LSU Law News
April 2022
Ferrell elected Vice President of Member Services and Education for NALP
April 29, 2022LSU Law Director of Career Services Gwendolyn Ferrell has been elected to serve as the 2022-24 Vice President of Member Services and Education for the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). NALP is an association of over 2,500 legal career professionals from both schools and firms who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools in North American and beyond. In the role, Ferrell will assist the NALP President in conducting the affairs of the association, assume the responsibility to attend all meetings of the Board of Directors, and serve as Chair of the Regional Leadership Council. In the…
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LSU Law alumna Ernestine Gray becomes first Louisianan to receive the ABA Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change
April 22, 2022Born in Denmark, South Carolina in 1946, Gray received her early education in the public schools of Orangeburg, South Carolina. She received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Spelman College in 1970 and her juris doctor degree from LSU Law in 1976. Prior to her work on the bench, she was employed by the Baton Rouge Legal Aid Society, the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, and by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a trial attorney. “Through her intellectual courage, Judge Gray has pushed all members of our children’s law community to think deeper and…
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LSU Law memorabilia gifted to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg up for auction
April 19, 2022Throughout her distinguished career, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg amassed an impressive collection of modern art and memorabilia, which included everything from engravings and ceramics by Pablo Picasso to bronze sculptures by Glenna Goodacre. Her collection also included a Tiger figurine that was gifted to her from LSU Law in 1996, when she held the Judge Alvin B. Rubin Visiting Professorship of Law. The Tiger figurine is among a portion of Ginsburg’s estate that is now up for auction, with the proceeds to benefit the Washington National Opera. “In the shape of a reclining tiger, with…
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Accomplished scholar, GW Law Professor Caprice Roberts to join LSU Law faculty as tenured full professor in Fall 2022
April 19, 2022Professor Caprice L. Roberts will join the LSU Law faculty in the Fall 2022 semester as a tenured full professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she will teach courses in constitutional law, federal courts, remedies, and contracts. Roberts comes to LSU Law from the George Washington University Law School, where she was a Visiting Professor of Law. She started her academic career at West Virginia University College of Law, where she earned tenure, rose to full professor, and eventually served as Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development. She has also previously taught at the University of…
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Bosch honored with the Kalinka Award for Advocacy Programs Coach of the Year
April 19, 2022LSU Law alumnus and Advocacy Fellow Daniel Bosch has been named the 2022 recipient of the Kalinka Award for Advocacy Programs Coach of the Year. Named in honor of the late Professor Susan C. Kalinka, the award recognizes a coach of one of LSU Law’s moot court, trial advocacy, or dispute resolution external competition teams who embodies the inspiration and dedication of Professor Kalinka. Bosch served as the primary coach or co-coach of six different LSU Law advocacy competition teams this academic year, including those competing in moot court, mock trial, and dispute resolution competitions. He was tireless in his…
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LSU President William Tate meets with LSU Law administrators, faculty, and students during visit to the Paul M. Hebert Law Center
April 19, 2022During his first official visit to the Paul M. Hebert Law Center on Wednesday, April 6, LSU President William Tate met with LSU Law administrators, faculty members, and students. Tate’s visit included a tour of the Law Center guided by third-year law students Richala Jackson and Neyah Johnson, a one-on-one discussion with LSU Law Interim Dean Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge, and two group discussions with LSU Law professors and students. The first discussion focused on the on the value and impact of faculty research and scholarship, and included LSU Law Professors Lisa Avalos, Keith Hall, Clare Ryan, Nick Bryner, Christina…
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Exam Resources
April 19, 2022As you prepare for exams, be sure to look at the West Study Aids, CALI Lessons and past exams. The West Study Aids provide access to hundreds of study aids, treatises and audio lectures. This database also provides access multiple choice practice questions to help you prepare for exam questions. CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, has over 1,000 interactive tutorials that cover various topics of law. Email Reference today for the authorization code to access CALI Lessons. Some professors have released old final exams. These may be accessed on the restricted drive in the folder titled “Past Exams.”
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Easter Holiday Closure
April 14, 2022The law library will be closed Friday, April 15 through Sunday, April 17 for the Easter holiday. We will resume our regular hours on Monday, April 18.
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Prominent civil rights and employment law attorney Allison Jones to deliver LSU Law commencement address on May 20
April 13, 2022Prominent civil rights and employment law attorney Allison Jones, a 1985 LSU Law graduate, will deliver the commencement address for the LSU Law Class of 2022. Commencement exercises will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 20, in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on the LSU campus. “Throughout her distinguished career, Allison Jones has been an admirable champion of truth, justice, and equality under the law,” said LSU Law Interim Dean Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge. “Her lifelong commitment to excellence and equality reflects our core values at LSU Law, and we know she will inspire our graduates to excel…
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Extended Library Hours
April 11, 2022Beginning Monday, April 11 through Thursday, May 5, the Law Library will be open until midnight each night for the exam period. Check the Library Hours page for full details. During the exam period, the Law Library will only be open to currently enrolled law students at both LSU and Southern after 5:00 p.m. including weekends. Best of luck students on your upcoming exams!
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2022 Giving Day marks successful launch of Dean’s Council membership drive
April 7, 2022The launch of a yearlong “Geaux Beyond 3%” Dean’s Council membership drive on Giving Day, March 23, was a great success, with 20 new members joining the council, 13 members upgrading their membership status, eight members renewing membership, and four donors supporting the council with gifts below the membership level. “Giving Day was a huge success, and we are so pleased that so many alumni showed their support for the Dean’s Council and LSU Law,” said Dean’s Council Chair Allison Jones, who is spearheading the membership drive. “But every day should be giving day, and if you missed out, you…
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Photos: 2022 LSU Law Scholarship Reception honoring benefactors and student recipients
April 6, 2022LSU Law hosted its 2021-2022 Scholarship Reception honoring benefactors and student recipients on Tuesday, March 29, at The Club at LSU Union Square. The annual event connects scholarship donors with the student recipients of those scholarships. Students have the opportunity to learn more about the donors and what motivated their generosity. Donors are delighted to meet “their” students and learn about the unique qualifications, ambitions, accomplishments and challenges that led them to LSU Law.
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Your Gifts at Work: Alex Domingue
April 6, 2022Alex Domingue started thinking about attending law school while he was studying at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Political Science. “I chose LSU Law because of all of the great things I heard about the Law Center. Everyone I knew who attended LSU Law told me how competitive, but friendly, the environment was at the Law Center,” said Domingue, a Crowley, Louisiana native. “I knew that was something that I would enjoy being a part of.” Now in his final year at LSU Law, Domingue has…
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2022-23 Board of Advocates elects Executive Committee
April 6, 2022The Executive Committee of the 2022-23 Board of Advocates was elected on Tuesday, April 5. The Board of Advocates is the Law Center’s student honor organization dedicated to the promotion and development of oral and written persuasive advocacy skills. Rising third-year law students are selected to membership on the Board of Advocates based on a holistic application that looks at a student’s success in the Law Center’s many different internal and external advocacy competitions, teams, and other skills development opportunities. The Board of Advocates is the result of a merger of the former Moot Court and Trial Advocacy Boards. The…
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LSU Law alum, Adjunct Professor Ottinger honored with LSU Mineral Law Institute Distinguished Service Award
April 4, 2022Since 1996, LSU Law alumnus (’73) and Adjunct Professor Patrick Ottinger has taught the Mineral Rights course and an Oil and Gas Seminar titled “Anatomy of an Oil and Gas Transaction” at his alma mater, where he was also a founding member of the LSU John P. Laborde Energy Law Center. Ottinger was recognized for his invaluable service to LSU Law and the Energy Law Center during the opening day of the 69th Mineral Law Institute on Thursday, May 31, and was honored with the LSU Mineral Law Institute Distinguished Service Award. “No practicing lawyer has contributed more to mineral…
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Ukrainian attorney and LSU Law alumnus provides firsthand account of ongoing Russian invasion
April 1, 2022Ukrainian attorney Oleksiy Stolyarenko was running on very little sleep as his virtual conversation with LSU Law Interim Dean Lee Ann Wheelis Lockridge, Professor Scott Sullivan, and the LSU Law community began on Wednesday, March 30. “Last night I had, really, no sleep because the bombardment was so bad,” said Stolyarenko, who earned his LLM from LSU Law in 2010 and spoke via Zoom from his Kyiv apartment. “There were three airstrike alerts, and they were bombing all day and night.” The sound of sirens and shelling has become so common in Kyiv that residents can now decipher what type…
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