn more about Tulane’s core values here. We take pride in being a multicultural, multi-ethnic and inclusive community where students, faculty and staff of all backgrounds, perspectives and lived experiences are welcomed, supported and encouraged to succeed.
Resources for Students
Tulane Law School has several student organizations to serve our vibrant and diverse student body. Emily Wojna-Hodnett is the Assistant Dean of Students, and her office is responsible for all student organizations at Tulane Law School. She can be reached at ewojna@tulane.edu.
To learn more about our commitment to building inclusive community for all, please feel free to contact Tracie Ransom, our Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, at transom@tulane.edu.
The following student groups also provide academic, networking, career, and service opportunities to Tulane Law students:
- Asian-Pacific-American Law Students Association
- Black Law Students Association
- Business Law Society
- Christian Legal Society
- Catholic Lawyers
Association - Civil Law Society
- Criminal Law Society
- Federal Bar Association
- Federalist Society
- First-Generation Law Student Association
- Immigration Law Society
- International Law Society
- Jewish Law Students Association
- Maritime Law Society
- Veteran's Society
- OUTLaw (formerly Lambda Legal)
- Public Interest Law Foundation
- Real Estate Law Society
- Sports Law Society
- Technology and Intellectual Property Society
- Tulane Law Running Club
- Texas Law Society
- Tulane Disability and Health Law Society
- Tulane Entertainment & Art Law Society
- Tulane Environmental and Energy Law Society
- Tulane Law Space Law Society
- Tulane Latinx Law Student Association
- TULANE Law & Philosophy Society
- Tulane Tax Law Society
- VITA
- Tulane Women in Law Society
- Tulane National Lawyers Guild
- American Constitution Society
- Golf Club
- Tulane Cannabis Law and Advocacy Society
- Tulane Family Law Society
Tulane Law students also receive support from Tulane University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Office of Institutional Equity.
The Carolyn Barber-Pierre Center for Intercultural Life, which includes The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Spiritual Life at Tulane, and The Office of Gender and Sexual Diversity, serves as the hub of diverse cultural, social, and intellectual life at Tulane University. It is the O’s mission to foster an open and vibrant learning environment that welcomes, respects, and appreciates the histories, traditions, and cultures of traditionally underrepresented student populations. The O also addresses issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment—all of which negatively affect the health and well-being of students and learning communities. OMA also serves as a liaison to Tulane’s religious communities.
The Office of Human Resources & Institutional Equity oversees Tulane University’s Equal Opportunity/Anti-Discrimination Policy, which includes Tulane’s anti-harassment policy.
Academics
Tulane's curriculum includes courses and experiences related to legal issues present in underrepresented communities and/or that resonate with their respective backgrounds. Several student organizations provide academic, networking and service opportunities as well. As a leading research and academic institution, Tulane University maintains several centers and library collections that reflect the university’s strength in areas of interest to law students of color.
Tulane University is home to the Amistad Research Center, one of the preeminent research centers in the United States dedicated to the preservation of original documents and research resources related to America’s ethnic history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Latin American Library are renowned for the depth of their academic offerings and for the breadth of the collection in Latin American archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, literary criticism, cultural studies, linguistics, art, architecture, film, women's studies, and economics. The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women is the oldest university-based women's center in the Gulf South. The Center for Academic Equity serves as an academic hub for all underrepresented and non-traditional students, including students of color, LGBT+ students, and first generation students.
Networking
Career counselors in our Career Development Office participate in diversity initiatives within the profession and promote career fairs, programs, fellowships, writing competitions, and professional organizations that increase the career opportunities for students and alumni. Tulane University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Office of Institutional Equity ensure the proliferation of inclusive environments throughout the university as well. We promote active student and faculty involvement in community and professional organizations to forge strategic alliances with local, regional, national, and global diversity partners and to provide viable networking opportunities for our students.
We also maintain ties with the following specialty bar associations at the national, regional and local level that represent the interests of legal professionals of diverse backgrounds and engage in advocacy on behalf of underrepresented communities:
- American Bar Association—Diversity and Inclusion Center
- Hispanic National Bar Association
- Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
- Minority Corporate Counsel Association
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- National Bar Association of African American Lawyers
- National Conference of Black Lawyers
- National Native American Bar Association
- The National LGBT Bar Association
- Greater New Orleans Chapter Louis A. Martinet Society
