LSU Law News
November 2010
Evans and Dunn Join Office of Alumni Relations
November 23, 2010Chancellor Jack Weiss has announced the appointments of Tracy Nye Evans as Director of Professional and Bar Relations and Jane Hansen Dunn as Associate Director of Alumni Relations at the Law Center. Both joined the Office this summer. As Director of Professional and Bar Relations, Evans will work closely with state and local bar associations, law firms, and professional organizations to promote the flagship agenda of the LSU Law Center. She has served as Director of Career Services at the Law Center since 1995. “Tracy has led the Career Services Office with great distinction and provided critical employment advice and…
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Baier's 'AAA' Class Moots Case Argued By Recent Alumnus
November 23, 2010Kyle Duncan ('97), LSU Law Alumnus and the LA Department of Justice Appellate Chief, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on October 6, 2010, representing the Orleans Parish District Attorney. The case, Connick v. Thompson, centered around 42 U.S.C. 1983 "Brady violations". The AAA class voted whether to reverse or affirm the lower court. After brief deliberations, the class voted 12-1 to reverse in favor of Mr. Duncan's client, as Mr. Duncan believes the Supreme Court will do. While we wait the Court's opinion, the argument is available at oyez.org.
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Chancellor's Thanksgiving Greeting--In Gratitude for Our LSU Law Community
November 23, 2010As we approach this season of Thanksgiving (and exams!), I hope that you will join me in reflecting on the many blessings we share, as individuals and as an LSU Law community. As a community, we are bound together by a tradition that is more than a century “young”. Our tradition embraces LSU Law’s strong commitment to civil law teaching and scholarship. Our tradition continues to feature teachers who demand much in the classroom but take pride in being available and accessible to students outside of the classroom. More subtle perhaps, but just as central to the LSU Law tradition,…
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LSU Law Family Mourns Passing of Janice Ginsberg Rubin
November 11, 2010The LSU Law Center is saddened to report the death of Janice Ginsberg Rubin on Saturday, November 6, 2010. Mrs. Rubin, a native of Alexandria, is the wife of the late Judge Alvin B. Rubin, a 1942 LSU Law Center alum, and the mother of David Rubin (’78) and Mike Rubin (’75), also alums of the Law Center. She was a native of Alexandria, LA and a graduate of Newcomb College in New Orleans. Her interests and talents were many, and her personality endearing and engaging to all who were fortunate to know her. She loved life and found great…
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Fall 2010
November 2, 2010Chancellor Jack M. Weiss joined other first amendment scholars November 11-12, 2010 in New York for a panel discussion titled Developments in First Amendment Jurisprudence. The conference, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute (PLI), featured six nationally prominent lawyers and scholars, including the Law Center’s own Chancellor Weiss. The conference is recognized as one of the most comprehensive in the field, covering the latest issues and case law in media, intellectual property, digital communications and privacy law. Joining Chancellor Weiss on the panel were: RonNell Anderson Jones, Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, a constitutional law, First…
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