LSU Law News
August 2020
LSU Law students participating in supply drives for Hurricane Laura victims
August 31, 2020To assist those who have been hardest hit by Hurricane Laura, LSU Law students are participating in multiple efforts to collect and deliver much-needed supplies to the Lake Charles area. The drives are being coordinated by the LSU Student Bar Association, LSU Public Interest Law Society, other LSU Law student organizations, and individual students. Second-year law student Sam Ducote, a native of Hackberry in Cameron Parish, and his family have had their lives upended by previous hurricanes—Rita destroyed their home in 2005 and Ike did the same in 2008. He’s thankful that Laura only damaged his family home this time,…
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Judges needed for Fall 2020 internal advocacy competitions
August 31, 2020The LSU Law Center Board of Advocates cordially invites you to serve as a judge for its upcoming internal advocacy competitions. Each year, these competitions provide students with the opportunity to develop their advocacy skills before professionals in the legal community. The feedback students receive from practitioner-judges is crucial to their professional development. This semester, the Board will host two competitions for students: The Ira S. Flory Mock Trial Competition and the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition. In the interest of your safety during these unprecedented times, all competitions will be held online via Zoom. Zoom is a widely…
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LSU Law welcomes students, faculty and staff back to Paul M. Hebert Law Center for an unprecedented fall semester
August 31, 2020LSU Law’s fall semester got underway on Monday, Aug. 17, with a mix of in-person and online courses. While the Paul M. Hebert Law Center looks a little different this fall due to health and safety precautions implemented as a result of COVID-19—and despite the closure of the law center for three days during the second week of classes due to Hurricanes Marco and Laura—the semester is off to a good start. “I’m very pleased to say that we’ve had a relatively smooth—albeit quite different—opening for the fall semester and that we were not impacted by the hurricanes aside from…
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Paul M. Hebert Law Center will reopen on Friday, all classes and activities to be held as scheduled
August 26, 2020The Paul M. Hebert Law Center will reopen on Friday, Aug. 28, and all LSU Law classes and activities will be held as scheduled. The Law Center was closed on Wednesday and Thursday and all classes were canceled due to Hurricane Laura. The LSU campus will also be open on Friday, with all classes and activities will be held as scheduled. If you are unable to travel safely to campus due to your own particular circumstances, please contact your professors/supervisors to make them aware of your situation. For those without electricity or internet access tomorrow who cannot participate in remote…
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Library Closure
August 25, 2020Due to possible severe weather in the Baton Rouge area, the Law Library will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Professor Susan Tanner joins LSU Law faculty on Legal Research and Writing team
August 25, 2020Professor Susan Tanner has joined the LSU Law faculty on the Legal and Research Writing team and is teaching two sections of the Legal Research and Writing course this fall. “From the moment I stepped on campus the first time, I felt welcomed and a part of a vibrant and energetic community of scholars,” says Tanner when asked what excites her most about joining LSU Law. “The collegial spirit among the faculty really sets LSU apart from other law schools I visited. My LRW colleagues have impressed me with their commitment to their students and their overall thoughtfulness and insight…
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Your Gifts at Work: Jessica Brewer
August 24, 2020As Jessica Brewer begins her final year of law school at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, she’s looking forward to a career in immigration law. She grew up on a cattle farm in Arlington, Tennessee, just outside of Memphis, and she became interested in pursuing a career in law after becoming passionate about immigrant rights as an undergraduate. “I enrolled in classes directly related to immigration patterns in the U.S. and the U.S. South,” says Brewer. “I even traveled abroad to study the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. Those experiences motivated me to seek a career that would allow me…
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LSU Law awards 8 degrees to August 2020 graduates
August 24, 2020LSU Law has awarded degrees to eight students who completed their studies in August. All eight of the graduates earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and five earned also earned a Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law (JDCL). Jonathan Conrad Christian Chetta — JD/JDCL Gabriella Eleyna Diaz — JD/JDCL Adrian Lee Griggs — JD Alexander Logan — JD Charles Evan McMichael — JD/JDCL Kyle Patrick O'Shea — JD Whitney Michelle Ruan — JD/JDCL Kaitlin Aubrey Wall — JD/JDCL “I'm incredibly proud of our August graduates. Successfully completing the rigorous curriculum at LSU Law is a great accomplishment, and they did it…
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Professor Vicente to chair panel at 'Comparative Legal History' conference
August 24, 2020LSU Law Professor Lécia Vicente will chair a panel titled Comparative Law Studies in Context: The Challenges and Opportunities of Translation, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law. This year, the title of the conference is "Comparative Legal History" and it will be held via Zoom on Oct. 15-16. The conference calls for a systemic dialogue between comparative law experts and historians about the methods and goals of comparative legal history. The first step for such a conversation is translation, given that legal scholars and historians operate within different conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and linguistic rules. However,…
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Library Closed Monday
August 23, 2020Due to possible severe weather in the Baton Rouge area, the Law Library will be closed on Monday, August 24.
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LSU Law Faculty Play Key Role in U.S. Feminist Judgments Project
August 19, 2020Five LSU Law faculty members are part of a global collaboration of feminist law professors who are reimagining and rewriting key judicial decisions from a feminist perspective. The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project recognizes that the law is profoundly affected by the judges who interpret it. The project reimagines key decisions through a “feminist perspective that takes into account race, class, gender, disability and other status groups historically marginalized by the law.” Through a series of texts devoted to different subject areas, the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project shows the importance of feminist thought to all areas of the law and illustrates…
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Welcome
August 17, 2020Welcome back students! The Law Library staff looks forward to assisting you with your research needs. Please check the detailed hours page for library hours. Student ID cards are required this semester to access the library.
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