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For his pioneering role in modern environmental law and as one of the world’s most committed advocates of protecting nature, Tulane Law Prof. Oliver Houck will be honored with the American Bar Association’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law and Policy, one... 
Tulane alumnae to lead top legal organizations
It’s going to be a banner year for alumnae of Tulane Law School.
This fall, two illustrious women graduates take the helm of two of the most significant legal organizations in the country – the American Bar Association (ABA) and the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ).
This month, Judy... Read more August 09, 2019
Houck to receive prestigious ABA environmental law award
For his pioneering role in modern environmental law and as one of the world’s most committed advocates of protecting nature, Tulane Law Prof. Oliver Houck will be honored with the American Bar Association’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law and Policy, one... Read more August 08, 2019
In the Academic Year in Review, Tulane University President Michael A. Fitts presents the university’s most extraordinary achievements of the 2018–19 academic year. The theme, “The Power of Tulane,” serves to highlight the people and programs that take on global challenges while also serving the... Read more
Tulane Law Professor Kristin Johnson, a leading national voice on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for American law and public policy, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Finance Services Committee in July.
Johnson, the McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law, the... Read more 
Tulane Law Prof. Ron Scalise (BA’97, L’00), who is the editor of the Louisiana Civil Code and has established himself as a foremost expert in the state’s unique legal tenets, has been elected to the American Law Institute, the nation’s most influential legal reform organization.
Founded in 1923,... Read more 
New scholars join Tulane Law faculty
A seasoned environmental litigator, a civil rights attorney, a scholar focused on discrimination law and an expert on public international law will join Tulane Law School later this summer as the newest members of its faculty.
One joins the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, two are Fellows and one... Read more July 03, 2019
Bernard Lane was an Army Ranger with two bronze stars and one of the toughest soldiers you’d ever meet. Richard Morrison, having lived through alcoholism, spent his life counseling others in crisis and despair.
Both lived in loving relationships with partners in the 70s, when being openly gay in... Read more 
Tulane Law to open immigrants' rights clinic in 2020
Tulane Law School is launching a new Immigrants’ Rights Law Clinic to prepare students to meet the rapidly growing crisis in access to justice for detainees, announced Dean David Meyer.
The new clinic, supported by a generous seed gift of $400,000 by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, comes... Read more June 18, 2019
It’s a Silver Anniversary for the International Legislative Drafting Institute which helps shape laws around the world—and in the process, makes lives better.
The Public Law Center (TPLC) of Tulane Law School convened its 25th annual Institute in June with 44 participants from eight countries... Read more 
Walter Wadlington, a Tulane Law graduate and former professor who went on to become a giant in the field of family and medical law, passed away last month at the age of 88.
Wadlington (L’54) attended Duke University (BA) and Tulane Law (where he was editor-in-chief of the Tulane Law Review and... Read more 
Tulane Law alumnus U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond has been tapped to be the first national co-chairman of the Joe Biden campaign.
With the appointment, Richmond (L’98) gains a major leadership role in the former vice president’s 2020 presidential run, a move that The New York Times said “could bolster... Read more 
Tulane, Yale host conference in China
Tulane Law this week will co-host the 10th annual International Conference on the New Haven School of Jurisprudence in Hangzhou, China, an event that studies how legal principles can advance human dignity.
The conference – founded and led by Tulane Law Prof. Guiguo Wang – is hosted annually by... Read more May 29, 2019
The message of Tulane Law School’s 168th commencement May 18 was about giving back to country and to others through the privilege of the law profession.
Keynote speaker Hon. Judge L. Felipe Restrepo (L’86), urged graduates to take chances in their careers, and to give back through pro bono work,... Read more
Five Tulane University faculty members received universitywide teaching awards during the 2019 Commencement ceremony — two Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellows Awards for Undergraduate Teaching, which recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching, student advising, and instructional... Read more
University Commencement hits all the right notes
“Wherever you go, don’t forget the lessons of this place,” Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, told graduates at Tulane University Commencement on Saturday, May 18.
More than 3,000 candidates representing all 50 states, more than 50 countries, and each of the university’s nine schools earned their academic... Read more May 18, 2019