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Amid fanfare and celebration, Tulane Law School said goodbye to its 173rd graduating class, the Class of 2024, which overcame the early stages of the COVID pandemic and Hurricane Ida, forcing the start of their law school journey online.
Tulane Law conferred degrees on more than 300...
Panel Looks at Gender, Racial Inequity in La.'s Judiciary
Despite growth in the number of judges on Louisiana’s benches, minority representation has barely increased, a new Tulane University study has found.That study is part of a panel discussion hosted by Tulane Law School Jan. 25 at 6 p.m. in Room 110 that will look at gender and racial diversity in... Read more January 25, 2018
Baseball Arbitration Competition Brings Heavy Hitters to Tulane
It was a battle of players versus owners last week as Tulane Law hosted the annual International Baseball Arbitration Competition which brought dozens of law school competitors to campus for mock negotiations.
The competition, which is run by the Tulane Sports Law Society, simulates a salary... Read more January 23, 2018
The hottest acting roles in New Orleans every January just might be at Tulane Law School.The first week in January for the past six years is reserved for Intersession Boot Camp, a crash course the week before classes resume that jolts law students back into the business of learning to be lawyers.... Read more
Terry O’Neill, former president of the National Association for Women (NOW) and an alumna and former faculty member of Tulane Law School, will be the 2018 law school commencement speaker.Law School Dean David Meyer made the announcement Monday to students and faculty, lauding O’Neill’s reputation... Read more
Joe Ettinger never seems to slow.
He was the first to arrive at Tulane Law School’s 2018 annual Intersession Monday – a favorite program he helps
support through a generous endowment – under a typical New Orleans downpour. He wasn’t fazed.
“Are we ready?” Ettinger announced.
A 1956 graduate... Read more
Palmer is First Lecturer of NO Bar's Tricentennial Events
Tulane Law Professor Vernon Palmer will address the New
Orleans Bar Association at the opening its year-long Tricentennial Celebration
Jan. 17 with a presentation on the legal history of Louisiana.
Titled “A Tricentennial Retrospective: The Unique Legacy
of Louisiana Legal History,” Palmer is the... Read more January 04, 2018
Tulane law alumnus Hugo Wood named a Schwarzman Scholar for 2019
Tulane University alumnus Hugo Wood is the recipient of a Schwarzman
Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of
China’s premier institutions. Wood, who received his master’s degree in
law and development from the Tulane Law School in 2014, was one of 142
men and women... Read more December 04, 2017
Eason Weinmann Lecture: Rebuilding S.Africa Hinges on End to Poverty
Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, a former judge of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa, reflected on his native country’s
unfinished transition to a racially just society in this year’s Eason Weinmann Lecture
on International and Comparative Law.
The justice’s lecture, Can
a Constitution... Read more November 30, 2017
Prof. Gajda Writes in Slate on Access to Bodycam Video
The trend is troubling, Gajda writes, because despite some
legitimate reasons to withhold these videos from public view, the court
decisions are extending to other public records like the use of mugshots,
sometimes solely on the basis of what might
happen to the information once released.
“Taken... Read more November 16, 2017
American Bar
Association President Hilarie Bass didn’t envision herself at a big law firm
after she graduated.“I did not grow up
around lawyers, or for that matter, people who had degrees,” she said. And yet, 36 years
later, she remains at her very first law firm, Greenberg Traurig, which has
grown... Read more
Alumna to Lead Tulane Law Career and Diversity Efforts
Lezlie Griffin, assistant Dean for Career Services at the University of Alabama School of Law, has been named as Tulane Law School’s new Assistant Dean for Career Development and Diversity Initiatives.
Griffin will assume responsibility both for the newly reorganized and expanded Career... Read more November 13, 2017
ABA President Hilarie Bass To Speak on Leadership at Tulane
The president
of the American Bar Association, Hilarie Bass, will visit Tulane Law School to address
Tulane and Loyola Law students Thurs., Nov. 9, and discuss the importance of
leadership in legal practice.Bass will speak
from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. in Room 110 on “Engaged Leadership as a Lawyer: A
Q... Read more November 02, 2017
10th Annual ClassCrits Conference Comes to Tulane Nov. 10-11
Tulane Law School is hosting the 10th annual ClassCrits
conference, drawing together a diverse network of scholars, activists, and
lawyers from across the country exploring themes of economic justice in law, on
Nov. 10-11.
The conference, organized by Saru
Matambanadzo, Tulane’s Moise Steeg... Read more November 02, 2017
Tulane Students Take 2nd Place in National Moot Court Contest
For
many Tulane students, the last weekend in October involved preparing for
Halloween or attending Voodoo Fest. That
wasn't the case for four talented Tulane Moot Court students who took
second place in a prestigious national mock trial competition. The
third-year law students took part in both... Read more November 01, 2017
Students from Tulane’s
Environmental Law Clinic got a first-hand look at the vast but struggling
Maurepas Swamp last week, and the continuing efforts to restore the wetlands.Bob Marshall, an
environmental reporter and Pulitzer-Prize winner with the Times-Picayune, met
students and spoke to them... Read more