Tulane University Law School

Infobox_University


name = Tulane University Law School
established = 1847
type = Private
dean= Lawrence Ponoroff
city = New Orleans
state = Louisiana
country = USA
students = 814
campus = Urban
website= http://www.law.tulane.edu

Tulane University Law School, established in 1847, is the 12th oldest law school in the United States. The Law School is centrally located on the uptown campus of Tulane University in New Orleans.

The Law School curriculum offers a complete selection of common law and federal subjects. In addition, Tulane offers electives in the civil law, with the result that students have the opportunity to pursue comparative education in the world’s two major legal systems. The breadth and depth of the curriculum permit students to survey a broad range of subject areas or to concentrate in one or more. Specifically, Tulane Law School's Environmental Law and Sports Law programs are among the best nationwide, and its Maritime Law program is widely considered the best in the world. [cite web|url=http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsAcademicPrograms/index.aspx?id=1710| title=Tulane Law School Program Academic Description|year=2007|publisher: Tulane] For over twenty years, the Law School has been the annual host of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, the preeminent M&A and corporate law forum in the country. [cite web|url=http://www.law.tulane.edu/uploadedFiles/Life_After_Law_School/CLE/PDFs_for_Events_and_Conferences/CLI-BROCHURE-WEB.pdf | title=20th Annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute Brochure|year=2008|publisher: Tulane|format=PDF] [cite web|url=http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/from-tulane-top-deal-makers-on-ma/| title=From Tulane, Top Deal Makers on M&A|year=2008|publisher: New York Times]

Facilities

The Law School’s convert|160000|sqft|m2|sing=on building, John Giffen Weinmann Hall, was completed in 1995. Designed to integrate classrooms, other student spaces, excellent computer facilities, faculty offices, and a state-of-the-art library that contains both national and international collections, the building is centrally located on Tulane University’s campus.

Immediately adjacent to Weinmann Hall is the Law School’s Career Development Office. Within minutes of the Law School building are the university’s Howard-Tilton Library, housing over one million volumes; the brand-new Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life; various university dining facilities; the university bookstore; the Reily Student Recreation Center; the Freeman School of Business; the Newcomb Art Gallery; and various auditoriums and performance venues.

In all, Tulane's uptown campus occupies over 110 acres (0.4 km²), facing St. Charles Avenue directly opposite Audubon Park. The campus is just a few blocks from the Mississippi River and a 25+ mile bicycling/jogging trail that runs along it. The campus architecture consists of several styles, including Richardsonian Romanesque, Elizabethan, Italian Renaissance, Brutalist Modern, and Ultramodern styles. Though there isn't a coherent building design across the entire campus, most buildings make use of similar materials. The front campus buildings use Indiana White Limestone or orange brick for exteriors, while the middle campus buildings are mostly adorned in red St. Joe brick, the staple of Newcomb College buildings. Loyola University is directly adjacent to Tulane, on the downriver side. The uptown campus is known for its many large live oak trees and architecturally historic buildings.

The Law School has been located on Tulane's uptown campus since 1906, and has been housed in several buildings since then, until the completion of Weinmann Hall. The Law School was previously located in Jones Hall from 1969 until 1995. Scenes for The Pelican Brief were filmed in Jones Hall, as it was at the time the Law School facilities.

Academic program

Tulane Law School ranks 44th in the nation, according to the 2009 edition of U.S. News & World Report, and it ranks 5th in environmental law. [cite web|url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php| title=USNews.com Top Law Schools|year=2007|publisher: usnews.com] [cite web|url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarank_brief.php| title=USNews.com: Top Business Schools|year=2007|publisher: usnews.com]

Six semesters in residence, completion of 88 credits with at least a C average, and fulfillment of an upper-level writing requirement and a 30-hour community service obligation are required for graduation from the JD degree program. The first-year curriculum comprises eight required courses. The first-year Legal Research and Writing Program is taught by instructors with significant experience as lawyers and writers, each assisted by senior fellows.

After the first year, all courses are elective, except for a required Legal Profession course. All first-year and many upper-class courses are taught in multiple sections to allow for smaller classes. The upper-class curriculum includes introductory as well as advanced courses in a broad range of subject areas, including international and comparative law, business and corporate law, environmental law, maritime law, criminal law, intellectual property, taxation, and litigation and procedure, among others.

At the graduate level, the Law School offers a general LL.M. program and an SJD program, as well as specialized LL.M. programs in maritime law, Energy and Environmental Law, American Business Law, and International and Comparative Law.

Tulane Law offers five optional concentration programs that allow JD students to receive one certificate of completion of successful studies in European Legal Studies, Environmental Law, maritime law, Sports Law, or Civil Law. Tulane’s Eason-Weinmann Center for Comparative Law, its Maritime Law Center, and its Institute for Water Policy & Law add depth to the curriculum. Tulane also offers strong curricula in intellectual property law, constitutional law, andbusiness, corporate, and commercial law. Tulane conducts an annual summer school in New Orleans and offers summer-study programs abroad (see section below). Tulane also offers semester-long exchange programs with select law schools in a number of countries throughout the world.

The Law School offers six live-client clinical programs: civil litigation, criminal defense, juvenile litigation, domestic violence [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsAcademicPrograms/index.aspx?id=4180] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_Law_School_Domestic_Violence_Clinic] , environmental law, and legislative and administrative advocacy. In addition, there is a Trial Advocacy program, and third-year students may engage in externships with federal and state judges, with a local death penalty project, or with certain administrative agencies. The school was the first in the country to institute a pro bono program requiring that each student complete community service work prior to graduation. For the next few years, students will likely engage in community service work related to the rebuilding of New Orleans subsequent to Hurricane Katrina. [cite web|url=http://officialguide.lsac.org//SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/LSAC_LawSchoolDescription/LSAC6832.pdf| title=ABA School Description|year=2007|publisher: LSAC|format=PDF]

ummer study abroad

Tulane’s historical commitment to the areas of international and comparative law, its relationships with foreign scholars (through its highly-regarded LLM programs), and its connections to its long-standing summer program locations have led to a particularly well-established group of programs. As of 2008, over 4,000 law students from approximately 140 U.S. law schools have attended Tulane Law Summer Abroad programs, taught by faculty from Tulane, other U.S. law schools, and universities abroad. Through the years, prominent scholars and prestigious federal judges have highlighted Tulane’s summer faculty. From the U.S. Supreme Court alone, these have included Justices Harry Blackmun, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. [cite web
url=http://www.law.tulane.edu/abroad/index.aspx?ekmensel=c580fa7b_168_0_4386_1
title=Tulane University Law School Summer Abroad
publisher=Tulane University Law School website
date=4/5/08] The Law School’s summer programs have taken place in a wide-variety of cities throughout the world, including:
*Amsterdam, Netherlands
*Berlin, Germany
*Cambridge, England
*Rhodes, Greece
*London, England
*Paris, France

JD/MBA program

Tulane benefits from having a top law school and a top business school located immediately next to one another, both of which consistently rank among the top 50 in the nation, according to the "U.S. News & World Report" and the Financial Times [cite web|url=http://media.ft.com/cms/353a8bdc-c804-11dc-94a6-0000779fd2ac.pdf| title= Financial Times 2008 MBA ranking|year=2008|publisher: Financial Times| accessdate=2008|format=PDF] (the Finance department in particular has been ranked among the top 10 in the world on several occasions [cite web|url=http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/ranks.htm| title= Freeman School @ Tulane - Rankings|year=2005|publisher: freeman.tulane.edu| accessdate=2007-06-07] [cite web|url=http://tulane.edu/news/releases/012808.cfm| title= Financial Times Names Tulane University Among World's Top 10 Schools for Finance - Rankings|year=2008|publisher: freeman.tulane.edu| accessdate=2008-04-19] ). This has facilitated the growth of Tulane's JD/MBA program. In the '06-'07 school year, Tulane boasted of having 25 joint JD/MBA candidates. [cite web
url=http://www.jointdegree.com/?q=node/51
title=Tulane to Maximize JD/MBA
publisher=jointdegree.com
date=2007-03-31] In March 2007, Tulane announced that it had hired a new business law professor, whose objectives would include "maximiz [ing] ...the growth of the Law School's JD/MBA joint degree," and strengthening ties between the law school and Freeman School of Business. [cite web
url=http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsNews/newsItem.aspx?id=2132
title=Prestigious Business Law Scholar Joins Tulane Faculty
publisher=Tulane University Law School website
date=2007-03-23] In January of 2008, the Tulane JD/MBA Club held a networking event in New York City with Nathan Pierce, the creator of [http://jdmba.com/ jdmba.com] , an interschool JD/MBA networking website.

Student activities

A Barristers' Ball is held annually at venues such as the Aquarium of the Americas and the National World War II Museum.

An active moot court program holds trial and appellate competitions within the school and fields teams for a variety of interschool competitions. The Law School has a chapter of the Order of the Coif. The Student Bar Association functions as the student government and recommends students for appointment to faculty committees. Over 40 student organizations are active at Tulane, including Tulane Law Women, Black Law Students Association, La Alianza, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Environmental Law Society, and several legal fraternities. The Tulane Public Interest Law Foundation raises funds, matched by the Law School, to support as many as 30 students each summer in public interest fellowships with a variety of organizations. [cite web|url=http://officialguide.lsac.org//SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/LSAC_LawSchoolDescription/LSAC6832.pdf| title=ABA School Description|year=2007|publisher: LSAC|format=PDF]

Journals published or edited at Tulane Law School include:
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/lawreview Tulane Law Review] "
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/enviro/index.aspx Tulane Environmental Law Journal] "
*"Tulane Maritime Law Journal"
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/tlas/index.aspx Journal of Law and Sexuality] "
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/jecl/index.aspx Tulane European and Civil Law Forum] "
*"Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law"
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/jtip/index.aspx Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property] "
*" [http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/slj/index.aspx Sports Lawyers Journal] ", edited by Tulane Law students, published by the national [http://www.sportslaw.org/ Sports Lawyers Association] .
*"Civil Law Commentaries", a publication of the Eason-Weinman Center for Comparative Law

Notable alumni

Governmental and business leaders

*Blair Batson, Law, 1986, former staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon
*Newton C. Blanchard, 1870, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Hale Boggs, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941-1943, 1946-1972 (D)
*Edwin S. Broussard, 1901, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (D)
*James H. "Jim" Brown, 1966, former Louisiana State Senator, Secretary of State, and Insurance Commissioner
*Buddy Caldwell, 1973, Attorney General of Louisiana (D)
*Rob Couhig, New Orleans businessman and politician (R)
*Edith Brown Clement, 1972, Justice, 5th Circuit (R)
*James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, 1931, U.S. Representative (D)
*Allen J. Ellender, 1913, U.S. Senator (D)
*Donald Ensenat, 1973, White House Chief of Protocol
*Murphy J. Foster, 1871, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Jim Garrison, 1949, New Orleans District Attorney (D), played by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone film "JFK"
*John Grenier, 1953, leader of the Alabama Republican Party (R)
*Jonathan Hensleigh, writer of "" (1995), "Jumanji" (1995), and "Armageddon" (1998) [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/530540/Jonathan-Hensleigh/filmography] Citation | title = Jonathan Hensleigh New York Times Filmography | date = 24 April 2008.] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DB123DF932A1575BC0A96E948260] Citation | title = Eleo Kaemmerer Marries a Writer | section = style| publisher = New York Times | location = New York, New York | date = 21 August 1988.] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378144/] Citation | title = IMDb Mini Biography | date = 24 April 2008.]
*Alvin Olin King, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Bob Livingston, 1968, U.S. Representative, 1977-1999 (R)
*Huey Long, 1915, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Charlton Lyons, 1916, "Father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana" (R)
*Angel Martín, 1953, former Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
*Kenneth McClintock, 1980, President of the Puerto Rico Senate
*Tucker L. Melancon, 1973, Justice, 5th Circuit since 1994
*Francis T. Nicholls, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Walter Nixon, 1951, impeached federal judge
*John H. Overton, 1897, U.S. Senator (D)
*Leander Perez, Judge and District Attorney of Plaquemines Parish in first half of twentieth century (D)
*Karen Carter Peterson, 1995, State Representative and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (D)
*David W. Pipes, Jr., 1910, congressional candidate (R)
*Robert Poydasheff, former mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003-2007) (R)
*Bill Pryor, 1987, Justice, 11th Circuit (R)
*Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., 1914, U.S. Representative (D)
*Jared Y. Sanders, Sr., 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Oramel H. Simpson, 1893 Governor of Louisiana (D)
*Mike Tannenbaum, 36-year-old General Manager of the New York Jets, graduated with Tulane's Sports Law certificate
*Roy R. Theriot, 1939, Louisiana Comptroller, 1960-1973 (D)
*Michael F. "Mike" Thompson, former Louisiana State Representative from Lafayette (R)
*David C. Treen, 1950 Governor of Louisiana (R)
*David Vitter, 1988, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (R)
*Elizabeth Weaver, 1965, Michigan Supreme Court Justice
*John Minor Wisdom, 1929, Judge, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit (R)
*Bob Wise, 1975, former Governor of West Virginia (D)

Partners at Vault's Top-100-Most-Prestigious Law Firms

Atlanta

*Kwame A. Benjamin, JD-2000, Seyfarth Shaw
*Reagan C. Brown, JD-1997, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
*Brian G. Corgan, JD-1979, Kilpatrick Stockton
*Eric J. Hanson, JD-1998, Hunton & Williams
*Roth Kehoe, JD/MBA-1996, King & Spalding
*Catherine D. Little, JD-1991, Hunton & Williams
*Susan H. Richardson, JD-1991, Kilpatrick Stockton
* B. Darrell Smelcer, JD-1982, Hunton & Williams

Bangkok

*Araya Akomsoonthorn, LLM, Mayer Brown
*Chinnavat Chinsangaram, LLM-1986, White & Case
*Yuthana Sivaraks, LLM-1994, Baker & McKenzie
*Chinachart Vatanasuchart, LLM, Mayer Brown
*Nipaporn Weskosith, LLM, Mayer Brown

Boston
*Robert B. Lovett, JD, Cooley Godward Kronish

Charlotte
*Peter James Covington, JD-1980, McGuireWoods
*Kristin P. Manzano, JD-1992, Alston & Bird

Chicago

*Shannon Skinner Anglin, JD-1998, Katten Muchin Rosenman
*Michael L. Coleman, JD-1973, Baker & McKenzie
*Linda Hoseman, JD-1989, Winston & Strawn
*Mona M. Stone, JD-1997, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

Cleveland
*Brian A. Bash, JD-1975, Baker Hostetler

Dallas

*Barry Y. Greenberg, JD-1988, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
*Cheryl L. Mann, JD-1995, Baker Botts
*Garry Miles, JD-1982, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
*Sanford E. Warren Jr., JD-1987 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
*Elizabeth L. Yingling, JD-1991, Baker & McKenzie

Germany
*Soenke Becker, Summer Program-1994, Baker & McKenzie
*Carsten Flasshoff, LLM-1998, Mayer Brown
*Nils Rahlf, LLM-1995, Morgan Lewis
*Matthias P. Scholz, LLM-1992, Baker & McKenzie
*Dr. Ulrich Scholz, LLM, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
*Thomas Stohlmeier, LLM-1991, Clifford Chance
*Dr. Klaus von Gierke, LLM, DLA Piper

Houston

*Shauna Clark, JD-1994, Fulbright & Jaworski
*Lucas T. Elliot, JD-1989, Morgan Lewis
*N. Scott Fletcher, JD-1989, Vinson & Elkins
*Ann A. Hawkins, JD-1994, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
*Kevin M. Jordan, JD-1988, Baker Botts
*Allyson Hancock Kinzel, JD-1999, Baker Hostetler
*Eric W. Kristiansen, JD-2000, Baker Hostetler
*Melinda R. Phelan, JD-1994, Baker & McKenzie
*Tristan E. Propst, JD/MBA-1998, Mayer Brown
*Rick L. Rambo, JD/MBA-1994, Morgan Lewis
*James L. Rice III, JD-1983, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
*Consuella Simmons Taylor, JD-1994, Baker Botts
*Gerald M. Spedale, JD-1993, Baker Botts
*Laurence E. Stuart, JD-1995, Baker & McKenzie
*Neil A. Wasserstrom, JD-1984, Mayer Brown

Los Angeles

*Robert S. Crowder, JD-1998, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
*Michael S. du Quesnay, JD/MBA-1995, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
*David A. Kettel, JD-1985, Venable LLP

Miami
*Frances Gail Faigenblat, JD-1995, Holland & Knight
*Jose M. Ferrer, JD-1999, Baker & McKenzie

Moscow
*Christopher A. Rose, JD-1998, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

New Orleans
*Victoria M. de Lisle, JD-1992, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
*Robert W. Mouton, JD/MBA-1989, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

New York

*Jacob J. Amato, JD-1997, III, Sidley Austin
*Kerry E. Berchem, JD-1991, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
*Lawrence B. Brownridge, JD-1980, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
*Aydin S. Caginalp, JD-1974, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
*Jared R. Clark, JD-1995, Bingham McCutchen
*Michael A. Cohen, JD-1999, Kirkland & Ellis
*Robert Goldstein, JD-1995, Schulte Roth & Zabel
*Andrew W. Hammond, JD-1997, White & Case
*Tracy Kimmel, JD-1992, King & Spalding
*Perla M. Kuhn, MCL-1961, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
*Dan A. Kusnetz, JD-1982, Schulte Roth & Zabel
*Thomas Lane, JD-1991, Winston & Strawn
*Michael R. Littenberg, JD-1990, Schulte Roth & Zabel
*Gregory M. McKenzie, JD-1990, Kelley Drye & Warren
*Stephanie J. Meltzer, JD-1994, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
*David H. Midvidy, JD-1990, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
*R. King Milling, JD-1996, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
*Charles Parsons, JD-1998, Proskauer Rose
*Christopher L. Pennington, JD-1994, Proskauer Rose
*Bernie J. Pistillo, JD-1981, Shearman & Sterling
*Richard A. Presutti, JD-1996, Schulte Roth & Zabel
*Christopher Price, JD-1985, Goodwin Procter
*Gianni P. Servodidio, JD-1993, Jenner & Block
*Cynthia R. Shoss, JD-1974, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
*Waajid Siddiqui, JD/MBA-1991, Hogan & Hartson
*Raymond Simon, JD-1985, White & Case
*Alan J. Stone, JD-1987, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
*Walter B. Stuart, JD-1973, Vinson & Elkins
*Marc J. Veilleux, JD-1988, K&L Gates
*Jedd H. Wider, JD-1992, Morgan Lewis
*John M. Woods, JD-1980, Thacher Proffitt & Wood

Norfolk
*James P. Naughton, JD-1980, Hunton & Williams

Paris

*Ann G. Baker, JD-1981, Morgan Lewis
*Christian Belloin, LLM-1980, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
*Thomas McDonald, JD-1974, White & Case

Philadelphia
*Andrew P. Schmutz, JD/MBA-1996, Greenberg Traurig

Phoenix
*J. Alex Grimsley, JD-1991, Bryan Cave

Richmond
*Eugene E. Mathews III, JD-1993, McGuireWoods
*Janet P. Peyton, JD-1995, McGuireWoods

San Diego
*Anthony M. Stiegler, JD-1986, Cooley Godward Kronish

San Francisco Bay Area

*Gary L. Benton, JD-1984, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
*Alec Y. Chang Palo, JD-1990, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
*Scott P. Spector, JD-1974, Fenwick & West

Seattle
* Trilby C. E. Robinson-Dorn, JD-1997, K&L Gates

Taipei

*William E. Bryson, JD-1984, Jones Day
*H. Henry Chang, JD-1987, Baker & McKenzie
*Bobby W. F. Huang, LLM-1991, MCL-1992, JD-1994, Baker & McKenzie
*David T. Liou, LLM-1980, Baker & McKenzie

Tokyo
*Motonori Araki, LLM-1988, Morrison & Foerster
*Kenichi Nakayama, LLM-1990, Baker & McKenzie Washington, D.C.

*Shauna E. Alonge, JD-1979, Crowell & Moring
*M. Miller Baker, JD-1984, McDermott Will
*Alan T. Dickey, JD-1996, Patton Boggs LLP
*Alan M. Fisch, JD-1994, Kaye Scholer
*Pamela S. Kane, JD-1994, Howrey
*Vanessa Richelle Wilson, JD-1994, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
*Josh Romanow, JD, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
*Lisa K. Rushton, JD-1994, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
*Jennifer Ancona Semko, JD-1998, Baker & McKenzie
*Robert H. Shulman, JD-1979, Howrey
*Stephen M. Spina, JD-1996, Morgan Lewis
*Jay T. Taylor, JD-2000, McDermott Will
*D. Jean Veta, JD-1981, Covington & Burling
*Matthew K. White, JD-1997, McDermott Will

Popular culture references

*In "The Pelican Brief", Julia Roberts plays the role of a precocious 24-year-old Tulane Law student.
*Tulane Law School graduate Jim Garrison was played by Kevin Costner in "JFK", an Oliver Stone film.
*In Frank's Place Bubba Weisberger (played by Robert Harper) was a graduate of Tulane Law School.

References

External links

* [http://www.law.tulane.edu/ Tulane University Law School]
* [http://officialguide.lsac.org//SearchResults/SchoolPage_PDFs/ABA_LawSchoolData/ABA6832.pdf ABA School Data]

ee also

*Civil Law Commentaries
*Tulane Corporate Law Institute
*Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
*Tulane Law School Domestic Violence Clinic
*Tulane Maritime Law Journal