Category Archives: Scholarship & Service

Professor 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 [...]

February 2010 Professor Lucy S. McGough, the Law Center’s Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law, was named a Distinguished Professor and a Calogero Justice Award recipient by the Louisiana Bar Foundation. She will be honored at a gala to be held in April in New Orleans. The Distinguished Professor honor is in recognition of individuals [...]

Professor Christine Corcos’ review of Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer (Harvard University Press, 2009), will appear in Volume 50 of the American Journal of Legal History. Professor Olivier Moréteau, the Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Chair, inaugurated a new Workshop Series at McGill University on Civil Law and its Codes: A Journey Across the [...]

Chancellor Jack Weiss joined other First Amendment scholars in a recent panel discussion titled, Developments in First Amendment Jurisprudence. If you’re interested in First Amendment law, you’re likely to be familiar with the November 12-13, 2009 conference in New York City, Communications Law in the Digital Age. The conference, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute [...]

Heather Hamilton is the newest member of the Law Library staff, as the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian. Heather comes to the Law Library after graduating from William & Mary School of Law in the class of 2009. The New Hampshire Bar Association News published Professor Baier’s essay, “Classic Traits”: Souter/Sotomayor, which weighs President [...]

During the Spring 2009 semester the LSU Law Center welcomed three Distinguished Visitors who brought their own distinct global perspectives, enriching the experience of law faculty and students alike: Professor Ulrich Magnus, University of Hamburg (Germany), February 10 – March 4, taught International Sales Law; Professor Fernando Toller, Austral University (Argentina), February 9 – February 27, taught [...]

Professor Paul Baier was the featured panelist at the Chapman University School of Law’s Nexus Journal 2009 Symposium on Judicial Activism: Same Sex Marriage and the Aftermath of Proposition 8. He spoke as part of the first panel, which discussed whether or not the courts were entering into the political policymaking arena. Baier also joined [...]

Professor Paul Baier was a featured speaker at a symposium on judicial activism at Chapman Law School in Orange, Califorinia. His paper, “Hugo Black and Judicial Lawmaking: Forty Years in Retrospect,” will be published in Chapman’s Nexus Journal of Law and Public Policy. Cynthia Bland, an administrative assistant at the LSU Law Center, was recently [...]

Paul Baier’s play, Father Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White and the Constitution, was performed on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Loyola University’s Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall. The play featured Chief Justice (Ret.) Pascal Calogero, Justice (Ret.) Harry Lemmon, Judge Robert Downing, Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, Judge Fredericka Wicker, and other notables. Ken Murchison is a [...]

Professor Paul Baier was interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered concerning the 5th Circuit Court and its handling of the Albert Woodfox case. For more information, click here. Professor Christine Corcos has been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, a [...]