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Lane (L'91)announce the new scholarship.
Tulane Law School will have an endowed professorship in corporate law and a new scholarship in honor of one of its longest-serving and most beloved professors, Interim Law Dean Sally Richardson announced during... 
Jean-Michel Cousteau: "We are all connected"
Jean-Michel Cousteau, who has lived most of his life submerged in the vastness of the world’s oceans, believes the key to saving our marine life is knowledge.
Cousteau, in one of the most poignant presentations at Tulane Law School in recent memory, made a significant adjustment to the legacy of... Read more March 05, 2018
Alumni Nominated to Lead Sentencing Commission
President Trump has nominated two Tulane Law alumni to the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent, non-partisan body that oversees the federal sentencing guidelines and advises on criminal sentencing policy.
On March 1, the President nominated Judge William H. Pryor, Jr., of the U... Read more March 05, 2018
Appellate Moot Court Team Heads to England After Top Finish
A Tulane appellate moot court team’s outstanding performance has earned it the right to compete internationally at Oxford University in England.The Tulane team, composed of Peter Hull, Catherine Nunez, and Lauren Starnes, all third-year students and veteran moot court advocates, finished in second... Read more February 21, 2018
Black History Month: Class Presidents Seek to Inspire Others
Three law school students accepted a challenge in the Fall – to lead their respective classes and represent them in the Student Bar Association.
When all the ballots were counted and the dust settled, Tulane Law’s three class presidents smiled at the realization that for the first time in recent... Read more February 20, 2018
Law students provide legal protection for people with disabilities
People with disabilities receiving assistance through the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) will have an easier time keeping those benefits thanks to the help of two Tulane Law students.
Alexis Tringas and Jay Jensen, both third-year law students in the Civil Rights and Federal Practice... Read more February 15, 2018
Tulane Law Students Win Protections for Disabled
People with disabilities receiving assistance through the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) will have an easier time keeping those benefits thanks to the help of two Tulane Law students. Alexis Tringas and Jay Jensen, both third-year law students in the Civil Rights and Federal Practice... Read more February 15, 2018
TULAP Hires Lawyer to Help Tulanians Facing Immigration Woes
In a continued expansion of Tulane Law School’s offerings relating to immigration law, the Tulane University Legal Assistance Program (TULAP) has hired its first immigration attorney and is now offering aid to students, staff, and faculty facing legal challenges relating to their immigration... Read more February 09, 2018
Calling on the legal profession to champion democratic values and achieve justice, Tulane Law School alumna Judy Perry Martinez addressed the American Bar Association House of Delegates as ABA president-elect nominee. Earlier this week during the ABA’s Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, Martinez (L’82)... Read more
LSU Victorious in Special Olympics Rivalry Basketball Game
The second annual Tulane-LSU Special Olympics Unified Rivalry Basketball Game was held Feb. 3 at Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse on the uptown campus of Tulane University.
The game featured teams of Special Olympians and students from Tulane and LSU competing for the coveted Unified Rivalry Cup... Read more February 07, 2018
Creativity and the Law at Heart of 'Quilting Army' Podcast
Tulane Law students and their entrepreneurial law professor Elizabeth Townsend Gard have unleashed a grass-roots “army” studying the role of creativity and law in stoking the transformation of quilting from a folk-art craft into a multi-billion-dollar industry.
On Tuesday, Townsend Gard’s... Read more February 06, 2018
NFL Negotiation Competition Offers Lessons From Sports Law VIPs
Getting a mock salary deal between an NFL player and owners drew 36 teams to Tulane Law School Jan. 26-27 for the Professional Football Negotiation Competition which entered its fourth year organized by the Tulane Sports Law Society.
The finals brought two teams together; Chapman University Law... Read more February 01, 2018
Finding a successful career path in law takes more than just earning a JD. It requires opportunities to develop practice skills through clinics and externships and networking skills with professionals who can offer guidance.
Tulane hosted such a full-day event Jan. 27 to help students to hone... Read more
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