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The Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy and the Tulane Environmental Law Center is hosting an event with three leading legal voices to discuss the seminal Public Trust Doctrine in Louisiana Nov. 12 in an event to be held both online and in-person.
Panelists Judge James L. Dennis of the...
Discussion on the Public Trust Doctrine to be held Nov. 12
The Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy and the Tulane Environmental Law Center is hosting an event with three leading legal voices to discuss the seminal Public Trust Doctrine in Louisiana Nov. 12 in an event to be held both online and in-person.
Panelists Judge James L. Dennis of the U... Read more October 26, 2021
Tulane sports law expert Gabe Feldman explains the new era of compensation for college athletes
A new era in college athletics began on July 1, 2021, and the landscape of college athletics has shifted for the nation’s student-athletes. For the first time in the 100-year history of the NCAA, college athletes can now receive almost unlimited compensation, including the use of their name, image... Read more October 15, 2021
Tulane Law’s Center for Energy Law and the Texas law firm of Baker Botts are co-hosting a breakfast program focused on ESG issues facing the oil and gas industry on Friday, Oct. 22.
The program, titled, “ESG in Oil and Gas: How Upstream, Midstream and Investors are Rising to the Challenge,” will... Read more 
Tulane Law School is bringing its Eason Weinmann Lecture on International and Comparative Law to the public Tuesday Oct. 26 at 5:30 p.m.
The lecture, the first of the law school’s lecture series to be held in person in over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, also will be online via webinar. The... Read more 
Kwasi Agyeman (L’22) is among a handful of local law students who have been awarded the Law School Scholarship by the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society in New Orleans.
Agyeman hails from Brooklyn, N.Y., and is a research assistant at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, where he helps in organizing... Read more 
Prof. Katie Schwartzmann, Director of Tulane Law School’s First Amendment Law Clinic, has been appointed as court monitor overseeing a settlement to abolish controversial tactics used by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office to secure the cooperation of witnesses, according to filings.
The... Read more 
Constitution Day panel Sept. 17 will address voting rights
Tulane Law’s annual recognition of Constitution Day takes place Friday, Sept. 17 from noon to 1 p.m. in a virtual format.
This year’s event will highlight “Voting Rights and the Constitution” with a panel that includes Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, the lead counsel representing Fair Fight Action in the... Read more September 14, 2021
Law Professor Emeritus George Strickler, who spent a lifetime fighting for civil rights, has died
Born in segregated America, George Marion Strickler was a man who spent most of his life fighting to end the practice, whether it was protesting on behalf of Black students to gain access to college admissions or lunch counters, or ligitating for the desegregation of southern public schools.
As a... Read more September 09, 2021
Dean Meyer's Message: Hurricane Ida
Dean Meyer’s Message to the Tulane Law community
Dear Tulane Law Community,
For those of you who were in the path of Hurricane Ida, whether here in Louisiana or on its sweep northward through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, I hope you and your... Read more September 08, 2021
Max Nathan (L'60), icon, scholar, friend, has died
Almost everything about Max Nathan was larger than life.
When he practiced law, he became one of the nation’s leading estate planning attorneys. As a scholar, he studied Shakespeare and founded a festival in New Orleans to honor the bard. As an educator, he went all in, teaching generations of... Read more August 25, 2021
Law alumna and civic leader Cheryl Teamer, who rose from the ranks of law student to lead the legislative affairs office of former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, has died.
Teamer was 58.
A 1989 Tulane Law graduate, Teamer was a long-time fixture in New Orleans’ political circles, having worked in... Read more 
Four receive law school Staff Excellence Award
They are the people of Tulane Law that make student and faculty life a little smoother, who assist in programs that help the public or simply keep our building running.
Each year, Tulane Law recognizes the work of staff with the Staff Excellence Award, to honor those whose work – often behind-the-... Read more August 10, 2021
A scholar whose work focuses on the inequalities of the justice system, particularly in rural criminal systems, has joined Tulane Law as a full-time faculty member.
Prof. Maybell Romero joins the law school as the Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law and will hold a one-year appointment as the... Read more 
Prof. Lipton to lead faculty research at Tulane Law
Tulane Law Prof. Ann Lipton has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Research.
An ambitious and entrepreneurial scholar, Lipton’s sharp eye for emerging issues and her exceptional command of theory, doctrine and empirical methods has placed her research at the leading edge of her field.
“As a... Read more July 26, 2021
Tulane Law faculty moves: Jupiter named Associate Dean, Mattes becomes first Chair of law clinics
Two Tulane Law faculty members have been promoted to new positions responsible for hands-on legal training and pro bono service.
Professor Tonya Jupiter (L’94), most recently Director of the law school's Pro Bono and Advocacy programs, succeeds Prof. Stacy Seicshnaydre (L’92) as the new Associate... Read more July 26, 2021