LSU Law News
December 2021
Holiday Closure
December 13, 2021The Law Library will be closed Friday, December 24, 2021 through Monday, January 3, 2022 for the holiday break, and will reopen on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Check the Library Hours page for further information. The Law Library wishes you a safe and happy holiday season!
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Professor Chris Tyson returning to LSU Law full time in January following tenure with Build Baton Rouge
December 9, 2021Professor Chris Tyson, who has served as Chief Executive Officer of Build Baton Rouge for the past four years, is wrapping up his tenure with the city-parish redevelopment authority at the end of the year and rejoining the LSU Law faculty full time in January. Tyson has continued to teach Local and State Government law at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center each spring since he took academic leave in December 2017 to serve as CEO of Build Baton Rouge, and he has also taught during Apprenticeship Week. Tyson holds the Newman Trowbridge Distinguished Professorship in Louisiana Property Rights 1,…
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LSU Law student organizations seeking volunteers, donations to help Afghan refugees in Baton Rouge
December 6, 2021The Public Interest Law Society and Veteran Advocacy Club student organizations at LSU Law are seeking volunteers to assist with the resettlement of refugees from Afghanistan in Baton Rouge. The LSU Law student organizations are working in partnership with the LSU Student Veteran Organization as well as Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, which is assisting with the relocation of as many as 100 families of refugees from the war-torn nation. Some of the families have already arrived in Baton Rouge and more are expected in the coming months. Volunteers are needed to help provide a wide variety…
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Family members of the late Louis Douglas Curet create scholarship to support French-speaking LLM students at LSU Law
December 1, 2021The late Louis Douglas Curet (Humanities & Social Sciences, ‘47, Law, ‘50) embodied the lively spirit of a “true Francophile.” He completely embraced his French heritage while building a successful career practicing law in Baton Rouge. Through his many travels abroad, he developed a wonderful network of dear friends throughout France. To honor the legacy of his great love of all things French as well as his lifelong support of LSU, his daughter and son-in-law, Jeanne (Agriculture, ‘79) and David (Engineering, ‘78) James, created the Louis Douglas Curet Comparative Law Scholarship in the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. This…
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