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Tulane Law alumnus the Honorable Frank A. “Pappy” Little, Jr. (A&S ’58, L ‘61), who served on the federal bench for 22 years with distinction and was a pioneer in Louisiana trust law, has died. He was 87.
Little, who in 2023 was inducted into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame, was retired...
Students planning Tulane Law’s annual environmental law showcase confounded Professor Oliver Houck when they invited a craft brewery executive as the main attraction.
But New Belgium Brewing co-founder Kim Jordan hit all the right chords as keynote speaker, explaining her company’s multi-faceted... Read more
Matambanadzo named to civil rights advisory panel
Tulane Law Professor Saru Matambanadzo has been appointed to a four-year term on the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The state panels conduct hearings and make recommendations to the commission on local civil rights concerns, such as justice, voting, housing,... Read more March 30, 2017
By Caroline McDougall
Tulane University endowed scholarship recipients received an opportunity to meet the donors supporting their studies during the 2017 Celebration of Scholarship event March 19 in the Glazer Family Club at Yulman Stadium.
As a jazz trio played in the background, nearly 200... Read more
Johnson: Courts might be an immigration refuge (VIDEO)
The Trump administration’s immigration policies are creating a climate of fear in immigrant communities and prompting numerous legal challenges, but they’re also generating more scrutiny where courts previously didn’t trod, UC Davis School of Law Dean Kevin Johnson told a Tulane University Law... Read more March 23, 2017
From Day One, Professor Ann Lipton tells students that corporate law “ultimately is about who’s going to control the wealth and power that corporations accumulate.”
So, in an era when all sorts of regulations seem to be falling out of favor, what better time to examine the balance between the... Read more
A Tulane University Law School team has qualified for the second straight year to compete at The Hague in the International Criminal Court Moot Competition.
Sophia Radolinski, Jay Jensen (both L ’18) and Catherine Nunez (L ’19) were coached by Hilarie Wiley (L ’17), a member of Tulane Law’s 2016... Read more
Tax scholars gather at Tulane Law March 24
Tulane University Law School hosts the Tulane Tax Roundtable for the seventh year March 24, bringing together scholars from around the United States to discuss the most current tax policy issues.
The roundtable, co-sponsored by Tulane’s Murphy Institute and Tulane Law School, will showcase the... Read more March 17, 2017
Tulane University Law School students are holding Saturday clinics providing free tax return assistance to qualified taxpayers through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.
VITA help is available to workers who make $54,000 or less. Student volunteers are IRS-certified to assist with tax... Read more
Tulane Law succeeds at national, regional advocacy meets
American Association of Justice
Tulane Law’s mock trial team of William Igbokwe, Marco Salgado (both L ’17), Jackson Smith and Anna Potter (both L ’18) won the American Association of Justice regional competition hosted by The University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 9-12,... Read more March 15, 2017
FBA students meet the 5th Circuit judges (PHOTO)
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held its annual sitting at Tulane University Law School March 7.
Judges James L. Dennis, Jacques L. Wiener Jr. (L ’61) and Catharina Haynes also met with law students over lunch after the morning of arguments.
Here, the judges joined members of the Tulane... Read more March 08, 2017
Kevin R. Johnson has been writing about U.S. immigration law and policy for decades. But his expertise might be more timely today than ever as the Trump administration upends the landscape for migrants, refugees and undocumented workers and families.
Johnson, who is dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of... Read more
NOTE POSTED MARCH 13: THE LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
Constitutional scholar Akhil Amar gets people stirred up over his ideas about the document. He’s been described as provocative yet “as comfortable across the table from Clarence Thomas as Stephen Colbert.” By... Read more
When Kim Jordan co-founded New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, the company’s core values from the start included environmental stewardship. So New Belgium tries to serve as a model of sustainability: using alternate energy sources, looking for ways to recycle, seeking vendors that... Read more
The constitutional framers created a system of checks and balances, including an independent judiciary, precisely because they foresaw the rise of someone who, like Donald Trump, won the presidency on a message that citizens couldn’t trust the system and only he could fix it, Yale Law Professor... Read more
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals holds its annual sitting at Tulane University Law School March 7.
A panel of Judges James L. Dennis, Jacques L. Wiener Jr. (L ’61) and Catharina Haynes is scheduled to hear arguments in three cases starting at 9 a.m. in the Wendell H. Gauthier Appellate Moot... Read more