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Scholarship & Service

Fall 2024

Professor Nick Bryner’s article “The Once and Future Clean Air Act: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on EPA’s Regulatory Authority,” was selected for inclusion in the list of Top 20 articles selected for the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR), a joint publication of the Environmental Law Institute’s (ELI) Environmental Law Reporter and Vanderbilt University Law School.

Professor Missy Lonegrass’s book Louisiana Civil Code with Official Legislative Commentary: 2025 Student Edition will be published by West Academic in early January 2025.

Professor Keith Hall was quoted in an article by Landmark, an energy newsletter, where he discusses whether a study recently issued by the U.S. Department of Energy regarding liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will still hold weight in the upcoming Trump administration.

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by Bloomberg Law in an article that explores how circuit courts are developing broader standards for workplace bias harm after the U.S. Supreme Court changed the landscape for workplace anti-bias litigation in April with its unanimous ruling in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis. 

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented on “Recent Developments in Louisiana Successions, Donations, and Trusts” for the New Orleans Planned Giving Council 4th Quarter Luncheon on Dec. 3.

Professor Robert Lancaster presented the “Carceral Monster: Mass Incarceration in the United States” as an invited speaker at Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France.

Professor Robert Lancaster will serve as a visiting professor at the Institut de Droit Comparé at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon France, where he will teach “Introduction to U.S. Criminal Law.” He has a second visiting professor appointment at Université Grenoble Alpes where he will teach “Comparative Criminal Legal Systems” in the Diploma in Legal Studies program.

Professor John Lovett presented a paper, “Public Recreational Access to Inland Water in the United States,” at the Property Works in Progress Workshop at Boston University Law School on Nov. 8.

Professor John Lovett led a class “Sharing in Property Law” for advanced law students at the University of Leuven in Belgium along with Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand of Northeastern University Law School on Nov. 20. He also participated in a property law scholarship roundtable in conjunction with the University of Leuven Law School’s Global Law Week.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Extraction of Lithium From Brine — Exploration Rights and Other Legal Issues” at a conference held at the University of West Virginia Law School in Morgantown, West Virginia on Nov. 15.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Drafting and Negotiating Instruments to Acquire Pore Space Rights for CCUS” at the Advanced Landman’s Institute in Houston on Nov. 8.

Professor Keith Hall moderated and served on a panel “Carbon Capture & Storage – Property, Contracts, & Economics” at the U.S. Association of Energy Economists’ 41^st Annual North American Conference on Nov. 5.

Professor Caprice Roberts will speak on the “Remedies at the Intersection of Public and Private Law” panel and the “Understanding the Third Tort—Remedies Restatement’s Approach to Dignitary Harm” panel at the Association of Annual Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco from Jan. 7-11, 2025.

Professor Caprice Roberts will be a part of a celebration to honor the recipients of the AALS Litigation’s section Outstanding Practitioner Award. This year’s recipients include Ben Crump, and Chris Ayers, whom she nominated for their landmark litigation on the Henrietta Lacks case.

Assistant Dean Monique Gonzalez was appointed to a two-year term for the managing board of the Mindfulness in Law Society, an organization dedicated to enhancing well-being in the legal profession through education about the benefits of mindfulness meditation, yoga, and other contemplative practices.

Assistant Dean Monique Gonzalez will present on the panel “Incorporating AI & NextGen Bar in Legal Research Instruction” at the Association of Annual Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco from Jan. 7-11, 2025. She will also lead an “Introduction to Mindfulness” session at the meeting.

Professor John Parsi’s article “Medical Consensus on Gender Affirming Care’s Critical Impact on Incarcerated Black Transgender Women” was published in Vol. 38, Issue 1 of the Journal of Law and Health.

Professor Ryan Stoa was quoted in an article from Live Science that explores the inconsistent measurements of coastlines, otherwise known as the coastline paradox, and the real-world implications of the disparate measurements.  His research article “The Coastline Paradox” is also referenced in the Live Science article.

Professor Ryan Stoa was a guest on the episode “Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?” on the Freakonomics Radio podcast. In the final episode of the four-part series that explores the emergence of the cannabis industry, Professor Stoa discusses what possible regulations for producing and marketing cannabis products could look like. The episode is available online and on Spotify. You can listen to it here. 

Professor Caprice Roberts spoke on the scope of First Amendment free speech, expression rights, and remedies as part of the “Social Media Platform Regulation” panel at the international “Academic Days IMODEV Conference on Open Government and Digital Issues,” which was held at at the Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France on Nov. 4-6 and was orchestrated by Imodev and a host of international sponsors.

Professor Caprice Roberts’ article, “Doug Laycock and Creativity in Restitution—The Henrietta Lacks Litigation as a Test Case,” has been published on SSRN. The article will be published in volume 44 of the Review of Litigation.

Professor Caprice Roberts completed Federal Courts: Context, Cases, and Problems (with Michael P. Allen and Michael Finch) (Aspen 4th ed. 2024) (with accompanying Teacher’s Manual).

Professor Tom Galligan was the keynote speaker at the gala dinner celebrating the tenth anniversary of the University of Tennessee College of Law’s Institute for Professional Leadership.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Conservation Regulation” at the Annual Oil & Gas Short Course in Houston on Oct. 23.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Contracting for Pore Space Rights for Carbon Capture and Storage” at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Fall Symposium on Oct. 17 in Lexington, Kentucky where twenty-three LSU Law students were in attendance.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “The Public Policy Rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage” at George Washington University Law School on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C.

Professor Keith Hall attended the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission’s Annual Conference in Colorado Springs on Oct. 28.

Professors Summer Chandler and Aimee Self Pittman delivered a presentation, “Navigating Ethics and Professionalism in the Age of Generative AI: Cross-Disciplinary Insights and Lessons,” to the American Association of Dental Editors and Journalists in New Orleans in October. They offered valuable perspectives on the ethical and professional challenges of generative AI across various professions.

Professor Richard Pittman will present at the Together We Can Conference in Lafayette on Nov. 6-8. He will join Franchesca Hamilton-Acker of Acadiana Legal Services to present “Upholding Legal Professionalism and Ethics in Child Welfare” on Nov. 6, and he will present “Recent Developments in Law and Policy” with Kathy Cook of the Mental Health Advocacy Service and Kayana Bradley of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services on Nov. 8.

Professor Olivier Moréteau presented “Community Spirit and Individualism as Systemic Markers: Revisiting the Civil Law and Common Law Divide” at the Louisiana Civil Law Symposium hosted by Loyola University New Orleans College of Law on Oct. 25.

Professor Jack Harrison participated in a panel discussion entitled “Exploring the New Landscape of Louisiana Criminal Justice” at the Invest in Louisiana Annual Policy Conference, hosted by Xavier University in New Orleans on Oct. 24.

Professor Tracy Norton and Will Monroe presented as part of the “Making AI Work for You (the Law Professor)” webinar hosted by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on Oct. 25.

Professor Emeritus Pat Martin has published four novels of a six-novel series called In a Foreign Country – Journeys of a Southerner. The four novels, Cannons at the Gate, Insurrection at Bayou Sara, Fire on the Mississippi, and Escape from Richmond, sprawl over the nineteenth century, focusing on a New Orleans lawyer and two generations of families (one free and one enslaved) on a Louisiana cotton plantation. Additional details can be found at patmartinauthor.com.

Professor Tom Galligan‘s article, “Revisiting ‘Sanchez:’ Turning Short Round,” will be published in forthcoming issue of Loyola Maritime Law Journal.

Professor Bill Corbett‘s article, “Reverse Discrimination: An Opportunity to Modernize and Improve Employment Discrimination Law,” has been published online by the University of Miami Law Review. 

Professor John Lovett discusses the problem of heirs property in a documentary produced by Louisiana Appleseed about the proposed Louisiana Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act. The act is currently under consideration by the Louisiana State Law Institute. Watch the documentary here. 

Professor John Lovett presented “Abandoned Land and Abandoned Improvements: Responding to Climate Change and the Energy Transition” at the annual meeting of the Association of Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) held at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, California on June 13-15.

Professor Bill Corbett accepted an offer of publication for his article “Into the Twilight Zone: Reverse Citizenship Discrimination, Damage Caps, and Escalating Incoherence” from the Brooklyn Law Review. The article will be published in early 2025. 

Professor Bill Corbett spoke at three LSU CLE Recent Developments Seminars covering both labor and employment law and Louisiana Civil Procedure in September.

Professor Richard Pittman moderated a panel, “The Legislative Landscape,” at a juvenile justice related symposium organized by PREACH on Oct. 11

Professor Keith Hall gave two presentations, “Unconventional Resource Projects” and “Crude Oil Marketing,” at the International Oil & Gas Law, Contracts, & Negotiations Short Course in Houston, Texas on Sept. 30.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Obtaining Pore Space Rights for Carbon Capture and Storage” at the 42nd Annual Advanced Oil, Gas, & Energy Resources Law Course held by the Texas Bar Association in Houston, Texas on Sept. 25.

Professor Jennifer Cooper participated on the panel “Building a Pedagogy of Socratic Teaching” at the 2024 Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Conference hosted at the Boston University School of Law on Sept. 21.

Professor Michael Malinowski was a lightning round speaker in the LSU Provost’s Distinguished Lecture that featured Dr. Janina Jeff, a population genetics scientist and the host and creator of the award-winning podcast “In those Genes,” held on Oct. 11. He addressed the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) decision to share biomarker health risk information with participants in its All of Us Research Program, and the global government and academic research implications of that decision.

Professor Olivier Moreteau presented “The Dynamics of Codification in Louisiana: Is the Civil Code Soft Law?” at the Fall Judges Conference coordinated by The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society in New Orleans on Oct. 8.

Professor Ryan Stoa was a guest on the episode “Is America Switching from Booze to Weed” on the Freakonomics Radio podcast. The episode is the first in a four-part series that explores the emergence of the cannabis industry and is available online and on Spotify. Professor Stoa appears at the 16:20 mark of the episode.

Professor Ryan Stoa presented “Hemp Law and consumable hemp products in Louisiana and the United States” to the Louisiana Association for Therapeutic Alternatives where he discussed the 2018 Farm Bill that allowed businesses to sell synthetic THC products (such as Delta-8THC) as an unregulated hemp.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Bloomberg Law in an article about oral arguments that The Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and the Center for Biological Diversity will make on Oct. 21 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit regarding the Department of Energy’s discretion in studying the climate impacts of its authorization to export liquid natural gas to countries that don’t have a free trade agreement with the U.S.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “The Public Policy Rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage” panel held at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 10. The panel was organized by the GW Law Environmental and Energy Law Program.

Professor Emeritus Ed Richards is quoted in an article from The Atlantic about the potential aftermath of Hurricane Milton on the state of Florida and the impacts of rebuilding homes, businesses, and other buildings in high flood-risk regions.

Professor Tom Galligan is quoted by Wallethub in an article about advice for buying car insurance. 

Professor Caprice Roberts is quoted in an article by Law360 about past, current, and future lawsuits regarding the Henrietta Lacks in which her cells were collected for medical research without her consent or her family’s knowledge. Henrietta Lacks’s cells became the “HeLa” immortal cell line used in countless medical vaccines and cures. Her family now seeks part of the profits that they claim companies unjustly earn through continued use of the Lacks cell line.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was appointed to the Board of Directors of Louisiana Appleseed earlier this year. Louisiana Appleseed is a non-profit legal organization that promotes systemic change that assists vulnerable populations.

Professor Elizabeth Carter will present proposed revisions to “Engagement Letters: A Guide to Practitioners” to the Professional Responsibility Committee at the fall meeting of The American College of Trust and Estate held in Chicago, Illinois Sept. 18-22. The ACTEC Engagement Letters serves as a guide to trust and estate lawyers about their professional responsibility.

Professor Elizabeth Carter began her service on the Advisory Board for This First, an online platform providing high-end prenuptial agreements in California.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Fiduciary Litigation in Louisiana: Mandataries, Succession Representatives, and Trustees” was cited by the United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana in its opinion in Cook v. Marshall.

Professor Caprice Roberts moderated, presented, and participated in numerous discussions at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, which was held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on July 21-27. Professor Roberts serves as the SEALS Deputy Executive Director and Vice Chair of Programming.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present her article, “Doug Laycock and Creativity in Restitution: The Henrietta Lacks Litigation as a Test Case,” at the University of Texas School of Law Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center on Sept. 27. The article will be published later this year in the Review of Litigation.

Professor Tom Galligan made numerous presentations on preparing for and conducting site visits at the 2024 American Bar Association Site Visit Workshops in Chicago, Illinois on Aug. 23-24.

Professor Keith Hall’s article, “Local Government Regulation of CCS,” has been published in the Wyoming Law Review [24 Wyo. L. Rev. 473 (2024)]

Professor Olivier Moréteau’s article, “Deux siècles de traduction juridique en Louisiane, développement et promotion de la terminologie anglaise du droit civil,” has been accepted for publication by Revue Internationale De Droit Compare, a Paris-based publication.

Professor Bill Corbett presented an overview at “Employment Law Update 2024,” a continuing legal education program of the Louisiana State Bar Association, in New Orleans on Aug. 16.

Professor Heidi Thompson led a panel presentation entitled “You Better Think Like a Professional” at the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference in Indianapolis on July 19.

Professor Tracy Norton presented on “Generative AI Literacy for Lawyers” at the Annual Meetings of the Arkansas Land Title Association, the Alabama/Louisiana/Mississippi Land Title Association, and also at Kean Miller’s Baton Rouge office.

Professor Tracy Norton’s article, “Each One, Teach One: Engaging Students in Professional Identity Formation Across the Law School Curriculum with Fully Anonymous Peer Review,” was published in a special law school edition of Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments.

Professor Ray Diamond was the featured lecturer at the annual luncheon of the Baton Rouge chapter of the Federal Bar Association. His talk was entitled “The Second Amendment in a Post-Rahimi World.”

Professor Tom Galligan‘s article, “History and Constitutional Interpretation: What’s Really ‘There?,'” will be published in a forthcoming volume of The University of New Hampshire Law Review.

Professor Tom Galligan‘s article, “Dissecting Evans v. Abubaker, Inc.: Who Decides Scope of Liability in Louisiana Negligence Cases? Who Should Decide?,” will be published in a forthcoming volume of Loyola Law Review.

Professor Del Wright will present at the 7th Annual Black Blockchain Summit, which will be held Sept. 20-21 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Summer 2024

Professor Nick Bryner will chair the panel “Integration of Social Justice in Environmental Institutions” during the IUCN WCEL International Expert Colloquium held at The World Bank in Washington D.C. on August 28.

Professor Nick Bryner spoke on deforestation and climate change at the international symposium “Climate Change, Water, and Forests” held at the Foreign Ministry of Brazil on August 23.

Professor Nick Bryner attended the swearing-in ceremony for the new Chief Justice of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) Antonio Herman de Vasconcelos Benjamin in Brasilia on August 22.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WBRZ-TV in a news segment about back-to-back acquittals in murder cases in the 19^th JDC and whether using the tracking app TraX as evidence in the cases affected the outcomes.

Professor Jennifer Cooper’s essay “Oral Report Simulations to Practicing Attorneys: Insights & Teaching Materials” has been published in the Spring 2024 issue of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (Vol. 31, No.1).

Professor Lisa Avalos was quoted by Law360.com in an article about the ethical and legal challenges that await a new Louisiana law allowing judges to order the surgical castration of sex offenders convicted of certain crimes against children.

Professor Jeff Brooks gave a virtual presentation titled “Moot Court and Generative AI” at the annual Teaching Advocacy Conference hosted by Fordham Law School on August 3.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WAFB-TV in a news segment about a new law that goes into effect in Louisiana on Aug. 1 that makes it illegal to share or sell AI-generated images of someone without their consent.

Professor Michael Malinowski is quoted in a story in the Summer 2024 issue of Fast Company Magazine, What Went Wrong at 23andMe: The company’s DNA spit tests were going to remake healthcare. The science proved more complicated. Fast Company produces a publication written for and about progressive business leaders and innovative startup successes.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Energy and the Law” on July 8 at the two-week-long Energy Fundamentals seminar organized by the LSU Center for Energy Studies.

Professor Keith Hall’s article, “Implied Duties Under Oil and Gas Leases in Texas and Louisiana” was recently published by the LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources, with citation 12 LSU J. of Energy L. & Resources 431 (2024).

Professor Richard Pittman presented “What is a Misdemeanor” at the International Day of Justice event organized by PREACH at the Main Branch Library in Baton Rouge on July 17.

Professor Richard Pittman co-presented a legislative update for nearly 200 participants observing the Pelican Center Court Improvement Project Café, an online monthly lunch-and-learn series for child welfare practitioners, on July 18.

Professor Richard Pittman planned and facilitated the Adolescents in Foster Care Multi-Agency Summit at LSU Law on July 24. Public defenders, children’s attorneys, DCFS attorneys, the State Child Ombudsman, and others attended.

Professor Jack Harrison co-facilitated an ethics session focused on representing youth with dual-system involvement for the Adolescents in Foster Care Multi-Agency Summit at LSU Law on July 24.

Librarian Will Monroe was appointed as the Chair of the LSU Teaching and Learning Collaborative (LTC). The LTC is a special initiative under the auspices of the Office of Academic Affairs that focuses on faculty professional development. He was also nominated to join Louisiana’s first cohort of Meauxmentum Scholars, a group of one hundred faculty from around the state committed to excellence in the classroom.

Professor Lisa Avalos presented her work-in-progress “Flying Under the Radar: Child Sexual Exploitation as Slavery” at the 8th Global Conference on Slavery Past, Present & Future hosted by the Department of African Studies of the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria in June. She also presented this work at the Lutie Lytle Law Faculty Workshop at Duke University Law School.

Professor Lisa Avalos delivered a lecture at the 2024 Feminist Political Theory Summer School held at Princeton University in July. The lecture was based on two of her articles, “Seeking Consent and the Law of Sexual Assault” and “The Under-policing of Crimes Against Black Women.” The event included a conversation between Professor Avalos and Professor Elinor Mason of the Philosophy Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur and Professor Nick Davrados have sent the completed manuscript of their Treatise on “Louisiana Law of Contracts and Quasi-Contracts” to Carolina Academic Press, which is expected to be published at the end of 2024. Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice John Weimer (’80) wrote the Foreword.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur and ret. Professor David Gruning of Loyola University College of Law have sent a new and extended edition of their Précis on “Louisiana Law of Sale and Lease” to Carolina Academic Press, which is expected to be published at the end of 2024.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur, Professor Randy Trahan and Professor Nick Davrados served as “editors-translators” for “The Legal System of Madagascar,” which was recently published by the Carolina Academic Press as part of the Legal Systems Series. They are working on three additional books on the legal systems of Cambodia, Ukraine, and Colombia.

Librarian Melanie Sims served on the Local Arrangements Committee for the National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL), which was held July 24-27 in New Orleans.

Librarian Melanie Sims will have two book chapters published in the third edition of the Handbook of Black Librarianship edited by Andrew P. Jackson, Marva L. DeLoach and Michelle T. Fenton on October 15. The chapters are “The Accidental Law Librarian” and “Dr. Alma E. Dawson Inspiring a Legacy of Mentorship” co-authored with Jacqueline L. Jones.

Professor Ray Diamond was elected to a three-year term on the SEALS Board of Trustees at the annual meeting and conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. He also participated on the panel “Students for Fair Admissions, One Year Later: The Current and Future State of Law School Admissions” on July 24.

Professor Jennifer Cooper presented Teaching Race Conscious Problems In Legal Writing Using Real Cases, participated as a panelist on the Being Brave in a New DEI World panel, and participated in a Scholarship and Discipline-Building Workshop for her forthcoming article on Dialogic Spaces in Legal Education (working title) at the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference held July 17-20 at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Professor Ray Diamond will participate in a panel discussion at the 18th Annual Black New England Conference, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct. 5 at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Professor Ryan Stoa was interviewed by WBRZ-TV for a report on Gov. Jeff Landry’s June 26 veto of a bill that would have given him authority to pardon certain marijuana offenders for those caught in possession of small amounts.

Professors Aimee Self Pittman and Will Monroe presented the pedagogical strategies they incorporated into their “Law Practice Technologies” course at Teaching the Teachers, a national law librarian conference focused on evidence-based instructional strategies and instructional design, on May 31.

LSU Law Librarian Ajaye Bloomstone moderated a panel discussion, “Putting People over Process: Outward Mindset in the Workplace” at the American Library Association Annual Conference on June 30.

Professor Aimee Self Pittman is coordinating and presenting a session “Strategic Social Media: Creating Engaging and Accessible Content with Limited Time and Resources” at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting

Professor Melissa Strickland is coordinating and moderating a panel discussion “Best Practices for Creating Hypotheticals for Legal Research” at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting. Aimee Self Pittman will serve as one of the panelists.

LSU Law Librarian Ajaye Bloomstone is coordinating three sessions at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting: “Electronic Resource Management: A Collaborative Approach to Discovering New Skills and Knowledge,” “Changing Dynamics in the Workplace: Redefining What is “Professional” in the Law Library,” and “A History of Legal Publishing: Let’s Review the Past to Safeguard Our Future.”

Professor Caprice Roberts presented an article on Algorithm Erasure at the International Remedies Forum held June 17-18 at the University of Dauphine in Paris, France. Louisiana Law Review will publish this work along with a collection of articles from prominent international remedies scholars who presented at the forum.

Professor Nick Davrados is teaching a course this month on “The Civil Law System in a Comparative Perspective” at the 2024 Summer School of Civil Law organized by the Foundation for Continental Law at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. Professor Davrados is grateful to his mentor and colleague Professor Alain Levasseur who previously taught this course and who recommended him as his successor.

Professor Christine Corcos completed eight years of service on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Selection Committee for the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships. She served as a committee member from 2014-2016 and 2019-2023 and was Chair of the committee in 2017. Through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Government awards Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships every year to 100 exceptional researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Professor Christine Corcos participated on the panel, “Lights, Camera, Action: Women in Popular Culture,” for the Lafayette Bar Association’s CLE program “Running in Heels” held on May 31.

Professor Carlota Toledo was recently elected Vice President of the Association for Academic Support Educators (AASE) during the national AASE conference held at the University of Idaho May 21-23.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented “Scoring a ‘Perfect 10’ in Legal Writing” as part of the Business Casual lunch and learn organized by Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson on June 21. The audience comprised attorneys and law clerks from the Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Extraction of Lithium from Brine — Exploration Rights and Other Legal Issues” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Professional Landmen in Boston, Massachusetts on June 21.

Professor Keith Hall served as a panelist for the Institute for Energy Law’s webinar “Lithium and Other Minerals: What’s Old is New Again” on June 13.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage” to the Louisiana State Mineral & Energy Board on June 12 and answered questions from Board members.

Professor Keith Hall served as a panelist for a webinar “Recent Developments in Carbon Capture & Storage in Louisiana: Where Do We Go From Here?” hosted by the Oil & Gas Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy & Resources on June 20.

Professor Keith Hall also participated in a “Pore Space Valuation Workshop” held in Laramie, Wyoming on June 14, in support of a research project on carbon capture and storage.

Professor Keith Hall attended the annual meeting of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Board of Trustees on June 9, in Savannah, Georgia, later attending the 45th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute, which was held June 10-11.

Professor Nick Bryner will serve as a rapporteur for the Model Forest Act Initiative’s Drafting Committee meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Judicial Research and Training Center for the Supreme Court of Indonesia from July 26-30.

Professor Caprice Roberts is quoted by Salon magazine in an article on Louisiana becoming the first state to legally require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Gov. Jeff Landry signed the legislation, HB-71, into law on June 19, requiring all public schools, from kindergartens to state-funded universities, to display a poster—no smaller than 11 by 14 inches—of the Decalogue, using language and an arrangement hand-picked by the legislature, in “large, easily readable font” in each classroom.

Professor Jeff Brooks will present on several panels at the Educating Advocacy Teachers Conference (EATS), which was held at Stetson College of Law in Gulfport, Florida on June 10-12.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present a work-in-progress titled “Manufactured Standing and Appellate Roulette” at a plenary panel “Court Power and Party Agreement” during the Ninth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop held at the University of California Law San Francisco on May 31.

Professor Caprice Roberts served as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Torts: Remedies project and attended ALI’s Annual Conference May 20-22 to offer suggestions for the reform effort. The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

Professor Caprice Roberts and Professor Doug Rendleman’s amicus brief in support of the Henrietta Lacks estate served as the basis of an opinion rendered by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland that denied Ultragenyx’s motion for summary judgment in the suit seeking unjust enrichment for the wrongful use of Henrietta Lacks’s immortal cell line.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “The Medical/Legal/Human Disconnect in Cure Cases: A Proposal for Reform,” 48 Tul. Mar. L.J. 193 (2024) has been published by the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.

Professor Bill Corbett will serve as a panelist with Justice Piper Griffin, Judge Tiffany Chase, and Judge (retired) Guy Holdridge on “Recent Developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure” at the 2024 joint summer meeting of the Louisiana Judicial College and the Louisiana State Bar Association.

Professor Bill Corbett and his co-authors Dean & Prof. Emeritus Douglas E. Ray and Prof. Christopher David Ruiz Cameron recently submitted the 2023-24 updates to their book Labor-Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts and Boycotts (Thomson Reuters).

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “U.S. Carbon Capture and Storage Developments” for a program hosted by the Europe Chapter of the Association of International Energy Negotiators on May 29.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “The Louisiana CCS Legal and Regulatory Framework” at a workshop in Houston, Texas for officials from Brazil and several countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia on May 3. The workshop was organized by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program.

Spring 2024

Professor Nick Bryner served as a panelist for “Big Wins in the Climate Litigation: From the Urgenda Case to the Shell Case,” a webinar hosted by the Supreme Court of Mexico on May 28. He presented on climate change cases in the United States and the recent advisory opinion on climate change by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea. A recording of the webinar is available on in Spanish on YouTube.

Professor Lisa Avalos is quoted by ABC News in an article that examines how preserving Martin Gruenberg as the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) until a replacement can be confirmed by the Senate could affect efforts to prevent further misconduct and repair the agency’s culture.

Professor Ken Levy’s work on free will and responsibility was summarized in a recent article by Scientia, an outreach publication that covers issues in science, education, and technology.

Professor Lisa Avalos is quoted in an opinion piece published by the Alabama Political Reporter that explores whether recent changes in Alabama’s false reporting laws were necessary and how the misapplication of these laws could target sexual assault victims who truthfully — but perhaps inaccurately — report crimes perpetrated against them.

Professor John Church presented a continuing legal education course on Wine Labelling at the 2024 Baton Rouge Bar Association Bench/Bar Conference.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “How Well Do Sinkler and Hopson Float: Vital Operations, Nondelegable Duties, and Agency in FELA and Jones Act Cases?”—co-authored with LSU Law alumnus Andrew Hughes (’23), who is an associate with Liskow—will be published in a forthcoming issue of St. Mary’s Law Journal.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “Policy and Poppycock in Proximate Cause Cases A/K/A Scope of Liability and Starting to Make Sense,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of FIU Law Review.

LSU Law Librarians Ajaye Bloomstone and Melanie Sims were honored at the 2024 LSU Faculty & Staff Recognition Jazz Brunch on April 29 for 40 years of service and 30 years of service respectively.

Professor Bill Corbett’s article, “Reverse Discrimination: An Opportunity to Modernize and Improve Employment Discrimination Law,” has been accepted for publication in the University of Miami Law Review this fall.

Professor Bill Corbett’s article “McDonnell Douglas, 1973-2003: May You Rest in Peace?” U. Pa. J. Lab.  & Emp. L. 199 (2003) was cited in an opinion by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the case Bart v. Golub Corp.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Carbon Capture and Pore Space Issues” at the University of Texas’ 50th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Institute in Houston on April 4.

Professor Keith Hall participated in a panel discussion of Louisiana’s Orphan Well Program at the Professional Landmen Association of New Orleans’ Annual Executive Night and Symposium in New Orleans on April 10.

Professor Keith Hall co-presented “Ethics and Tips for Working with Experts” at the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law’s Special Institute on Federal and Indian Oil & Gas Royalty Valuation and Management in Houston, Texas.

Professor Tracy Norton presented “AI Literacy for Professionals” at the annual meeting of the Business Technology Association in Orlando, Florida on April 5.

Professor Nick Bryner will attend the 19^th session of the UN Forum on Forests in New York City and speak at a stakeholder’s meeting for the Model Forest Act Initiative from May 8-10.

Professor Nick Bryner will present at a workshop on the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) and Sustainable Development, held at the headquarters of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Montreal, Canada from May 30-31.

Professor Olivier Moréteau was a guest speaker for Professor Dan Stigall (’00)’s Comparative Law class at George Washington University School of Law in Washington D.C., where he presented on tools to better study Mixed Jurisdictions worldwide.

Professor Lisa Avalos is quoted by The San Francisco Chronicle in a feature story examining the conduct of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office in the 2022 case of a woman who says she wished to pursue charges against a masseuse following an alleged sexual assault but was dissuaded by the sheriff’s office.

Professor Lisa Avalos participated in a panel discussion hosted by the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SCCADVASA) on April 12. She joined ret. Detective Carlton Hershman and leaders in South Carolina’s criminal justice system to discuss the phenomena of cases in which survivors of sexual assault were charged with false reporting. Prior to the panel discussion, there was a screening of the Netflix film “Victim/Suspect,” which Avalos and Hershman appear in.

Professor Lisa Avalos joined several experts for a panel discussion and screening of Netflix film “Victim/Suspect” at Loyola University Chicago on April 5. She spoke alongside Cordelia Coppleson, Assistant Illinois Attorney General; Annette Milleville, Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives at the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center; and Lieutenant Colonel Iain Pedden, Marines’ Victim Legal Counsel.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered the keynote address at Tulane Law School’s celebration of the 70^th anniversary of Brown v. Board on Wednesday, April 17.

Professor Tom Galligan was the featured guest of the Lawyer2Lawyer podcast on April 12. In the episode, “The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Admiralty Law, Liability, & Litigation,” Galligan and host J. Craig Williams explore the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore through the lens of admiralty law, liability, litigation, impact, and how to prevent future disasters involving vessels. Listen to the episode.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered a paper, “Stephen Carter, Clarence Thomas, and Me: Our Journey through the Era of Affirmative Action, and the Implications of that Journey for the Future,” on April 6 at the Equal Protection Symposium, sponsored by the Southern University Law Review.

Professor Bill Corbett is one of five LSU faculty members selected for a LSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award.

Professor John Lovett’s article, “Ownership of Submerged Land on the Louisiana Coast: Resolving the Dual-Claimed Land Dilemma,” has been published in Vol. 84, Issue 3 of Louisiana Law Review.

Professor Caprice Roberts’ article “Reimagining First Amendment Remedies” has been published in Volume 109, Issue 3 of Iowa Law Review.

Professor Elizabeth Carter has been invited to contribute a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Law. She will present her chapter—”Trustee Duties”—on April 5 at the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Law Conference, hosted by the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Professor Elizabeth Carter and Linda Retz of Saul Ewing LLP will present on the “Unhappily Married: Conflicts of Interest and Other Ethical Issues in Intergenerational and Marital Estate Planning” at the 6^th Annual UCLA/CED Estate Planning Institute on April 18.

Professor Caprice Roberts’ scholarly work Law of Remedies: Damages, Equity, Restitution is cited by United States Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar in a U.S. Supreme Court brief for the National Labor Relations Board in pending case Starbucks v. NLRB. She also co-drafted and filed an Amicus Brief for Remedies Scholars in Support of the NLRB regarding the traditional standards for equitable injunctions issued under statutes.

Professor Caprice Roberts’ scholarly work Law of Remedies: Damages, Equity, Restitution is cited in a United States Supreme Court brief on behalf of the petitioner in Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service, a case on tax law with a remedial issue about specific performance of buy-sell agreements.

Professor Tom Galligan spoke with Tommy Tucker on WWL Radio on March 28 to discuss the parties who could be held liable for the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Christine Corcos’ essay “Lawyers on U.S. Television” will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “Policy and Poppycock in Proximate Cause Cases A/K/A Scope of Liability and Starting to Make Sense” will be published by the Florida International Law Review.

Professor Tom Galligan presented a paper, “How Well Do Sinkler and Hopson Float: Vital Operations, Nondelegable Duties, and Agency in FELA and Jones Act Cases?,” at the LSU CCPD annual Judge Alvin B. Rubin Maritime Personal Injury Program. He co-authored the paper with LSU Law alumnus Andrew Hughes (’23).

Professor Nick Davrados’ law review article “Aging Like Fine Wine – The Louisiana Conflicts Codification Thirty Years Later” was accepted for publication in the Willamette Law Review.

Professor Nick Davrados will present at a global Conflict of Laws “SYMposium” and workshop honoring previous LSU Law Professor Symeon Symeonides in May 2024. The event will be hosted by Willamette University College of Law and the Conflict of Laws Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to serving as dean of the Willamette University College of Law, Symeonides had served on the LSU Law faculty for nearly 20 years.

Professor Keith Hall participated on a three-person panel, “The Link Between Induced Seismicity and Produced Water,” at a Produced Water Symposium hosted by the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal at Oklahoma University Law School in Norman, Oklahoma on March 29.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Legal & Regulatory Issues” at the Decarbonizing Louisiana Workshop, a workshop geared to local public officials, hosted by the LSU Center for Energy Studies on March 25.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Local Government Regulation of CCUS” at the Foundation for Natural Resources & Energy Law’s Special Institute on Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage in Houston, Texas on March 8.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Reuters in an article that explores how Washington’s drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China’s control of the critical minerals sector.

Professor Lisa Avalos is featured in an article by The Advocate about her recent U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program award and research for her forthcoming book, She Must Be Lying to Us! When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime.

Professor John Lovett is quoted by WWL-TV in a story about recipients of the Road Home grant, the largest hurricane rebuilding program in U.S. History, who were threatened with lawsuits if they didn’t pay back some of the money they received from the program.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Adultery Provisions in Matrimonial Agreements” has been published in Volume 73, Issue 3 of American University Law Review.

Professor Ken Levy‘s article, “The First Amendment in Education: May Public Schools Discipline Faculty for Political Hate Speech?,” will be published in a forthcoming edition of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

Professor Jack Harrison was interviewed by The Advocate Acadiana for a story about the case of an Iberia Parish 11-year-old charged with first-degree murder.

Dean Alena Allen will serve as a panelist for “How to Become a Law Teacher,” a webinar hosted by the Association of American Law Schools on Thursday, April 4. She will join other recently hired faculty, hiring chairs, and deans to discuss the pathways to the legal academy. Register to attend virtually.

Professor Jeff Brooks will participate in the “Teaching the Next Generation of Trial Lawyers:  Designing Trial Advocacy Programs to Meet the Demands of the ABA and the Profession” symposium held by the University of Illinois College of Law in Chicago on May 31.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented “How Deconstructing Cites Aids in Constructing Cites” at Citation Day at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge on March 7. She presented to the student body as part of the legal writing workshop held at Southern Law.

Professor Tom Galligan is quoted by The Advocate in a story about a recent ruling by a Lafayette judge that awarded siblings from Broussard more than $200 million in damages in what is thought to be one of the first uses of a Louisiana law that allows punitive damages to be sought against domestic abusers.

Professor Michael Malinowski will participate in a discussion for his book Personal Genome Medicine hosted by the Harvard University chapter of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) on March 5. PORTAL is a nationwide organization that aims to bring together concerned researchers, analysts, and trainees from the fields of medicine, law, epidemiology, and health policy to critically evaluate emerging issues on the regulation, use, and reimbursement of therapeutics (prescription drugs and medical devices).

Professor Tracy Norton was a featured guest on the podcast “Legal Tenzer: Casual Conversations on Noteworthy Legal Topics” episode “AI Literacy” hosted by Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer on Feb. 29. She, along with University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Professor Susan Tanner, discuss how they have embraced artificial intelligence in their work and in their classroom and offer tips for law students and lawyers who are interested in using AI.

Professor Nick Bryner’s article “The Once and Future Clean Air Act: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on EPA’s Regulatory Authority” was published in Vol. 65, Issue 1 of Boston College Law Review.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Drafting and Negotiating Instruments to Acquire Pore Space Rights for CCS” at the 3rd Annual U.S. Oil and Gas and Renewable Energy Law Seminar in Houston on Feb. 7. The seminar was organized by the Foundation for National Resources & Energy Law and was held in conjunction with the 2024 North American Petroleum Exposition that is held each year by the American Association of Professional Landmen.

Professor Lisa Avalos spoke on “Law Enforcement Retaliation” at the U.S. Marine Corps Victims’ Legal Counsel Organization’s Annual Training Symposium at Fort McNair in Washington D.C. Victims’ Legal Counsel Organizations are unique to the US military and provide free legal representation to military victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in the military justice (court martial) system.

Professor Lisa Avalos taught a short course, “Introduction to American Law,” at the Institut De Droit Compare Edouard Lambert, Faculté De Droit, Université Jean Moulin 3 in Lyon, France in Nov. 2023. While she was there, the Institut De Droit Compare also hosted a screening of the film Victim/Suspect followed by brief remarks by Professor Avalos.

Professor John Lovett is quoted by WBRZ-TV in a “2 On Your Side” segment regarding the Louisiana Civil Code and Louisiana landowners’ rights when branches or roots of a neighbor’s tree, bushes or plants extend over or into their property.

Professor Keith Hall testified about eminent domain issues relating to carbon capture and storage (CCS) before the Louisiana House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources & Environment on Feb. 27 at the invitation of the committee.

Professor Keith Hall was accompanied by three LSU Law students—Patrick Raymond, Isabelle Rowan, and Parker Smith—at the Institute for Energy Law’s 75th Annual Energy Law Conference in Houston on Feb. 23-24.

Professor Nick Bryner will speak at the Jacksonville University Law Review Symposium on Feb. 23 in Jacksonville, Florida. The symposium is focused on Environmental Law and Impacts on Coastal Communities. He will discuss “shifting baselines” in perceptions of climate change and the impact that has on law and policy, such as the impact of sea level rise on flood control policy.

Professor Missy Lonegrass will present “Catching Up to the Common Law: Louisiana’s Modern Bona Fide Purchaser Doctrine,” at Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, Mississippi on March 4.

Professor Bill Corbett’s essay, “Professionalism in an Age of Incivility and Polarization: The Role of a Lawyer in Lessening Division and Polarization in Society,” was published in the Dec. 2023/Jan. 2024 issue of the Louisiana Bar Journal.

Professor Bill Corbett’s article, “Reasonably Accommodating Employment Discrimination Law,” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Penn State Law Review.

Professor Ray Diamond is quoted by The Advocate in an article about the federal case of rap star NBA YoungBoy of Baton Rouge and how it may be affected by a new standard on how the courts apply federal gun-control laws that was set by the U.S. Supreme Court just 19 months ago.

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by Crain’s Chicago Business in an article that explores how the three big airlines—United, American, and Southwest—have found themselves at the center of an intensifying social media backlash and political debate regarding the companies’ DEI policies that is only likely to get louder as the presidential election campaign heats up. A key issue will be whether affirmative action programs that were struck down in academia last year by the U.S. Supreme Court will be outlawed in the workplace as well.

Professors Will Monroe, Aimee Self Pittman, and Tracy Norton will represent the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center at the “Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement” South Central Roundtable on Friday, Feb. 9. One of six such events being held across the country this academic year, the South Central Roundtable will take place at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.

Professor Nick Bryner traveled to Manila on Jan. 23-26 to serve as a facilitator for the Philippines Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on the Model Forest Act Initiative, and as a rapporteur for the Model Forest Act Drafting Committee.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Lithium: Powering Progress, Crafting the Future” on Jan. 26 at the LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources’ symposium “Hydrogen & Lithium: Key Elements in the Energy Transition.”

Professor Keith Hall chaired the fourth meeting of the Task Force on Local Impacts of Carbon Capture and Storage on Jan. 18 at the Louisiana State Capitol. Created by the Louisiana Legislature during the 2023 regular session, the task force is charged with gathering input from various stakeholders—including landowners and other citizens, industry, academia, and state and local governments—and submitting a report on the local impacts of CCS.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur will teach a course on comparative legal traditions for the Foundation for Continental Law at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas in July 2024. The Foundation is involved in more than 20 projects worldwide, conducting translations of texts, documents, and reports in six languages.

Professor Bill Corbett will present remotely on recent developments in labor and employment law for two meetings of the Fellows of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers on March 2. He is a Fellow of the College.

Professor Tracy Norton is an invited participant in the Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries roundtable discussion taking place on Feb. 9 at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School in Dallas, Texas. The discussion is hosted by the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Professor Nick Bryner attended and presented at a series of meetings on the Model Forest Act Initiative, which included a stakeholder consultation on forest law in the Philippines, at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines during the week of Jan. 23.

Professor Caprice Roberts’ article, “Judicial Fidelity,” is now published in Pepperdine Law Review (51 PEPPERDINE L. REV. 1) (2024). In the article, Roberts defines and promotes novel conceptions of judicial fidelity, offering both positive and negative examples in recent Supreme Court cases from high-visibility constitutional cases to low-visibility remedial and procedural cases.

Professor Caprice Roberts joined a Supreme Court amicus brief filed Jan. 19, in Harrow v. Department of Defense, arguing that the Federal Circuit has mistakenly treated a 60-day deadline for filing certain petitions as jurisdictional rather than a non-jurisdictional claim-processing rule.

Professor Olivier Moréteau published “Cueto-Rúa’s Judicial Methods of Interpretation of the Law: A Guide for the Future” in the Journal of Civil Law Studies (15 J. CIV. L. STUD. 431-444) (2023) in Dec. 2023.

Professor Olivier Moréteau published a book chapter “Contemporary Period (1900-Present)” in A Companion to Western Legal Traditions From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (451-536) (Aniceto Masferrer, Cornelis H. van Rhee, Seán P. Donlan and Cornelis Heesters, eds., Brill, 2024) with co-authors Agustín Parise and the late Jacques Vanderlinden.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Energywire in an article about how the Biden administration’s recent decision to halt new liquefied natural gas exports may bolster pending lawsuits against the government’s approvals of proposed LNG facilities.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Argus Media in an article about efforts by midstream giant Energy Transfer to block a natural gas pipeline out of the Haynesville shale that could threaten the region’s production growth, according to court filings by the pipeline company and others.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur and Professor Nick Davrados have published “Louisiana Law of Obligations in General, A Précis” (5th edition, Carolina Academic Press 2024).

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur and Professor Nick Davrados have published “Louisiana Law of Contracts and Quasi-Contracts, A Précis” (Carolina Academic Press 2024).

Professor Keith Hall spoke on Mineral Law at the Baton Rouge Bar Association’s CLE by the Hour program on Dec. 29, 2023.

Professor Tom Galligan spoke to the Louisiana Association of Justice on recent developments in Louisiana Tort Law on Dec. 7 in New Orleans.

Professor Tom Galligan presented on recent developments in Louisiana Tort Law to the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and the Louisiana Judicial College as part of a panel with Justice Piper Griffin (’87), H. Alston Johnson, III (’70), and Thomas Flanagan on Dec. 8.

Professor Tracy Norton will lead a discission group, “Leveling the Playing Fields in Legal Education & Legal Services Through Generative AI,” at the AALS Annual Meeting on Jan. 5.

Professors Tracy Norton and Marlene Krousel will present “Welcome to the Future: Using Generative AI for Greater Personal & Professional Efficiency” as part of a half-day workshop for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Annual Training on Jan. 30.

Fall 2023

Professor Nick Bryner visited the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in Montreal, Canada, on Sept. 19, where he discussed the general work and submission process of the commission. The CEC is a trilateral organization set up by Canada, Mexico, and the United States under the NAFTA/USMCA treaties, and it serves as a vehicle for cooperation among the three countries on environmental issues, from biodiversity and species conservation to wildfire monitoring to pollution control.

Professor Nick Bryner is participating in a colloquium at Vermont Law and Graduate School in Royalton, Vermont on Sept. 22-23.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present as a panelist at the Second Annual Shades of Mass Conference, which is being held Sept. 21–23, in Miami, Florida. The Shades of Mass organization aims to increase racial diversity in multi-district litigation leadership. Roberts will be among the panel presenting on “The Historic Unjust Enrichment Case of Henrietta Lacks and Her Immortal Cells.” See the full conference agenda.

Professor Elizabeth Carter‘s article, “Ethical Considerations for Advising The (Un)Happily Married,” has been published by Trusts & Estates magazine.

Professor Keith Hall will participate on the panel “CCUS Rulemaking and Regulatory Update” at the Institute for Energy Law Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage on Oct. 11, 2023. This panel will share recent key federal and state legislative and regulatory updates, proposed rulemaking, and guidance relevant to Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage.

Professor Tracy Norton will be presenting on Sept. 16, 2023, at the Southeast Land Title Association’s Annual Convention in Point Clear, Alabama, on Ethical & Practical Consideration for Using Generative AI.

Professor Tracy Norton and Will Monroe will be presenting How to Embrace Generative AI: For Skeptics, Power Users, and All Those In Between at the virtual conference Legal Education’s Next Generation: Embracing Online, ChatGPT, and Technology in Pedagogy and Practice hosted by St. Mary’s University School of Law on Sept.15 alongside Susan Tanner of University of Louisville School of Law.

Professor Lisa Avalos presented her work in progress, “Rape Law Reform and the Waning Influence of the American Law Institute,” at a workshop titled “Reforms, Restoration, and Resistance: Criminal Justice and Injustice,” at the Southeastern Association of Law School’s Annual Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. At the same conference, Professor Avalos participated as a discussant in a session titled “Professional Identity as a Search for Spiritual Well-Being—Helping Students Care for their Souls.”

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “The Medical/Legal/Human Disconnect in Cure Cases: A Proposal for Reform,” will be published in Volume 48 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal. In addition, Professor Galligan made several presentations on ABA Site Visits and the related topics at the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Workshop for Site Team Chairs and its Site Evaluation Workshop for Law School Representatives and New Site Evaluators in Chicago, Illinois.

Professors Tom Galligan, Bill Corbett, and John Church, along with Thomas Flanagan, have published Maraist, Church, Corbett, Galligan, and Flanagan, Tort Law—The American and Louisiana Perspectives (4th ed. 2023).

Professor Bill Corbett spoke at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Seminar in New Orleans on Aug. 11. He spoke on recent developments in labor and employment law.

Professor Michael Malinowski’s comment was recently published in JAMA, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. The comment was in response to their Viewpoint (editorial) on personal genome testing, Sherkow JS, Park JK, Lu CY. Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Polygenic Risk Scores. JAMA. 2023;330(8):691–692. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.12262. The comment raises awareness about PERSONAL GENOME MEDICINE and can be found at this link.

Professor Caprice Roberts contributed to amici briefs in Mountain Valley Pipeline v. The Wilderness Society: Brief for Federal Courts Scholars William D. Araiza, Erwin Chemerinsky, Caprice Roberts, and Howard Wasserman as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents (U.S. Supreme Court) & Brief of Federal Courts Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner’s Opposition to Federal Respondents’ Motion to Dismiss and Intervenor’s Motion to Dismiss or, in the alternative, for Summary Denial (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).

Professor Caprice Roberts is quoted in HeLa Cases Prompt More Thinking on Ethics, Cancer Discovery Journal, American Association for Cancer Research, Aug. 24, 2023.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present as at a Keynote Lunch Panel with civil rights attorney Ben Crump at the Shades of Mass Conference: The Historic Unjust Enrichment Case of Henrietta Lacks and Her Immortal Cells, Sept. 22, 2023, Miami, Florida. Shades of Mass organization aims to increase racial diversity in multi-district litigation leadership.

Professor Caprice Roberts presented on several panels at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference held July 23-29, 2023. The following are her summaries of the sessions: Remedies Law Workshop: Unjust Enrichment Law, Immortal Cell Line, and the Henrietta Lacks Case; Remedies Discussion Forum: Concrete Remedies; and Associate Deans of Research Workshop.

Summer 2023

Professor Nikolaos Davrados successfully handled a case and appeared before the European Court of Human Rights (which is Europe’s highest international court for Human Rights violations). The case concerned the fundamental right of a biological father to establish a parental relationship with his biological child.

Professor Keith Hall will present “Gathering Agreements 101” at the 38th Annual Review of Energy Law on August 17, 2023. The Annual Review of Energy Law is sponsored by the Energy Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association.

LSU Law Librarian Ajaye Bloomstone was involved with two programs, “Cultural Humility: Putting Actions After Words” and “Where Do We Draw the Line in Making Highly Sensitive Information Available Or Not?,” at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in July. She also co-facilitated the Technical Services Special Interest Section’s Management Issues Round Table.

LSU Law Librarian Melanie Sims was awarded a professional development grant from the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians and was involved in the program “The Niagara Movement: How Far Have We Come with Voting Rights” at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in July.

Professor Olivier Moréteau participated remotely on a panel discussing access to notary functions in a comparative perspective, discussing Louisiana and the United States on July 5, 2023. The international event was organized in Paris by the French National Institute overseeing the training of notaries.

Professor Nick Bryner participated in a two-day launch meeting of the Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) in New York City with participants from national supreme courts, regional and international development banks, and forestry experts from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia on July 17-18, 2023. He is one of the two academic rapporteurs for the Initiative. During the meeting, Professor Bryner gave a presentation on comparative forest law in the Americas.

Professor Nick Bryner met with the Director of the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat, Juliette Biao, on the Model Forest Act Initiative being launched by the Asian Development Bank, the UN Environment Programme, and other partners on July 14, 2023.

Professor Bill Corbett completed an essay in July and submitted it to journals for consideration for publication. The essay, entitled “Reasonably Accommodating Employment Discrimination Law,” discusses the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, the Supreme Court’s recent decision on reasonable accommodation for religious practices (Groff v. DeJoy), and the state of federal employment discrimination law regarding accommodations for disability, pregnancy, and religion.

Professor Tracy Norton will present Leveraging ChatGPT’s Cultural Norms Expertise for First Gen Law Students and Professors, AALS Section on Law, Technology & Legal Education, Summer Webinar Series virtually on August 9, 2023 with University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Professor Susan Tanner, who previously taught at LSU Law.

Professor Tracy Norton will present Scheherazade, ChatGPT & Me: Storytelling with AI, Incorporating ChatGPT in the Legal Research & Writing Classroom virtually at William & Mary School of Law on August 4, 2023.

Professor Melissa Lonegrass will present her work-in-progress, “Catching Up to the Common Law – Modernization of the Louisiana Bona Fide Purchaser Doctrine” at a meeting of the Real Estate Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association on August 30, 2023. Professor Lonegrass will recount the Legislature’s most recent revisions to Louisiana’s property law and discuss the significance of these revisions to the Louisiana Law Institute’s efforts to modernize Louisiana’s law of leases.

Professor Caprice Roberts is quoted by Nature in an article that explores how the recent, undisclosed settlement reached between biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific and the family of Henrietta Lacks—a Black woman who had cells taken from her without consent more than 70 years ago—could impact the scientific community and future litigation. Professor Roberts submitted an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit that the Lacks family filed in 2021 against Thermo Fisher Scientific. Professor Roberts has also presented extensively on the Henrietta Lacks case, most recently at the SEALS Conference. Learn more about the case at this
link; the amicus brief can be found here.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Louisiana Illuminator in an article about a new Louisiana law that sharply increases the criminal penalties for fentanyl possession.

Professor Ray Diamond and Professor Lee Ann Lockridge were appointed to serve on the Merit Selection panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana to consider reappointment of United States Magistrate Judge Erin Wilder-Doomes for the Middle District of Louisiana. Appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Professor Diamond will serve as Emeritus Chair of the panel and Professor Lockridge will serve as Co-chair.

Professor Ray Diamond served as a panelist for a Constitutional Law workshop on the subject of individual rights at the annual meeting of the Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) on July 25, during which he addressed the subject of the Supreme Court’s treatment of race in the Court’s most recent term, as expressed in Allen v. Milligan (2023), Haaland v. Brakeen (2023), and Students for Fair Admission, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023). At the SEALS meeting on July 24, Professor Diamond was a member of a panel entitled “The Future of Black Enrollment in Law Schools,” which addressed the question of the configuration of admissions decisions for selective institutions such as law schools following the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admission, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Professor Keith Hall will present “Drafting and Negotiating Instruments to Acquire Pore Space for CCUS” at the annual conference of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law from July 20-22 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Annual Institute had 730 registrants. In addition, Professor Hall spoke on “Recent Developments in Louisiana Oil and Gas Law” at an Oil & Gas Practitioners Lunch sponsored by the Independent Petroleum Association of America in conjunction with the 69th Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Inside Higher Education in an article about Louisiana’s impending implementation of a new law that requires public schools to post “In God We Trust” signs.

Professor Ken Levy presented a talk titled “Weak Minds” as an invited keynote speaker at the third Extreme Beliefs and Responsibility Conference held at Vrije University in Amsterdam, Netherlands from June 29-30.

Professor Elizabeth Carter will present at the 34th Annual Conference on Wealth Transfer, which is being hosted by the Ohio State Bar Association in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, June 30.

Professor Ken Levy was the featured guest on “The Tavis Smiley Podcast” on June 27. In the episode, Professor Levy and Tavis spend the hour discussing the complexities of free will, its implications for moral responsibility, and the intersection between philosophy and law. Watch the podcast episode.

Professor Tom Galligan spoke to lawyers and judges at the LSBA/Louisiana Judicial College Summer School in June about recent developments in Louisiana Tort Law—“Tom on Torts.” He also was part of a panel on Recent Developments in Admiralty with Judges Zainey (’75) and Haik and attorneys Chris Zainey and Richie Haik (’05).

Professor Alain Levasseur will be teaching (in English) a course on Legal Traditions for the Fondation pour le Droit Continental/ Foundation for Continental Law in July. This course is a required course in a three-week program offered by the Fondation and the University of Paris II. All courses are given in three languages: French, English, and Spanish.

Professors Alain Levasseur and Nikoloas Davrados will be sending to Carolina Academic Press, by the end of June, new editions of two Précis: 1) Louisiana Law of Obligations in General and 2) Louisiana Law of Contracts and Quasi-Contracts. Both professors want to express their gratitude to Cia Fox for her excellent editorial work on the Précis.

Professor Christine Corcos was interviewed for and is quoted in Caitlin Mullaney’s The IRS Remains The Villain On Screen and Off, Tax Notes, Doc 2023-17501, June 20, 2023. Also, she is the incoming Chair-Elect of the LSU Faculty Appeals Board. She will chair the Board AY 2024-2025.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present at several sessions including Remedies for Cognizable Injuries and Unjust Enrichment Law, Immortal Cell Line, and the Henrietta Lacks Case at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference in late July. She serves as a Constitutional Law mentor for a New Scholar. Professor Roberts also serves as the Deputy Executive Director of SEALS.

Professor Caprice Roberts’s draft article, Judicial Fidelity, 51 Pepperdine L. Rev. ___, Lead Article, is now available on SSRN. This article explores the unraveling of precedent in controversial constitutional cases, the Dobbs leak, failures to recuse, ethical shortfalls, the exercise of discretion, principled judicial reasoning, and more. In a related work that will be published with the Loyola New Orleans Law Review Forum, Professor Roberts engages in a fictionalized dialogue on components of judicial fidelity as part of the judicial branches’ role in safeguarding democracy.

Professor Caprice Roberts published an online scholarly review, Towards an Improved Judiciary—Decisionmaking Consistency on Constitutional Remedies, JOTWELL (May 16, 2023) (reviewing Katherine Mims Crocker, Constitutional Rights, Remedies & Transsubstantivity, 110 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2024)). She presented her draft article, Reimagining First Amendment Remedies (109 Iowa L. Rev. __, Lead Article, coauthor Ron Krotoszynski), at the International Remedies Forum held in Aix-en-Provence, France, June 15-16. She is featured in the BBC Scotland Interview on the Current Affairs Sunday Show on breaking news in the latest Donald Trump civil case—exploring legal remedies and political effects. Interview by Fiona Stalker begins at the 1:41:08 mark (ends at 1:59:24). Professor Roberts also attended the national American Law Institute Conference in Washington D.C. She serves as an ALI Advisor to the Torts Remedies project.

Professor Keith Hall recently published two law review articles on carbon capture and storage. One is Carbon Capture and Storage: Models for Compensating Non-consenting Landowners, 14 San Diego J. Climate & Energy L. 39 (2023). The other is Reconciling Property Rights with Carbon Capture and Storage, 10 Belmont L. Rev. 382 (2023).

Professor Keith Hall testified on June 22, 2023, at the U.S. EPA’s public hearing on the State of Louisiana’s application for primacy to regulate Class VI Underground Injection Control wells that will be used for carbon capture and storage. He and six LSU Law students attended the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Annual Institute June 18-20, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Professor Tracy Norton will present the following in July: Using Artificial Intelligence to Craft Compelling Human Stories, APPLIED LEGAL STORYTELLING BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (London, 7/27/2023); and Legal Education Implications of ChatGPT, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, 2023 DEANS’ WORKSHOP (Denver, 7/6/2023) (invited panelist).

Professors Tracy Norton and Susan Tanner, along with Will Monroe, were awarded a teaching grant from the Association of Legal Writing Directors to create a toolkit of generative AI resources for those who teach legal writing and other legal subjects. The toolkit will focus on general principles that each professor can adapt for their own purposes, helping them to “embrace generative AI in a way that enhances rather than deteriorates their sense of competence.”

Professor Jeff Brooks participated in the Louisiana State Bar Association’s 2023 Suit Up for the Future High School Summer Legal Institute and Intern Program, a partnership between Louisiana law schools and Just the Beginning through which high school juniors, seniors, and recent graduates participate in a three-week legal institute.

Professor Jeff Brooks presented as part of a panel at the Educating Advocacy Teachers Conference (EATS), which was held at Stetson Law School in Tampa, Florida on June 12-14. His presentation focused on how much assistance law professors should provide students when writing appellate briefs for moot court competitions.

Professor Robert Lancaster presented a conference on clinical legal education at Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France, on June 1. The conference presented a comparative analysis of the development of clinical legal education in France and the United States.

Professor Scott Sullivan will administer the LSU Cybersecurity Clinic along with colleagues from the LSU College of Engineering and LSU E.J. Ourso College of Business. The clinic, established by the National Security Agency, will help protect small businesses from cyberattacks. LSU has been selected by the NSA as the first university in the nation to create and pilot a cyber clinic.

Professor Ray Diamond served as the chair and a panelist at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association for the “Comparative Jurisprudence of Affirmative Action” session on June 3 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He also presented on why the highest courts of the United States and Brazil have taken different tacks on affirmative action.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Louisiana Radio Network in a report about the Louisiana Senate giving final passage to House Bill 90, authored by state Rep. John Stefanski, which would significantly increase the penalty for individuals convicted of possessing more than 28 grams of a substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the Louisiana Illuminator in an article about the  Louisiana Senate giving final passage to House Bill 90, authored by state Rep. John Stefanski, which would significantly increase the penalty for individuals convicted of possessing more than 28 grams of a substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.

Professor Tom Galligan is featured in an article by WalletHub on the key differences between liability and full coverage insurance.

Professor Keith Hall testified before the Louisiana Legislature House Natural Resources and Environmental Committee on May 2, on two bills relating to carbon capture and storage.

Professor Lisa Avalos appears in docuseries, “Victim/Suspect,” which has just been released on Netflix. The docuseries raises awareness about cases in which victims of sexual assault are improperly charged with false reporting by police. Avalos appears as a sex crimes expert who has worked with four of the survivors who are featured in the film.

Professor Heidi Thompson will present, “What Does a [Cite] Say?: Make Your Cites Sing,” at the 2023 Joint Louisiana Judicial College/Louisiana State Bar Association Summer School, which will be held in Destin, Florida, on June 5-7. The presentation is part of the “Sittin’ on the ‘Doc’ of the Bay, Watching the Writing Deadlines Come My Way: How to Effectively and Efficiently Draft Legal Analysis” writing workshop for judges and attorneys.

Professor Bill Corbett‘s article, “The Case for Waivable Employee Rights: A Contrarian View,” has been selected for publication in Vol. 72 of the Buffalo Law Review, which will be released in January 2024.

Professor Bill Corbett will present as a panelist at the 2023 Joint Louisiana Judicial College/Louisiana State Bar Association Summer School, which will be held in Destin, Florida, on June 5-7. He will speak about recent developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure on June 5, and on “Professionalism in an Age of Incivility and Polarization” as part of the 32nd Annual Nuts & Bolts Judicial Seminar on June 7.

Professor Christina Sautter’s articles, “Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power of Retail Investors” and “The Educated Retail Investor: A Response to “Regulating Democratized Investing” (both co-authored with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci) were featured in the Business Law Prof Blog on May 23.

Professor Edward Richards presented on “The Environmental Costs of Holding Back the Ocean” at the Eighth Annual SRP Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, which was held at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on May 12.

Spring 2023

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WBRZ-TV in a news report about the ethical questions raised from the Council on Aging Board’s vote to allow the CEO of the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging to be the only one who signs checks at the agency.

Professor Caprice Roberts was a guest on BBC Scotland’s “The Sunday Show” on May 14, during which she discusses the civil case and remedies against former President Donald Trump (her appearance begins at 1:41:08 and runs through 1:59:24).

Professor Elizabeth Carter is the featured guest on a podcast by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel titled “Tips for Joint Representation of Spouses: Engagement Letters (Pt. 1 of 2),” released on May 17.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The New York Times in an article about the potential legal implications for bystanders who allowed one person kill another on a New York City subway.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered the principal address, “In or Stars and in Ourselves: The Failure of Constitutional Structure, Governmental Norms, and Political Collaboration as Cornerstones of Democracy,” at the Law Day Joint Ceremony of the 14th and 38th Judicial District Courts, State of Louisiana, on May 12 in Lake Charles. The event was sponsored by the Southwest Louisiana Bar Association.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WBRZ-TV in a news report about the delay of a trial of a Lafayette-area prosecutor who is accused in a hit and run on False River and is scheduled to go to trial this fall.

Professor Ken Levy‘s article, “On Three Arguments Against Metaphysical Libertarianism,” has been accepted for publication by the Review of Metaphysics and it will be released in June.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “Continued Conflation Confusion in Louisiana Negligence Cases: Duty and Breach,” was recently published by Tulane Law Review (97 Tul L. Rev. 339. 2023). Before publication, Louisiana Chief Justice John Weimer cited the article in his concurrence in Farrell v. Circle K Stores.

Associate Dean Andrea Carroll was recognized on April 21 by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as the 2022 Distinguished Professor.

Professor Ray Lamonica was recognized by LSU for 50 years of dedicated service to the university on April 28.

Professors Caprice Roberts and Tom Galligan, along with Tulane Law School Professor Amy Gajda, served as panelists at the Defense Research Institute’s 2023 Business and IP Super Conference, which was held in New Orleans on May 3-5. The panel topic was “Overview of the Current Supreme Court: Recent Rulings, Effects, Predictions, and a History of Leaks.”

Interim Dean Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge and her co-authors recently published the 6th edition of their casebook, which designed for use in introductory intellectual property courses surveying and integrating multiple areas of IP law. It includes trademark, right of publicity, idea protection, trade secret, patent, and copyright law, as well as related preemption concepts, and Interim Dean Lockridge is responsible for the trade secret and patent materials. (Mary LaFrance, Gary Myers & Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge, Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials) (6th ed. 2023) (West Academic).

Professor Lisa Avalos accepted a publication offer for her article, “The Innocence Standard: Supreme Court Nominees and Sexual Misconduct,” as the lead article in Volume 56 of the Connecticut Law Review.

Professors Bob Lancaster and John Devlin conditionally filed an amicus curiae brief at the Louisiana Supreme Court in the case of State v. Wayne, No. 2022-KK-01827, on April 21. The brief was filed on behalf of the Louisiana Parole Project, and in it Professors Lancaster and Devlin argue why a recently enacted statute—La. C. Crim. P. 930.10, which authorizes district attorneys and long serving prisoners to enter, and trial court judges to grant, agreements to amend their convictions or reduce their sentences—does not conflict with the governor’s exclusive authority to grant pardons or commute sentences. The Louisiana Supreme Court granted their motion to file their amicus brief, indicating that the Court will consider it.

Professor Tracy Norton will participate in an upcoming panel Practical Considerations for AI in the Legal Writing Classroom, for the Arizona State University Summer Webinar.

Professor John Devlin will serve as a panelist organized by Chief Judge Jane Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana on May 25. The topic of the panel will be the legitimacy of courts.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Oil & Gas Lease Implied Covenants” at the Fundamentals of Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Conference, which was hosted by the University of Texas Law School on April 13 in Houston.

Professor Marlene Krousel will present “Sitting on the ‘Doc’ of the Bay, Watching the Writing Deadlines Come My Way: How to Effectively and Efficiently Draft Legal Analysis—Are the Grammar Rules that You Heard Through the Grapevine Still Binding? Writing in the Rhythm of Clarity and Grace” to judges on June 5 and to attorneys on June 7 at the 2023 Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School in Sandestin.

Professors Tracy Norton and Susan Tanner presented “The Legal Ethics Implications of ChatGPT” at the Louisiana Association of Land Title Agents Spring Seminar in Lafayette on April 4.

Professor Lisa Avalos accepted the Visionary Award from End Violence Against Women International at their annual conference, which was held in Chicago on April 11-13. She also delivered a plenary presentation at the conference titled “Eliminating the Wheel of Fortune: Ending Practices that Result in the Prosecution of Sexual Assault Survivors,” and co-presented on “Tragic Endings: When Suicide or Homicide Follows a Botched Sexual Assault Investigation.”

Professor Tracy Norton will present “Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift & Me: Songwriting Inspiration for Compelling Legal Facts,” on June 5 and 7 at the Louisiana State Bar Association and Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School Program in Sandestin, Florida.

Professor Bill Corbett will serve on a panel covering Recent Developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure at the joint Summer School of the Louisiana Judicial College and the Louisiana State Bar Association on June 5.

Professor Caprice Roberts presented “Overview of the Current Supreme Court: Recent Rulings, Effects, Predictions, and a History of Leaks (Business Litigation),” at the 2023 DRI Business and Intellectual Property Litigation Super Conference in New Orleans on April 28.

Professor Caprice Roberts’s draft article, “Reimagining First Amendment Remedies” (109 Iowa L. Rev. ___) is now available on SSRN.

Professor Caprice Roberts accepted an offer of publication for “Judicial Fidelity” as the lead article in Volume 51 of the Pepperdine Law Review. This article explores the unraveling of precedent in controversial constitutional cases, the Dobbs leak, failures to recuse, ethical shortfalls, the exercise of discretion, principled judicial reasoning, and more.

Professor Nick Bryner’s article, “The Once and Future Clean Air Act: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction act on EPA’s Regulatory Authority,” has been accepted for publication in Boston College Law Review.

Professor Christine Corcos has completed a second three-year term on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Selection Committee of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Canadian government awards these fellowships every year to the seventy best national and international applicants.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by the Louisiana Illuminator in an article about House Bill 90 by State Rep. John Stefanski, which would send individuals convicted of possessing more than 28 grams of a substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl to life in prison without a chance of parole.

Professor Christina Sautter was quoted in The Daily Beast regarding activist investor Ryan Cohen’s relationship with retail investors and Cohen’s investment in Bed, Bath, & Beyond.

Professor Christina Sautter and co-author Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci spoke with Stakeholder Labs Co-founder and CEO Matt (MJ) Joanou in a podcast about their research on retail investors.

Professor Elizabeth Carter‘s article, “Fiduciary Litigation in Louisiana: Mandataries, Succession Representatives, and Trustees,” was cited by the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal in Benoist v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company. It was also cited in an Attorney General memo to the Louisiana Legislature and Louisiana Retirement Boards.

Professor Caprice Roberts is quoted by London-based In Vivo in an in-depth report about the two-year legal battle over whether the descendants of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells formed the basis for the famous HeLa cell line, can proceed with their lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific. A district court will soon rule on the matter.

Professor Nick Bryner will travel to Kathmandu, Nepal, to attend and present at the Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science on April 27-29. Organized by the Asian Development Bank, National Judicial Academy of Nepal, Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, the symposium will include forestry managers, scientists, and judges from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Professor Ken Levy has co-authored an op-ed with Indiana University-Bloomington Professor Beth Gazley that has been published by the Chicago Tribune. Levy and Gazley argue that some Republican-dominated states are violating progressive protestors’ First Amendment rights to free speech and association by making bogus charges of terrorism.

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by Hollywood Reporter magazine in an in-depth feature story that explores the fallout from a 2018 class-action lawsuit brought by New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward homeowners against the Make It Right Foundation and its leading man, actor Brad Pitt, regarding defects of homes the foundation built following Hurricane Katrina.

Professor Jack Harrison was interviewed by the Associated Press for a video report on a proposed legislation in Louisiana that would make all adult criminal court records and certain juvenile court records and case information available to the public online, at no-cost. Currently, juvenile court records are confidential.

Professor Nick Bryner presented on his co-authored article (with University of Houston Law Center Professor Victor Flatt), “Rotting Under the Bridge—How False Data is Polluting Administrative Rulemaking,” at the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law Symposium in New York on April 4. The article was recently published by the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Tiger TV in an article about whether Louisiana will follow the lead of Utah, which recently approved new laws restricting how and where minors can use social media.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is the featured guest on the ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk podcast episode, “Civil Law Concepts in American Family and Inheritance Law,” released on April 4.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by WBRZ-TV in an article about the legal questions raised by the recent transfer of a Louisiana State Trooper who was found to be responsible for the deaths of two children in a car he crashed in 2020.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate in an article about employee grievances that display a pattern of unethical behavior by well-liked Youngsville police chief.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “Sieracki Lives: A Portrait of the Interplay Between Legislation and the Judicially Created General Maritime Law,” has been published in the Tulane Maritime Law Journal (47 Tul. Mar. L. J. 1) (2023).

Professor Lisa Avalos‘s article, “The Innocence Standard: Supreme Court Nominees and Sexual Misconduct,” will be published in Vol. 56 of the Connecticut Law Review, in January 2024.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored article, “Wireless Investors & Apathy Obsolescence,” at the BYU Winter Deals Conference in Park City, Utah, on March 10. The article is co-authored with Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and will be published in the Washington University Law Review.

Professor Christina Sautter presented a work-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Corporate Governance Cult,” during the Inaugural Bayou Scholars Workshop at Tulane Law School on March 18.

Professor Olivier Moréteau presented on “The Multiple Languages of the Louisiana Civil Codes, Connecting Past and Future,” at the Judge Allen M. Babineaux International Civil Law Symposium on Feb. 1, hosted by Tulane Law School. On March 20, he presented remotely on “The Louisiana Civil Codes, When Francophonie Invites Itself in the English Language,” at the Rencontres internationales de la Francophonie de Lyon 2023, discussing French language and culture in Louisiana, past, present, and future.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur will teach a course on “Legal Traditions” in the first week of July, at the Université Paris II for the Fondation pour le Droit Continental/ Foundation for Continental Law. For the last three years, the course was taught via Zoom.

Professor Caprice Roberts has accepted an offer of publication for her article, “Reimagining First Amendment Remedies,” from the Iowa Law Review, Vol. 109.

Professor Caprice Roberts’s article, “Statutory Interpretation and Agency Disgorgement Power,” has been published as the lead article in the St. John’s Law Review, Vo. 96, Issue 2.

Professor Caprice Roberts presented a draft of her article, “Judicial Fidelity,” as part of Loyola New Orleans Law Review Symposium on March 10. She presented on Novel Unjust Enrichment Claims at the Inaugural Henrietta Lacks Symposium at Southern University Law Center on March 14, and refiled an amicus brief in the Lacks Estate case pending in federal district court in Maryland.

Professor Keith Hall co-presented with Michael Donald (’85) on “Implied Obligations in Oil and Gas Leases” on March 24 at the 70th Annual Mineral Law Institute in Baton Rouge.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “The Educated Retail Investor: A Response to ‘Regulating Democratized Investing'” (with Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci), has been published in Volume 83 of the Ohio St. L.J. Online. The article is an invited response to University of California College of the Law, San Francisco Professor Abe Cable’s article on regulating retail investors investing through commission-free trading apps like Robinhood.

Professor Keith Hall was a featured guest on the “Louisiana Considered” radio show, on which he spoke about the potential that federal and state laws have to transform the energy sector in Louisiana from one that is heavily reliant on fossil fuels to one that leans toward renewables and carbon capture.

Assistant Dean of Experiential Education and Professor Robert Lancaster is quoted by The Reveille in an article about the work LSU Law students do with Louisiana Parole Project as part of the Law Center’s Parole and Re-entry Clinic.

Professor Caprice Roberts filed a renewed Amici Curiae Brief in Support of The Lacks Estate on Feb. 24 to help defeat a motion to dismiss plaintiff’s second amended complaint. The Lacks Estate sued a large biotech company, Thermo Fisher, alleging unjust profits from continued use of Henrietta Lacks’s immortal cells, HeLa cells, without consent.

Professor Caprice Roberts will discuss novel applications of unjust enrichment theory—such as the Henrietta Lacks case, emoluments, and works of art stolen during the Holocaust—as part of the Inaugural Henrietta Lacks Symposium and the newly instituted SULC Health Equity Law and Policy Institute at Southern University Law Center on March 14.

Professor Caprice Roberts will present a working draft of her article, “Judicial Fidelity,” at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law on March 10 at “The Article III Judiciary: Democracy’s Last Line of Defense” Law Review Symposium.

Professor Keith Hall attended the Institute for Energy Law’s 75th Annual Energy Law Conference in Houston on Feb. 16-17 with two LSU Law LLM students.

Professor Nick Bryner‘s essay, “Green Transitions in a Covid Economy,” written for the 2022 Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Environmental Law Review Symposium, has been published in the Pace Environmental Law Review (40 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 37) (2023).

Professor Nick Bryner will speak at a virtual event on March 18 that is being held as part of the UN 2023 Water Conference. The event is titled “2018 Brasília Declaration of Judges on Water Justice”: The Role of Courts in the Implementation of SDG 6 and Other Water-related Goals and Targets.

Professor Bill Corbett presented at the 4th & 11th Circuits Regional Conference of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in St. Pete Beach, Florida, on Feb. 11. Corbett,  a fellow of the college, spoke on “Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law 2021-2023.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter, an American College of Trust and Estate Counsel fellow, is attending the 2023 ACTEC Annual Meeting, which is being held in New Orleans March 1-5. At the conference, she will present to the Family Law Task Force on “Civil Law Concepts in American Family Law & Inheritance Law” on March 1; present to the Professional Responsibility Committee on “Ethical Considerations in Representing the (Un)Happily Married” on March 3; and lead a seminar titled “Ethical and Practical Considerations in Representing the (Un)Happily Married” with Sharon Klein, President of Family Wealth for the Wilmington Trust, N.A., Eastern U.S. Region on March 4.

Professor Jack Harrison is quoted by WVLA-TV in an article about racial disparities in Louisiana’s juvenile justice system.

Professor Caprice Roberts was a featured guest on the “WWL First News with Tommy Tucker” radio show, on which she discussed the judicial election process in Louisiana.

Professor Lisa Avalos is featured as an expert in the documentary “Victim/Suspect,” which premiered on Jan. 23 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Professor Avalos attended the premiere at the request of the filmmaker and participated in the Q&A with members of the press afterwards. The film will be available on Netflix later this year.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “The Intersection Between Property Rights and Carbon Capture and Storage” at the LSU Journal of Energy Law’s symposium entitled “Congressional Action in the Energy Transition” on Jan. 27.

Professor Susan Tanner and Will Monroe, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology, published their co-authored research article, “Survey of Law Student Awareness and Use of Captions”, in TechTrends, a peer-reviewed journal for professionals in the educational communication and technology field.

Professor Christina Sautter will present her co-authored article “Wireless Investors & Apathy Obsolescence” at the Institute for Law and Economy Policy Symposium in San Diego on Jan. 27. The article will be published by Washington University Law Review.

Professor Christina Sautter’s book chapter, “Rewritten Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.,” has been published in “Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten” (Kelli Alces Williams, Anne Choike, and Usha R. Rodrigues, eds.) (Cambridge University Press).

Fall 2022

Professor Tom Galligan is featured by WalletHub in an article about auto collision insurance coverage.

Professor Tom Galligan served as a panelist and discussed “Recent Developments in Torts” in December at the annual joint program on torts for the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and the Louisiana Judicial College.

Professor Keith Hall presented on “Carbon Capture and Storage: An Introduction to CCS and the Law” at a CLE program for the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Public Utilities Law Section in Baton Rouge on Dec. 2.

Professor Caprice Roberts spoke as a panelist at two sessions of this year’s AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. On Jan. 5, she spoke on “Remedies in the Restatements,” and on Jan. 6 she presented on “The Law of Unjust Enrichment, the First Immortal Human Cell Line, and the Henrietta Lacks Case.”

Professor Jack Harrison has been elected to serve as the chair of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Collaborative for a two-year term, beginning in January 2023.

Professor Bill Corbett will present to the joint conference of the 4th and 11th Circuits of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in St. Pete Beach, Florida, on Feb. 11. He will be providing a review of the year’s developments in legislation, regulations, and case law.

Professor Nick Bryner spoke on a panel at the AALS Annual Meeting, “Environmental Law: Carrots and Sticks, from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Beyond,” on Jan. 5 in San Diego, California. He also presented in the Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Sections’ Works-in Progress Session.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WAFB-TV in a story about East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark refusing to say how the two private jobs he holds in addition to being a coroner affects the number of hours he is able to work in his elected position as coroner, or whether he reimburses the parish for fuel or any other expenses when he drives his public vehicle to a private job 50 miles away in another parish.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WBRZ-TV in a story about the recent arrest of a mother in Livingston Parish who is accused of placing recording devices on her special needs’ daughter’s wheelchair.

Professor Keith Hall was elected chair of the Emerging Energy Codification Task Force at the group’s first meeting on Nov. 9. The task force was created by the Louisiana Legislature to study and make recommendations regarding the codification of laws relative to emerging energy technologies and related issues. Professor Hall also spoke on “Carbon Capture and Storage: Models for Compensating Holdout Landowners” at the 14th Annual Lesley K. McAllister Symposium on Climate and Energy Law at the University of San Diego Law School on Nov. 4.

Professor Missy Lonegrass was the invited keynote speaker of the Louisiana Notary Association 2022 Annual Convention held in Lafayette on Oct. 28-30. Professor Lonegrass delivered an address on the Louisiana Remote Online Notarization Act, the drafting of which she led as the reporter of the Louisiana Notaries Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute. She also gave an invited presentation on the present and future of online notarization at the Louisiana Land Title Association’s 2022 Annual Convention in New Orleans on Dec. 1.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “The Corporate Forum,” was published in Volume 102 of the Boston University Law Review.

Professor Caprice Roberts presented a work-in-progress, “Algorithmic Disgorgement in the Shadow of Statutes,” as part of the faculty colloquia series at the University of Arkansas Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Professor Roberts also presented remarks as a commentator on Professor Emily Sherwin’s draft article, “Restitution and Unjust Enrichment in American Law,” for an International Conference on Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Theory & Doctrine, sponsored by the University of Western Australia and Auckland University.

Professor Ray Diamond has been appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court as Vice Chair of the Judicial Elections Oversight Committee.

Professor Keith Hall served as chair of the 39th Annual Oil & Gas Law Short Course, which was held Oct.17-21 in Houston. He also co-presented with Frank Cascio (’72) on “Crude Oil Marketing,” at the International Oil & Gas Law, Contracts, and Negotiations conference on Oct. 10 in Houston, and served on a panel addressing “Hot Topics in Carbon Capture and Storage” at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Fall Conference in Lexington, Kentucky on Oct. 12.

Professor Ray Diamond gave a lecture on Oct. 21 entitled “Black Conservatism, Black Radicalism, and False Dichotomy: Paths to Black Economic Power,” at the 16th Annual Black New England Conference at Southern New Hampshire University.

Professor Christina Sautter was quoted by Bloomberg Law in an article about Sidley Austin LLP’s expansion of its life sciences practice to include not just regulatory and complex litigation expertise but also mergers and acquisitions expertise.

Professor Nick Bryner is presenting on the principles of environmental law and reliance on judicial precedent in environmental cases at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Derecho Constitucional, organized by the Supreme Court of Mexico’s Center for Constitutional Studies, in Mexico City on Oct. 21. The event can be viewed online.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Reconciling Property Rights with Carbon Capture and Storage” at a Contemporary Issues in Property Law Symposium at Belmont Law School in Nashville on Friday, Sept. 30. Professor Hall also spoke during September on the topic of Mineral Rights at LSU’s Recent Development CLE Series in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. Also, he was recently appointed to a three-year term on Budget Committee of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (FNREL) and to a four-year term on FNREL’s Financial Advisory Committee.

Professor Christina Sautter participated in a virtual panel on September 28 sponsored by the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law’s Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership commenting on SMU Professor Marc Steinberg’s book, “Rethinking Securities Laws.”

Professor Tom Galligan is quoted by The Times-Picayune in an article about pending lawsuits against 10 contractors involved with the Seacor Power lift boat that flipped in a brutal storm about eight miles off the Louisiana coast in April 2021 with 19 men aboard, six of whom survived in violent seas.

Professor Christina Sautter and her co-author, Dr. Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, were invited to write a post, “Millennials and GenZ’ers Have Only One Lifetime to Change the World with Their Investments,” for The FinReg Blog, Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University School of Law, based on their work-in-progress, “Wireless Investors.” They also wrote “How Retail Investing Improves Corporate Governance and Benefits Society” for The University of Oxford, Oxford Business Law Blog, which features their forthcoming book chapter, “Harnessing the Collective Power of Retail Investors.”

Professor Tom Galligan is quoted by WalletHub in an article what to do after a car accident.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by EnergyWire in an article about the Interior Department’s move to revive a Gulf of Mexico lease sale and how it opens a new chapter in the Biden administration’s energy and climate playbook for public lands and waters: a potentially legacy-defining period of compromise.

Professor Ray Diamond gave a lecture entitled “Understanding Brown v. Board & Anticipating the End of Affirmative Action” on Sept. 14 as part of the annual celebration of Constitution Day at River Parishes Community College.

Professor Tom Galligan is quoted by The Times-Picayune in an article about pending lawsuits against 10 contractors involved with the Seacor Power lift boat that flipped in a brutal storm about eight miles off the Louisiana coast in April 2021 with 19 men aboard, six of whom survived in violent seas.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored work-in-progress, “Wireless Investors,” during the Nature, Purpose and Mechanics of Business Corporations II panel of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference on Sept. 9.

Professor Christine Corcos is quoted by The Advocate in an article about a case before a state judge in Livingston Parish in which Amanda Jones, president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, is suing Citizens for a New Louisiana and its executive director, Michael Lunsford, for defamation following numerous posts on the organization’s Facebook page alleging she is fighting for allowing children access to “sexually erotic and pornographic material.”

Professor Christina Sautter has been invited to be on a panel of securities regulation experts who will discuss Southern Methodist University Professor Marc Steinberg’s new book, “Rethinking Securities Law,” at a Sept. 28 event sponsored by the SMU Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership. The virtual event begins at noon, and is free and open to the public. RSVP to attend.

Director of Career Services Gwendolyn Ferrell authored a column for the monthly bulletin of the National Association for Law Placement, for which she serves as the 2022-24 Vice President of Member Services and Education.

Professor Christina Sautter and her co-author, Dr. Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, were invited to write a post, “How Retail Investing Improves Corporate Governance and Benefits Society,” for The CLS Blue Sky Blog (Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets) about their forthcoming book chapter, “Harnessing the Collective Power of Retail Investors.”

Professor Caprice Roberts presented a work-in-progress on “Algorithmic Disgorgement” at the International Privacy Forum held in Stockholm, Sweden, and she presented a draft work on “First Amendment Remedies” at the International Remedies Forum in Paris, France. She also presented on “Federal Equity Power” at the Federal Judicial Center Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and she appeared on a BBC morning show to discuss the import of the U.S. Supreme Court leak and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

Professor Nick Bryner will present a work-in-progress, “Spending as a Springboard for Regulation: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on EPA’s Regulatory Authority,” at Vermont Law School’s Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship on Sept. 24. He will also present the same paper at a workshop on Sept. 28 at NYU Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, and on Sept. 29 he will speak on a panel at Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law on the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA.

Professor Christine Corcos has joined the Advisory Board of the Digital Constitutionalist (Digicon) Science-Fiction Section.

Interim Dean Lee Ann Lockridge and her co-authors, Mary LaFrance and Gary Myers, recently completed and submitted to the publisher the manuscript for the revised 6th edition of their casebook, “Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials” (West Academic).

Professor Bill Corbett recently completed an article entitled “Should We Wave Goodbye to Employees’ Nonwaivable Statutory Rights?” and he has submitted it to several journals for publication consideration. He also spoke at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s “Employment Law Update 2022” in New Orleans on Aug. 12. His topic was Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law 2021-22.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Legal Issues Raised by the Extraction of Lithium from Brine” at the Dallas Bar Association’s 37th Annual Review of Energy Law on Aug. 4.

Professor Ken Levy spoke with WBRZ-TV for a story about why video evidence in murder cases is important but not necessarily dispositive.

Professor Christina Sautter’s forthcoming co-authored article, “The Educated Retail Investor: A Response to ‘Regulating Democratized Investing,’” was the sole feature of a TheCorporateCounsel.net blog post titled “Corporate Governance Education: The Key to Orderly Markets?”

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “‘Sieracki’ Lives: A Portrait of the Interplay Between Legislation and the Judicially Created General Maritime Law,” will be published in Volume 47 of the Tulane Journal of Maritime Law. In addition, Professor Galligan has been selected to serve a three-year term as a member of the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. The Council is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the national accrediting agency for J.D programs. All state supreme courts recognize ABA-approved law schools as meeting the legal education requirements to qualify for the bar examination; forty-six states limit eligibility for bar admission to graduates of ABA-approved schools.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was a featured guest on the Schein On Podcast with Evan Schein to discuss prenuptial agreements.

Professor Nick Bryner was quoted by Energywire in an article about a ruling by a federal appeals court in New Orleans that clears the way for the Biden administration to pause federal oil and gas leases.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “The Corporate Forum: A Response to Professor Jill Fisch,” which is forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review, has been posted on SSRN. The article advocates for the creation of forums on public companies’ websites to enhance engagement among shareholders and between shareholders and corporate leadership.

Professor Jeff Brooks has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators as Vice President for Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs. NALAE is a newly formed organization which supports the community of educators dedicated to elevating advocacy skills education in American law schools. NALAE members are trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, and dispute resolution professors, coaches, and competition organizers at more than 100 law schools throughout the country.

Professor Ken Levy‘s paper, “Let’s Not Do Responsibility Skepticism,” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Levy’s thesis is that the criminal justice system should continue to assume that adults are generally responsible for their actions rather than adopt the increasingly popular position, at least among philosophers, that free will and responsibility are metaphysically impossible.

Professor Keith Hall was quoted by Energywire in a story about a provision of the landmark Senate climate and energy budget reconciliation bill that could hit a legal stumbling block under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Professor Christina Sautter‘s co-authored article, “The Educated Retail Investor: A Response to ‘Regulating Democratized Investing,'” which is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal Online, has been posted on SSRN. The article argues that in lieu of regulating retail investors and their ability to trade, the focus should be on investing education, which includes personal finance, investing, and corporate governance education.

Summer 2022

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Models for Compensating Landowners for Carbon Capture Pore Space Rights” at the Natural Resources Teachers Workshop in Vail, Colorado on July 23. He also participated in the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law’s quarterly Board of Directors meeting, annual meeting of the organization’s Trustees Council, and the organization’s Annual Institute.

Professor Lisa Avalos recently published two editorials in the Sandusky Register. “Sex Crimes: Police Can Do Better” addresses sexual assault investigation failures in Ohio. “Schooling Jim Jordan & Dave Yost” analyzes elected officials’ response to the recent case involving a ten-year-old Ohio girl who obtained an abortion in Indiana.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was recently quoted by The New Yorker in an article about how Americans are using prenuptial agreements to protect themselves from the worst impacts of the American debt-collection system.

Professors Tracy Norton, Susan Tanner, and Heidi Thompson spoke on a panel at the 20th Biennial Legal Writing Institute Conference on “Are You Certain I Can Be Uncertain? Exploring Strategies for Relating to, Recognizing, Realizing, and Refining Modal Language in Student Writing.” Professor Marlene Krousel prepared materials that Professor Tanner presented in addition to presenting her own materials.

Professor Ray Diamond joined U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Congresswoman and Chair of the Black Legislative Caucus Joyce Beatty, and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristin Clarke at a virtual town hall meeting on July 29. The meeting was focused on the nation’s response to gun violence and combatting racial extremism, and it was sponsored by Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.

Professor Christina Sautter was quoted in USA Today regarding the potential success of Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored chapter, “How Retail Investors YOLO for Environmental and Social Causes,” which is forthcoming in “YOLO Capitalism: Perspectives on Retail Investors in Modern Financial Markets” (Usman W. Choban & Sven van Kerckhoven, eds.) (Routledge) has been posted on SSRN.

Professor Christina Sautter participated in three panels during The Law and Society Association 2022 Annual Meeting, which was held July 13-16 in Lisbon, Portugal. She organized the “Corporations & Engendering Public Trust” roundtable, during which she discussed early thoughts on a work-in-progress tentatively titled, “The Digital Corporate Leader: Trust, Social Media, and Corporations.” She also served as the chair of both the “Present and Future of Corporations in Society” and “Investors and Contemporary Corporations” roundtables.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored work-in-progress paper, “The Corporate Forum,” during the “Law and Business of the Contemporary Corporation” panel at the University of Milan in Milan, Italy, on July 11. She also presented her research on retail investors during “The Corporate Form and Society” workshop at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, on July 8.

Professor Ray Diamond presented on three panels at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, held on July 13-16 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal. On July 13, he was the chair of and a discussant on a roundtable entitled “Comparative Perspectives on Civilian Arms Ownership, Populist Support & Elite Resistance.” On July 14, he was a discussant as part of an author meets readers panel on The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom (2022), by Sarhar Aziz. On July 14, he also was a discussant on a roundtable entitled “Affirmative Action: Diversity, Equity and Reparation, Comparative Perspectives.”

Professor John Devlin is quoted by The Advocate/The Times-Picayune in an article about efforts by pro-abortion advocates in New Orleans who are exploring options to keep access to the procedure available in the city.

Professor Elizabeth Carter appeared on “The News with Shephard Smith” to discuss prenuptial agreements.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by The New Yorker in an article about how younger Americans Younger Americans are founding their own use for prenuptial agreements: protecting their spouses from the worst impulses of the American debt-collection system.

Professor Keith Hall and Professor Nick Bryner are quoted by Baton Rouge Business Report in a story about the potential impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency decision, which states the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.

Professor Lisa Avalos was quoted by Rueters, WBTS-CD, and WWL-TV on separate stories about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade andPlanned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey.

Professor Keith Hall participated in the 43rd Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute in Amelia Island, Florida on June 12-14. Three LSU Law School students — James Anderson, Chancellor Cranford, and Amanda Johnson — also attended, with each of the students receiving either a scholarship or a travel stipend from the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation. Professor Keith Hall also participated in the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law’s quarterly Program Committee Meeting in Denver, Colorado on June 9 and the organization’s quarterly Board of Directors Meeting in Denver on June 10.

Professor Jeff Brooks recently presented on the “Intersection of Advocacy Programs, Advocacy Courses, and the Bar Exam” at the Educating Advocacy Teachers (EATS) Conference, hosted by Stetson University College of Law. He also presented on the basics of oral argument for the Louisiana Bar Association’s annual “Suit Up for the Future” Legal Institute and Internship Program.

Professor Christine Corcos published “Cyborgs, Replicants, and Other Human/Artificial “Hybrids” in Science Fiction and Law” in The Digital Constitutionalist.

Professor Emeritus Alain Levasseur has written an article in French for a 2019 conference held in Bucharest, Romania by GERCA, a Francophone association of jurists working on Insurance and Damages). The article, “L’incidence en droit américain du caractère collectif de l’évènement sur le préjudice réparable et son évaluation; class actions, actions de groupe, MDL, litige multidistricts, dommages intérêts,” will be published in a book by Les Editions Larcier, Belgium. He also published an article, “The Louisiana Civil Code: A Vademecum,” in Louisiana Law Review (Volume 82, number 4, Summer 2022).

Professor Bill Corbett completed and submitted to the publisher an annual update to his coauthored book with Douglas E. Ray and Christopher David Ruiz Cameron entitled “Labor-Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts and Boycotts” (2d ed. Thomson-West 2004) (with annual supplements).

Professor Lisa Avalos presented her work-in-progress, “Innocence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Supreme Court Nominees and Sexual Misconduct,” on June 22-25 at the 15th Annual Lutie A. Lytle Conference, which was held at Boston University School of Law.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored (with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci) book chapter, “Harnessing the Collective Power of Retail Investors,” has been posted on SSRN. The chapter is forthcoming in “A Research Agenda for Corporate Law” (Christopher M. Bruner & Marc Moore, eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing). She also presented her co-authored work-in-progress paper, “The Corporate Forum,” at the 13th Annual National Business Law Scholars Conference, which was held at the University of Oklahoma on June 16-17. She also served as a commentator for Professor Christopher M. Bruner’s (UGA Law) book, “The Corporation as Technology: ReCalibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future” (Oxford University Press 2022), during an Author-Meets-Readers plenary session and moderated the Mergers and Acquisitions panel.

Professor Darlene Goring was quoted by The Acadiana Advocate on immigration law and asylum claims in Louisiana.

Professor Keith Hall and Professor Nick Bryner are quoted by Baton Rouge Business Report in a story about the potential impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency decision, which states the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WAFB-TV in a story about potential legal challenges to Louisiana’s statewide abortion ban that was designed to go into effect when Roe v. Wade was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WBRZ-TV in a story about a New Orleans judge’s ruling to temporarily block enforcement of a statewide abortion ban in Louisiana that was designed to automatically go into effect when Roe v. Wade was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by WVLA-TV in an article about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade andPlanned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. 

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored work-in-progress paper, “The Corporate Forum,” at the 13^th Annual National Business Law Scholars Conference, which was held at the University of Oklahoma on June 16-17. She also served as a commentator for Professor Christopher M. Bruner’s (University of Georgia School of Law) book, “The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future” (Oxford University Press 2022), during an Author-Meets-Readers plenary session and moderated the Mergers and Acquisitions panel.

Professor Christina Sautter has been appointed to the LSU Press and The Southern Review Advisory Group. The LSU Press has a long history of publishing excellence, including four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Frederick Douglass Award in Slavery Studies, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Advisory Group assists the Executive Director in fundraising and provides guidance on engagement and other initiatives.

Professor Nick Bryner served as an academic coordinator for the Symposium on Judges & The Environment, which was held in conjunction with the UN Stockholm+50 Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 2-3 and was attended by high court judges or Supreme Court justices from 24 countries.

Professor Tom Galligan spoke at the Judge Alvin B. Rubin Maritime Personal Injury Seminar on the continued existence of Sieracki seamen.

Professor Keith Hall participated in the latest quarterly meeting of the Institute for Energy Law’s Executive Committee on May 18, and during the meeting he reported on the organization’s “Oil & Gas E-Report” publication. The day before, he participated in a meeting to plan the Institute for Energy Law’s next annual energy law conference.

Professor Bryner spoke virtually on May 28 at the 17th Congresso Internacional de Direito Ambiental in Brazil, organized by the Law for a Green Planet Institute, on the topic of Climate Justice.

Spring 2022

Professor Ray Diamond coauthored an essay with George Washington University Law Professor Robert J. Cottrol that has been published in Volume 54 of the Connecticut Law Review. “Helpless by Law: Enduring Lessons from a Century-Old Tragedy” examines questions of violence and self-defense in African American history, contrasting the historical patterns of racist anti-Black violence prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as exemplified by the destruction of the Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, with the current phenomenon of Black-on-Black violence in modern inner-city communities.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Energywire in an article about the fine line President Joe Biden is walking between taking aggressive climate action and promoting new oil and gas leasing, and the legal issues regarding his latest approach.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Gas Outlook in an article about the issues that are restraining U.S. shale output growth.

Professor Ken Levy and Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law Professor Jody Madeira have co-authored an op-ed titled “Sophistry at the Supreme Court” that has been published by The Hill. In the op-ed, Levy and Madeira argue that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization falsely assumes that constitutional rights must be either explicitly stated or “deeply rooted in [our] history and tradition.”

Professor Lisa Avalos served as an invited plenary speaker at the End Violence Against Women International Annual Conference in San Francisco on April 20. She spoke with three others on “Sexually Assaulted, Disbelieved, Prosecuted and Acquitted: Lessons from Washington County, Virginia.” On April 21, she and co-presenters Carl Hershman and Dyanie Bermeo gave a further workshop at the conference titled “Raped Then Prosecuted for False Reporting: Lessons from the Field.”

Professor Marlene Krousel presented on “Structure & Elements of a Well-Written Judicial” on April 27 at the Louisiana First Circuit Judges Association CLE program. She is scheduled to present to attorneys on “Growing as a Writer: Structure and Elements of Effective Legal Writing” on June 6, and to judges on “Growing as a Writer: Structure and Elements of an Effective Judicial Opinion” on June 8 at the 2022 Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School in Sandestin, Florida.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented on “Scoring a Perfect 10 in Legal Writing” on April 27 at the Louisiana First Circuit Judges Association CLE program. She is scheduled to present to attorneys and judges on “Growing as a Writer: The Mechanics of Grammar, Usage, and Legal Style” and “Growing as A Writer: Impactful Citations” on June 6 and 8 at the 2022 Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School in Sandestin, Florida.

Professor Lisa Avalos presented her work in progress “Innocence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Supreme Court Nominees and Sexual Violence,” at the 13th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference at the University of Baltimore School of Law, April 8. She also presented on “Recent Developments in Ethics Law” at the 69th Mineral Law Institute Conference at the Law Center on April 1, 2022.

Professor Clare Ryan’s essay, “Lee v. The United Kingdom: A Trend Toward Heightened Pleading Standards?”, has been published by the human rights blog Strasbourg Observers.

Professor Ray Diamond’s article, “On the Dangerous Prospect of a Constitutional Convention,” has been published in the 86 Boulé Journal 42 (2022).

Professor Keith Hall and his co-authors finalized revisions to the Teacher’s Manual for the recently published Eleventh Edition of “The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials” (Foundation Press).

Professor Bill Corbett will speak on an employment law panel at the 2022 Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference on May 6 in Nashville. The other panelists are Judge Gregg Costa of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Pope Mallette of the Mississippi law firm Mayo Mallette, and Professor Mike Maslanka of the University of North Texas College of Law.

Professor Tom Galligan recently appeared as a guest on the Rebuilding the American Dream Podcast, and he also commented on the advantages and disadvantages of no-fault auto insurance for an article by WalletHub.

Professors Keith Hall and Nick Bryner are quoted by E&E News in an article about litigation from the fossil fuel industry that attempts to force the Interior Department to release a new five-year plan for offshore oil and gas lease development.

Professor Ken Levy has coauthored an op-ed with University of Houston Law Center Professor Zach Kaufman titled “Prosecutors can abuse discretion to seek charges. We propose some fixes.” It has been published by the Chicago Tribune.

Professor Emeritus Frank Maraist, Professor Tom Galligan, Adjunct Professor Dean Sutherland, and alumna Sara Kuebel (’18) have published “Admiralty in a Nutshell” (West Academic 2022). They have also published “Cases and Materials on Maritime Law” (4th ed. West Academic 2022). In addition, Galligan spoke on a Presidents and Provosts Panel as part of the ABA Dean’s Workshop.

Professor John Church taught “Tort Law in the United States” in Lyon, France. The course is part of the Diploma for the Institut de Droit Compare and the Jean Moulin Univeriste, Lyon III.

Professor Keith Hall participated in the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law on March 25. Hall is serving in his second one-year term on the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Professor Lisa Avalos presented her work in progress “Flying Under the Radar: The Underpolicing of Crimes Against Women of Color,” at the Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium, “Black Transcends Blue” on March 18.

Professor Ray Diamond has coauthored a book chapter with Professor Robert Cottrol of George Washington Law titled “Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms” that will be included in “The Bill of Rights in Modern America” (3rd ed., 2022), which will be released on April 4 by Indiana University Press.

Professor John Devlin will deliver a presentation to a multi-disciplinary faculty discussion group on the meaning of evidence and proof of facts across different academic disciplines on April 20.

Professor Nick Bryner spoke at the Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium on “Labor and the Environment-Envisioning a New Green Deal” on April 1.

Professor Christina Sautter’s scholarship on retail investors was featured in a Forbes article, “We Are All ‘stakeholderists’ Now: Looks Like The Debate Over The Purpose Of Corporations Might Be Settled,” which expanded upon The FinReg Blog post she co-authored. She also appeared on the VoiceAmerica radio show, Getting Common, and discussed her research on retail investors.

Professor Christina Sautter‘s co-authored article with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci of NYU School of Law and Anat Alon-Beck of Case Western Reserve School of Law, “Is the Debate on Shareholders and Stakeholders Obsolete?” has been published on The FinReg Blog of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University School of Law.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming: The Collective Power of Retail Investors,” was published in the Nevada Law Journal. It argues that Millennial and GenZ investors have the power to transform corporate governance and, in turn, society.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted in an investigative article by ProPublica about the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s use of donor money to engage in long and costly legal battles over wills.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored work-in-progress, Wireless Shareholders Meetings, at the BYU Law Winter Deals Conference in Park City, Utah.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted in an editorial by The Bayou Progressive about Louisiana House Bill 101, which would make “a homicide … justified when committed to prevent imminent destruction of property or imminent threat of tumultuous and violent conduct during a riot.”

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Recent Developments in Energy Law” at the Institute for Energy Law’s 73rd Annual Energy Law Conference in Houston on Feb. 17. In addition, he spoke on legal issues relating to carbon capture and storage at the Professional Landmen’s Association of New Orleans Annual Executive Night Seminar on Feb. 23 and the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources Annual Symposium on Feb. 4.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “Continued Conflation Confusion in Louisiana Negligence Cases: Duty and Breach,” will be published in Volume 97 of the Tulane Law Review.

Professor Lisa Avalos’ article, “Seeking Consent and the Law of Sexual Assault,” has been accepted for publication in the University of Illinois Law Review.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by The Lens in an article about an ongoing lawsuit against the City of New Orleans over the Edward Wisner Donation, a 100-year land trust created in 1914 by philanthropist Edward Wisner. The land controlled by the trust includes tens of thousands of acres in Lafourche Parish, including valuable leased parcels on which Port Fourchon was built.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate in an article about two Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies who have been fired and arrested on manslaughter charges in relation to an incident in which they shot and killed a man in Marrero.

Professor Ken Levy authored an op-ed published by Bayou Progressive.

Professor Christina Sautter has co-authored, with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (NYU), the inaugural article by guest academics for the University of Chicago Business Law Review’s blog. The article, “The Wireless Investors Movement,” argues that retail investors are forming a social movement transforming corporate governance.

Professor Clare Ryan’s article, “LGBT Rights as Mega-Politics,” with co-author Professor Laurence Helfer, was published in Law & Contemporary Problems. She will present her forthcoming article, “Are Children’s Rights Enough?,” at the Drexel Law School Faculty Workshop on Jan. 27.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by The New York Times in an article about a judge’s decision to invalidate an offshore oil and gas lease sale of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico—the largest such sale in the nation’s history—on grounds that the government had failed to take climate change into consideration, which shows that regulatory decisions that disregard global warming are increasingly vulnerable to legal challenges.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by KTBS-TV in a story about the increase in gas production in the Haynesville Shale over the past year.

Professor Keith Hall is quoted by Louisiana Illuminator in an article about a judge’s decision to invalidate an offshore oil and gas lease sale of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico—the largest such sale in the nation’s history—on grounds that the government had failed to take climate change into consideration.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is a featured guest on a podcast from the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) titled “Spousal Support Provisions in Premarital Agreements.”

Professor Margaret Thomas was quoted by The Advocate in a story about an evidence issue in a lawsuit filed by 13 nurses at a Louisiana detention facility against the private company that operates the facility.

Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “The ‘Nature’ of Seaman Status After Sanchez” 82 La. L. Rev. 1 (2021), has been published by the Louisiana Law Review.

Fall 2021

Professor Keith Hall participated in the fourth quarter meeting of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law on Dec. 17. Earlier in December, he accepted an invitation to chair the organization’s 39th Annual Oil & Gas Short Course, which will be held in Houston on Oct. 17-21, 2022.

Professor Susan Tanner presented her paper, “Building Community through Legal Language: A Comparison of US & Navajo Legal Writing” at the 2021 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia which took place in Queensland, Australia (and virtually) on Dec. 2.

Professor Bill Corbett spoke as a panelist at a joint seminar of the Louisiana Judicial College and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel on Dec. 3. The topic was “Recent Developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure and Comparisons with Federal Procedure.”

Professor Christina Sautter was elected to a three-year term on Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Business Associations during the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her work-in-progress, “Wireless Shareholders Meetings,” during the Goethe Universität Frankfurt’s Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance Workshop, The Metamorphosing Landscape of Investor Capitalism, in December.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted by Baton Rouge Business Report in an article about the City of Baton Rouge’s potential legal liability stemming from people falling from or leaping off of a partially demolished bridge. Professor Levy was also quoted by WBRZ-TV in a story on the issue.

Professor Nick Bryner is speaking at the opening and closing of the High-Level Judicial segment of the IUCN-WCEL 2nd World Environmental Law Congress, “The Role of Judges: Environmental Law 2030 and Beyond,” which is being held at the Supreme Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 8-10. More than fifty judges and legal scholars from around the world will gather in person and online to present at the event.

Professor Ray Diamond will moderate a webinar featuring Alejandro Celorio Alcántara, the legal adviser of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and will concern Mexico’s lawsuit against a firearms distributor and firearms manufacturers, which accuses them of knowingly facilitating the sale of guns to drug cartels in the country.

Professor Clare Ryan‘s article, “Children as Bargaining Chips,” has been published in the UCLA Law Review.

Professor Keith Hall, along with Professor Emeritus Patrick H. Martin and other co-authors, submitted the manuscript for a revised edition of their casebook, The Law of Oil and Gas, which is published by Foundation Press.

Professor Elizabeth Carter will present at the ACTEC (American College of Trust and Estate Counsel) Southern Regional Meeting on “Getting Creative with Premarital Agreement: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre.”

Professor Christina Sautter was quoted by Bloomberg in an article regarding PwC LLP’s prioritization of ESG.

Professor Clare Ryan will present her paper, “Are Children’s Rights Enough?” at the second annual Children and the Law workshop hosted by the University of South Carolina on Nov. 5.

Professor Keith Hall is scheduled to provide an “Energy Litigation Update” at the Institute for Energy Law’s 20th Annual Energy Litigation Conference in Houston, Texas on Nov. 3.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Recent Developments in Mineral Law” at LSU Law’s Continuing Legal Education Seminar in Lafayette on Oct. 22.

Professor Maggie Thomas was invited by the Law & Economics Center of George Mason University to speak at the Symposium on Novel Liability Theories and the Incentives Driving Them, which took place in Nashville on Oct. 25-26.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming: The Power of Retail Investors,” was featured in the Forbes article, “Trump’s Social Media Platform To Merge With SPAC: An Insider’s Look At SPACs.”

Professor Ray Diamond was an invited participant at the Connecticut Law Review symposium, “History and the Tulsa Race Massacre – What’s Law Got To Do With it?” on Oct. 22. The paper Professor Diamond presented along with his coauthor Robert Cottrol of George Washington School of Law is entitled “To Render Them Defenseless: The Unintended Legacy of The Tulsa Race Riot To 21st Century Urban America.”

Professor Ray Diamond spoke at the Southwest Region Black Law Students Association Academic Leadership Retreat, on the subject of leadership, service, and professional responsibility, on Sept. 11.

Professor Ray Diamond has published “Refusing Representation and Renewal: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.’s Experience and Its Impact on Challenges to the Presidential Election of 2020,” 85 Boulé Journal 72 (2021).

Professor Elizabeth Carter will be a presenter at the Duke University Estate Planning Conference on Drafting Medical Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives on Oct. 22.

Professor Elizabeth Carter gave two presentations at the ACTEC American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel fall meeting, which was held Oct. 7-10.

Professor Elizabeth Carter and David Lieberman of Levin Schreder Carey in Chicago presented to the Professional Responsibility Committee on “Representing Estate Planning Clients During and After Divorce” on Oct. 9.

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented to the Elder Law Committee on End of Life Medical Planning on Oct. 7.

Professor Ed Richards, director of the Climate Change Law and Policy Project, participated in a panel discussion, “Vaccines: Freedom, Fear & Facts,” which aired on Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s “Louisiana Public Square” on Sept. 28.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted in an article from WalletHub about auto insurance.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented “Scoring a Perfect 10 in Legal Writing” at the 2021 Appellate Advocacy Seminar’s Writing Workshop in New Orleans on Oct. 4.

Professor Marlene Krousel presented  “Asking Effective Questions (Statements of the Issues)” at the 2021 Appellate Advocacy Seminar’s Writing Workshop in New Orleans on Oct. 4.

Professor Bill Corbett has accepted an offer of publication for his article, “Cross-Statute Employment Discrimination Claims and the Need for a ‘Super Statute,” in the Washington University Law Review.

Professor Christine Corcos is quoted in the article “Top 10 Binge-Worthy Legal Shows,” which was published by The National Jurist in its Back to School issue for 2021 (page 20).

Professor Keith Hall has been appointed to serve on a committee created by the Louisiana State Senate to study potential reforms to Louisiana’s oil and gas risk fee statute.

Professor Keith Hall is scheduled to speak on the subject of “Implied Covenants in Oil & Gas Leases” at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Oil & Gas Short Course in Westminster, Colorado on Oct.18. He will also serve as chair of this year’s Short Course.

Professor Lisa Avalos served as an expert witness in a case in southwestern Virginia where an undergraduate college student had been convicted of false reporting after she reported a sexual assault. On appeal, due in part to Professor Avalos’s testimony, the young woman’s conviction was overturned. Professor Avalos’s research has demonstrated that police disbelief of victims often leads them to charge victims with false reporting, and also that it is common to sexual assault victims to falsely recant when faced with police skepticism.

Professor Christina Sautter participated in the “Let’s Talk!: Maximizing the Shareholder Relationship and the Benefits of Shareholder Engagement” panel during the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit, co-sponsored by Greenberg Traurig, LLP and UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.

Professor Christina Sautter and her co-author, Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (NYU), will present their work-in-progress, tentatively titled “Wireless Shareholder Meetings,” as part of the New Frontiers of Shareholder Engagement workshop on Oct. 14.

Professor Christina Sautter will speak with shareholder activist Jim McRitchie’s Corporate Accountability Group on Nov. 15.

Professor Christina Sautter is quoted by The Wall Street Journal in a story about how company insiders are influencing stock traders and developing cult-like followings on social media with outlandish and cryptic posts.

Professor Ed Richards, director of the Climate Change Law and Policy Project, was featured on 89.3 WRKF-FM’s “Louisiana Considered” to discuss the causes of the August 2016 floods that devastated southeast Louisiana and explain how we can compare the magnitude of those floods to other historical floods.

Professor Christina Sautter has posted her new chapter, “Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. Rewritten,” on SSRN. It will be included in the forthcoming book, “Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Corporate Law,” which is a part of a series of books in which major judicial decisions are rewritten from a feminist perspective.

Professor Clare Ryan’s article, “Children as Bargaining Chips” (forthcoming UCLA Law Review), was featured on the American Law Institute website the ALI Adviser.

Professor Christine Corcos has accepted an invitation to join the Scholarly Writing Committee of the ACD Society. The ACD Society, founded by Professor Ross Davies of the George Mason University School of Law, is devoted to studying and enjoying the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Professor Keith Hall’s article “President Biden’s Executive Orders Relating to Oil and Gas” appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of The Baton Rouge Lawyer, a publication of the Baton Rouge Bar Association. Also, on July 16, Professor Hall was elected to serve a second term on the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Board of Directors

Summer 2021

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by The Advocate in an article about the legality of private companies requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored paper, “Corporate Governance Gaming: The Power of Retail Investors,” on July 8 as part of a webinar, The 21st Century Berle & Means Corporation: A Revolution in Retail Investing, sponsored by Monash University Law School’s Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies and the Banking & Financial Services Law Association.

Professor Bill Corbett spoke in June on a panel at the LSBA/Louisiana Judicial College summer program in Sandestin, Florida, on the topic “Updates in Civil Procedure, including the 2020 Civil Justice Reform Act.”

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization” at the 42nd Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute on June 22, 2021 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was elected to the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

President Emeritus and Professor Tom Galligan’s article, “The ‘Nature’ of Seaman Status after Sanchez,” will be published in the Louisiana Law Review.

Professor Nick Bryner moderated a webinar panel on Judicial Developments and Comparative Environmental Law hosted by the Supreme Court of Mexico’s Center for Constitutional Studies on June 18 as part of the Center’s series of events highlighting the Environmental Judicial Anthology published by the Court. Professor Bryner is also the Program Coordinator and will be providing introductory remarks at the Inter-American Environmental Law Congress in Mexico City, Mexico, from July 8-9, organized by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.

Professor Christina Sautter was interviewed by the Culture, Society, and Security Team of the International Team for the Study of Security (ITSS) – Verona in an episode entitled “Gamers Revolution.” Her co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming: The Power of Retail Investors,” was featured in New generations of retail investors to shift corporate focus towards sustainability in The Market Herald. She also appeared as a virtual guest speaker for the Legal English/Introduction to U.S. Corporate Law – Commercial Law Specialization 2021 course at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia during which she spoke about GameStop and the Rise of Retail Investors.

Professor Clare Ryan‘s article, “Children as Bargaining Chips,” will be published by UCLA Law Review.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is featured in a new podcast by The American College of Trust and Estate Council (ACTEC) titled “Joint Representations with Prenuptial Agreements.”

Professor Clare Ryan‘s co-authored article, “LGBT Rights as Mega-politics: Litigating before the ECtHR,” will be published in the journal Law and Contemporary Problems.

Professor Robert Lancaster was invited to speak at the Association of Paroling Authorities International annual conference in Arlington, Texas. Professor Lancaster joined Andrew Hundley, Executive Director of the Louisiana Parole Project, and Francis Abbott, Executive Director of Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole, to discuss about how the collaboration between the LSU Parole & Reentry Clinic, the Louisiana Parole Project, and the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole is creating safer communities by preparing long-term inmates for release, supporting their reentry in the community, and saving the state money in incarceration costs. Professor Lancaster directs the LSU Parole & Reentry Clinic, in which law students represent Louisiana prisoners seeking early release through the clemency and parole process.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming,” during the Meme Stocks panel of the National Business Law Scholars Conference.

Professor Lécia Vicente presented one of her latest projects, “Should We Call it Moral Money?: Institutional Ownership and Board Diversity,” at the 2021 National Business Law Scholars Conference, as part of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Business Law panel. She presented this project at the 2021 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting and will present it at the 27th International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference hosted by Mid Sweden University.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming,” was featured in a blog post, “WallStreetBets, GameStop, and the Rise of ‘Wireless’ ESG Retail Investors,” on the Machine Lawyering Blog of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented her article, “Are Premarital Agreements Really Unfair? An Empirical Study” 48 Hofstra L. Rev. 387 (2019), to the New Orleans Planning Estate Planning Council on May 10. On June 14, Professor Carter will present suggested revisions to the ACTEC Commentaries to MRPC 1.8 and 1.9 at the ACTEC (American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel) Summer Meeting. She was also recently named as Co-Chair to the Commentaries Subcommittee.

Professor Ken Levy was quoted in an article about bodily injury liability insurance published by WalletHub.

Professor Christina Sautter was an invited speaker during the Where Does Corporate Law Go Next? Roundtable at The Law and Society Association 2021 Annual Meeting. The roundtable honored the work of Professor Margaret Blair (Professor of Law, Emerita and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Emerita at Vanderbilt Law School) and discussed the future of corporate law and corporate law scholarship.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was quoted by The Advocate in a story about whether Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is following a state law that instructs the attorney general to devote “his full time” to the Attorney General’s office and bars him from doing any outside legal work.

Professor Michael Malinowski‘s forthcoming book, “How to Regulate a Medical Revolution: The Law and Ethics of Personal Genome Medicine,” will be published by Cambridge University Press. In the book, Professor Malinowski recognizes U.S. market approval of 23andMe’s wholly direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health risks in 2017 as a milestone in the transformation of U.S. health care that predates and transcends that event by decades.

Professor Marlene Krousel will present to attorneys on “Growing as a Writer: Structure and Elements of Effective Legal Writing” on June 7, and to judges on June 9 at the 2021 Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School in Sandestin, Florida.

Professor Heidi Thompson will present to attorneys on “Growing as a Writer: The Mechanics of Grammar, Usage, and Legal Style” as well as on “Impactful Citations” on June 7 at the 2021 Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School in Sandestin, Florida. Professor Thompson will also present to judges on “Growing as a Writer: The Mechanics of Grammar, Usage, and Legal Style” on June 9.

Professor Keith Hall was quoted by the Associated Press in a story about a recent Louisiana Supreme Court decision relating to the Bayou Bridge pipeline.

Professor Christina Sautter served as an invited participant during the “Where Does Corporate Law Go Next?” roundtable at The Law and Society Association 2021 Annual Meeting. The roundtable honored the work of Professor Margaret Blair (Professor of Law, Emerita and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Emerita at Vanderbilt Law School) and discussed the future of corporate law and corporate law scholarship. Professor Sautter also spoke in a Clubhouse room, “Proxy Season 2021 – One for the Record Books,” regarding her forthcoming article and the future of retail shareholder voting, and she was also a guest speaker in Professor Ben Edwards’ Business Organizations class at UNLV School of Law, during which she spoke about the recent GameStop trading saga and her forthcoming article.

Professor Lisa Avalos gave talks on her work-in-progress on rape law reform at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (January 2021) and at the University of Tennessee College of Law (March 2021). Both presentations were virtual.

Professor Jeff Brooks was recently appointed to the American Bar Association’s Law Student Competitions Committee, and as a member of the Client Counseling Subcommittee. Professor Brooks is also the co-chair of the alternative dispute resolution “track” of the 2021 Training Advocates Conference.

Professor Olivier Moréteau recently published three book chapters: “Le droit louisianais, un gombo qui s’offre en partage” (Louisiana law as gumbo), in “The Langauge of Law and Food: Metaphors of Recipes and Rules” (Salvatore Mancuso ed., Routledge, 2021), “From the Battlefield to the Computer Screen, Deciphering the Language of Flags,” in “Flags, Color, and The Legal Narrative“ (Anne Wagner & Sarah Marusek, eds., Springer, 2021), and “Le droit comme outil de gestion citoyenne des biens communs maritimes et terrestres” (An ecological approach of the law to manage maritime and terrestrial commons), in “Mer Et Littoral: Un Bien Commun, Une Approche Pluridisciplinaire” (Archipel, Université de Bretagne Sud, 2020). On June 9-11, Professor Moréteau will chair the Juris Diversitas 7th General Conference, organized on Zoom and encompassing 15 time zones. Over 100 presenters will discuss “The Dark Side of the Law.”

Spring 2021

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by WAFB-TV in a story about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Edwards v. Vannoy. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that while criminal convictions require unanimous juries (Ramos v. Louisiana), federal courts do not need to apply this rule retroactively.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming,” was featured on the TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog and on the Oxford Business Law Blog.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Louisiana Record in a story about Louisiana Senate Bill 163, which proposes to add two seats to the Louisiana Supreme Court and to redraw the map so that the nine justices are each elected by equally populated districts:

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by Louisiana Illuminator in a story about whether State Attorney General Jeff Landry’s alleged identification of a sexual harassment complainant constituted actionable retaliation.

Professor Christina Sautter and her co-author, Professor Sergio Gramitto, were invited to write a post, “WallStreetBets, GameStop, and the Rise of ESG Retail Investors,” for the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog about their forthcoming article, “Corporate Governance Gaming.”

Professor Christina Sautter was a guest speaker in Professor Ben Edwards’ Business Organizations class at UNLV School of Law, during which she spoke about the recent GameStop trading saga and her co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming.”

Professor Robert Lancaster hosted the opening plenary at the 2021 American Association of Law Schools Clinical Conference entitled “A Conversation with an Activist.” The plenary featured a conversation with Angel Sanchez, Policy Director and Legislative Analyst at the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC). FRRC was instrumental in the passage of Amendment 4 in 2018 that restored voting rights to over 1.4 million formerly incarcerated Floridians. The conversation explored the role of the lawyer in community-led social movements, including the types of skills and approaches that this work requires. The conversation included ways to cultivate and sustain collaborative partnerships across movements that inspire learning and activism and to provoke dialogue about how lawyers and law students can deploy collaborative and sustainable approaches in support of grassroots change.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by The Reveille for a story about Rep. Ray Garofalo’s bill to prevent state schools and universities from teaching “divisive concepts,” including systemic racism, sexism, and critiques of capitalism.

Professor Christina Sautter’s co-authored article, “Corporate Governance Gaming,” was featured on the Business Law Prof Blog, and she and her co-author, Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, have accepted a publication offer from the Nevada Law Journal.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WAFB-TV for a story about the Louisiana Civil Service Commission’s alleged infringement of a former employee’s right to free speech, which is protected by both the U.S. Constitution and the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Implied Covenants in Oil and Gas Leases” at the University of Texas Fundamentals of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Conference on March 25.

Professor Nick Bryner has been named Deputy Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. He has served on the Steering Committee for the Commission since 2016 and will be taking over the role as Deputy Chair until September 2021. In addition, his article, “Never Look Back: Non-Regression in Environmental Law,” has been accepted for publication this fall in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was reappointed by LSU to serve on the Louisiana Tax Institute. On March 4, Carter presented “Joint Representation in Prenuptial Agreements” at the ACTEC (American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel) Annual Meeting, and was also part of a panel presentation titled “Representing Estate Planning Clients During and After Divorce.” Also in March, Professor Carter began her third year of teaching Estate Planning in the University of Alabama’s LLM in Taxation Program. She has also taught Gift and Estate Tax in that program since 2015.

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk and adjunct Professor Jack Harrison were quoted in “The City Where Police Unleash Dogs on Black Teens,” a joint investigation of The Marshall Project and The Advocate. After the article was published, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome directed the Baton Rouge Police Department to amend its policy related to children and police dogs.

Professor Clare Ryan will moderate the inaugural symposium of the LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy on March 19, which features a panel of five distinguished legal scholars speaking on the topic of “Fighting White Supremacy in the 21st Century.” Get more information about the symposium.

Professor Keith Hall is a co-author of the fourth edition of the book “International Petroleum Law and Transactions,” which was recently published in a traditional printed format, after having been published last autumn in an e-book format. Hall spoke on a panel addressing oil and gas issues affected by carbon capture and storage projects during the LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources Annual Symposium on Feb. 5. Also serving on the panel were LSU emeritus Professor Patrick H. Martin and LSU adjunct Professor Patrick S. Ottinger.

Professor Christina Sautter will present her work-in-progress tentatively entitled “Corporate Governance Gaming” on March 19 virtually at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The article explores the impact of the recent GameStop and meme-stock trading frenzy on corporate governance.

Professor Olivier Moréteau was a guest lecturer in Professor Mohamed Mattar’s course on “Comparative Legal Systems,” at Qatar University College of Law in Doha on Jan. 31. He presented on Zoom on “Changes Made to the French Civil Code.” This course is part of the newly created doctoral program that Moréteau evaluated when visiting Qatar in November 2018. On Feb. 22, Moréteau met on Zoom with a group of doctoral candidates at the International Law Center (CEDIN) at the University of Paris Nanterre. He gave a presentation on the use of the comparative method in doctoral research.

Professor Robert Lancaster gave a presentation on a comparative look of the use of lay people in death penalty sentencing decisions at a virtual conference on March 5 sponsored by the Université Grenoble Alpes in France entitled “Peine de mort, politiques pénales et conditions de détention des condamnés à mort.”

Professor Ray Diamond was a member of the Police Training, Screening and De-escalation Task Force, created by the legislature at the end of its last session. The Task Force made several recommendations as to legislation that might treat to subject of police misconduct against citizens. Among them was a change in Louisiana’s qualified immunity statute to make lawsuits against police officers feasible so long as their actions meet the standard of unreasonableness. On Feb. 23, Professor Diamond testified (8:24–26:02) before the Qualified Immunity Subcommittee of the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure, which reviewed Task Force recommendations with respect to La. R.S. 9:2793.1, 2798.1, and 2800.10. The Qualified Immunity Subcommittee unanimously recommended the Task Force recommendation to the House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure, which will consider the recommendation before or during the next legislative session.

Professor Keith Hall was interviewed regarding natural gas issues on the “This Climate Podcast” at Indiana University on January 14, 2021. Later that day, he was interviewed by Court TV regarding the BP P.L.C. v. Baltimore case that is being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, he spoke on the subject “Communication with Opposing Counsel and Landowners” at the “Annual Mid-Winter Education Webinar” of the San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen on January 21, 2021.

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk published “Lessons from Disaster: Assessing the COVID-19 Response in Youth Jails & Prisons” in the Arizona State Law Journal Online as part of their symposium issue.

Professor Olivier Moréteau published “Les codes civils de Louisiane dans leur ordre natural,” 7 Les Cahiers Portalis 209-223 (2020). He taught his annual Comparative Tort Law class at the Jean Moulin University, Lyon, in December 2020, on Zoom, and is presently teaching a short U.S. Contract Law class, also on Zoom, at the University of Nantes.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was included in features by WWL-TV and The Wall Street Journal about Mardi Gras house floats in New Orleans. Carter has decorated her house in an educational “Shark Week” theme.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by Fox 47 News in Lansing, Michigan, for a story about duty to report laws.

Professor Christina Sautter’s essay, “Transaction Cost Economics & MAEs: The Dealmaker’s Crystal Ball,” was published in the Fordham Law Review Online.

Professor Ken Levy was interview by WalletHub for a feature on what to do following a car accident.

Professor Christina Sautter served as a commentator for Professor Paige Wilson’s paper, “Midwest Venture Deals,” during the AALS Section on Business Associations: New Voices in Business Law, held virtually on Jan. 5, 2021.

Fall 2020

Professor Keith Hall participated in a panel discussion entitled “The Courts During an Energy Dominance Era: A Panel Discussion with Legal Experts” for Wyoming Public Radio on Dec. 17, 2020. He also began serving on an ad hoc committee created by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to consider public policy and rules for carbon capture, utilization, and storage in Louisiana.

Professor Marlene Krousel presented on “Effective Writing Reminders and Tips” at the Baton Rouge Bar Association’s CLE by the hour on Dec. 11, 2020.

Professor Bill Corbett spoke on a panel at the annual joint seminar of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and the Louisiana Judicial College on Dec. 4 in New Orleans. He was joined on the panel by Judge Guy Holdridge (La. 1st Circuit), Judge Tiffany Chase (La. 4th Circuit), and Valerie Fontenot (Frilot, LLC), discussing “The Civil Justice Reform Act and Other Developments in Louisiana Civil Procedure and Evidence.”

Professor Christina Sautter presented Rewritten Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. during the Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Corporate Law Workshop held virtually on Nov. 13.

Professor Ken Levy has published an op-ed in Common Dreams with co-author Jen Senko, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, media activist and author of “The Brainwashing of My Dad,” which will soon be published by Sourcebooks.

Professor Emeritus John S. Baker was featured in a WalletHub article about the presidential election and potential tax implications.

Professor Keith Hall was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Interim President Tom Galligan’s article, “There Are More Things to Punitive Damages in Admiralty Than the 1:1 Ratio Set Forth in Exxon’s Legal Philosophy,” will be published in the Louisiana Law Review. In November, Galligan will present to the Federal Bar Association-Lafayette/Acadiana Chapter as part of the Davis Lecture Series honoring Judge W. Eugene Davis of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. His topic is “[E]ven the [S]lightest: Causation in FELA and Jones Act Cases,” and the lecture will be published as an article in the Charleston Law Review.

Professor Margaret Thomas has been selected by ABA’s Standing Committee on Specialization, which accredits specialty certification programs for lawyers, to review and comment on the National Board of Trial Advocacy’s Complex Litigation specialization examination. As an examination reviewer, Thomas will review the questions developed for the national Complex Litigation specialization attorney examination for accuracy and clarity.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate in an article about East Baton Rouge Metro Councilwoman Chauna Banks’ renewed effort to persuade the rest of the council to approve of a $5 million settlement for Alton Sterling’s children.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article, Delaware as Deal Arbiter, was published in the Washington & Lee Law Review. The article examines the Delaware courts’ role as a norm setter in Mergers and Acquisitions transactions.

Professor Robert Lancaster was quoted in The New York Times in an article featuring the LSU Parole & Reentry Clinic’s successful representation of Fair Wayne Bryant. Professor Lancaster represented Mr. Bryant before the Louisiana Committee on Parole. Mr. Bryant was released after serving 24 years as a habitual offender following a conviction for attempted burglary of an inhabited dwelling — for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers. Mr. Bryant’s case received national attention after Chief Justice Bernette Johnson wrote a scathing dissent when the Louisiana Supreme Court denied a writ challenging the constitutionality of his life sentence. Mr. Bryant’s release has also been covered by numerous national news outlets including The Washington Post and National Public Radio.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by Spectrum News 1 D.C. Bureau Reporter Eva McKend about textualism and originalism.

Professor Robert Lancaster participated in the “International Symposium of Juris Master Education” at the China University of Political Science and Law in Bejing, China on Oct. 10. Through Zoom, the symposium brought together legal educators from around the world to enhance legal education in China. Professor Lancaster spoke about “Engaging Law Students in Legal Reform.”

Professor Bill Corbett accepted an offer of publication from the Oklahoma Law Review for his article “Intolerable Asymmetry and Uncertainty: Congress Should Right the Wrongs of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.”

Professor Keith Hall is one of the editors of the book The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry, which was recently published by Wolters Kluwer. Hall also authored a chapter in the book.

Professor Edward Richards’ article, “A Historical Review of the State Police Powers and Their Relevance to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020,” will be published by the Journal of National Security Law, a peer-reviewed journal published by Georgetown Law Center. The article will also be reprinted in COVID-19: The Legal Challenges (Stephen Dycus & Eugene R. Fidell eds., Carolina Acad. Press, 2021).

Professor Gregory Smith’s article “Sexual Misconduct by Louisiana Lawyers” will be published in Louisiana Law Review.

Professor Clare Ryan will participate in a virtual conference hosted by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program on Oct. 16 and will make a presentation on indirect discrimination cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

Professor Olivier Moréteau made a presentation on “The Role of Civil Codes in France and Louisiana” on July 21 as part of the American Association of Law Librarians, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Section, Civil Law and Legal Systems Webinar. He also authored a foreword to Ibrahim Abdouraoufi, L’ohada et la Common Law (L’Harmattan, Études africaines, 2020). Comparative Legal History (O. Moréteau, A. Masferrer, K. Modéer eds., Edward Elgar, Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Series, 2019) is now available in paperback edition.

Professor Ken Levy published an op-ed in The Hill, in which he argues progressivism is superior to conservatism and libertarianism because it is the only one of the three theories of government that takes egalitarianism and individual autonomy seriously.

Professor Ed Richards was quoted by The Advocate in an article about the risks businesses face if they don’t follow Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mask mandate and social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Richards said: “Businesses not following social distancing rules may also face potential liability, including higher worker compensation premiums and health care benefit bills, if workers get sick.”

Professor Ray Diamond was quoted by WVLA-TV in a report about a 25-member legislative task force that is examining police practices including hiring, training, communication, and community relation practices, citing concerns of implicit racism and the disproportionate number of Black citizens killed by officers. Diamond is a member of the task force, which includes state legislators, law enforcement leaders, civil rights advocates, and attorneys.

Professor Alain Levasseur’s treatise “Louisiana Law of Obligations in General: A Civil Law Perspective” has been published and is now available through the publisher, Carolina Academic Press. Justice John Weimer wrote the Preface. Levasseur has also published “The Legal System of Iran,” with assistance from Trahan and Gruning, in the series “Foreign Legal Systems,” published by Carolina Academic Press.

Professor Keith Hall served as a panelist for three webinars during the summer: “UK MER in its International Context,” “The exploitation of unconventionals in Brazil: opportunities and challenges,” and “Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources: Current trends, legal challenges and opportunities.”

Professor Chistine Corcos has published “Law and Norms and Will and Grace” (50 Cumberland Law Review 85, 2020) and “Three Ways of Looking at Law and Popular Culture” (Propriete Intellectuelle et Pop Culture: Nouveaux enjeux, nouveaux defis 9).

Professor Paul Baier‘s biography of Frederick Bernays Wiener, “Written in Water: An Experiment in Legal Biography,” has been published by Twelve Table

Professor Elizabeth Carter recently participated in a Q&A with The Advocate on the basics of estate planning and creating a living will. Read the full Q&A.

Professor Lécia Vicente will chair a panel titled Comparative Law Studies in Context: The Challenges and Opportunities of Translation, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law. This year, the title of the conference is “Comparative Legal History” and it will be held via Zoom on Oct. 15-16. Get more details about the panel and the conference.

Professors Lisa Avalos, Elizabeth Carter, Christina Sautter, Madalyn Wasilczuk and Associate Dean Andrea Carroll are part of a global collaboration of feminist law professors who are reimagining and rewriting key judicial decisions from a feminist perspective. Each volume in the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project consists of rewritten opinions and accompanying commentary from feminist law professors who are experts in their respective fields of law. Get more details.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate in a story about a Livingston Parish barbecue restaurant that defied a judge’s order by opening its doors to diners, setting up a showdown with Health Department officials who say the business needs to close if it won’t comply with state mandates intended to battle a life-threatening pandemic.

Summer 2020

Professor Ken Levy published an op-ed piece in Counterpunch in which he opines on the Commander-in-Chief’s moral and potential criminal responsibility under the law, given the President’s background and upbringing.

Professor Ken Levy and Professor William Corbett are quoted by The Advocate in an article about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which says that Title VII prohibits discrimination in employment against members of the LGBT community, and its impact on hiring by religious institutions.

Professor Elizabeth Carter‘s article, “Are Premarital Agreements Really Unfair?: An Empirical Study, “ has been published by Hofstra Law Review. Carter was also a panelist on the ABA Real Property Trusts and Estates Section webinar: Natural Disasters and Abandoned Real Property Part 1 on June 23.

Professor Nicholas Bryner gave online lecture about the Non-Regression Principle in Environmental Law at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 23, as part of the Supreme Court of Mexico seminar series. Watch the lecture.

Professor Ken Levy published a letter in The Advocate about whether LSU can legally withdraw an incoming freshman’s admission after a video of the student engaging in hate speech went viral.

Professor Christina Sautter has been selected to Chair the Development Committee of Louisiana Appleseed. Louisiana Appleseed is a nonprofit that works closely with direct legal services, government agencies, and other nonprofits to identify and solve Louisiana’s most challenging legal problems. Professor Sautter has also entered into a publication agreement with West Academic Publishing to co-author a mergers and acquisitions textbook entitled Documenting the Deal.

Professor Ed Richards is quoted in a USA Today article on the more than 1,300 state and federal lawsuits that have been filed over COVID-19 restrictions such as stay-at-home orders and business closures, and also whether abortion or church services can be limited during the pandemic.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article, “Delaware as Deal Arbiter,” will be published in the Washington & Lee Law Review.

LSU Interim President Tom Galligan has published two pieces in the current volume of Louisiana Law Review: “A Cypress is Gone—A memorial to the late Professor David W. Robertson,” and “LHWCA Section 905(b); and Scindia: The Confused Tale of a Legal Pendulum” (with Brian C. Colomb).

Professor Lisa Avalos‘ article “Reversing the Decriminalization of Sexual Violence” will be the lead article in Volume 21 of the Nevada Law Journal, to be published in December.

Spring 2020

Professor Chris Tyson has been appointed to the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force Public and Regulatory Policy Subcommittee by Gov. John Bel Edwards.

Professor Michael Malinowski was interviewed about his children’s book “Why Am I Me?” on “Great Day Louisiana,” a morning television show on WWL -TV, and on “In the NOLA,” a WGSO radio show.

Professor Keith Hall was nominated to serve a second term on the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Executive Committee.

Professor Olivier Moréteau taught a mini-course on U.S. Contract Law at Aix-Marseille University. During his visit in Aix-en-Provence in early March he gave several lectures, including: “Are Mixed Legal Systems a Good or a Bad Thing? The Example of Louisiana,” “Community Spirit and Individualism as Systemic Markers: Revisiting the Civil Law and Common Law Divide,” and “Contractual Rights and Remedies, A Comparative Perspective.” In late March and April, while confined in Lyon, he also taught remotely a Comparative Contract Law class at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Professor Ken Levy is featured on an episode of the Good Law Bad Law podcast with Aaron Freiwald, in which he discusses free will, responsibility and crime.

Professor Keith Hall has been named the 2020 Professor-in-Residence by the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, an independent not-for-profit professional membership association that supports international energy negotiators around the world and enhances their effectiveness and professionalism in the international energy community.

Professor Pedro Gerson’s article “Return of the King: Corruption Backsliding in America” will be published in the Cardozo International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review.

Professor Edward Richards was featured on a We The People Podcast, “The Constitution and the Coronavirus,” hosted by Jeffrey Rosen.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate in an article about legal issues regarding enforcement of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ “stay at home” executive order due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Professor Edward Richards is cited in “Pandemic, Fundamental Rights and Democracy,” a presentation by former Greece Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki that has been printed in To Vima.

Professor Edward Richards is quoted in a story by Undark digital magazine about the government’s power to control individual behavior during a public health emergency.

Professor Christina M. Sautter presented her work-in-progress, The Honeymoon of Transition, at the BYU Winter Deals Conference held in Park City, Utah, on March 6.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by KATC-TV for a story about many Louisiana coroners’ alleged violation of LSA-R.S.13:5716, which requires them to deny cremation permits for bodies whose deaths involve “suspicious circumstances or the reasonable probability of the commission of a crime.”

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk has written an op-ed about Louisiana’s juvenile transfer laws that is featured in The Advocate.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WAFB-TV for a story about a formal complaint the NAACP has submitted with the State Supreme Court against 23rd Judicial District Judge Jessie LeBlanc following her admission to sending a string of racist text messages.

Professor Christine Corcos is the author of the forthcoming “Law and Norms and Will and Grace,” an invited article to appear in the Cumberland Law Review. She has also joined the advisory board of the new Routledge book series TechNomos: Law, Technology and Culture, which publishes books at the intersection of humanities, cultural legal studies, science technology studies, sociology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Professor Keith Hall will speak about “Communication with Opposing Counsel and Landowners” on March 26 in Houston at the annual Fundamentals of Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Conference hosted by the University of Texas.

Professor N. Gregory Smith published an article, “Migratory Nonlawyers and the Typhoid Mary Problem,” in the February/March 2020 issue of the Louisiana Bar Journal.

Professor Olivier Moréteau presented at Mississippi College on Jan. 22 on “Community Spirit and Individualism as Systemic Markers: Revisiting the Civil Law and Common Law Divide.” In February, he visited at University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 as Visiting Professor, teaching Louisiana Law in a North American and Global Context. He also gave two lectures, on Contractual Rights and Remedies, A Comparative Perspective (Feb. 25), and Individual Liability for Environmental Damage (Feb. 27). In March, he will teach two mini-courses: U.S. Contract Law (Aix-Marseille University) and Comparative Contract Law (University Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris 1).

Professor Michael Malinowski’s publications achieved some international, interdisciplinary readership milestones. BookAuthority, which “identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings and sentiment,” has ranked Professor Malinowski’s “Handbook on Biotechnology” (published in 2016) No. 6 on its interdisciplinary list of “77 Best Biotechnology Books of All Time.” BookAuthority also recently listed his article “Doctors, Patients, and Pills—A System Popping Under Too Much Physician Discretion? A LawPolicy Prescription to Make Drug Approval More Meaningful in the Delivery of Health Care” (33 Cardozo L. Rev. 1085, 1090-99; 2012), on its Top Ten download list for PharmSciRN: Regulatory & Legal Aspects of Pharmacy (Topic) and Pharmacy eJournal. Digital Commons, which tracks the interdisciplinary, global readership of law review publications, reported that, as of January 2020, Professor Malinowski’s 64 publications (excluding his books) achieved 15,631 downloads.

Professor Christine Corcos , as chair of the AALS Law and Film Committee, hosted the AALS Law and Film evening on Jan. 3. The film was “All the President’s Men.” Richard Ben-Veniste, a partner at Mayer-Brown who was one of the lead prosecutors on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, was the evening’s guest speaker. Professor Corcos also completed a year as chair of the AALS Section on Law and the Humanities and turned the gavel over to Professor Judith Resnik of Yale Law School at the conclusion of the annual meeting.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ-TV for a story about the trial of Laura DeJohn, a former East Feliciana coroner facing conspiracy and filing and maintaining false public records charges.

Professor Ed Richards is featured in a Reason magazine explanation of the constitutionality of quarantines and similar measures in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

Professor Ken Levy has written an opinion piece for Common Dreams about Alan Dershowitz’s theory of presidential impeachment.

Professor Ray Diamond was quoted by The Advocate in an article about the possibility of Louisiana enacting laws that specifically address parental responsibility for preventing children’s access to guns.

Professor Keith Hall will serve on a panel that addresses issues relating to offshore drilling on Feb. 7 at a symposium in Charleston, South Carolina, entitled “Legal, Ethical, and Policy Implications of a Changing Climate.” The symposium is being sponsored by the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University and the Charleston Law Review. Later in February, Professor will represent LSU at the Institute for Energy Law’s Annual Oil & Gas Conference in Houston.

Professor Heidi Thompson and Advocacy Fellow Annie Scardulla’s article, “The 6 Cs of Legal Writing,” appeared in the Baton Rouge Bar Association’s January/February 2020 publication of The Baton Rouge Lawyer. The article encourages legal writers to draft effective documents by ensuring that the content is compliant, clear, compelling, credible, consummate, and collaborative.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by The Advocate for a story about the end of a more than two-year legal fight by a former LSU student and ex-Phi Delta Theta member who is serving prison time for the 2017 hazing death of Max Gruver.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by The Advocate for a story about the Louisiana Supreme Court’s appointment of two more temporary judges to replace an Assumption Parish jurist accused of having an affair with a then-chief sheriff’s deputy while presiding over criminal cases brought by the officer’s law enforcement agency.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ-TV for a story about nearly 600 cases that are being reviewed after a high-ranking investigator admitted to having an affair with the judge who oversaw criminal proceedings involving his cases.

Fall 2019

Professor Keith Hall accepted an invitation to Chair the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Oil & Gas Short Course that will be held in October in Houston. Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Recent Developments in Mineral Law” at LSU’s CLE By-the-Hour in December.

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist on teaching, service and the pursuit of tenure on the extended Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color on Jan. 4 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Olivier Moréteau was the guest of Friends of French Studies at LSU at the French House on Dec. 9, where he presented on “Translating the Louisiana Civil Code into French” to a full house. At the end of the fall semester, on a teaching visit at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 in Lyon, France, he discussed “Legal Studies in the United States and LL.M. Opportunities” with dozens of students both in Lyon and at Aix-Marseille University. On Jan. 22 he will present on “Civil Law Communitarianism v. Common Law Individualism: A Systemic Divide?” at Mississippi College School of Law.

Professor Lécia Vicente’s article “The Promise of Sustainable Development Through Global Connections and Cultural Ruptures: East-Central Europe and South-Central Africa Compared” has been selected for inclusion in the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, which will take place in May in Denver. The paper follows Professor Vicente’s participation as a delegate at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Professor Ken Levy had an opinion article titled “Despite posturing U.S. Sen. John Kennedy gives thumbs-up to dubious Trump judicial nominees” published in The Advocate.

Professor Ed Richards is featured in a Full Measure TV news segment on rising sea levels and the risk they pose to U.S. military bases.

Professor Olivier Moréteau will present at the 2406 Prytania Dialogue Series at the Consulate General of France in New Orleans on Dec. 19.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by WAFB-TV in a story about a formal complaint that was filed against Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin due to allegations that he endorsed others at a campaign rally in Monroe on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

Professor Clare Ryan presented her article, “Children as Bargaining Chips,” at the McGill Faculty of Law Legal Theory Workshop in Montreal on Nov. 29. Her article, “The Law of Emerging Adults,” will be published by the Washington University Law Review in January.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Single Well Spacing and Pooling: State Spacing and Jurisdiction over Conservation” at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Advanced Landman’s Special Institute on Nov. 8 in Houston.

Professor Paul Baier’s biography of Colonel Frederick Bernays Wiener, “Written in Water: An Experiment in Legal Biography,” is at Steve Errick’s Twelve Tables Press for publication in early 2020. Baier will present “Nazis in the Supreme Court,” Ch. XVIII at the annual meeting of the Faculty Division, Federalist Society, in Washington, D.C. in January, in connection with the 2020 AALS annual meeting. Baier’s biography of Wiener is the capstone of his scholarship over the course his 47 years at LSU Law. He is retiring in December.

Professor Lécia Vicente is featured on the Oxford Business Law blog. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki, and will be presenting her comparative work on the ban of corporate farms in North Dakota and agribusiness in Brazil.

Professors Paul Baier and Olivier Moréteau participated in a panel discussion about the lives and careers of late LSU Law Professors Robert A. Pascal and Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos at the Louisiana Supreme Court on Nov. 13. Read the full story.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ-TV about the sentencing of former LSU fraternity member Matthew Naquin, who was convicted of negligent homicide in the hazing death of Max Gruver.

Professor Paul Baier spoke on about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and other distinguished jurists on Nov. 4 at the LSU Faculty and Staff Retirees Club.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered a lecture on Nov. 12 entitled “Brown vs. Board of Education: 65 Years Later,” at the “Education as a Civil Right” convocation sponsored by New Schools for Baton Rouge.

Professor Robert Lancaster was recently invited to China to participate in the 2019 International Legal Education Conference in the Pacific Rim at Shandong University of Technology School of Law in Zibo, China. The conference included members of law faculty from schools in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Russian Federation, and China. He lectured on how clinical legal education can support law reform movements. Professor Lancaster was also invited to return to and lecture at Renmin University School of Law in Beijing, where he held the position as Research Fellow in the Institute for United States Law in 2007.

Professor Bill Corbett spoke about the LSU Recent Developments CLE programs in Monroe on Oct. 3, and about Labor and Employment Law and Louisiana Civil Procedure in Shreveport on Oct. 24. He also spoke at a conference honoring the work of Professor Charles A. Sullivan on Nov. 1 at Seton Hall Law School. Professor Corbett’s presentation was entitled “Explorations with Charlie Sullivan: Theorizing a Larger Universe of Employment Discrimination.”

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Crude Oil Marketing” at the Short Course on International Oil & Gas Law, Contracts, and Negotiations on Sept. 30 in Houston. He spoke on the topic “Surface Trespass Liability—Good Faith, Bad Faith,” on Oct. 16 at the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s annual fall conference in Lexington, Kentucky. In addition, he spoke on two topics—“Implied Covenants in Oil & Gas Leases” and “Common Interests Created in Oil & Gas”—on Oct. 21 at the Annual Oil & Gas Short Course in Westminster, Colorado.

Professor Michael J Malinowski has published his first children’s book, “Why Am I Me?” With children now living their lives entirely immersed in the technology of genetics and genetic medicine, “Why Am I Me?” introduces children to the concepts of genes and DNA, and to the complex reality of their influence on us. Popular San Diego, California artist Michelle Joy Montrose illustrated the book, which is available through the publisher, Ally-Gator Book Bites (Lake Charles), and on Amazon. Read the full story.

Professor Margaret Thomas was invited on Oct. 25 to be part of a panel discussing U.S. Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit Case Updates for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana Biennial Bench and Bar Conference in New Orleans.

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk will present her paper, “The Racialized Violence of Police Canine Units” at the University of Baltimore Law Review Symposium on Nov. 16.

Professor Paul Baier was selected by his Harvard Law School classmates to chair the fiftieth reunion of his 1969 Harvard Law School alumni on Oct. 24-27, in Cambridge, MA. He was joined in the Reunion Class Symposium by Judge Kimba Wood and Judge Jed Rakoff, both of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Professor Lécia Vicente was a panelist at the Works-in-Progress Conference of the American Society of Comparative Law, on Oct. 17. She discussed her research on corporate farming in North Dakota and the Brazilian state of Goiás. Professor Vicente is also cited on the Allen Matkins California Corporate and Securities Law Blog on the notion of abusing a company by incorporating it.

Professor Olivier Moréteau presented at the Symposium on Law and Language, organized by the International Association of Legal Science and the Netherlands Comparative Law Association at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), Sept. 26-27. He discussed “Two Centuries of Legal Translation in Louisiana: Development and Promotion of the Civil Law in English.” He also presented on “Meeting the Otherness of the International Student,” AALS Teaching Methods Section, Fall Conference Call on Best Practices for Teaching Foreign-trained Attorneys, Sept. 12, 2019. On Nov. 13, Moréteau will be on a panel to discuss “Civil Law Lives: Professors Robert A. Pascal and Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos” at the Louisiana Supreme Court, co-sponsored by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and the LSU Center of Civil Law Studies.

Professor Nick Bryner is being honored by the Environmental Law Institute with an Environmental Futures Award, which is presented to “the next generation of leaders striving to address the environmental challenges of tomorrow,” at a special event on Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C. Read the full story.

Professor Edward Richards, director of the LSU Law Center’s Climate Change Law and Policy Project, is quoted by E&E News in an article that explores the dozens of lawsuits that Louisiana coastal parishes have filed against nearly 100 oil and gas companies.

Professor Ray Diamond has been named to a four-year term as a member of the Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee, by order of the Louisiana Supreme Court on Oct. 15.

Professor Christina M. Sautter’s article, “Promises Made to be Broken? Standstill Agreements in Change of Control Transactions,” 37 Del. J. Corp. L. 929 (2013), was quoted in In re Columbia Pipeline Inc., — F. Supp. 3d —, 18 Civ. 3670 (GBD), 2019 WL 4743760, *13 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 26, 2019).

Dean Tom Galligan‘s article, “The Structure of Torts,” has been published by the Florida State University Law Review (46 Fla. St. Univ. L. Rev. 485; 2019). In the article, Dean Galligan proposes a coherent and consistent analytical approach for all torts based upon the elements of negligence.

Professor John Devlin is moderating a forum for candidates vying to be East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff on Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Delmont Gardens Branch.

Professor John Devlin is quoted by The Advocate in an article examining the potential impact of California’s new Fair Pay to Play Act, which allows college athletes in California to hire agents licensed by the state in order to seek out ways to make a profit off their names, images and likeness.

Dean Tom Galligan’s article, “Let the Jury Decide! A Plea for the Proper Allocation of Decision Making Authority in Louisiana Negligence Cases,” will be published by the Tulane Law Review in its forthcoming Volume 94 publication. Galligan, along with co-author Frank Maraist, is a past winner of the Tulane Law Review John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Scholarship, which the publication awards to the authors of the best article in its current volume.

Professor Lécia Vicente participated in the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City between Sept. 23-27 in her capacity as Advisor to the Secretary of State for External Relations of Angola. Read the full story.

Professor Edward Richards presented a paper titled “The Role of New Towns in the Sustainable Development of Coastal Communities Subject to Catastrophic Sea Level Rise and Storm Risk” at the 10th Annual Vermont Law School Environmental Forum on Sept. 21. This is part of his ongoing research on how to facilitate migration from high risk areas such as coastal Louisiana.

Professor Keith Hall served on the Program Committee for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Special Institute on Mineral Title Examination, which was held Sept. 25-27 in Denver.

Professor Nicholas Bryner will be presenting at a symposium on Legal Frameworks for a Green New World at Vermont Law School on Oct. 4.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her article, “The Honeymoon or Transition, “on Sept. 28 at the Corporate and Securities Litigation Workshop held at Boston University School of Law.

Professor Ray Diamond was interviewed Sept. 26 on a nationally broadcast radio program produced by radio station WHUR regarding the constitutional and procedural aspects of the recently declared impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Donald Trump. Listen to the program on the WHUR website.

Professor Ken Levy’s book “Free Will, Responsibility, and Crime: An Introduction” is now available on Amazon, published by Routledge.

Professor Margaret Thomas was interviewed by The Advocate regarding a Denham Springs woman’s proposed class action lawsuit against e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL Labs Inc., which marks the first vaping case in a federal court in Louisiana, mirroring similar cases across the country. Thomas believes vaping cases stand a good chance of success if they follow the path of the cases against tobacco companies decades ago.

Professor Lécia Vicente’s new book chapter “Abuse of Companies Through Choice of Incorporation,” which she co-authored with Professor Martin Gelter from Fordham University School of Law, is forthcoming in Abuse of Companies (Hanne Birkmose, Mette Neville & Karsten Engsig Sørensen, eds.) Wolters Kluwer (2019). In the chapter, the authors discuss the concept of abuse in the context of cross-border firm formations and cross-border mergers. It is now available on SSRN and as a working paper of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Professor Emerita Lucy Bowers McGough is the subject of a “Louisiana Women” profile by WVLA-TV that highlights her career accomplishments as “a trailblazer for women in the law profession.”

Assistant Professor Nicholas Bryner is quoted by The New York Times in an article about an antitrust inquiry The Justice Department has reportedly opened into the four major automakers that struck a deal with California this year to reduce automobile emissions.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by the WBRZ-TV Investigative Unit for a story about longtime Livingston Parish Tax Assessor Jeff Taylor, who may have violated state law after he paid his wife at least $124,686 using campaign funds from 2011-2018 for work she performed.

Dean Tom Galligan has become the first holder of the Dodson and Hooks Endowed Chair in Maritime Law, following scholarly review by the LSU Law Center faculty, and recent approval by the Louisiana Board of Regents and LSU Board of Supervisors. The endowed chair was made possible by a generous donation from Richard “Jerry” Dodson (’66) and Kenny Hooks III (’97) of Dodson & Hooks. “I am extremely honored and humbled to be the first holder of the Dodson and Hooks Endowed Chair in Maritime Law,” says Galligan. “I am also most grateful to Jerry Dodson and Kenny Hooks for their incredible generosity to the LSU Law Center in establishing the chair. And I would be remiss if I did not thank my friend, Professor Frank L. Maraist, for encouraging me to teach admiralty so many years ago.”

Summer 2019

Professor John Devlin was interviewed by WWL-FM 105.3 regarding a recent ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals finding that Orleans Parish Criminal Court judges can’t jail defendants over their inability to pay court fees and fines. Devlin discusses the decision as well as what it means for defendants, victims and judges.

Professor Lécia Vicente has been appointed a Fellow of the European Law Institute, which will help further her research agenda in comparative regional development.

Professor Christine Corcos edited “The Media Method: Teaching Law With Popular Culture,” which was published in August by Carolina Academic Press. It is available for purchase online.

Professor Keith Hall served as one of two instructors at a two-day seminar on international petroleum transactions during the last week of June in Georgetown, Guyana.

Professor Christina Sautter has entered into a publication agreement with West Academic Publishing to author A Short & Happy Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions.

Professor Christina Sautter has been selected to Chair the Website, Technology, and Communications Committee for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS).

Professor Christina Sautter served as a discussant during the New Scholars Workshop: “The Next Article” Discussion Group on July 31, 2019 during the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference held in Boca Raton, FL.

Professor Elizabeth Carter delivered the keynote address at the University of Alabama School of Law’s commencement ceremony for its LL.M. programs in Tax and Business Transactions on Aug. 17.

Professor Raymond Diamond’s award winning book, “Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution” (2003), is quoted in Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” which appeared in The New York Times Magazine on August 15, 2019. The essay is part of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her work-in-progress, The Honeymoon of Transition, during the Emerging Issues in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Representation panel during The Law and Society Association (LSA) 2019 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2019. She also served as a discussant for the Emerging Issues in Corporate Governance and Compliance panel at LSA on May 31, 2019.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Don’t expect John Paul Funes to get a lengthy prison sentence.”

Professor Ken Levy’s article “Normative Ignorance: A Critical Connection Between the Insanity and Mistake of Law Defenses” was published in the Florida State University Law Review.

Professor Ken Levy’s article “Criminal Responsibility” was published by SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology.

Professor Ken Levy is cited by The New Orleans Advocate for its article “40-plus years later, how could prosecutors prove if 12-year-old Jack Strain committed sexual abuse?”

Professor Robert Lancaster moderated the opening plenary at the 2019 American Association of Law Schools Clinical Conference in San Francisco, California. The plenary was titled “America Polarized: What Drives Us Apart? What Brings Us Together?” and explored the causes of and solutions to the current political divisions in America and how law teachers can effectively engage students across the political spectrum.

Professor Robert Lancaster moderated a discussion group at the New Clinician’s Conference sponsored by the Clinical Legal Education Association.

Professor Christine A. Corcos published “It All Started With ‘Columbo’: Teaching Law With Popular Culture,” 68 Journal of Legal Education 122 (Autumn 2019), as part of the Symposium: Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education, edited by Michael Asimow and Ticien Marie Sassoubre, both of Stanford Law School.

Professor Keith Hall represented LSU at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ annual International Petroleum Summit in Houston, Texas on Texas May 22-23, 2019.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the subject of Brent crude at an international petroleum scholars workshop on May 24 in Houston.

Professor Keith Hall served on a panel that discussed coastal land loss litigation at the LSU Center for Energy Study’s annual oil and gas symposium.

Dean Tom Galligan spoke at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s 78th Annual Meeting and the LJC/LSBA Joint Summer School: “Evolution of the Profession.” Dean Galligan will present “Expanding our Knowledge: Tom on Torts” and will participate in a panel titled “Insurance, Tort, Workers’ Compensation and Admiralty Law.”

Professor Lisa Avalos was selected by the LSU Internationalization Grants Committee for an LSU International Scholar Research/Arts & Performance Grant, which will support her collaborative research on rape crimes in London, England, a proposal titled “She must be lying to us! Rape, Disbelieved Victims, and the Politics of Charging Victims with False Reporting ( England).”

Professor Lécia Vicente published her new chapter, “Defectiveness and Causation in Vaccine Liability Cases: The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Justice of the European Union,” which she co-authored with Marco Rizzi from the University of Western Australia Law School.

Professor Bill Corbett accepted an offer to publish his article, “’You’re Fired!’; The Common Law Should Respond With the Refashioned Tort of Abusive Discharge,” in volume 40 of the Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law.

Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk traveled to Myanmar during the summer as a Volunteer Fellow with International Legal Foundation (ILF) to mentor ILF-Myanmar defense attorneys and assist ILF-Myanmar in starting the country’s first specialized juvenile defense division in its defender offices.

Professor Marlene Krousel presented “Growing as a Writer: Judicial Writing Part 3-Structure and Elements of a Well-Written Opinion” at the Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School on June 3 and 5.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented “Growing as a Writer: Judicial Writing Part 1-Style Matters and Growing as a Writer: Judicial Writing Part 2-Impactful Citations” at the Louisiana State Bar/Louisiana Judicial College Joint Summer School on June 3 and 5.

Spring 2019

Professor Lisa Avalos is a contributing author to “Raped, Then Jailed: The Risks of Prosecution for Falsely Reporting Sexual Assault,” a Training Bulletin issued by End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) in May, 2019.

Professor Missy Lonegrass was recently elected as an Academic Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

In his capacity as president of the organization, Professor Olivier Moréteau gave an opening speech at the Juris Diversitas 6th General Meeting at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Professor Lisa  Avalos presented “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy: Does It Still Exist?” at the Louisiana Judicial College’s Spring Judges Conference on April 11, along with co-presenters David C. Joseph, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana and Judge Brady O’Callaghan, 1st Judicial District Court.

Professor Keith Hall served as a panelist that examined the issue of “Dutch Disease and the Resource Curse” at the International Oil, Gas and Mining Conference on April 10 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dean Tom Galligan’s article “Deaning Redux—Walking it Back” has been published in the University of Toledo Law Review.

Dean Tom Galligan’s article “The Structure of Torts” has been accepted for publication by the Florida State University Law Review.

Professor Bill Corbett spoke at the Labor & Employment Law Seminar, cosponsored by the LSU Law Center and the LSBA Section of Labor Relations and Employment Law, on April 5 in Baton Rouge on the topic “Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law 2018-19.”

Dean Tom Galligan was honored on April 5 by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as this year’s Distinguished Professor.

Professor Bill Corbett was a panelist at the 2019 Spring Conference of the International Masters of Gaming Law at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans on March 29. The panel addressed “The Intersection of Labor Law and Gaming.”

Professor Lisa  Avalos presented a talk titled “Survivor Informed Rape Law: Rewriting Rape Law By Victims, For Victims,” at the Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 24.

Professor Robert Lancaster moderated the opening plenary at the 2019 American Association of Law Schools Clinical Conference in San Francisco, Calif. The plenary was titled “America Polarized: What Drives Us Apart? What Brings Us Together?” and explored the causes of and solutions to the current political divisions in America and how law teachers can effectively engage students across the political spectrum. Professor Lancaster also moderated a discussion group at the New Clinician’s Conference sponsored by the Clinical Legal Education Association.

Professor Robert Lancaster was a visiting professor at Université Grenoble Alpes Law School (UGA) in Grenoble, France, during the Spring 2019 semester. He taught a course on Comparative Criminal Justice Systems to students from 12 different countries in the Diploma of Legal Studies Program at UGA.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Rethinking Premarital Agreements: A Collaborative Approach, 46 N.M. L. Rev. 354 (2016) was cited by the Delaware Supreme Court in the case of Silverman v. Silverman, 2019 WL 964060 (2019).

Professor Ed Richards was interviewed by NPR Morning Edition for its story “14-Year Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico Could Go On For Decades.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented “Insights on Premarital Agreements: Original Research Data, Trends, and the Provisions That Professional Women Ought to Have” at the New Orleans Association for Women Attorneys’ April Luncheon on April 25.

Professor Raff Donelson’s article “Legal Inconsistencies” was accepted for publication in the Tulsa Law Review.

Professor Raff Donelson was an invited commentator for the Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice symposium at Saint Louis University on March 22.

Professor Christine Corcos presented “Some Representations of Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity on Law-Related TV Shows in the U.S.” at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities on March 22 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Professor John Church’s article “Wine Certifications and Geographic Indicators: The Non-Certifying Function of American Viticultural Areas” was published in a monograph by Routledge Press.

Professor Greg Smith is quoted by New Orleans CityBusiness for its article “State bar opinion guides lawyers on technology.”

Professor John Costonis’ article “The BP MDL and Its Aftermath: Whither OPA’s Displacement Jurisprudence?” was published in the 93 Tulane Law Review 511 (2019).

Professor Paul Baier is quoted by The Washington Post for its article “The Daily 202: Trump faces many obstacles if he’s serious about trying to make Republicans ‘the party of health care’.”

Professor Paul Baier is quoted by WWNO for its article “Louisiana Non-Unanimous Jury Case Heads To U.S. Supreme Court.”

Professor Christina Sautter presented her work-in-progress, “The Honeymoon of Transition,” at the BYU Winter Deals Conference in Park City, Utah, on March 8.

Professor Raff Donelson gave the plenary lecture at the South Carolina Society for Philosophy annual meeting on March 8.

Professor Raymond Diamond was a panel discussant of Tanya Katerí Hernández’s “Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination (2018)” at the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting on March 15.

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by New Orleans CityBusiness for its article “Emphasizing ‘entrepreneurial opportunity,’ NLRB upends Obama-era independent contractor standard.”

Professors John Devlin and Maggie Thomas spoke on a panel with the Honorable Joe Bleich at a joint meeting of the Louisiana Judicial College and the Louisiana Association for Justice on March 15 in New Orleans. Also participating were Judge Wendell Manning and Professor Bill Corbett.

Professor Raymond Diamond was a panelist for the panel “Growing a Pipeline for Lawyers of Color” as part of the symposium symposium titled “Reunite, Reunion, and Reflect – Celebrating 50 Years of Black Alumni Achievement” on Feb. 9 at Tulane Law School.

Professor Raymond Diamond was a moderator for the panel “Call to Action: National Movement of Criminal Justice Reform” as part of the symposium titled “Criminal Justice reform – Celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of the Louisiana State University Law Clinics,”  sponsored by the Pugh Institute for Justice and the Louisiana Law Review, on Feb. 1 at the LSU Law Center.

Professor Raymond Diamond was a moderator for the panel “Call to Action: National Movement of Criminal Justice Reform” as part of the symposium titled “Criminal Justice reform – Celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of the Louisiana State University Law Clinics,”  sponsored by the Pugh Institute for Justice and the Louisiana Law Review, on Feb. 1 at the LSU Law Center.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Why Louisiana’s public intimidation law could mean release sooner for some in jail.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by KATC for its story “Law professor weighs in on arrest of mom who posted video of school fight.”

Professor Raymond Diamond is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Louisiana’s ‘stand your ground’ law used to successfully defend Ascension teen in murder trial.”

Professor Paul Baier is quoted by The Daily Advertiser for its article “Legal experts want review of Supreme Court’s ruling on Louisiana abortion law.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Why death penalty prosecution is murky in case of Dakota Theriot, accused of killing 5.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “Democrats Unite! A War On Five Fronts.”

Professor Raymond Diamond participated on a panel discussion titled “Judicial Supremacy” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on Jan. 6

Professor Christina Sautter co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions Law, a hornbook published by West Academic Publishing.

Professor Christina Sautter was elected to the board of directors of Louisiana Appleseed. Louisiana Appleseed is a nonprofit that works closely with direct legal services, government agencies, and other nonprofits to identify and solve Louisiana’s most challenging legal problems.

Professor Paul Baier presented “One Hundred and One Years of Incitement” (Holmes’s Abrams and Toledo New Bee dissents) at the Constitutional Law Section program of the AALS annual meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 6.

Professor Paul Baier presented “The Frankfurter-Wiener Letters,” Ch. XX of his biography of Frederick Bernays Wiener, to the Federalist Society Faculty Conference at the 2019 annual AALS meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 3

Professor Christina Sautter moderated the AALS Section on Transactional Law & Skills’ program, “Transactional Law and Finance: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Research” at the AALS 2019 Annual Meeting on January 4, 2019 in New Orleans. Professor Sautter also just completed her tenure as the 2018 Chair of the AALS Section on Transactional Law & Skills.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by KATC for its story “The List: Were promises kept?”

Professor Olivier Moréteau published a book titled “Comparative Legal History” as principal editor with Aniceto Masferrer and Kjell Å Modéer, in the “Research Handbooks in Comparative Law” book series, edited by Francesco Parisi and Tom Ginsburgh, and published by Edward Elgar.

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by The Times Picayune | NOLA.com for its article “‘Pay secrecy’ policies at work should be banned, John Bel Edwards says.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “Indicted, Imprisoned, or Beheaded: 7 Criminal World Leaders.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Lie detector test noted in Baton Rouge officer’s appeal of firing was first of kind in years.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Times Picayune | NOLA.com for its article “How do Louisiana self-defense laws apply in fatal shooting involving LSU players?”

Fall 2018

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “The “Detrumpification” of America.”

Professor John Devlin is quoted by Watchdog.org for its article “Amendment to protect homeowners from steep tax hikes could be vulnerable to legal challenge.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the Advocate for its article “District Attorney shares list with defense attorneys of 30 cops with questioned credibility.”

Professor Olivier Moréteau’s paper “The Words of Comparative Law” will be published in a special issue of the Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “A Faustian Deal: Trumpism Is Reaganism.”

Professor Robert Lancaster participated on a panel discussion titled “The Minority Majority: The Political Power of Underrepresented Groups” as part of LSU’s Presidential Symposium “Behind the Ballot” on Oct. 29.

Professor Raymond Diamond participated on a panel discussion titled “The Long and Winding Road: History of Voting Rights” as part of LSU’s Presidential Symposium “Behind the Ballot” on Oct. 29.

Professor Olivier Moréteau gave a keynote address at the comparative law event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Notre Dame University Law Program in London on Oct. 22.

Professor Olivier Moréteau discussed tort law as a tool to protect the environment at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, on Oct. 23.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “The GOP’s Politics of Projection.”

Professor Robert Lancaster is quoted by Louisiana Weekly for its article “Hearings shine spotlight on roadblocks to voting in Louisiana.”

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Ethical Landmines for Landmen and Lawyers Who Work as or Hire Landmen” at an annual conference of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation in Lexington, Ky., on Oct. 17

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Millennial Politics for its article “Judgment Day: The Dangers of Mitch McConnell.”

Professor Robert Lancaster testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights on Oct. 12 on “Barriers to Voting” in Louisiana [PDF] . Lancaster is Chair of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the Commission.

Professor Christine Corcos provided “Law and Pop Culture,” the introductory presentation for the conference Propriété intellectuelle et Pop culture: nouveaux enjeux, nouveaux défis? (Intellectual property and popular culture: New Issues, New Challenges?) on Oct. 9 in Strasbourg, France. The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies sponsored the conference.

Professor John Church spoke on the subject of Wine Law at the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents on Oct. 6.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic of “Implied Covenants in Oil & Gas Leases” at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Annual Oil & Gas Short Course on Oct. 8 in Houston.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the Advocate for its article “After conviction of Brian Pope, question remains: Who is the Lafayette city marshal?”

Professor Keith Hall co-presented “Crude Oil Marketing and Sales” at the International Oil & Gas Contracts Course in Houston on Oct. 1.

Professor Paul Baier presented “Smashing the Silver Platter Doctrine,” which is Chapter XXVII of his legal bio of Frederick Bernays Wiener, at the ABA Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute in Washington, D.C.

Professor Keith Hall presented “Frack Quakes? Facts and Law Relating to Induced Seismicity, Injection Disposal, and Fracking” in  at a conference of the Texas Bar Association’s Advanced Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Conference on Sept. 20 in Houston.

Professor Raff Donelson presented his paper “Moral Stability and Pragmatism” at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 17.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Legal experts demand emergency suspension of law license for attorney trying to trade sex for work.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by KLSA for its story “Prior charge against alleged FB Live killer dismissed.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: Despite felony conviction, councilman still in office and getting paid.”

Professor Raff Donelson presented his paper “Moral Stability and Pragmatism” at Ohio State University.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Prosecutors: State Police conclude investigation into WBRSO Deputy.”

Professor Nicholas Bryner co-wrote an op-ed in The Conversation titled “Trump administration and California on collision course over vehicle emissions rules.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Why is Thinkstream founder Barry Bellue facing a lesser charge?”

Professor Lécia Vicente’s article “The Hohfeldian Concept of Share in Limited Liability Companies: A View from the Common and Civil Law Traditions” was published in the Tulane European and Civil Law Forum.

Summer 2018

Professor Lisa Avalos’s article “The Chilling Effect: the Politics of Charging Rape Complainants With False Reporting” was published in Vol. 83 of the “Brooklyn Law Review.”

Professor Raymond Diamond participated on a panel discussion titled “Police Use of Lethal Force” at the Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on Aug. 9.

Professor Raymond Diamond moderated a panel discussion titled “Supreme Court and Legislative Update: Individual Rights” at the Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on Aug. 6.

Professor Raff Donelson participated in the “Philosophical Reflections on the Rule of Law” panel at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools conference.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her work-in-progress, “The Honeymoon of Transition,” as part of the Corporate Governance Discussion Group at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools conference.

Professor Bill Corbett was a panelist at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Aug 7. The panel topic was “U.S. Supreme Court & Legislative Update: Corporate, Labor, Civil Procedure, Administrative and Regulatory Issues.”

Professor Keith Hall recently became Editor-in-Chief of the Institute for Energy Law’s Oil & Gas E-Report.

Professor Keith Hall recently became a member of the Special Institutes Committee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Professor Elizabeth Carter accepted an invitation to write a commentary for the forthcoming book “Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts & Estates Opinions” (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Elizabeth Carter will be teaching Gift & Estate Tax for the University of Alabama’s LL.M. program in Taxation. It is her fourth year teaching the course.

Professor Elizabeth Carter wrote the introduction to Volume 78 of the Louisiana Law Review dedicated to her mentor and former LSU Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos.

Professor Greg Smith spoke on “Legal Ethics: Some of This and Some of That”, at a June 28 meeting of Houston Bar Association’s Section on Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law.

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “How will business be impacted if Obamacare goes away?”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Olin Berthelot has 3 options to resolve bribery charge following acquittal of Kenny Matassa.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an op-ed for CounterPunch titled “The McConnell Rule: Nasty, Brutish, and Unconstitutional.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an op-ed for The Hill titled “The ‘McConnell Rule’ is law, and Senate Democrats should sue to enforce it.”

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by The Times Picayune | NOLA.com for its article “After discrimination complaint, WWOZ restricts employee disclosures, public commentary.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “DEMCO executive resigns after Nakamoto report.”

Professor Michael Malinowski is quoted by McClatchy for its article “DNA testing is like the ‘Wild West’; should it be more tightly regulated?.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the ABA Journal for its article “Proposed Florida law resurrects the debate around the legal duty to help someone in distress.”

Spring 2018

Professor Robert Lancaster was a panelist in the “Navigating the Clinical Teaching Market Workshop” at the AALS Clincal Legal Education Conference in Chicago in May. The workshop supports clinical teaching fellows who seek to fulfill a career in clinical legal education.

Professor Margaret Thomas is quoted by the Associated Press for its article “Judge: Return Chinese Drywall Lawsuits To Original States.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter attended the International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference on April 28 at the University of Minnesota School of Law, where she was on a panel on Private Ordering and premarital agreements.

Chancellor Emeritus and Professor John Costonis was awarded the 2018 H.M. “Hub” Cotton Award winner for Faculty Excellence on May 2. The award “recognizes a faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research, administration, public service and other outstanding contributions to Louisiana State University.”

Professor Bill Corbett spoke at the Employers Counsel Network national conference on April 26. His topic was “’May I Express Enjoyment of My Pastry?’ Ruminations on Legal Protection of Employee Autonomy.”

Professor Raff Donelson presented his paper “Moral Stability and Pragmatism” at Loyola University of New Orleans Department of Philosophy on April 25.

Professor Raff Donelson presented his paper “Who are the Punishers?” at Mississippi College School of Law on April 20.

Professor Raff Donelson‘s essay “Three Problems with Metaethical Internalism” was published in the Southwest Philosophy Review.

Professor Michael Malinowski’s article “Biting the Hands that Feed the Alligators: A Case Study in Morbid Obesity Extremes, End-of-Life Care, and Prohibitions on Harming and Accelerating the End of Life” was published by The American Journal of Law and Medicine, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and the nation’s top health law journal.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Oil & Gas Leases 101” at the Florida Parishes Forestry Forum in Hammond on April 6.

Professor Ken Levy’s letter to the editor “Scalise dubious choice as commencement speaker” was published by The Advocate.

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Formal complaint to state calls EBR COA ‘organized crime operation.'”

Professor Philip Hackney’s article “Prop Up the Heavenly Chorus? Labor Unions, Tax Policy, and Political Voice Equality” was published in the St. John’s Law Review.

Professor Elizabeth Carter wrote the textbook “Louisiana Family Law in Comparative Perspective,” published by Carolina Academic Press.

Professor Paul Baier wrote an editorial for The Hill titled “I battled Trump’s judicial nominee in court — I can’t recommend him enough.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an op-ed for Commons Dreams titled “The (Current) Gun-Control Debate Is Not Really About Gun Control.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Disputed will in Council on Aging scandal settled, but controversy continues.”

Professor Bill Corbett presented a CLE talk on Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law to the Labor and Employment Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association on March 8 at the NOBA Office.  The presentation was at the invitation of Jennifer Kogos (Jones Walker), the Committee Chair.

Professor Ken Levy’s article “God, Heaven, and Evil: A Renewed Defense of Atheism” was published in Skeptic Magazine.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Experts question mother’s arrest in crash that killed baby; off-duty cop going 94 mph remains on paid leave.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “What happens after not guilty by reason of insanity plea? Story behind an accused Baton Rouge cop shooter.”

Professor Robert Lancaster was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Grenoble-Alpes Law School in Grenoble, France, for the Spring 2018 semester. Lancaster presented a workshop series on clinical legal education to the faculty and a lecture series to students on the criminal justice and prison system in the United States.

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sues Army Corps over land losses.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by ProPublica for its article “As Conservative Group Grows In Influence, Financial Dealings Enrich Its Leaders.”

Professor Christina Sautter was elected Chair of the Transactional Law & Skills Section of The Association of American Law Schools for 2018.

Professor Paul Baier is cited by The Advocate for its article “How far do free speech rights go in Baton Rouge meetings? Vermilion parish outcry raises question.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is cited by Bloomberg Law for its article “Should Bitcoin Investors Become ‘Traders’ for Tax Purposes?”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “In Joe McKnight killing, jurors will face questions of self-defense, race and rage.”

Professor Ray Lamonica is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Attorneys for Alton Sterling family hope subpoena for documents will “press forward” case; experts doubt impact.”

Professor Philip Hackney named a Top 100 Must-Follow Tax Twitter Accounts For 2018 by Forbes.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “Cheap Amazon shipping leaves the Postal Service ‘dumber and poorer,’ Trump says.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “IRS says many who prepaid property taxes may still face cap on deductions.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Will donations to Louisiana charities and nonprofits drop under new tax plan?.”

Fall 2017

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Atlantic for its article “Republicans Exact Their Revenge Through a Tax Bill.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “LSU season ticket donations likely to take a hit by GOP tax bill passed today.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “Fallout from allegations of tea party targeting hamper IRS oversight of nonprofits”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an op-ed for CounterPunch titled “Apparently, Child Rapists Deserve the Death Penalty, But a Child Molester Deserves a U.S. Senate Seat.”

Professor Robert Lancaster chaired the public hearing of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights on Dec. 6, exploring barriers to voting in Louisiana. This hearing is the second in a series soliciting information from the public, community organizations, and public officials relating to current issues in access to voting and potential changes to expand the franchise to under-represented populations. The Louisiana State Advisory Committee will compile its findings in a report that will be submitted to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in the Spring.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Embattled Council on Aging Director’s mom finally recuses herself from controversial case.”

Professor Chris Tyson presented “Land Use and the Sharing Economy” at the Smart Growth Summit put on by the Center for Planning Excellence in Baton Rouge on Nov. 7.

Professor Ken Levy wrote an op-ed for CounterPunch titled “Why We Need to Take Animal Cruelty Much More Seriously.”

Professor Raff Donelson won the President’s Prize for a paper he presented at the Southwestern Philosophical Society annual conference at Baylor University.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “LSU AD says House GOP tax plan could be ‘disastrous’ for college sports.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Tangipahoa residents’ lawsuit over I-12’s role in flooding dealt blow by Louisiana’s top court.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by Washington Examiner for its article “House bill would lessen incentives for charitable giving.”

Dean Tom Galligan named to panel to review the Baton Rouge plan of government.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by Think Progess for its article “The new GOP tax reform bill would politicize churches.”

Professor John Church is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Jefferson Parish considering suing drug companies over opioid epidemic.”

Professor Paul Baier’s editorial “Casper … The Ghost Frog” was published online in the Farm Journal’s agweb.

Professor Philip Hackney’s article “The IRS targeting scandal was fake, but IRS budget woes are a real problem” was published by the Los Angeles Times.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “International Petroleum Exploration Agreements” at a symposium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that was sponsored by a civil law foundation on Oct. 10 and participated in a panel discussion of “Contracts for Production and Sale of Petroleum” at St. Joseph’s University Law School in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 12.

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “What is the Scope of the Second Amendment?” discussion at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association Symposium titled  “What to Do About Gun Violence” on Oct. 13.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “LSU fraternity pledge Maxwell Gruver case: Hazing statute rarely used, criticized by some as vague, unclear.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “Charity’s promised back pay to Roy Moore was not reported to IRS as income.”

Professor Margaret Thomas is quoted by The Daily Reveille for its article “Opinion: Sen. Kennedy should approve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rule.”

Professor Melissa Lonegrass’ letter “Landry should support consumers, not Wall Street” was published by The Advocate.

Professor John Devlin was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Iberville Parish set to discuss new law protecting American flag.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented “Rethinking Premarital Agreements: A Collaborative Approach” to the West Virginia University College of Law faculty on Oct. 2 in Morgantown, W.V.

Professor Robert Lancaster and Keith Nordyke spoke with WRKF on Juvenile Life Without Parole issues in Louisiana.

Professor Philip Hackney’s article “Charity galas can waste money. And the IRS doesn’t always notice when they do” was published by the Washington Post.

Professor Christine Corcos presented a paper, “I Am the Master”: Some Popular Culture Images of AI In Humanity’s Legal Regime, at “Rise of the Automatons,” the Savannah Law School Annual Colloquium, Sept. 14-17, 2017, in Savannah, Ga.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Bayou Brief for its article “Conrad the Appellate.”

Professor Philip Hackney wrote an article for The Conversation titled “Let them eat caviar: When charity galas waste money.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by Pew Charitable Trusts for its article “Why It’s Hard to Punish ‘Bad Samaritans’.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Daily Advertiser for its article “Searches to resume this weekend for Daisy Lynn Landry.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter presented “Divorce and Bankruptcy Intersection: if it’s a real divorce, who owns what property and who decides that issue?” at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Conference on Sept. 14 in New Orleans.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Advocate for its article “Southern law professor raises eyebrows by naming herself attorney in wills; legal experts differ on ethics of practice.”

Professor Alain Levasseur received the Louisiana State Bar Association’s John Hernandez II Francophone Section Award for his lifetime of work promoting civil law both in Louisiana and internationally.

Professor Christine Corcos is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “LSU wades into constitutional question over fringe groups.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “Cost of cleaning up Harvey will bring new test of governance for Trump and GOP.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “How Hurricane Harvey could shape the National Flood Insurance Program debate.”

Professor Chris Tyson wrote an editorial for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report titled “A Teachable Moment: The Challenge of Equity in Baton Rouge.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Lawsuits target I-12 median wall, embankment in flooding but getting state to pay is no sure bet.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s letter “Behavior of Dorothy Jackson appalling in Plummer case” was published by The Advocate.

Summer 2017

Professor Christine Corcos was invited to co-chair the LSU University Council on Gender Equity (UCGE) with the School of Veterinary Medicine professor Mandi Lopez for the 2017-18 academic year.

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Truthout titled “The Right Doesn’t Oppose Affirmative Action — for Themselves.”

Professor Christine Corcos wrote two essays — one on Judgment at Nuremberg’s Judge Ernst Janning and Judge Dan Haywood, and one on Miracle on 34^th Street’s Judge Henry X. Harper — for the “ABA Journal Law and Popular Culture” August 2017 issue’s feature on favorite film and TV judges.

Professor Christine Corcos moderated the discussion group on Law and Humanities in the New Law School Reality on Aug. 5 at SEALS 2017 in Boca Raton, Fla. Issues covered included how law and humanities fits in the new legal education framework, its importance in furthering the goals of legal education, and methods and approaches to the topic.

Professor Chris Tyson wrote an editorial for the Bayou Brief titled “Baton Rouge’s Racial Divide and the Double Standard of Political Language.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Despite this video of prominent attorney’s DWI arrest, prosecutor throws out charges.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by Think Progress for its article “Republicans are using an obscure bill to quietly erode the separation of church and state.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Common Dreams titled “Yes, Crimes Were Committed: Why Jared’s in big trouble. And Trump and Junior, too.”

Professor Ken Levy’s letter “Kennedy should oppose Bush nomination” was published by The Advocate.

Professor Christine Corcos’ article “The Scrying Game: The First Amendment, the Rise of Spiritualism, and State Prohibition and Regulation of the Crafty Sciences, 1848-1944” was published in the Whittier Law Review.

Professor Christine Corcos has published “More Human Than Human: How Some Science Fiction Presents AI’s Claims to the Right To Life and Self-Determination,” in Issue 3 of the Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She presented a version of the paper on June 3, 2016, in New Orleans, at a session of the Law and Society Meeting.

Professor Christine Corcos served as Chair of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Selection Committee for 2016-17.

Professor Ken Levy’s recent op-ed on Counterpunch, “Sorry, But It’s Entirely the Right’s Fault,” has been posted on Bill Moyers’ website.

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “Constitutional and Statutory Distinctions Between Concealed Carry and Open Carry” discussion at the Arkansas Bar Association’s annual meeting on June 16.

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Counterpunch titled “Sorry, But It’s Entirely the Right’s Fault.”

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “12 Angry Men – Should Peremptory Challenges Be Abolished?” discussion at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s annual meeting on June 9.

Professor Ed Richards was interviewed by WAFB for its story “Kennedy bill aims to renew National Flood Insurance Program for 6 years.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Washington Post for its article “Charity doubles as a profit stream at the Daily Caller News Foundation.”

Spring 2017

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Alton Sterling shooting: Key questions to answer as AG weighs charges against officers.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by Louisiana Record for its article “Director of East Baton Rouge Council on Aging accuses family of former client of defamation.”

Professor Philip Hackney wrote an article for The Conversation titled “Trump says the IRS regulates churches too much. Here’s why he’s wrong.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Alternet titled “Why—and How—Is Trump’s Base Still Loyal to a Guy Who Is a Proven Disaster?”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Counterpunch titled “Why – How – Do They Still Love Trump?”

Professor Bill Corbett is quoted by The Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “No human drivers required with autonomous vehicles, bill proposes.”

Professors Ken Levy and Scott Sullivan are quoted by Louisiana Record for its article “Former district attorney accused of sexual extortion sued by alleged victim’s mother.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Who knew what and when? Barrow letter to state AG calls into question Council on Aging’s explanation for possibly violating election laws.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Council on aging director’s mom, a judge, assigned daughter’s defamation lawsuit.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Baton Rouge Council on Aging director’s court case assigned to her mother; recusal expected.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Counterpunch titled “Why the Right is Morally Wrong.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WBRZ for its story “Council on Aging director suing elderly woman’s family for talking about her.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Advocate for its article “Council on Aging director sues family of deceased client; legal expert says her case is on shaky ground.”

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by Bloomberg for its article “Trump Easing of Church Politics Ban Won’t Mean Sea Change.”

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “Judging while Black” discussion at the 19th Annual Louisiana Judicial Council Annual Meeting and Continuing Legal Education Seminar on March 4.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Forward for its article “Will synagogues bicker more now that Trump’s urging clergy to talk politics?”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by WWL radio for its story “What could happen with the Justice Department and Alton Sterling case?”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “Stun guns are legal again in New Orleans after ban is repealed.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “COA board member on leave from role at Southern University Law Center.”

Professor Jeff Brooks wrote this year’s case and judged the White & Case International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered the talk “Exercising Diversity: Brown v. Board – Its Development and Implementation” at the 22nd Annual Federal Courthouse African American History Month Program on Feb. 23.

Professor Ed Richards was interviewed by WWNO for its story “Lawsuits Allege Interstate 12 Exacerbated August Floods.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by the Baton Rouge Business Report for its article “Legislative auditor wraps up one investigation into the Council on Aging, may start another.”

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “The Rule of Law and Executive Power Under the Trump Presidency” discussion at Southern University Law Center on Feb. 13.

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for The Hill titled “Judge Gorsuch’s strict ‘originalism’ puts justice itself at stake.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for CounterPunch titled “The Right’s Selective Enforcement of Criminal Law.”

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition for its story “Activists Plan ‘Tax Day’ Marches Calling For Release Of Trump’s Taxes.”

Professor Philip Hackney co-authored an article for The Conversation with the Ohio State University’s Brian Mittendorf titled “Donor-advised funds: Charities with benefits.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by The Advocate for its article “A ‘human’ not ‘race issue,’ family at center of Baton Rouge Council on Aging controversy says.”

Professor Philip Hackney gave the Norman A. Sugarman Lecture in Nonprofit Law at Case Western Reserve on March 23.

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by Climate Central for its article “Communities Retreat as Oceans Swell, Coasts Erode.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by Climate Wire for its article “Warming means people will have to move. The question is how.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for the New York Times on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings titled “The Problems With Originalism.”

Professor Jeff Brooks was interviewed by the Supreme Court of Mexico’s Judicial Channel about the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the importance of international law.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Los Angeles Times for its article “Georgia nonprofit says it unwittingly gave $25,000 to white nationalist Richard Spencer.”

Professor Ed Richards is quoted by The Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “Here’s how engineers are trying to hack climate change.”

Professor Michael Coenen’s article “More Restrictive Alternatives” has been accepted for publication by the North Carolina Law Review.

Professor Michael Coenen’s article “Characterizing Constitutional Inputs” has been accepted for publication by the Duke Law Journal.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Los Angeles Times for its article “IRS strips tax-exempt status from Richard Spencer’s white nationalist nonprofit.”

Professor Christina Sautter has been named chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Transactional Law and Skills.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Wall Street Journal for its article “Can someone be tried for trying to harm a mannequin? Las Vegas is finding out.”

Professor Melissa Lonegrass is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Uproar after landlord urges tenants to oppose New Orleans rental registry, or else face higher rent.”

Professor Edward Richards was interviewed by Fox 8 for its story “LSU professor argues Louisiana’s coastal plans will not protect residents from hurricanes.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Counterpunch titled “Our Nietzschean Struggle.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “How law enforcement handles accidental shootings involving children varies across Louisiana.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Louisiana among states without gun owner responsibility law.”

Professor Scott Sullivan wrote an article for Just Security titled “Do-Overs and Judicial Legitimacy: Thoughts as We Await the New Immigration Executive Order.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an article for The Satirist titled “Four Weeks into Hillary’s Presidency.”

Professor Christine Corcos has been named chair of the Association of American Law Schools Advisory Committee on Law and Film. She succeeds Professor Michael Olivas of the University of Houston Law Center, the Committee’s founding chair.

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Truth-Out.org titled “The Real Problem With the USDA.”

Professor Scott Sullivan wrote an article for Just Security titled “The Draft Order on Multilateral Treaties and the Trump Administration’s Failure to Understand the Human Rights of National Security.”

Professor Philip Hackney co-authored an article for The Conversation with the Ohio State University’s Brian Mittendorf titled “Trump’s vow to ‘destroy’ Johnson Amendment could wreak havoc on charitable world.”

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by ESPN for its article “Joe McKnight shooter charged with second-degree murder.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for Counterpunch titled “A Psychological Divide: Irrationality, Psychopathy and Trump’s Cult.”

Professor Lauren Aronson was interviewed by NBC33 for its story “LSU Immigration Law expert discusses travel ban.”

Professor Lauren Aronson discussed President Donald Trump’s Executive Order travel ban on LPB’s “The State We’re In.”

Professor Philip Hackney presented “Subsidizing the Heavenly Chorus: Labor Unions and Tax Exemption” at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Professor Maggie Thomas’ article “Parens Patriae and the States’ Historic Police Powers” was published in the Fall 2016 volume of the SMU Law Review (69 SMU L. Rev. 759).

Professor Christine Corcos gave a talk on the history and meaning of the movie “Anatomy of a Murder” at the AALS 2017 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, as part of the AALS Law and Film series. The series is part of an AALS annual tradition presenting two films at each meeting, a scripted film and a documentary, chosen for their cinematic and legal importance and which show the connection between law and film.

Professor Ed Richards was interviewed by Forbes for its article “Even If It Fails, Lawsuit Accusing Coca-Cola Of Consumer Deception Could Yield Benefits For Health Advocates.”

Professor Christina Sautter’s article “Auction Theory and Standstills: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control” was cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery in Merion Capital L.P. v. Lender Processing Services, Inc.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Taxation for Virtual Currency” is featured in Bloomberg BNA’s Tax Planning International Review.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by NPR for its article “Ethics Expert: Trump’s Efforts To Address Conflicts Are ‘Baby Steps.'”

Fall 2016

Professor Keith Hall co-authored (with Hannah J. Wiseman) the book “Hydraulic Fracturing: A Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues,” which was recently published by the American Bar Association.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Rethinking Premarital Agreements: A Collaborative Approach” has been identified as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Family Law, in a review published in Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots).

Professor Philip Hackney co-authored an article for The Conversation with Ohio State University’s Brian Mittendorf titled “What Trump Foundation’s ‘Self-Dealing’ Disclosure Means for a Conflicted President-Elect.”

Professor Ken Levy wrote an editorial for the Times Picayune | Nola.com titled “Joe McKnight, Ronald Gasser, and the law of self-defense in Louisiana.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by the Associated Press for its article “Ronald Gasser jailed on manslaughter charge in shooting of ex-NFL player Joe McKnight.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by the Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “Experts: Why Joe McKnight’s shooter Ronald Gasser arrested on manslaughter, not murder.”

Professor Ray Diamond delivered the talk “The Second Amendment in Historical & Current Significance” and was a panelist for the “The Evolution of Constitutional Rights” discussion at the Filson Historical Society’s Conference on The People’s Constitution: Our 18th Century Constitution in Modern Context on Nov. 5.

Professor Ray Diamond was a discussant of Mitchell F. Crusto’s  “Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties” at the 13th Annual Louisiana Book Festival on Oct. 29.

Professor Ray Diamond was a presenter of “Introduction to Legal Reasoning for Non-Lawyers” at the “By Any Other’s Name: A Conference on Law, Authorship and Appropriation” conference at LSU on Oct. 29.

Professor Keith Hall is part of an interdisciplinary team of LSU scholars that has been awarded a $1.3 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the legal, technical, and economic feasibility of commercial scale use of carbon capture and storage technology. This technology is used to capture and remove carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, and then permanently store it underground, thereby preventing it from entering the atmosphere.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by the Washington Post for its article “The financial secrecy behind white-nationalist group.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by the Advocate for its article “Grand jury hearing into bribery allegations against Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa called off Tuesday.”

Professor Ken Levy was interviewed by the Louisiana Record for its article “Federal lawsuit in wrongful conviction case advances.”

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by Politico for its article “Hacked memo offers an angry glimpse inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.'”

Professor Bill Corbett presented his paper “Mike Zimmer, McDonnell Douglas and ‘A Gift that Keeps Giving'” at the 2016 Employment & Labor Law Scholars’ Forum hosted by the Seton Hall University School of Law. This year the annual forum was dedicated to the memory of Professor Michael J. Zimmer, a renowned employment law scholar who served on the law faculties of Seton Hall and Loyola Chicago who passed away in 2015. Zimmer and Corbett were coauthors and collaborators.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on “Common Interests Created in Oil and Gas” and “Implied Covenants in Oil and Gas Leases”at the 34th annual Oil & Gas Short Course in Houston.

Professor Greg Smith was interviewed by WWL-TV for its story “Edward’s Lawyer’s Old Firm Gets Coastal Lawsuit Deal.”

Professor Robert Lancaster participated in a panel discussion titled “Re-Examining the In-House Clinical Model in an Era of Innovation and Expansion of Alternative Clinical Opportunities” at the sixth annual Southern Clinical Teaching Conference in Charlotte, N.C. The discussion explored the question of what makes in-house clinics a key form or clinical legal education and the ways in which they contribute to student learning and development.

Professor Christina Sautter’s book chapter, “Tender Offers and Disclosure: The History and Future of the Williams Act,” was published in the Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions (Claire Hill & Steven Davidoff Solomon, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.) (2016).

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by Bloomberg BNA for its article “IRS Should Probe Exxon-Conservative Group Ties: Watchdogs.”

Professor Philip Hackney co-authored an article for The Conversation with Ohio State University’s Brian Mittendorf titled “What the Trump Foundation Controversies Reveal about the Candidate and His Business Acumen.”

Professor Christine Corcos wrote the chapter on the United States in “A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV” (Peter Robson and Jennifer Schulz, eds., Hart Publishing, 2016). Read more about the book here.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by Slate’s The Gist for its podcast “How Bad Is the Trump Tax Leak?” Listen to the interview here.

Professor Ray Diamond delivered the talk “The 13th Amendment, Badges of Slavery, and the Problem of Policing in the Black Community” and was a panelist for the “Slavery Then and Now: An Eternal Human Rights Problem” discussion at the Conference on Human Rights in the 21st Century at the University of Sasketchewan on Oct. 1.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Daily Beast for its article “Eric Trump ‘Charity’ Spent $880K at Family-Owned Golf Resorts.” Read the article here.

Professor Ray Diamond was a discussant on “Justice Scalia and the Ground of the Law” during the Constitution Day Program of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and the Eric Vogelin Institute of Louisiana State University on Sept. 15.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Advocate for its article “State: Online Travel Agencies Owe Nearly $23 Million in Unpaid Taxes.” Read the article here.

Professor Edward Richards is quoted by The Times Picayune | Nola.com for its article “Louisiana Flood of 2016 made worse by growth-focused policies.” Read the article here.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by the Wall Street Journal for its article “Trump Campaign Details Tax Paid After Foundation’s Political Gift.” Read the article here.

Professor Edward Richards is cited by The New York Times for its column “How Growth-Focused Politics Helped Build Vulnerability in Louisiana’s Flood Zones.” Read the column here.

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “Politics of Criminal Justice” discussion at the Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on Aug. 7.

Professor Ray Diamond was a panelist for the “Boundaries of the ‘Right to Bear Arms” discussion at the Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on Aug. 6.

Professor Elizabeth Carter is quoted by The Louisiana Record for its article “Benson Family Feud over Sports Teams Will Move to the Courtroom.” Read the article here.

Professor Paul Baier is quoted by The Advocate for its article “Gonzales Law Creating a City Council District for Black Candidates Under Fire for First Time in 24 Years.” Read the article here.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by Politico for its article “The Tax Return Drip, Drip, Drip.”

Summer 2016

Professor Philip Hackney moderated a Disaster Recovery Panel for the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations at its annual conference. View the panel discussion here.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article “The Golden Ratio of Corporate Deal-Making” was recently featured in Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog. Read the article here.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Daily Beast for its article “Watchdog Group Files Complaint With IRS Against Trump Foundation.” Read the article here.

Professor Philip Hackney is cited by Bloomberg BNA in its article “IRS Considers Lawmakers’ Charges Against Clinton Foundation.” Read the article here.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Rethinking Premarital Agreements: A Collaborative Approach” was recently featured on the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof. Blog. Read the article here.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by Tax Analytics in its article “End to Church Politicking Prohibition Included in GOP Platform.” Read the article here.

Professor Ken Levy is quoted by the Baton Rouge Business Report in its article “Federal guidelines may make it easier to hold high level executives accountable for corporate misconduct.” Read the article here.

Professor Chris Tyson‘s editorial “A Slain Officer’s Example for Us All” was recently published by the New York Times. Read the editorial here.

Professor Ken Levy‘s editorial “If You Don’t Support Gun Control, Then You Don’t Support the Police” was recently published by Counterpunch.org. Read the editorial here.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article “Rethinking Premarital Agreements: A Collaborative Approach” was recently published by the New Mexico Law Review. Read the article here.

Professor Paul Baier was interviewed by the ABA Journal for its article “Oyez website finds sponsors to take over its Supreme Court audio archives.” Read the story here.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond presented “A Supreme Court Update: Reviewing the 2015-2016 Term of the Supreme Court and Looking Ahead to the 2016- 2017 Term” at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Annual Convention on July 17.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond was a discussant of Fred Smith, Jr.’s “Undemocratic Restraint,” 2016 John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop at the University of Miami on July 8.

Professor Christine Corcos’ book An International Guide To Law and Literature Studies (William S. Hein, 2000) (2 volumes) is now available in digital format and fully searchable through Hein Online’s Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf.

Professor Heidi Thompson presented “Going Undercover — Using Assignment Cover Sheets to Identify and Assess Time Management Skills, Editing Strategies and Work Ethic”at the LWI conference in Portland, Ore.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by WWL-TV for its story “ProjectNOLA Crime Camera Fees Raise Questions About Nonprofit’s Funding.” Read and watch the story here.

Professor Philip Hackney is quoted by The Daily Beast for its article titled “Donald Trump Accused of Using His Charity as a Political Slush Fund.” Read the article here.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond was a panel discussant of Mitchell F. Crusto’s Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties (2015), Law & Society Association Annual Meeting on June 3.

On June 3, Professor Christine Corcos presented her work in progress, How Can It Not Know What It Is?, at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in New Orleans.

On June 2, Professor Missy Lonegrass presented her work-in-progress, Lawmaking, Legitimacy, and Legislative Commentary at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in New Orleans.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond testified before Senate Judiciary B Committee, State of Louisiana, on the subject of H.C.R 2 and the implications of the proposal for a constitutional convention to amend the United States Constitution on June 2. That testimony is available here at 1:35:40 to 2:07:46.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond presented “Pearson v. Murray, Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, and the NAACP’s Road from Plessy to Brown,” delivered as part of a panel titled “The Social and Legal Effects of the Adoption of the Reconstruction Amendments – 1860’s to 1930’s,” part of the Symposium on Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Historical Impact of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Symposium before the Second Circuit Judicial Conference on May 25.

Spring 2016

On May 20, Professor Missy Lonegrass presented her work-in-progress, Reconceptualizing Residential Tenancy as Property–A Theoretical and Doctrinal Approach, at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Association of Law, Property, and Society hosted by the School of Law of Queen’s University Belfast.

Associate Dean Ray Diamond testified before the House and Governmental Affairs Committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives about the implications of SCR 152, intended to call a constitutional convention to impose term limits and fiscal restraint on the federal government, and to limit its power and jurisdiction on May 18.That testimony is available here.

Professor Robert Lancaster was recently invited to speak at the 36th Governor’s Conference on Juvenile Justice. He gave a lecture on the impact of family violence on child and adolescent development.

Professor Keith Hall was quoted by the Journal of Petroleum Technology for the article “Seismic Shifts in Oklahoma Lead to Stricter Regulations,” which appears in the May 2016 issue. The article examines recent developments relating to an increase in earthquakes that scientists believe are being triggered by the operation of injection disposal wells.

Professor Philip Hackney was quoted by Tax Notes for the article “Foundations Revealed in Panama Papers Unlikely to Be US EOs.”

Associate Dean Ray Diamond testified before a committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives about the implications of holding a constitutional convention to overrule Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), as called for by HCR 13. That testimony is available here, at 54:20 to 1:07:57. He also testified before the a committee of the Louisiana Senate about the implications of SCR 52, intended to call a constitutional convention to impose term limits and fiscal restraint on the federal government, and to limit its power and jurisdiction. That testimony is available here at 2:41:00 to 2:52:15.

Professor Christina Sautter’s latest article, “The Golden Ratio of Corporate Deal-Making,” was published in The Journal of Corporation Law.

Professor Philip Hackney was interviewed by WWL-TV for its two-part story “The Good Life? Practices at New Orleans East church questioned.” Read and watch the story here.

Professor Philip Hackney was quoted by the Wall Street Journal for the article “House Republicans Seek to Block IRS Collection of Nonprofit Donor Data.” Read the article here.

An excerpt of Professor Christina Sautter’s Brooklyn Law Review article on the use of go-shop provisions in public company merger agreements was quoted in Claire Hill, Brian JM Quinn and Steven Davidoff Solomon’s new textbook, Mergers and Acquisitions: Law, Theory, and Practice (West 2016).

Professor Philip Hackney was quoted by Tax Notes for the article “Pot Church May Not Provide Catechism for Aspiring EOs.”

Professor Christine Corcos was interviewed by the Washington Post in the April 11 article “Why Hollywood studios are taking a stand against an anti-revenge-porn bill.” Read the article here.

Professor Christine Corcos has completed a three-year term (2013-15) on the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Committee (Social Science and Humanities Research Council Division). She was one of three non-Canadian members of the 14-member committee. Read more »

Associate Dean Ray Diamond has co-authored two chapters in Anglo-American Legal Language 3 (2016),“Constitutional Law in the United States” and “Administrative Law in the United States.”

Professor Philip Hackney recently published an op-ed piece in TaxProf Blog regarding the IRS and tax-exempt religious groups. Read it here.

Professor Jeff Brooks, Director of Field placements & Moot Court/Trial Advocacy Program, received the Pamela M. Young Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service at the International Rounds of the 2016 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Professor Philip Hackney presented a paper titled “Subsidize the Heavenly Chorus? 501(c)(5) Labor Unions and Tax Exemption“ as part of the 19th Annual Critical Tax Conference at Tulane Law School. Read more about the event here.

Professor Michael J. Malinowski’s new book, Handbook on Biotechnology Law, Business, and Policy: Human Health Products from the Laboratory Bench to Market Approvals, was released by West Academic Publishing.

Professor Ken Levy recently published an op-ed piece in the Times-Picayune regarding Louisiana and Presidential politics. Read it here.

Professor Christine Corcos’ article Ghostwriters: Spiritualists, Copyright Infringement, and the Right of Publicity, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (C. A. Corcos, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2010) was cited by Parker Higgins in his article “How Mark Twain’s ghost almost set off the copyright battle of the century,” published in Fusion, March 2, 2016.

Winter 2015

Professor Christina Sautter’s latest article Fleecing the Family Jewels, which examines crown jewel lock-up options in public company mergers, was just published in the Tulane Law Review.

Professor Paul Baier was interviewed by WAFB Channel 9 on his friendship with Justice Scalia. View the interview here.

Professor Philip Hackney’s latest article, Charitable Organization Oversight: Rules v. Standards, was just published by the Pittsburgh Tax Review. Read it here.

Professor Paul Baier was featured at the Midwinter meeting of the State Bar Association on same-gender marriage, including his role as constitutional counsel in Costanza v. Caldwell, which declared unconstitutional Louisiana’s prohibition of same-gender marriage. See him in action here.

Professor Philip Hackney was cited on the TaxProf Blog on Jan. 20, 2016. Check out the article by Chodorow & Hackney: Post-Graduate Legal Training — The Case For Tax-Exempt Programs

Professor Philip Hackney was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle article, Super Bowl committee raising millions, with little transparency.

Fall 2015

Professor Luis F.B. Plascencia of Arizona State University recently cited Professor Darlene Goring’s article, In Service to America: Naturalization of Undocumented Alien Veterans, in his essay, The military gates to US citizenship: Latina/o “aliens and non-citizen nationals” and military work.

Professor Christina Sautter’s book chapter, Tender Offers and Disclosure: The History and Future of the Williams Act, is forthcoming in the Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. and edited by Professors Claire Hill and Steven Davidoff Solomon.

Associate Dean Raymond Diamond was recently interviewed on LPB’s “Louisiana: The State We’re In” regarding the constitutionality of recent gubernatorial attempts to forestall the entry of Syrian refugees into their states.

Professor Ken Levy’s article, “US law reviews’ dirty game: review by student,” published through the Times Higher Education, has been posted on the Tax Prof Blog and Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.

Associate Dean Raymond Diamond was recently quoted in the Times Picayune article, “Lawyers Scoff at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Syrian Refugee Ban.”

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article,The Illusion of Equality: The Failure of the Community Property Reform to Achieve Management Equality, has been identified by Cyra Choudhury as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Family Law, in a review published today in Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots).

Professor Keith Hall was recently quoted in the Baton Rouge Business Report article, “The Land War.”

Professor Melissa Lonegrass presented, “Hidden Law-Legislative Commentary in a Mixed Jurisdiction,” on November 11 at the Law & Society Faculty Forum, a Southern University Law Center Faculty Initiative.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her forthcoming article, The Golden Ratio of Corporate Deal-making, during the 3rd Annual Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop at Boston University School of Law in Boston, MA. Her article will be published in the Journal of Corporation Law in 2016.

Professor Philip Hackney’s article, Post-Graduate Legal Training: The Case for Tax-Exempt Programs, will be published in the forthcoming 65 Journal of Legal Education. Professor Hackney cowrote the article with Professor Adam Chodorow of Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently cited Professor Hector Linares’s article An Open Door to the Criminal Courts, 71 La.L.Rev. 191, in a concurring opinion in State v. Roberson, 2014-CK-1996.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article, The Golden Ratio of Corporate Deal-making, was selected for publication in The Journal of Corporation Law.

Professor Philip Hackney will give two presentations at the ABA Business Law Section’s Annual Meeting in Chicago for its Nonprofit Committee. The first presentation will be, Disaster and Emergency Planning for the Nonprofit Organization: Preparing for and Responding to the Zombie Apocalypse. Professor Hackney will also present his paper, Taxing the Unheavenly Chorus: Why Section 501(c)(6) Trade Associations are Undeserving of Tax Exemption, which was recently published in the Denver University Law Review.

On September 3, 2015, Associate Dean Ray Diamond was a panelist on “The Procedural Importance of Powell v. McCormick,” the 1969 Supreme Court case that resolved the question whether a house of Congress might fail to seat a member-elect for reasons other than those explicitly stated in the Constitution. The panel was co-sponsored by George Washington University Law School and the National Association of Parliamentarians, as part of the association’s biennial meeting. The event was recorded and will be later televised by CSPAN.

Columbia Law School’s CLS Blue Sky Blog featured Professor Christina Sautter’s article, Fleecing the Family Jewels, forthcoming in the Tulane Law Review. The feature can be accessed here. The CLS Blue Sky Blog is Columbia Law School’s blog on corporations and capital markets.

A review of Professor Blake Hudson’s new book, Constitutions and the Commons, was recently published by the Canadian journal, The Forestry Chronicle.

The American Bar Association Journal used criteria developed by Professor Christine Corcos for jurors to select the “most important and most influential movies” of the past ten decades in their August 2015 issue. Professor Corcos was one of the jurors who selected the top most important and influential legal movies since 1915.

Professor Corcos published Seeing It Coming Since 1945: State Bans and Regulations of “Crafty Science” Speech and Activity, 37 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 39 (2014) as part of a symposium issue.

Professor Paul Baier was recently a guest on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Law,” where he discussed a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association over Seattle’s new tax on the sales of firearms and ammunition. He was joined by Nancy Staudt, Dean, Washington School of Law-St. Louis.

Interim Co-Dean and Professor Bill Corbett recently published an article about the United States Supreme Court’s 2015 decision on pregnancy discrimination. The article is titled Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.: McDonnell Douglas to the Rescue? It is published in the online edition of the Washington University Law Review Commentaries and later will be published in the print edition of the law review.

On July 30, 2015, at the annual meeting of the Southeast Association of Law Schools, Professor Michael Coenen served as a panelist for the “Newer Law Teachers Workshop,” presenting on the topic of “Creating Successful Methods of Assessment, Including Essay and Multiple Choice Questions.” At the same conference, Associate Dean Ray Diamond was a panelist on two Constitutional Law workshops: on July 27, “Law Under Pressure: Ferguson, Missouri, Revisited”; and on August 1, “State Emergencies and the Constitution: Lessons from the Tenth Anniversary of Katrina.”

On July 29, Professor Ken Levy, the Holt B. Harrison Associate Professor of Law, gave a lecture at NYU Law School for the SEO Law Institute introducing minority law students who will be attending the top 10 law schools in the fall to criminal law and law school generally. This is the second year that Professor Levy was asked to speak on the topic at NYU’s summer programs.

Professor Christina Sautter’s forthcoming article, Fleecing the Family Jewels, which examines the re-emergence of crown jewel lock-up options in M&A transactions, was featured on the M&A Law Prof Blog.

Professor Melissa Lonegrass spoke to the Real Property Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association on Wednesday, July 29. Professor Lonegrass discussed her recent article, The Anomalous Interaction Between Code and Statute: Lessor’s Warranty and Statutory Waiver. Her talk focused on recent Louisiana case law addressing the effects of contractual waivers of a landlord’s obligation to maintain and repair leased premises.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Induced Seismicity: An Energy Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Issues and the Causes of Man-Made Earthquakes” at the 61st Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Anchorage, Alaska on July 16, 2015.

Associate Dean Raymond Diamond, appeared on Louisiana Public Square’s July 22, 2015 program Symbol or Statement? History in Public Spaces, discussing the societal implications of the display of the Confederate Battle Flag, the maintenance of Confederate war memorials, and the constitutionality of secession during the Civil War.

On July 17, Professor Ken Levy appeared on LPB’s, Louisiana: The State We’re In, discussing Glossip v. Gross, the Supreme Court’s recent decision about the death penalty and its implications for Louisiana.

Associate Dean Raymond Diamond recently appeared on LPB’s, Louisiana: The State We’re In, discussing the implications of Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on same sex marriage.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article Fleecing the Family Jewels was selected for publication in the Tulane Law Review.

Professors Paul Baier, Melissa Lonegrass, and Olivier Moreteau presented papers at the Fourth Worldwide Congress of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, Montreal Canada, on June 25-26, 2015. Professor Baier presented, The Constitution as Code, Professor Lonegrass presented, Code and Commentary in a Mixed Jurisdiction—The Louisiana Experience, and Professor Moreteau presented, Teaching the Civil Law in Louisiana: Should the Professor Be System-Neutral or Militant?

Professor Melissa Lonegrass’ article, Eliminating Landlord Retaliation in England and Wales—Lessons from the United States was recently featured on the PropertyProfBlog of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

Professor Hector Linares recently served as faculty for the National Juvenile Defender Center’s JTIP Summer Academy held at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., an intensive week-long training for select juvenile defense attorneys from across the country. Professor Linares also recently conducted trainings for juvenile public defenders in Oxford, Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was quoted in the article, Legal Battle for Saints Owner Tom Benson’s Fortune is Likely Far From Over, in the Times Picayune.

Professor Robert Lancaster was a panelist at the 38^th Annual AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education. The panel topic was “Birds of a Feather Teach Together: Collaborations Between Law Clinic and Field placement Faculty to Educate a New Generation of Reflective Practitioners” and addressed creative ways law schools can increase experiential educational opportunities for their students. Professor Lancaster spoke specifically about new initiatives in the LSU Law Center’s clinical program that give students practical training in the real practice of law.

Vice Chancellor Raymond Diamond testified before the Louisiana Legislature on June 2 on the implications of the proposal for a constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.

Professor Melissa Lonegrass’ article, Eliminating Landlord Retaliation in England and Wales—Lessons from the United States, was recently published in Volume 75 of the Louisiana Law Review.

Spring 2015

The Louisiana Law Review recently published Volume 75, Issue 4. Issue 4 includes five professional pieces covering the Model Business Corporation Act, landlord retaliation, frivolous civil appeals, vendor’s privilege, and oil and gas mythology in Louisiana. Issue 4 also features four student pieces discussing nonpecuniary damages, noncompetes, natural servitudes of drain, and postmarital agreements. Please visit the Louisiana Law Review’s website for more information.

Assistant Professor and Teaching Fellow Kat Macfarlane testified in front of the Louisiana Health and Welfare committee on May 7, 2015, in support of HB 319, which requires doctor notification before certain forms of medications known as biologics are replaced by pharmacists for biosimilars. She was interviewed in connection with her testimony on Talk 107.3 and NBC 33.

Professor Philip Hackney’s article, Should the IRS Never ‘Target’ Taxpayers: An Examination of the IRS Tea Party Affair, is forthcoming in the Valparaiso University Law Review. The article was recently mentioned in a Forbes blog and in Bookforum.

Professor Hackney was recently quoted in a USA Today article regarding the NFL’s decision to give up the tax-exempt status for its league office.

Professor Jeffrey Brooks received the 2015 Steven Schneebaum Award at the White & Case International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition that was recently held in Washington, DC. The Jessup Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition, with participants from over 550 law schools in more than 80 countries. The Schneebaum Award is presented to an administrator of one of the qualifying rounds of the competition held around the world. Professor Brooks received the award along with Jennifer Englader. Brooks and Englander co-administered the United States-South (New Orleans) rounds.

The Louisiana Law Review recently published Volume 75, Issue 3. Issue 3 includes four professional pieces covering Louisiana future advance mortgages, the role of traditional legal institutions in law reform, changes in the Louisiana law of pledge, and the private right of action under Louisiana securities law. Issue 3 also features four student pieces discussing Louisiana Mineral Code article 190, hydraulic fracturing and subsurface trespass in Louisiana, dedications to public use in Louisiana, and the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Please visit the Louisiana Law Review’s website for more information.

Winter 2015

Professor Keith Hall’s article, The Application of Oil & Gas Lease Implied Covenants: Old Meets New, was cited multiple times by the Ohio Court of Appeals in its opinion in Yoder v. Artex Oil Co. Professor Hall’s article was published in the 32nd Annual Proceedings of the Energy & Mineral Law Institute.

Professor Christine Corcos was recently quoted in the article, Patenting a Magic Trick is Tricky Business, in Vice Magazine. Professor Corcos was also interviewed for the article, The Big Picture on Photo Consents in Veterinary Brief.

Professor Michael Coenen’s article, Combining Constitutional Clauses, has been accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Professor Blake Hudson received the Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award from the University of Montevallo.

Professor Hector Linares served as faculty for the Louisiana Public Defender Board’s recent Juvenile Defender Training. He presented on the topics of Families in Need of Services and Developing a Theory of the Case. The training was held in Baton Rouge.

On February 2, Professor Philip Hackney took part in a conversation about the IRS and Nonprofits on “The Source,” a Texas Public Radio Program.

Professor Robert Lancaster recently gave two presentations at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – Louisiana Annual Conference:Transformative, Facilitative, and Evaluative Mediation Models and Ethical Considerations in Family Mediation. Students from the LSU Civil Mediation Clinic assisted by serving as actors in a mediation role play that Professor Lancaster used to demonstrate different mediation styles. The Conference was sponsored by the LSU Family Mediation Clinic and was attended by judges, family lawyers, child-custody evaluators, parenting coordinators, and forensic financial divorce experts from around the state. The goal of the conference was to bring all of the professionals operating in family courts together to discuss best practices and consider improvements to the family court system.

Vice Chancellor Raymond Diamond appeared on LPB’s Louisiana Public Square on January 28, to discuss “Louisiana After Ferguson: Who is Policing the Police in Louisiana?”

The Louisiana Law Review recently published Volume 75, Issue 2, which centers around the Law Review’s 2014 Symposium, “The Rest of the Story: Resolving the Cases Remanded by the MDL.” The Issue includes four professional pieces on multidistrict litigation as well as four student pieces discussing various topics, including mineral servitudes, testamentary formalism, free speech, and remediation damages. Please visit the Louisiana Law Review’s website for more information.

Professor Bill Corbett’s article, What Is Troubling About the Tortification of Employment Discrimination Law?, 75 Ohio St. L.J. 1027 (2014) was recently published. The article was included in a symposium issue of the Ohio State Law Law Journal, Torts and Civil Rights Law: Migration and Conflict.

Professor Philip Hackney presented a paper as part of the panel panel discussion, “IRS Oversight of Charitable and Other Exempt Organization-Broken? Fixable?,” at the AALS Annual Meeting on January 3.

Fall 2014

Professor Bill Corbett presented, “The Perils of Hiring and Firing,” to the Louisiana State Library Administrators’ Conference in Baton Rouge on November 14.

On November 5, 2014, Professor Philip Hackney participated in the discussion,”Should Sports Leagues Be Tax Exempt?”, sponsored by the DC Bar Association.

Professor Ed Richards was recently interviewed by Voice of America on public health law and civil rights.

Professor Elizabeth Carter was featured in WalletHub’s recent study examining 2014’s Richest and Poorest States.

The Louisiana Law Review is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 75, Issue 1. Issue 1 discusses topics such as the Supreme Court’s latest opinion addressing the Fourth Amendment, contract law and the Hand Formula, the Confrontation Clause, and the Fair Housing Act. Please visit the Louisiana Law Review’s new website for more information.

Professor Philip Hackney was recently quoted in two articles regarding the NFL: Why is the NFL a nonprofit? and NFL’s Tax Break: Out of Bounds?.

Professor Philip Hackney participated on a panel titled, “Enterprise Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Meeting Challenges to Tax-Exempt Status,” on September 13 at the annual ABA Business Section meeting in Chicago.

Summer 2014

Professor Heidi Thompson will present, “Are You Ready for Some Football?” – to Effectively Teach the Appellate Process?, at the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers Conference in September.

Professor Katherine Macfarlane’s article “A New Approach to Local Rules” will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties.

Professor Edward Richards was quoted in the article, Congress, Fretting Over Secrecy, May Miss Bigger Research Problems, that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 14.

Professor Keith Hall served on a panel that discussed “Perspectives on Latin American Civil Law Issues in AIPN Model Contracts” at the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators Model Contracts Workshop in San Francisco on June 24, 2014.

Professor Hall and Professor Arash Dahi Taleghani of the LSU Department of Petroleum Engineering co-authored a paper titled “Using Technology to Avoid Trespass Liability Based on Subsurface Intrusions of Hydraulic Fractures,” which was accepted for publication in connection with the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference that is co-sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The conference will be August 25-27, 2014 in Denver, and Professor Hall will present the paper on August 27.

On June 19, Professor Lee Ann Lockridge provided commentary on the WJBO morning show regarding the implications of the recent decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ordering cancellation of several trademark registrations owned by the Washington Redskins.

Professor Ken Levy’s article, It’s Not Too Difficult: A Plea to Resurrect the Impossibility Defense, will be published in New Mexico Law Review.

Professor Levy’s op-ed, “Veto Allows Mistreatment of Animals to Continue,” was published on June 20 in the Times Picayune.

Professor Olivier Moreteau was awarded the John Ashby Hernandez III Memorial Francophone Leadership Award by the Louisiana State Bar Association at the General Assembly and House of Delegates meeting on June 5 at the annual Bar Association Convention in Destin, Florida.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her work-in-progress tentatively titled Judicial Disconnect? as part of the Examining Market Actors panel at the Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on May 31, 2014.

She also served as a discussant on the Corporate Governance & Locus of Power panel at the LSA Annual Meeting on May 30, 2014. As a discussant she commented on papers written by Professors Jayne Barnard, Tamara Belinfanti, Elizabeth Nowicki, and Megan Shaner.

Professor Sautter’s article Auction Theory and Standstills: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control was published in the most recent issue of the Case Western Reserve Law Review.

Professor Philip Hackney presented his paper, Taxing the Unheavenly Chorus: Why Section 501(c)(6) Trade Associations are Undeserving of Tax-Exemption, at the 9th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop on June 7.

Professor Philip Hackney was recently quoted in the Politico article, IRS to Rewrite Nonprofit Rules Amid Criticism.

Professor Darlene Goring will participate in the conference, ”Patriots or Invaders? Immigrants in the Military in Modern America?” hosted by the Princeton Center for Migration and Development, May 23-24.

Teaching Fellow Kevin Bennardo’s article, Decoupling Federal Offense Guidelines from Statutory Limits on Sentencing, was published in the most recent issue of the Missouri Law Review. His commentary, A Perspective on the Proposed Amendments to the Drug Distribution Guideline, is forthcoming in the April 2014 issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter. And his latest article, Post-Sentencing Appellate Waivers, was recently accepted for publication in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

Professor Robert Lancaster was a panelist at a plenary session of the American Association of Law Schools Annual Clinical Legal Education Conference held in Chicago, Illinois in April 2014. The plenary was titled “Curricular Reform — Preserving the Integrity of Experiential Learning.”

Professor Michael Coenen’s article Rules Against Rulification has been accepted for publication in the Yale Law Journal.

Professor Coenene’s article, Spillover Across Remedies has been published in Volume 98 of the Minnesota Law Review.

Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Katherine Macfarlane has been invited to teach at Loyola Law School’s “Journalist Law School,” a four-day seminar for professional journalists held each May in downtown Los Angeles. She will present on “How to Access and Interpret Federal Dockets When Reporting On Federal Cases.”

LSU Law Visiting Professor Paul Finkelman was recently interviewed by National Public Radio regarding Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.

Professor Jeffrey Brooks was recently quoted in the Baton Rouge Business Report article, “Do Not Delete.”

Professor William Corbett will be honored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as the 2013 Distinguished Professor at their annual gala on April 11. Recognition is given to those individuals who, by reason of his or her professional activities, have distinguished themselves in their chosen profession and have brought credit and honor to the legal profession.

On April 15, Professor Philip Hackney will present at the 15^th Annual Nonprofit Law Conference 2014 of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education on “Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Tax-Exempt or Not.”

On April 4, Professor Hackney presented his paper Should the IRS never “Target” taxpayers? An Examination of the IRS Tea Party Affair at Money in Politics: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, a law review symposium at Valparaiso Law.

Professor Hackney’s essay, “A Response to Professor Leff’s Tax Planning “Olive Branch” for Marijuana Dealers”, has been published in the Iowa Law Review Bulletin.

On March 21, Professor Hackney presented his paper, Business Leagues, the Collective Action (Non) Problem and Tax Exemption at the Tulane Tax Roundtable. He was a discussant for the paper, Taxing Human Equity, by Tulane Professor Shu-Yi Oei.

Professor Hackney has been invited to serve on Independent Sector’s 2014 Ethics and Accountability Advisory Committee. This committee will provide guidance and direction on Independent Sector’s ethics and accountability portfolio, which supports and promotes the highest standards of governance, transparency and accountability in the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Independent Sector is the leadership network for nonprofits, foundation and corporate giving programs committed to advancing the common good in America and around the world.

Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Katherine Macfarlane’s article “Analyzing the SDNY’s Amended Related Case Rule” will appear this summer in the NYU Annual Survey of American Law.

Professor Kenneth Mayeaux’s op-ed, Immigration Detainees are in Legal Limbo, was recently published in the Times-Picayune.