McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation will take place Feb. 10

Tulane Law School's McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation will take place Feb 10 at 5 p.m. and feature Professor Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

The event, part of the law school's endowed lecture series, will take place in the Wendell H. Gauthier Moot Court Room 110 and will be immediately followed by a reception in the Marian Mayer Berkett MPR. 

LaCroix, a constitutional law scholar and legal historian, has published two highly-acclaimed books about federalism, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism and The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, winner of the American Historical Association’s (AHA) Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society.

She was also appointed by former President Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.  

More details are forthcoming on the lecture. 

The McGlinchey Lecture, established in 1996, brings leading figures in federal litigation to Tulane Law School each year to discuss key issues shaping the legal landscape. It is named for insurance lawyer,civic activist and alumnus Dermot S. McGlinchey (L’57). He was a devoted Tulane supporter and helped found the McGlinchey Stafford firm, which has permanently endowed the lecture series.

 McGlinchey was president of the Tulane Alumni Association, served on the law school Dean’s Council, chaired the Dean’s Council Development Committee and the law school building fund and was vice chairman of the Maritime Law Center’s endowment program. He also helped revitalize the Louisiana Bar Foundation and was instrumental in forming its Pro Bono Project.