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Richardson, Hancock listen to Thomas
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... 
Tulane Law School’s faculty is participating in Tulane’s first Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit March 1-2.
The event, which will feature short presentations and lectures from the university’s researchers, faculty and scholars, is part of a broader effort to showcase the work of those... Read more 
Tulane Law Vice Dean Sally Richardson is back on the Mardi Gras circuit, teaching students and practitioners alike about property law with the backdrop of the carnival season.
“It’s fun to be able to connect up legal concepts – and sometimes antiquated legal concepts, at that – to something that... Read more 
Three times might be the charm for a full-Tulane Law sweep of the National Black Law Student moot court competition.
At least that’s what the Tulane Black Law Student Association Moot Court Program is aiming for this year as it sends three teams across three disciplines to the National Thurgood... Read more 
Noted civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill calls on lawyers to help preserve democracy
The work of addressing America’s inequality and injustice is dependent on the courage of ordinary people to do all they can to preserve democracy, renowned civil rights activist Sherrilyn Ifill told the crowd gathered recently during her visit to Tulane.
In her call to action, Ifill, a long-time... Read more February 09, 2023
Black Law Alumni Reunion: Family builds Tulane Law legacy
Only in 1966 did Tulane Law School enroll its first Black student, opening doors to those who had long been denied access to legal education.
Eighteen years later, Karen Wells and Clarence Roby Jr. were the first in their families to enter law school, becoming some of the early Black practitioners... Read more February 06, 2023
Women's Prison Project is focus of ABA event
Since its launch in 2020, Tulane Law School’s Women’s Prison Project has helped win the freedom of eight women, most of them serving life-without-parole sentences for having defended themselves against violent partners. The Project’s most recent client, a 62-year-old woman incarcerated for the... Read more February 02, 2023
Tulane Law’s endowed lecture focused on maritime law, the William Tetley Lecture, will be held on Feb. 15 and will explore the latest pressing issues affecting shipping operations throughout the world.
This year’s Tetley Lecturer is Anne Liversedge, General Counsel at Teekay Tankers, and Chair of... Read more 
Tulane Law statement on U.S. News ranking
Today, Dean David Meyer released this statement explaining why Tulane Law School will no longer provide internal data to U.S. News for purposes of its ranking of law schools. In making this move, Tulane Law joins about 40 law schools and five medical schools in declining to participate in the U.... Read more January 27, 2023
One of the nation’s premier civil rights attorneys and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill, will be the keynote speaker at the Tulane Black Law Alumni Reunion Feb. 3.
Ifill’s speech will take place as part of the Friday evening events of the BLA... Read more 
It’s hard to miss the giant white pick-up truck adorned with huge red, white, and black flags rolling down the streets of the tiny fishing town of Grand Isle, Louisiana. Especially when those red, white, and black flags say “F*** BIDEN” (without the asterisks). And also F*** everyone who voted... Read more 
Louisiana’s civil law tradition is unique to the U.S., establishing legal and cultural principles that now span 300 years.
To honor the tricentennial of New Orleans as the capital of the Louisiana colony, the Tulane Law Eason Weinmann Center for International and Comparative Law, along with the... Read more 
A trailblazing judge, an advocate for underrepresented communities and a national leader in equity and inclusion were selected by their peers as the first recipients of the inaugural Tulane Black Law Alumni Awards.
The Awards – three in total – were presented at the Tulane Black Law Alumni Reunion... Read more 
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards called offshore wind energy a natural opportunity for renewing Louisiana’s leadership in the energy sector, creating new jobs and helping ease impacts of climate change during the Tulane Law inaugural offshore wind conference held Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Edwards said he... Read more 
Freedom of expression in schools will be the subject of the Tulane Law School McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. in the law school's John Giffen Weinmann Hall, Room 110.
This year's lecturer is Professor Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor... Read more 
Renowned civil rights scholar delivers Dreyfous Lecture Feb. 2, kicks off BLA Reunion
Prof. Darren Hutchinson, the John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice at Emory University, will be this year’s Tulane Law School's Dreyfous Lecturer.
The George Abel and Mathilde Schwab Dreyfous Lecture, dedicated to the study of civil liberties and human rights, will take place... Read more January 16, 2023