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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...
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
Terry O’Neill, former president of the National Association for Women (NOW) and an alumna and former faculty member of Tulane Law School, will be the 2018 law school commencement speaker.Law School Dean David Meyer made the announcement Monday to students and faculty, lauding O’Neill’s reputation... Read more
Joe Ettinger never seems to slow.
He was the first to arrive at Tulane Law School’s 2018 annual Intersession Monday – a favorite program he helps
support through a generous endowment – under a typical New Orleans downpour. He wasn’t fazed.
“Are we ready?” Ettinger announced.
A 1956 graduate... Read more
Palmer is First Lecturer of NO Bar's Tricentennial Events
Tulane Law Professor Vernon Palmer will address the New
Orleans Bar Association at the opening its year-long Tricentennial Celebration
Jan. 17 with a presentation on the legal history of Louisiana.
Titled “A Tricentennial Retrospective: The Unique Legacy
of Louisiana Legal History,” Palmer is the... Read more January 04, 2018
Tulane law alumnus Hugo Wood named a Schwarzman Scholar for 2019
Tulane University alumnus Hugo Wood is the recipient of a Schwarzman
Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of
China’s premier institutions. Wood, who received his master’s degree in
law and development from the Tulane Law School in 2014, was one of 142
men and women... Read more December 04, 2017
Eason Weinmann Lecture: Rebuilding S.Africa Hinges on End to Poverty
Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, a former judge of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa, reflected on his native country’s
unfinished transition to a racially just society in this year’s Eason Weinmann Lecture
on International and Comparative Law.
The justice’s lecture, Can
a Constitution... Read more November 30, 2017
Prof. Gajda Writes in Slate on Access to Bodycam Video
The trend is troubling, Gajda writes, because despite some
legitimate reasons to withhold these videos from public view, the court
decisions are extending to other public records like the use of mugshots,
sometimes solely on the basis of what might
happen to the information once released.
“Taken... Read more November 16, 2017