LSU Law News
March 2010
Spring 2010
March 9, 2010Professor Ray Diamond spoke before the Federalist Society chapter at Tulane Law School, debating the future of 2nd Amendment jurisprudence after Heller v. District of Columbia (2008), which held the right to keep and bear arms to be an individual right. The debate concerned as well the Supreme Court’s anticipated decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which a key issue is whether the right to keep and bear arms is incorporated under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. Professor Diamond was also named to the AALS Hurricane Katrina Honor Role for his service as a pro bono consultant…
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The Louisiana Law Review has announced the Volume 71 Editorial Board for 2010-11
March 4, 2010The Louisiana Law Review has announced the Volume 71 Editorial Board for 2010-11 Named were: Kevin Blanchard, Editor-in-Chief; Michael Fagan, Managing Editor; Margaret McDonald, Production Editor; Michael Mims, Articles Editor; Chip Saulsbury, Executive Senior Editor; Roy Bergeron, Senior Editor; Josh Clayton, Senior Editor; Austin Holliday, Senior Editor; and Thomas Hooks, Senior Editor.
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Professor Alain Levasseur Receives Honorary Doctorate
March 3, 2010LSU Law Professor Alain A. Levasseur, the Jean Monnet Professor of European Community Law and the Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professor of Law, has received the title of Docteur Honoris Causas—an honorary doctorate—from the Universite’ Pantheon-Assas Paris II. He was honored on January 29 during ceremonies held in the Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne. Professor Levasseur, along with eight other scholars from institutions throughout the world, received their diplomas, medals, and honor stoles amid all the pomp and circumstance that even Shakespeare couldn’t imagine. The distinguished honorees were recognized for teaching and research in private law, public law, history of law,…
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Steve Coll Coming to LSU Law, April 16
March 2, 2010Steve Coll, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and noted journalist, will be the featured speaker at two LSU Law Center events slated for Friday, April 16. Coll is the author of numerous books, including Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, and most recently, The Bin Ladens: Arabian Family in the American Century. His has been invited to speak as part of the Law Center’s commemoration of the 150-year Sesquicentennial Celebration of the founding of LSU. Two events are scheduled. Mr. Coll will speak to students at 1 p.m. in the Law Center’s second…
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ACLU's LeBoeuf to Speak on Trying Terrorism, Monday, March 8
March 2, 2010As Director of the ACLU John Adams Project, Denny LeBoeuf has been an advocate for the defense of Guantanamo detainees who have been charged with capital offenses. Ms. LeBoeuf will speak on "Trying Terrorism," examining the Obama Administration’s plan to bring terrorism suspects (with a focus on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) to the United States for civilian criminal trials. The event will be held at the LSU Law Center on Monday, March 8 at 4 p.m. in Room 106. The LSU community is invited to attend. Ms. LeBoeuf has represented indigent persons facing death at trial and in post-conviction in state…
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More Than One Hundred Students Make Chancellor’s List for Fall 2009
March 1, 2010Chancellor Jack M. Weiss has announced the names of 186 students who have earned academic honors for Fall 2009. The students were named to the Chancellor's List at the LSU Law Center. Students with 13 or more hours earned and a semester grade point average of 80 or 3.2 or better receive the honor. Notation of this honor is posted on the student's academic transcript. The following students were named to the Chancellor's List: Louisiana Abita Springs Jeffrey Joseph Siemann Alexandria Joshua Paul Melder Amite Kaitlin Jessica Dyer Baton Rouge Michael Paul Ameen, Elizabeth Ann Aycock, Barbara Jean Balhoff, Abby…
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Law Center Hosts Oral Arguments Before the First Circuit Court of Appeal
March 1, 2010On February 22, 23 and 25, 2010, three different panels of judges from the First Circuit Court of Appeal transformed the Law Center’s David Robinson Courtroom into their own. Chief Judge Burrell J. Carter ('58), along with Judges Randolph Parro ('67), James Kuhn, John Guidry, John Pettigrew ('72), Robert Downing ('75), Edward “Jimmy” Gaidry ('67), Michael McDonald ('76) and Page McClendon, heard cases at the Law Center in a courtroom that at times was standing room only. The change of venue from the First Circuit’s courtroom to the Law Center required meticulous advanced planning. The program was spearheaded by Legal…
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LSU Law to Host Symposium on Juvenile Justice, March 19
March 1, 2010The LSU Law Center, in collaboration with the Louisiana Law Review, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The George W. & Jean H. Pugh Institute for Justice, will bring together many of the nation’s and state’s leaders in the area of juvenile justice for a Symposium on March 19. Titled The Backdoor of the Juvenile Courts—Waivers and the Impact of Criminalization, the Symposium will begin at 8:45 a.m. in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. The Symposium will focus on the increasing use of statutory waiver and transfer provisions to try juveniles…
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Immigration Clinic Up and Running
March 1, 2010The LSU Law Center Immigration Clinic, initiated in spring 2009 as part of the Center’s expanded Clinical Legal Education Program, is off to a successful start. As the first fully functioning in-house live-client clinic, law students directly represent indigent immigrant victims of crime and domestic violence as well as immigrants facing deportation. “The immigration clinic provides valuable experience for our students and valuable services for its indigent clients,” commented Chancellor Jack Weiss. “This clinic is yet another indicator of the quality of the clinical programs that we are building.” The clinic is directed and supervised by Professor Ken Mayeaux. “We…
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