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Law School wins Give Green Grand Prize
Tulane Law School topped its previous record in what was the most successful Give Green day of giving on the books. Held April 11, the law school: Won the Big Green Grand Prize for the third year in a row in the A category, adding $8,000 in bonus money; Reached a whopping 644 donors, the...
Kimberly Terrell As a recent Harvard study linked long-term exposure to air pollution with higher COVID-19 death rates across the country, a deeper analysis by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic shows those living in Louisiana’s industrial corridor face some of the worst impacts of that connection. Tulane Law ... Read more
The Women’s Prison Project – Tulane Law’s innovative clinical program providing legal services and advocacy for imprisoned women who were victims of domestic violence – has won the prestigious Emil Gumpert Award. The award, the highest honor conferred by the American College of Trial Lawyers on a... Read more
Hoffman Franklin Fuller graduated Tulane Law in 1956, setting academic records that lasted for decades. However, he could not stay away for long. Four years later, “Hoff,” as he was known to family, friends and colleagues, joined the law school faculty, building a premiere tax program nationally... Read more
Lawyers generally meet their clients in person when they need legal advice. That’s true, too, of law students learning the legal ropes while helping clients of local non-profits that provide free legal counseling to New Orleans’ most vulnerable. But meeting clients has been a challenge under... Read more
A maverick advocate for women’s rights and racial equality, Sandra Scarbrough Kramer, the widow of former Tulane Law Dean John Kramer, died March 30 at the age of 79. Kramer, who was born in rural Mississippi, blazed a career steeped in politics, moving forward what in the early 60s and 70s were... Read more
With precautions in place against COVID-19 throwing the university community into full-time online coursework and sheltering in place, socializing has had to become a bit …  creative. Social distancing is needed to “flatten the curve,” experts say, but isolation can also wreak havoc on anyone,... Read more
Through a common interest in quilting, a truck driver from Indianapolis, Ind., and a Tulane Law professor have come together to help health care workers in need of masks. Tulane Law Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, whose research recently explored on intellectual property norms in the creative world... Read more
In a moving tribute to Tulane Law and in recognition that his life remains in danger in his native Liberia, an alumnus who won one of the environmental world's most prestigious prizes, has bestowed it on Tulane for safekeeping. "At Tulane Law I feel at home," said Alfred Brunell (LLM'02) who in... Read more
On the heels of establishing two world-class centers – in energy law and in environmental law – Tulane Law School is launching two online master’s programs for those working in these growing industries. The Master of Jurisprudence in Environmental Law and the Master of Jurisprudence in Energy Law... Read more
The 28th annual Tulane Admiralty Law Institute (ALI) will focus on ships – their lifespan and everything in between – during its biennial conference March 11-13. This year’s ALI will be held on Tulane’s campus at McAlister Auditorium starting Wednesday with an opening panel on the evolution of a... Read more
Jeff Davis, the Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer for the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan will keynote Tulane University Law School’s 32nd annual Corporate Law Institute (CLI) March 5-6 at the Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria Hotel in downtown New Orleans. Davis will speak at the CLI Thursday from... Read more
Tulane Law Professor Ann Lipton is gathering top corporate and securities scholars from around the country to explore changes in the industry at the Tulane Corporate  & Securities Law Roundtable March 7. The Roundtable has been a popular event that annually brings scholars from around the... Read more
Tulane Law School has received a nearly $2 million gift to expand an innovative clinical program providing legal services and advocacy for imprisoned women who were victims of domestic violence, Dean David Meyer announced. The anonymous gift will support the Women’s Prison Project (WPP), a first-... Read more
The movement against natural hair discrimination now has at least two Tulane Law alums squarely in the middle of it – and working together. Law alumna Wendy Greene (L’02) is the founder of Free the Hair, a movement that seeks to “celebrate and advocate the right of people of color to freely wear... Read more

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