LSU Law News
August 2011
August 2011
August 16, 2011August 14, 2011 - Professor Robert Lancaster, Director of Clinical Legal Education and the Singletary Professor of Professional Practice at the Law Center, has been named a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. The Foundation works to improve the justice system and promotes equal justice under the law. Professor Lancaster also serves as Secretary on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).
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Class of 2014 Arrives on Campus
August 12, 2011August 12, 2011 - The Class of 2014 arrived on the LSU Law campus yesterday for a two-day orientation, “making the transition from backpacks to briefcases,” remarked Chancellor Jack M. Weiss as he welcomed the class. Jake Henry, Director of Admissions, greeted some 241 students, one of the largest and most diverse classes in the history of the LSU Law Center. “This year’s applicant pool was very competitive, and the Law Center received more than 1,400 applications in an attempt to secure one of the seats that you are occupying right now,” said Henry. The class boasts very strong Louisiana…
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Chancellor Announces Appointment of H. Alston Johnson to Resident LSU Law Faculty, Effective January 2012
August 11, 2011Chancellor Jack M. Weiss has announced the appointment of H. Alston Johnson to the resident faculty of the LSU Law Center. Subject to the approval of the LSU Board of Supervisors and the LSU System, the appointment will be effective in January, 2012 when Mr. Johnson retires from his twenty-seven years of service as a partner at the Phelps Dunbar law firm. Beginning this spring, Johnson will teach a full course load and will direct the Law Center’s program of continuing legal education, formerly headed by Professor Emeritus Frank L. Maraist, who retired in July. “It gives me great pleasure…
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Summer 2011
August 10, 2011Assistant Professor Ken Levy and co-author Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Philosophy Professor at Duke University) recently published “Insanity Defenses” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law 299-334 (eds. John Deigh and David Dolinko, 2011). The article offers a legal and philosophical analysis of both the insanity defense and the different versions of the insanity defense that have developed in the United States.
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