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Former civil rights lawyer, 1st Black woman on the 11th Circuit will be graduation speaker
Tulane Law alumna Nancy Gbana Abudu (L’99), who made history as the first African-American woman to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, will be the Tulane Law School graduation speaker, interim law Dean Sally Richardson announced. Abudu, a law alumna of Tulane, was...
The Tulane Women’s Prison Project has been named an honoree of the “Champions of Change” Award by the nonprofit Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response (STAR). STAR is a leading nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual trauma, improving systems response, and creating social change to... Read more
If there is one thing Joe West believes in, it’s that every law firm --  every company--  is more successful because of diversity, equity and inclusion. The partner and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at the Washington DC office of the prestigious Duane Morris Law Firm has seen the... Read more
For more than a decade, Tulane’s Institute for Water Resources Law & Policy has hosted two post-graduate fellows each year to conduct research on the pressing environmental legal issues affecting waterways. The prestigious fellowship has provided young legal scholars with invaluable experience... Read more
In the 25 years that the Tulane Law's Berlin summer program has been operating, the more than 2,000 students who have participated have had a front-row seat to major world disputes including trade wars between the U.S. and China, the impact of sophisticated technologies on personal privacy,... Read more
Two new Forrester Fellows, early-career legal scholars, and a new Murphy visiting professor have joined the law school this fall. Professors Ian J. Murray and Jessica Tueller joined the faculty in July and will teach Legal Research and Writing for first-year law students as Forrester Fellows, a... Read more
Tulane First Amendment Clinic Director Katie Schwartzmann is the recipient of the New Orleans Bar Foundation’s Mark Moreau Award for Public Interest Law. The Award, among the highest honors of the NOBA, recognizes public interest lawyers with “keen legal minds who exhibit service, leadership, and... Read more
Robert L. Redfearn, a Tulane Law alumnus and emeritus member of the law Dean’s Advisory Board, died July 21 at the age of 90. Redfearn (B’54, L’57) practiced law for more than 66 years and was known as a sharp civil attorney whose practice focused on mergers, acquisitions, oil and gas transactions... Read more
Students in Tulane Law’s Online Master of Jurisprudence often say the same thing about their experience – that it changed their life, gave them the confidence to speak about the law, and their career benefited greatly.    “It gave me the confidence to start my own business,” said alumna Pavithri... Read more
How do you take an emerging legal problem, one where there is almost no case law and is founded on principles so broad, it could be hypothetical at every turn? That’s the reality of space law – where the commercialization of travel and industry is only beginning to take shape – but where the law... Read more
Tulane Law student Lakshmi “Lex” Kumar has embraced her second chance at life. Just a few years from a diagnosis of a rare congenital heart condition that could have taken her life, she is among the law school’s most avid student scholars and leaders. “Second chances are rarely given,” said... Read more
A number of new faces are joining the faculty ranks at Tulane Law in the fall, including an international expert in energy law, as well as scholars in civil rights and gender law, constitutional law, comparative law and human rights and finance, banking and corporate law. Freddy Sourgens was named... Read more
International energy law scholar Frédéric Sourgens has been named to lead Tulane University Law School’s innovative Center for Energy Law as the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law, Dean Sally Richardson announced. Sourgens is not only a Tulane Law alumnus with the Class of 2005, but he also is an... Read more
The New Orleans CityBusiness announced its 2023 class of Leaders in Law and Tulane Law School swept the educators category with three out of three education leaders being Tulane Law faculty members.  Professors Ann Lipton, Lauren Godshall, and Tonya Jupiter all received the local honor and joined... Read more
Tulane Law’s LLM program for foreign attorneys has made The International Jurist’ s honor roll of the nation’s best. The publication noted that Tulane’s LLM programs – five in all -- are among the oldest in the nation, incorporate Louisiana’s unique civil law traditions and ensure international... Read more
Two Tulane Law graduates have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the federal bench in key appointments,  including one that makes history as the first Black woman to serve in her circuit. Nancy Gbana Abudu (L’99) was confirmed May 17 by the U.S. Senate to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,... Read more

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