LSU Law News

August 14, 2011 - Professor Robert Lancaster, Director of Clinical Legal Education and the Singletary Professor of Professional Practice at the Law Center, has been named a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.  The Foundation works to improve the justice system and promotes equal justice under the law.  Professor Lancaster also serves as Secretary on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). 

Assistant Professor Ken Levy and co-author Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Philosophy Professor at Duke University) recently published “Insanity Defenses” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law 299-334 (eds. John Deigh and David Dolinko, 2011).  The article offers a legal and philosophical analysis of both the insanity defense and the different versions of the insanity defense that have developed in the United States.