LSU Law News
September 2023
LSU Law alumni encouraged to take survey on first-year curriculum as faculty launch comprehensive evaluation of course offerings
September 27, 2023LSU Law faculty are working to complete a comprehensive evaluation of curriculum for first-year students at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, and alumni are encouraged to weigh in via a survey. “Our curriculum has served us for nearly a quarter of a century. It led to the top bar passage rate in the state and consistently high job placement. But we need to get ahead of the curve for the next decade and beyond,” said Professor Maggie Thomas, who chairs the LSU Law Curriculum Committee. “The goal is to ensure we continue to serve our students, and those…
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'Personal Genome Medicine' by LSU Law Professor Michael J. Malinowski published by Cambridge University Press
September 26, 2023) and more than 50 law review articles, as well as one children’s book (“Why Am I Me?”, 2019). Professor Malinowski earned his B.A. in 1987 from Tufts University and his J.D. in 1991 from Yale Law School, where he served as articles editor of The Yale Law Journal.
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Sherwood-Saul, Thompson win Fall 2023 Flory Mock Trial Competition
September 26, 2023Fall 2023 Flory Mock Trial Competition champions Anada Sherwood-Saul and Caidyn Thompson (left to right) with Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts, Kyla Romanach, Jacob Lester, and Summer Knight. LSU Law students Ananda Sherwood-Saul and Caidyn Thompson won the Fall 2023 Ira S. Flory Mock Trial Competition on Monday, Sept. 25, besting classmates Summer Knight and Jacob Lester in the Flory finals in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. In what was one of the largest internal mock trial tournaments in LSU Law history, the Fall 2023 Flory Mock Trial Competition began with 37 teams in the preliminary…
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LSU Law alumnus Russell Stutes Jr. (’91) makes major gift to create Small Business and Community Development Clinic honoring late father
September 26, 2023Cissy and Russell J. Stutes, Sr. (center) at their 55th wedding anniversary celebration with their children (from left to right) Lisa Stutes, Christi Stutes Clark, Russell “Rusty” Stutes, Jr., and Leslie Stutes Milligan. LSU Law alumnus Russell “Rusty” Stutes, Jr. (’91) has made a major gift to the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center to create the Russell J. Stutes Small Business and Community Development Clinic. Stutes and his mother, Cissy Stutes, made a gift in excess of $500,000 in memory of his late father Russell J. Stutes, Sr., a self-made contractor who built the Russell J. Stutes Construction company…
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Student Organization Spotlight: Hispanic Law Students Association
September 25, 2023Officers of the Hispanic Law Students Association include, from left to right, Outreach Chair David Gonzalez, Vice President Miriam Grant, President Yenifer Flores, Secretary Christina Ryan, and Treasurer Zachary Smith. Professor Lisa Avalos (not pictured) serves as Faculty Advisor. The Hispanic Law Students Association helps foster a connected and inclusive campus community at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center by hosting events that celebrate Latinx culture and promote meaningful collaborations among all students. “HLSA’s mission at LSU Law is to create a community for Latinx students to meet new people and celebrate Latin culture,” said 3L and HLSA president Yenifer…
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LSU Law students have honor of being named in ‘unicorn’ decision published by US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
September 22, 2023LSU Law students (from left to right) Broxton Lance Harvey , Kimberly Cook, Angelle Boudreaux, U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals Senior Appellate Military Judge Natalie D. Richardson, Hannah Turner, John Arboleda, and Chad Thornton at the reception in the Student Lounge following the March 22 hearing the Robinson Courtroom. When the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals held oral arguments at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in March—providing six LSU Law students with the rare privilege to submit amicus curiae briefs and argue them before a three-judge panel—the case in question “looked fairly routine,” in…
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LSU Law alumna Olivia Maynard (’23) returns to alma mater to join staff as advocacy fellow
September 22, 2023LSU Law Class of 2023 graduate Olivia Maynard has returned to the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center to join the staff as advocacy fellow. Maynard will work closely with LSU Law Director of Field Placements and Moot Court/Trial Advocacy Program Jeff Brooks to coach and prepare students for moot court, mock trial, and alternative dispute resolution competitions, as well as assist with administering the program. “One of Olivia’s primary responsibilities is to provide one-on-one assistance and coaching to any students who are participating in any of our competitions and teams,” said Brooks. “Olivia’s advocacy skills and prior moot court…
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Your Gifts at Work: Ryan McNeil
September 22, 2023Of the roughly 150,000 Americans who earn a GED each year, just 1% go on to pursue a professional degree. When third-year LSU Law student Ryan McNeil graduates next spring, he will proudly join the ranks of that exceptional 1%. “Statistically, as a non-traditional and first-generation law student, I am an anomaly,” McNeil acknowledged. “Nevertheless, the pursuit of law has allowed me to feel empowered for the first time in my life.” After earning his GED, McNeil completed 30 credit hours at Baton Rouge Community College before earning his bachelor’s degree in history from LSU. He spent two years working…
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Dean’s Council Spotlight: Kristin Wall
September 19, 2023While she never envisioned that one day she would lead Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation insurance provider, Kristin Wall (’89) credits her time at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center with giving her the critical thinking skills she’s needed as president and CEO of LWCC. “I am completely certain that I would not have had the opportunities to be in the leadership positions that I have had without the education I received at LSU Law,” Wall said as to why she supports the Law Center as a member of the Dean’s Council. “It was a life-changing experience for me, and…
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Wyoming Law Professor Tara K. Righetti to discuss carbon capture at the 2023 Liskow Visiting Professor in Energy Law Lecture
September 19, 2023University of Wyoming College of Law Professor Tara K. Righetti will visit LSU Law on Tuesday, Nov. 14, to present on carbon capture at the 2023 Liskow Visiting Professor in Energy Law Lecture. Righetti's lecture, "Land & Regulatory Consequences of Carbon Sequestration Well Classifications," will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Robinson Courtroom, with a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public, parking will be available onsite, and attendees can earn one Louisiana CLE hour. Prior to joining the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2014, Righetti served in legal and…
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Voting Rights & Election Law
September 18, 2023As the election season approaches, be sure to check out HeinOnline's Voting Rights & Election Law database. This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote. It contains content on historical and more recent elections, as well as elections conducted both in the United States and from around the world.
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Texas Law Professor Joshua Sellers to deliver Constitution Day Lecture at LSU Law on Sept. 22
September 13, 2023LSU Law will host The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Professor Joshua Sellers for the annual LSU Constitution Day Lecture on Friday, Sept. 22. Sellers’s lecture, “The Constitution and American Democracy,” will begin at 12:40 p.m. in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Following the lecture, LSU Law Professor John Devlin will provide comments on Sellers’s remarks. Sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Institute, the George W. and Jean H. Pugh Institute for Justice, and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, the program is free and open to…
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LSU Law welcomes Nikolaos Davrados to faculty
September 7, 2023LSU Law welcomes former European Union legal advisor and international scholar Nikolaos Davrados, Ph.D. to the faculty. He will begin his first semester at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center teaching legal traditions and conflicts of law this fall. Davrados was previously an associate professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. He joined Loyola Law as a visiting assistant professor in 2014 and earned the Professor of the Year award four times in the nearly ten years he was there. He also taught at the University of Athens School of Law and the University of…
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Federal Bar Association of New Orleans honors LSU Law alumnus with John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award
September 1, 2023R. Patrick Vance ('75) giving his acceptance speech for the John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award from the Federal Bar Association-New Orleans Chapter on August 23, 2023. Patrick “Pat” Vance (’75) became the first LSU Law alumnus to receive the John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award from the Federal Bar Association-New Orleans Chapter on Aug. 23, 2023. The award recognizes an attorney who “best exemplifies outstanding professionalism in the practice of law.” “I want to thank the selection committee of the Federal Bar Association for this singular honor,” Vance said as he accepted the award at the Federal Bar Association…
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