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The gift of a two-century-old manuscript is cause for celebration.
Tulane Law faculty honored the gift of the 200-year-old de la Vergne volume, an original work on the Civil Law of Louisiana by Louis Moreau Lislet, on Nov. 6 with a program and reception that brought remaining de la Vergne family... 
With support from a nearly $1 million gift from the Stanton Foundation, Tulane Law School will launch a new law clinic dedicated to First Amendment rights, Dean David Meyer announced.
The gift will cover the full operating costs of the new clinic for five years and enable the law school to hire a... Read more 
Eason-Weinmann Lecture Sept. 18 to focus on human rights
Human rights – and efforts at minimizing the need for their enforcement and expansion – is the topic of Tulane Law School’s Eason-Weinmann Lecture on International & Comparative Law Sept. 18.
This year's guest lecturer is Prof. Colm O’Cinneide, a constitutional and human rights law scholar... Read more September 05, 2019
Xiangtan students begin studies at Tulane Law
Nine students from Xiangtan University in China arrived at Tulane Law School this summer, the first cohort of students as part of an important academic partnership between the two universities.
The students are enrolled in Tulane’s LLM program, studying international finance and credit law.
Last... Read more September 05, 2019
Law alumna: More drinking fountains, fewer plastic bottles
A Tulane Law alumna who is a leading voice to ban single-use plastic straws has co-authored a report seeking to do the same with plastic bottles.
The report by drinking water experts Lisa Kaas Boyle (L'90), co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition and legal policy advisor to WeTap, and Evelyn... Read more August 28, 2019
Class of 2022: Tulane Law, New Orleans was place to thrive
More than 200 new first-year law students arrived at Tulane Law Aug. 19 for orientation, spending a week preparing for what will be a fast-paced first semester of law.
“While, nationally, there has been a 3.2 percent increase in applicants to law school this year, applicants are being more... Read more August 28, 2019
On Friday, Tulane University President Mike Fitts officially welcomed the Class of 2023 at the 2019 Convocation, held at McAlister Hall. (Photos by Sally Asher)
Tulane alumnae to lead top legal organizations
It’s going to be a banner year for alumnae of Tulane Law School.
This fall, two illustrious women graduates take the helm of two of the most significant legal organizations in the country – the American Bar Association (ABA) and the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ).
This month, Judy... Read more August 09, 2019
Houck receives prestigious ABA lifetime achievement award
For his pioneering role in modern environmental law and as one of the world’s most committed advocates of protecting nature, Tulane Law Prof. Oliver Houck was honored with the American Bar Association’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law and Policy, one of... Read more August 08, 2019
In the Academic Year in Review, Tulane University President Michael A. Fitts presents the university’s most extraordinary achievements of the 2018–19 academic year. The theme, “The Power of Tulane,” serves to highlight the people and programs that take on global challenges while also serving the... Read more
Tulane Law Professor Kristin Johnson, a leading national voice on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for American law and public policy, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Finance Services Committee in July.
Johnson, the McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law, the... Read more 
Tulane Law Prof. Ron Scalise (BA’97, L’00), who is the editor of the Louisiana Civil Code and has established himself as a foremost expert in the state’s unique legal tenets, has been elected to the American Law Institute, the nation’s most influential legal reform organization.
Founded in 1923,... Read more 
New scholars join Tulane Law faculty
A seasoned environmental litigator, a civil rights attorney, a scholar focused on discrimination law and an expert on public international law have joined Tulane Law School as the newest members of its faculty.
One joins the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, two are Fellows and one is a Visiting... Read more July 03, 2019
Bernard Lane was an Army Ranger with two bronze stars and one of the toughest soldiers you’d ever meet. Richard Morrison, having lived through alcoholism, spent his life counseling others in crisis and despair.
Both lived in loving relationships with partners in the 70s, when being openly gay in... Read more 
Tulane Law to open immigrants' rights clinic in 2020
Tulane Law School is launching a new Immigrants’ Rights Law Clinic to prepare students to meet the rapidly growing crisis in access to justice for detainees, announced Dean David Meyer.
The new clinic, supported by a generous seed gift of $400,000 by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, comes... Read more June 18, 2019
It’s a Silver Anniversary for the International Legislative Drafting Institute which helps shape laws around the world—and in the process, makes lives better.
The Public Law Center (TPLC) of Tulane Law School convened its 25th annual Institute in June with 44 participants from eight countries... Read more