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Tulane University Law School

Tulane University Law Schoolis thelaw schoolofTulane University.It is located on Tulane'sUptowncampus inNew Orleans,Louisiana.Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States.[3]

Tulane University Law School
MottoNon Sibi Sed Suis(Latin)
"Not for oneself, but for one's own"
Established1847;177 years ago(1847)
School typePrivatelaw school
DeanMarcilynn Burke[1]
LocationNew Orleans,Louisiana,U.S.
USNWRranking78th (tie) (2024)[2]
Websitelaw.tulane.edu
ABA profileStandard 509 Report

Campus

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John Giffen Weinmann Hall,Tulane UniversityLaw School's main building.

The law school's 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) building, John Giffen Weinmann Hall, was completed in 1995. Designed to integrate classrooms, a student lounge, a computer lab, faculty offices, and alaw librarythat contains both national and international collections, the building is centrally located on Tulane'sUptowncampus. The law school has been on the Uptown campus since 1906, and has been housed in several buildings since then, until the completion of Weinmann Hall. The law school was located in Jones Hall from 1969 until 1995, where scenes forThe Pelican Briefwere filmed.

Next to Weinmann Hall on the 6200 block of Freret Street is the Law Annex, a light graycobblestonebuilding that houses the Center for Energy Law and the Center for Environmental Law. The Law Annex was a faculty residence before being converted for its current use.[4]Nearby is the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane's main library; the Lavin-Bernick Center, which houses university dining facilities and the university bookstore; the Reily Student Recreation Center (a gym with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and basketball, squash, and tennis courts); theFreeman School of Business;the Newcomb Art Gallery; and various other buildings.

The Uptown campus is marked by many largelive oaktrees and historically significant buildings.Architectural stylesincludeRichardsonian Romanesque,Elizabethan,Renaissance,Brutalist,andModern architecture.The front-of-campus buildings use whiteIndiana Limestoneor orange brick for exteriors, while the middle-of-campus buildings are mostly adorned in red St. Joe brick. In all, Tulane's Uptown campus occupies more than 110 acres (0.4 km2), facingSt. Charles Avenuedirectly oppositeAudubon Park,which features theAudubon Zoo,and a 1.8-mile (2.9 km) pedestrian trail around a public golf course. The campus is also a short bicycle ride from theMississippi Riverand a 25+ mile bicycling/jogging trail that runs along it. TheSt. Charles Avenue Streetcar Linemakes the campus accessible via public transit.Loyola Universityis directly adjacent to Tulane, on the downriver side.

Academic program

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Jones Hall, where the law school was located from 1969 until 1995 and where scenes forThe Pelican Briefwere filmed.

To complete theJuris Doctor(J.D.)degreeprogram, a student must finish six semesters in residence, 88 credit hours, an upper-level writing requirement, and a 50-hour community-service obligation. 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 electives, 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, includinginternationalandcomparative law,business law,corporate law, environmental law, maritime law,criminal law,intellectual property,taxation,litigation,andcivil procedure,among others.

Tulane Law offers six optionalconcentration programsfor J.D. students who wish to receive one certificate of completion in an area. The six areEuropean legal studies,environmental law, international and comparative law, maritime law, sports law, or civil law.

Tulane's Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law,[5]its Maritime Law Center,[6]and its Institute on Water Policy & Law,[7]promote scholarship in comparative, maritime, and environmental law.

Tulane conducts an annual summer school in New Orleans and offers summer-study programs abroad. Tulane also offers semester-long exchange programs with select law schools in a number of countries throughout the world.

In addition to the J.D., the school offers two graduate degrees in law: TheMaster of Laws(LL.M.) theDoctor of Laws(S.J.D.) program. The five specialized LL.M. programs are in: maritime law, energy and environmental law, American business law, American law, and international and comparative law.[8]LL.M. students may also pursue a general LL.M., which does not concentrate in any one area.[8]

The law school offers sixlive-client clinical programs,in the areas of:civil litigation,criminal defense,juvenile litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy,domestic violence,andenvironmental law(theTulane Environmental Law Clinic). In addition, there is a trial-advocacy program, and third-year students may engage inexternshipswith federal and state judges, with a localdeath-penaltyproject, or with certain administrative agencies. The judicial externships are possible because of Tulane's close proximity to theU.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,theU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana,and theLouisiana Supreme Court,all of which are in New Orleans. The school was the first in the country to institute apro bonoprogram requiring that each student complete legally related community service prior to graduation.[9]

Every summer,BarBri,a nationalbar exam-preparation company, offersNew York Bar ExamandLouisiana Bar Exampreparation courses at the Tulane Law School. Additionally, aCalifornia Bar Exampreparation course is offered when demand warrants it, as it did in 2010.

Study abroad programs

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Tulane Law School was one of the first five schools in the United States to offer a foreign summer law program.[10]As of 2008, over 4,000 law students from approximately 140 U.S. law schools attended Tulane Law's summer abroad programs, taught by faculty from Tulane, other U.S. law schools, and universities abroad.[11]Through the years, prominent scholars andfederal judgeshave highlighted Tulane's summer faculty, includingSupreme CourtjusticesHarry Blackmun,Stephen Breyer,Ruth Bader Ginsburg,Antonin Scalia,andWilliam Rehnquist.[11]In the past, the law school's summer programs have taken place inAmsterdamin theNetherlands;BerlininGermany;CambridgeandLondoninEngland;ParisandGrenobleinFrance;RhodesandSpetsesinGreece;andSienainItaly.

JD/MBA program

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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 theU.S. News & World Reportand theFinancial Times[12](theFinancedepartment in particular has been ranked among the top 10 in the world on several occasions).[13][14]This close proximity has facilitated the growth of Tulane'sJD/MBAprogram. In the '06–'07 school year, Tulane boasted of having 25 joint JD/MBA candidates.[15]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 andFreeman School of Business.[16]In January 2008, the Tulane JD/MBA Club held a networking event inNew York Citywith the creator of jdmba.com, an interschool JD/MBA networking website.

Recent JD/MBA graduates have gone on to work forlaw firms,management consultingfirms,investment banks,andin-house legal departmentsin New York, Houston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and other cities. The program does not require highly qualified applicants to have significant full-time work experience.

In March 2009, the university announced the designation of a $1.5 million donation to support in perpetuity a JD/MBA professor of national stature at Tulane.[17]

JD/MHA program

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The joint Juris Doctor/Master of Health Administration program with the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (TUSPH&TM) permits students to earn both degrees in 4 years, whereas normally the JD would take 3 years and the MHA, 2 years. Students take 79 units in the law school (rather than the normally-required 88 units) and 46 units in TUSPH&TM.[18]Students are permitted to skip the course Social and Behavioral Aspects of Global Health which is normally required for the Public Health Core.[18]Students take Health Care Law in the law school instead of the TUSPH&TM version of the course, and the course counts for both JD and MHA.

In recent years, the program has enrolled 0–2 students per year and graduating students have gone into health care law practice and health care management in approximately equal numbers.

JD/MA in Latin American Studies

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Enriched by Tulane's position of hosting one of the top Latin American Studies programs in the United States, thejoint degree in law and Latin American Studiesmeets the need for "lawyer-statesmen" who know the law and who understand the societies of Latin America. The program employs a multi-disciplinary approach intended to enhance appreciation of the economic, social, political, and other forces in Latin America that influence the development of law and legal institutions. In addition to law school requirements, students pursuing the joint JD/MA in Latin American Studies must complete 24 semester hours of coursework in graduate courses approved by theRoger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.Demonstrated competence in either Spanish or Portuguese is required, and competence in both is encouraged.

Degrees in international development

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ThePayson Center for International Development,which became part of the Law School in 2008, confers Master of Science, Joint Juris Doctor and Master of Science, Master of Laws (LLM) in Development, and Doctoral degrees.[19]

Employment statistics

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According to Tulane Law School's 2015ABA-required disclosures, 60% of the Class of 2015 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo practitioners, and 4.9% of the class was seeking employment but not employed.[20]According to Tulane Law School's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 63.3% of the Class of 2016 was employed in non-school-funded, full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs nine months after graduation, and 6.5% of the class was seeking employment but not employed.[21]

Career development services

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Tulane Law School's Career Development Office has five career counselors, newly recruited.[22]The School also has an office coordinator.

Rankings and reputation

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According to the 2023–2024rankingspublished byU.S. News & World Report,Tulane University Law School is ranked 78th (tied) amongst 196law schoolsfully accredited by theAmerican Bar Association.[23]In March 2018, Law.com ranked Tulane Law 36th among its list of The Top 50 Go-To Law Schools.[24]Tulane Law is ranked 37th in Law School 100's 2018 ranking, which relies on a qualitative assessment.[25]The Leiter Law School ranking, conducted in 2010, put Tulane at 38th, based on student quality.[26]TheHylton law school rankings,conducted in 2006, put Tulane at 39th.[27]

Bar passage

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Tulane University Law School graduates had the 2nd highest passing rate, after LSU, on the Louisiana State Bar Exam administered in July 2021, according to results released by the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee. In all, 84.3 percent of Tulane students passed the bar on their first attempt, compared to the state average of 78.4 percent.[28]

Ethnic diversity

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In scoring that runs from.14 (least ethnically diverse) to.73 (most diverse), Tulane's diversity index, according to the latestU.S. News & World ReportLaw School Diversity Index, is.33, with Hispanic students the largest minority at 8% of the student body.[29]By way of comparison, among the top ten of U.S. News & World Report's Best Law Schools, those nearest to Tulane in this category are Duke University, with a score of.42, and University of Virginia, at.37.

More recently, Tulane Law's total student population is 76% White, with Students of Color making up 24% of the student body.[30]Tulane Law Faculty's is composed of only 8 Full-Time Faculty members of Color and 9 more Non-full-Time Faculty of color for a total of 17 or 14% of its total faculty.[30]

Costs

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Tuition and fees for a full-time Tulane Law School student for the 2017–2018 academic year are $54,658 ($50,358 tuition and $4,300 in mandatory fees). The total cost of attendance (tuition, fees, books and living expenses) for the 2017–2018 academic year is estimated at $77,334.[31]

Law School Transparencyestimated total cost of attendance for three years at $284,440 in 2017,[32]noting that for the 2015–16 academic year, 32.3% of students received scholarships of 50% or more of tuition and fees.[33]

Student activities

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Student organizations sponsor educational programs and social events throughout the academic year. The law school also periodically hosts social events with theTulane University School of Medicineand theFreeman School of Business.

An activemoot courtprogram holds trial and appellate competitions within the school and fields teams for a variety of interschool competitions.[34]The Law School has a chapter of theOrder of the Coif.[35]TheStudent Bar Associationfunctions as the student government and recommends students for appointment to faculty committees.[36]Over 40 student organizations are active at Tulane, including Tulane Criminal Law Society, Federal Bar Association, Maritime Law Society, Sports Law Society, Tulane Women In Law, OUTLaw, Black Law Students Association, Latinx Law Student Association (Formally known as La Alianza), Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Energy & Environmental Law Society, and several legal fraternities.[37]The Tulane Public Interest Law Foundation raises funds, matched by the Law School, to support as many as 30 students each summer inpublic interestfellowships with a variety of organizations.[38]

Journals published or edited at Tulane Law School include:

Notable professors

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Current

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  • Ann M. Lipton - Michael M. Fleishman Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship[39]
  • Adam Babich - fellow to American College of Environmental Lawyers[40]
  • Gabe Feldman – legal analyst for NFL Network[41]

Former

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Notable alumni

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Main article:List of Tulane University Law School alumni
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  • In the sitcomFrank's Place,Bubba Weisberger (played byRobert Harper) is a Tulane Law School graduate.
  • CBS60 Minutes IIfeatures TELC's work in the episode "Justice for Sale?" (March 24, 2000)[48]
  • PBSFrontlinefeatures TELC's work in the episode, "Justice for Sale" (November 23, 1999)[49]
  • NOW on PBSfeatures TELC's work in the episode, "Formula for Disaster" (July 15, 2005).[50]

See also

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