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LSU Law Center Chancellor Jack M. Weiss joined fellow members of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court on March 12, 2012 to honor and celebrate the judicial career of Chief Justice Catherine D. “Kitty” Kimball.   The highlight of the ceremony was the unveiling of a portrait of the justice.

Chief Justice Kimball is in her 29^th year as a member of the judiciary.  Before joining the Supreme Court she served on the 18^th Judicial District Court.  Kimball is a 1970 graduate of the LSU Law Center.  In 1999, she was honored as the Distinguished Alumnae of the Year.  Kimball served as a member of the Law Center’s Board of Trustees from 1998-2001, a Visiting Professor for the 2008 summer program, and a commencement speaker in May 2001.

LSU Law students Mark Assad and Christopher Caswell placed second in the nation at the National Energy and Sustainability Law Moot Court Competition that was hosted by the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia on March 15 to 17. Twenty teams from around the country competed in the competition. This year’s competition examined the federal regulation and shutdown of a faulty nuclear power plant in the months following the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan. The team also received an award for Second Place Best Brief, and was ranked as the #1 seed overall following the four preliminary rounds of the competition. Mr. Caswell received an award for Third Place Best Oralist, and Mr. Assad received an award for Fourth Place Best Oralist.

The Law Center’s Energy and Sustainability Moot Court team is coached by Professor Jeffrey...

The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new database, the Intellectual Property Law Collection.

With more than 2 million pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks, this new collection allows researchers to search across all intellectual property law materials in one database.

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LSU Law students gained valuable insight to the appellate process when the First Circuit Court of Appeal heard oral arguments at the Law Center, February 8 and 9.  On occasion, as part of its education outreach program, the First Circuit travels to various locations within its jurisdiction, such as the Law Center, to hold court.  The Honorable John Pettigrew, Page McClendon, and Jewel “Duke” Welch transformed the David Robinson Courtroom into their own as they heard oral arguments over the two-day period.  Over 350 students and attorneys attended the arguments.

Congratulations to Lauren Anderson, Eden Davis, Shannon Kelly, Thomas McCall, and Claire Popovich, who competed at the Southeast Super-Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Houston, Texas February 24 through 26, 2012.

Kelly and Davis were undefeated in their preliminary rounds at the Super-Regional.  Of the 92 oralists at the competition, Anderson was the eighth-highest-scoring oralist, while McCall received an award for being in the top 20 best oralists.  The team also received an award for writing the eighth-place memorial (brief).

The Jessup Competition is the world's largest moot court competition, with participants from over 500 law schools in 80 countries. The competition is a simulation of a dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial body...

Law students Anna Brown and Kellyn Elmer each received an individual “Best Oralist” recognition during their three preliminary rounds at the annual National Environmental Moot Court Competition. Pace Law School in White Plains, New York was the setting for this year’s competition.

With over seventy teams consisting of over two hundred individual competitors from law schools across the country, the National Environmental Moot Court competition is one of the largest and most prestigious moot court events in the country, and is the most competitive of the many environmental law competitions held nationally. Competitors argue a case on behalf of not two, but three parties – typically a state government, the federal government, and a citizen environmental group. This year’s case dealt with the applicability of the Clean Water Act to intermittent bodies of water and a jurisdictional...

Law students Rebecca Luster, Kelly Burris, and Edward Waters with the Law Center’s Susan C. Kalinka/Russell J. Stutes, Jr. Tax Moot Court Team took home third place at the 2012 National Taxation Moot Court Competition that was held February 2 through 4 in Clearwater, Florida.  The competition is sponsored by the Tax Section of the Florida Bar Association, and features judges from the US Tax Court and tax attorneys from across the country. The Kalinka/Stutes Tax Team went undefeated in its preliminary rounds, ultimately placing as second runner-up at the national competition.

 The Kalinka/Stutes team competed against teams from Charleston School of Law, Quinnipiac School of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, the University of Florida School of Law, and Stetson University College of Law. The...