On The Move Archives
January 2015

Second Annual Apprenticeship Week Sets Sail

LSU Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss welcomed students to the 2nd Annual Apprenticeship Week on Monday, January 5, 2015. The week-long program offers a variety of mini-courses aimed at providing students with focused, task-oriented training not generally available in law school courses and usually available only through actual practice experience. Courses offered include many practical, hands-on topics that are taught by volunteer master lawyers and judges.

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Still Time to Register for the 2015 Louisiana Law Review Symposium

The Louisiana Law Review’s 2015 Symposium, The Voting Rights Act at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of the Right to Vote, will be held Friday, January 16, 2015, at the LSU Law Center. The symposium is co-sponsored by the LSU Law Center and the Pugh Institute for Justice. Click here for registration information.

Seven free CLE hours are available to Louisiana attorneys. The registration deadline is January 9, 2015. 

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“Sustainable Oil and Gas Development” focus of Liskow & Lewis Visiting Professorship in Energy Law Lecture: January 28

Scott Anderson and Mark Boling will deliver the annual Liskow & Lewis Visiting Professorship in Energy Law Lecture on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the Law Center. The lecture, “Sustainable Oil and Gas Development”, will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the David W. Robinson Courtroom. The Liskow & Lewis Visiting Professorship in Energy Law was established through a generous gift from the Liskow & Lewis law firm. The Professorship provides funds to bring distinguished scholars in energy law and closely related fields to the Law Center on an annual basis as part of the LSU John P. Laborde Energy Law Center.

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Honorable Carl E. Stewart to Deliver 2015 Rubin Lecture on February 4

The Honorable Carl E. Stewart, Chief Judge of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, will present the Judge Alvin B. and Janice G. Rubin Visiting Professor of Law Lecture on February 4 at the LSU Law Center. The lecture, “A Dream Realized or a Dream Deferred: 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the McKernan Auditorium.

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Chancellor's Council Dinner: Saturday, March 21

Members of the Chancellor's Council are invited to attend the annual dinner that will take place on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at the Manship Theatre at Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge.  The event begins at 6:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 225/578-0733. 


Thank You For Your Support!

Thank you to our alums and friends who made charitable gifts to the LSU Law Center as part of our annual fund campaign and other initiatives!

Your gifts support a wide array of program and services, including:

  • Student financial assistance
  • Moot Court and clinic activities
  • New "hands on" programs such as Apprenticeship Week
  • Recruitment and placement efforts for students
  • The new Energy Law Program

We appreciate your support!  A special thank you to our Annual Fund Law Firm participants and the Firm Team leaders.


Student News

River Bend Tour Provides Insight Into Nuclear Industry

Students Get Inside Look at Shell Oil

Peebles and Stanford Win 2014 Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition

LSU Law Ties for First Place at Saluki Invitational Jury Trial Competition

Law Students Compete at National Pretrial Competition

Parole Assistance and Reentry Clinic Students Obtain Early Release for Clients


Class Notes

Find out the latest news and accomplishments of your classmates! To submit an item for Class Notes, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations.

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