LSU Law News
January 2018
Students receive academic honors for Fall 2017 Semester
January 30, 2018The LSU Law Center has announced the names of those law students who earned academic honors for the Fall 2017 semester. Fifty students were awarded the Paul M. Hebert Scholar honor, and 78 students were selected to be Dean’s Scholars. The Paul M. Hebert Scholar is awarded to the top 10 percent and the Dean’s Scholar is awarded to the top 25 percent of LSU Law students earning 12 or more semester hours of credit in courses taken at the Law Center. These awards are noted on students’ transcripts. The following students are recognized as Hebert Scholars: David Albano Luis Balart…
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LSU Parole & Reentry Clinic receives investment from Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation
January 23, 2018The LSU Parole & Reentry Clinic received a $40,000 investment from the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation as part of its Prison Reentry Initiative. The Prison Reentry Initiative is designed to create a "dramatic reduction" in the number of formerly incarcerated individuals who return to prison and an increase in the cost-savings to the community associated with successful reintegration. The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation's doled out $1 million in funds for the new year, and this is the third year the foundation has made investments of $1 million in prison re-entry programs. “The generous support of the Wilson Foundation allows…
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LSU Law mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Robert A. Pascal
January 22, 2018The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Robert A. Pascal, who died Jan. 19, at the age of 102. Pascal graduated from the LSU Law Center in 1940 as the school’s first student to receive the Master of Civil Law degree. He later earned his LL.M. from the University of Michigan in 1942. After completing his military service with the U.S. Coast Guard, Pascal joined the LSU Law faculty as a full-time assistant professor in 1945. While on leaves of absence from LSU, Pascal taught at the University of Chicago (spring 1951) and the…
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Regular Library Hours Resume
January 20, 2018Welcome back students! The law library has resumed regular spring semester hours. Please check the detailed hours page for further information.
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Early Library Closure
January 16, 2018The Law Library will close today, January 16 at 3:00 p.m. due to winter weather and the possibility of icy roads.
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Library Closure
January 12, 2018The Law Library will be closed on Monday, January 15 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Law Library will resume its regular hours on Tuesday, January 16.
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Todd Venie named new Director of LSU Law Library and Information Services
January 7, 2018The LSU Law Center has named Todd Venie the new Assistant Dean and Director for the Library and Information Technology Services at LSU Law. Venie has served as the the Associate Director of the Legal Information Center & Professor of Legal Research at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law since July 2016. He joined Florida Law school in 2013 as the Head of Research and Instruction. At Florida, Venie taught Legal Research, where students learn how to find relevant statutes and case law at the state and federal levels using both print and electronic formats. His previous positions include…
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LSU Law Center Announces 2018 Distinguished Alumna/us of the Year and Distinguished Achievement Honorees
January 5, 2018The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center has selected Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson and Judge John deGravelles as the 2018 Distinguished Alumna/us of the Year. Jane Politz Brandt, James A. Brown, Thomas M. Hayes III, and Harry J. “Skip” Philips, Jr. have been named the Distinguished Achievement honorees. The six LSU Law alumni will be honored at a ceremony on Friday, March 2, at the Loews Hotel in New Orleans. LSU Law Center’s Distinguished Alumna/us Award is given annually to alumni for rare distinction in professional achievement and loyalty to the LSU Law Center. The Distinguished Achievement awards recognize…
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Faculty Q&A with Raff Donelson
January 4, 2018Raff Donelson joined the LSU Law faculty in the Fall 2017 semester as a joint appointment with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and its Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Starting in Spring 2018, Donelson will teach criminal procedure at the Law Center, and he currently teaches courses in moral, political, and legal philosophy for Philosophy and Religious Studies. Where are you from and what schools did you attend? I grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and then I moved to northwest Massachusetts to attend Williams College where I majored in philosophy and political science and earned…
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