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Two graduates were honored by the Tulane Law faculty with the school’s highest honors, one for academic excellence and the other for service to Tulane and the community.
Tulane Law School’s top student honors, the John Minor Wisdom Award, focused on academics and writing, and the ... 
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... 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
Two distinguished Tulane Law alumnae have been nominated by President Biden for ambassadorships overseas, the White House announced.
Vicky Reggie Kennedy (NC ’76, L’79), senior counsel at Greenberg, Traurig, was nominated as Ambassador to Austria while Jamie L. Harpootlian (L’84), an attorney with... Read more 
A recent Tulane Law alum has won the Democratic primary in New York City’s 7th district, defeating 11 other candidates, and marking a historic moment as the first Latino to represent the Upper Manhattan District on the City Council.
Shaun Abreu (L’18), who has been practicing as a tenants’ rights... Read more 
Tulane Environmental Law Clinic issues report on air pollution's link to higher cancer rates
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Impoverished communities in Louisiana with higher levels of toxic air pollution suffer from higher cancer rates, according to a report published by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic.
The report compares the most recent cancer rates from the Louisiana Tumor... Read more June 24, 2021
Robert Acomb Jr., a visionary lawyer who helped establish Tulane as a global center for maritime law and whose illustrious career saw him recognized as one of the top admiralty lawyers in the world, has died.
He was 90.
Acomb (B’51, L’53) was a long-time partner at the Jones Walker firm in New... Read more