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To know Edward Sherman, former Dean of Tulane Law School and a preeminent scholar in complex litigation, was to have a lifelong friend. His empathetic leadership style helped move the law school into the future.
“He was the nicest guy, almost too nice to be the Dean,” said longtime... 
Trailblazer Wayne Lee is Tulane Law graduation speaker
Wayne Lee, a 1974 law graduate who is among the top lawyers in the nation and who has worked tirelessly for diversity in the legal profession, is the 2022 Tulane law School graduation speaker.
Lee, a native New Orleanian with a 40-plus-year distinguished career in law, will speak to graduates May... Read more April 26, 2022
Tulane Law’s 5th annual Entertainment & Sports Law Conference, in conjunction with the Tulane Center for Sport, brought some of the top names in the industry to the Uptown campus, in-person, April 11.
The conference panelists discussed legal issues in the changing landscape of sports as well... Read more 
The eighth class of the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame is full of trailblazers.
It includes the first Black woman to graduate from Tulane Law, the iconic founder of Tulane’s environmental law program, a state Supreme Court justice, a young immigrant from Colombia who rose to sit on the federal... Read more 
Tulane Law Forrester Fellow and Professor Paulina Arnold has been selected to serve as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Arnold, who is in her first year of the two-year Tulane Forrester Fellowship, begins her term as a clerk in 2023. She currently teaches first-year law... Read more 
The conventional account traces the origin of legal protection for privacy to an 1890 Harvard Law Review article, The Right to Privacy, written by Samuel Warren and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, generally considered to be the most famous law review article of all time.
In the... Read more 
***UPDATE: The Dreyfous Lecture has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date***
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 ... Read more 
The annual – and much anticipated – Tulane Moot Court Honorary Round takes place Wednesday, April 6, at Tulane Law School before a distinguished panel of judges.
This year’s competitors are seasoned Moot Court veterans Michelle Domingue and Peter Vesich, both third-year law students. They will... Read more 
Russia’s war against Ukraine has set off an unprecedented crisis in energy markets, upending decades of cross-border investments, and forcing governments to rethink the balance of their energy resources in the future.
Against that backdrop, Tulane’s Center for Energy Law is holding its 3rd annual... Read more 
Liability insurance and global shipping is the topic of the Tulane Tetley Memorial Lecture in Maritime Law which takes place April 5.
The guest lecturer is D. Rhidian Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Maritime Law and Founder Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea... Read more 
Bock to be installed in new IP law professorship April 4
Tulane Law Associate Professor Jeremy Bock will be formally installed as the inaugural Alan and Louise Fisch Associate Professor of Law on Monday, April 4, in a ceremony at the John Giffen Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret St.
The Investiture of Tulane Law School’s newest endowed professor begins at 5:30... Read more March 29, 2022
Tulane sports law women build legacy symposium
In small and big ways, sports have been a life-changing part of their lives.
One is a gold-medal-winning World Champion gymnast. Two were captains of their respective collegiate teams; one in rowing and the other in lacrosse. Another was a star basketball player, who not only excelled on the court... Read more March 28, 2022
They have yet to lose a round in any moot court competition, but in a way, that’s how they planned it.
Clarence “Trey” Roby III and Reagan Roy, both second-year law students, are the national champions of the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition, which took place as part of the 54th Annual... Read more 
The 29th Tulane Admiralty Law Institute (ALI) will focus on the Jones Act – and where this legislation that helps protect America’s maritime industry stands 100 years after its enactment – during its biennial conference March 30 to April 1.
The three-day ALI conference – the nation’s premier event... Read more 
While Louisiana is uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, it is also uniquely positioned to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the transition to renewable energy, Gov. John Bel Edwards said during his keynote speech at the 27th annual Tulane Environmental Law and Policy... Read more 
Judge William Pryor (L’87) to speak at Tulane Law
The Tulane Federalist Society will host a talk by Judge William H. Pryor, a 1987 Tulane Law graduate and the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit.
Pryor’s visit will be at the law school on Wednesday, March 23 at 5 p.m. in Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret Street. A reception will... Read more March 17, 2022