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October 2009
October 8, 2009

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 Obama’s nominee against her predecessor David Souter, Vol. 20, no. 3, August 20, 2009, written before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings. The essay is online
Professor Christine Corcos presented a talk on broadcast indecency in the UK as part of a program on “Broadcast Indecency: Much Ado About Nothing? Or Still Much to Do?” in August during the SEALS (Southeastern Association of Law Schools) Conference in Palm Beach, Florida.

Professor Corcos published the essay Damages: The Truth is Out There,” in ...

May 2009
May 4, 2009

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 Constitutional Fundamental Rights; Professor Sheldon Leader, University of Essex (United Kingdom), March 23 - April 8, taught International Trade, Investment, and Human Rights.

The Center of Civil Law Studies initiated a Civil Law Workshop Series in honor of Professor Saúl Litvinoff. The general topic is Civil Law and Common Law: Cross Influences, Contamination and Permeability. All three guest speakers were Distinguished Visiting Professors this semester: Fernando Toller, Towards a Revival of the Case Method in Civil Law Education,...

April 2009
April 6, 2009

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 Jerry Goldman, inventor of the Oyez Project, at a Loyola Law Review symposium on the use of technology in the courtroom, the classroom, and beyond on Friday, March 13. Baier's paper, Beyond Black Ink: From Langdell to the Oyez Project-The Voice of the Past, details the use of Supreme Court oral arguments in legal pedagogy and professional development in the law schools. Baier brought his use of the Supreme Court sound recordings of oral argument down to date, 25 years after he first published an account of their availability for use in law teaching in the Journal of Legal Education, What Is the Use of a Law Book Without Pictures or...

March 2009
March 3, 2009

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 honored with a Certificate of Merit at the 50th annual Dunbar Awards luncheon. The Dunbar Award is the highest honor that a state employee can receive. The program recognizes classified state employees for their service to the state and citizens of Louisiana. Bland was nominated by Professor Paul Baier. She has dedicated 30 years to state civil service employment, all of which have been at LSU. Seventeen of those years have been at the Law Center.

"Reading (the nomination) brought tears to my eyes," Bland said. "I wanted my granddaughter, who was my guest at the table, to know that hard work and dedication pays off...

February 2009
January 29, 2009

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 visiting fellow at Cambridge University's Clare Hall while on sabbatical for the spring semester. Clare Hall is a college for advanced study at the university.

Emily Saleh recently joined the staff of the LSU Law Center as associate registrar and institutional research analyst. She previously worked as an administrative program specialist for LSU’s Office of Budget & Planning for more than two years.

As associate registrar, Saleh will assist the registrar in all functions and procedures regarding student records and registration. As an institutional research analyst, she will research,...

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 peer-reviewed journal published by Springer.

Professor Alain Levasseur and Law Librarian Vicenc Feliu updated the book Moreau Lislet: The Man Behind the Digest of 1808. The book was featured in a book review by The Advocate.

Professor Olivier Moreteau presented a paper on Recodification in Louisiana and Latin America at a Tulane International Colloquium commemorating the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Civil Code. The paper, co-authored with Agustín Parise, Research Associate at the Center of Civil law Studies (CCLS), will appear in the Tulane Law Review. Together with Claitor’s Publishing...

December 2008 Faculty/Staff News Items
November 24, 2008

Professor Paul Baier's retrospective portrait, Of Judicial Freedom and Judicial Restraint: The Voice of Louisiana's Judge Albert Tate, Jr., was published in 35 Southern University Law Review, No. 2, Spring 2008. The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed., Macmillian USA) was published at the end of October 2008 and includes two essays by Baier, Edward Douglass White and The White Court.

In connection with the state supreme court elections, Professor John Baker, along with Jason Dore, published a widely distributed monograph entitled The Louisiana Supreme Court: Making Policy or Interpreting the Law. Related to the publication, he served as a panelist on a WLAE-TV program interviewing candidates for the supreme court and also provided commentary on WWL radio in New Orleans. Baker also participated on a law review symposium panel at Cooley Law School addressing "the War on Terror."

Professor Alain Levasseur...

November 2008 Faculty/Staff News Items
October 29, 2008

LSU Law Professor Paul R. Baier presented his model of an Honors Law course, which he has taught for more than a decade at LSU Law, at the National Collegiate Honors Council's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Baier also successfully represented Secretary of State Jay Dardenne in the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with LSU Law alumna Celia Cangelosi, Baier opposed a stay application filed with Justice Antonin Scalia by the Libertarian Party, which challenged a ruling by the Fifth Circuit keeping the Libertarian Party off the November Presidential election ballot because of its failure to comply in a timely fashion with the state’s filing requirements for ballot access. Scalia referred the application to the full Court, which issued an order of denial.

Charlene Cain, head of Access Services in the LSU Law Library, was one of two expert speakers at the University of Louisiana at Monroe's celebration of 60 years as a member of the Louisiana State Documents Depository...

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