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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... 
A Tulane Law alumnus is the first American elected president of the prestigious Comité Maritime International (CMI), the largest international organization of maritime law.
Christopher Davis (L’79) was chosen for the position at CMI’s annual assembly in London last week and will serve a three-year... Read more 
'Juvenile Lifer' gets parole (and a hug) thanks to Tulane clinic
In the photo, Barry Williams’ face says it all: After decades behind bars, he’s smiling and embracing – with a big, hefty hug – his attorney of six years.
Williams walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Thursday free, 41 years after he was convicted at the age of 17 of second... Read more November 09, 2018
Second-year law student part of movement to end split juries
Second-year Tulane Law student Marissa Shevins has been hard at work this political season.
Her efforts working as an intern with the Unanimous Jury Coalition paid off on Tuesday (Nov. 6) when Louisiana voters passed a ballot measure that allow it to join the 48 other states in requiring unanimous... Read more November 07, 2018
Eason-Weinmann Center hosts conference on refugees Nov. 16-17
With 65 million refugees in the world today, their fate and what the future holds for them internationally is the topic of a major conference at Tulane Law School.
The international conference, Refugees Endure: WWII Displaced Persons versus Today and the Lessons Learned will be held Nov. 16-17th... Read more November 07, 2018
U.S.-China Energy Forum: Tariffs Hurting Industry
The escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China could provide challenges to the energy industry in the long-term, according to a number of international energy leaders who attended the 3rd annual U.S.-China Energy and Trade Law Forum hosted by Tulane Law School's Center for Energy Law and... Read more November 06, 2018
Tulane institute receives grant to create a water code
The Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy recently received a two-year, $60,000 grant from the Greater New Orleans Foundation to support its work on developing a comprehensive, statewide water code in conjunction with the Louisiana State Law Institute.
The Tulane Institute on Water... Read more November 02, 2018
Tulane and Loyola law deans sign letter supporting Amendment 2
NEW ORLEANS, La., (Nov. 2, 2018) — Today, the deans of Tulane Law School and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law released an open letter in support of Amendment 2 to the Louisiana legal community.
"Respected jurists recognize the principle of unanimous juries as essential to our... Read more November 02, 2018
In October, Tulane Law faculty joined with Xiangtan University faculty in an inaugural academic conference on comparative credit law in Changsha, China.
The effort is part of the recent launch of the Tulane-Yongxiong Center for International Credit Law in partnership with Xiangtan University in... Read more 
Students studying to be attorneys quickly learn that some cases stick with you forever. And sometimes, a client becomes a friend.
For third-year law students Mashal Garbus and Nate Hall, who represented a Salvadoran immigrant activist living in a New Orleans church under threat of deportation, the... Read more 
Law Prof. Townsend Gard awarded Lepage Faculty Fellowship
Tulane Law Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard has been awarded one of seven competitive Lepage Faculty Fellowships by the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business to continue her scholarly work in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Townsend... Read more October 26, 2018
Law alumna and activist behind plastic straw ban in California
She really, really doesn’t want a straw with her margarita.
That was at least part of the driving force behind Tulane alumna and California environmental lawyer Lisa Kaas Boyle’s efforts to draft legislation that led to California’s ban on plastic straws.
The measure, signed into law by Gov.... Read more October 23, 2018
It took 11 years and 22 student attorneys from Tulane’s Criminal Justice Clinic to help free Michael Monroe.
Last week, after serving 21 years of a mandatory life sentence in Louisiana’s State Penitentiary at Angola, Monroe’s legal saga ended; he was re-sentenced to eight years with credit for... Read more 
Environmental Law Clinic: Giving Voice to Communities in Peril
Environmental law conjures images of tug-of-wars with major corporations over pollution, challenges to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decisions and fights over fracking. But how about working to ensure access to crawfish habitat in the Atchafalaya Basin on behalf of the Cajuns whose living depends on... Read more October 22, 2018
Cameron Holmes was in his third year of law school helping represent a 16-year-old who was charged with stealing and unauthorized use of a car.
It’s as far from practicing Maritime Law as you can get, which is what Holmes planned to study at Tulane Law School. The skills practice and courtroom... Read more 
Tulane Law students don’t just read and study law; they draft it.
Former Tulane Law student Abel Delgado (L ’13) drafted a language access ordinance that could benefit Limited English Proficiency residents in New Orleans and around the country.
“It’s exciting to know that research and drafting... Read more