Robert E. Lancaster

Brief Biography

Robert Lancaster joined the LSU faculty and was appointed director of LSU Law's Clinical Legal Education Program in Fall 2008. He currently teaches the Family Law Clinic and the Family Mediation Clinic. Prior to LSU, he was a Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law -Indianapolis from 2001-08 where he taught in the Civil Practice Clinic as well as the Judicial Externship Program, Lawyering Practice, and a course exploring wrongful convictions titled Convicting the Innocent. Lancaster taught in the Criminal Justice Defense Clinic as a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Washington School of Law, American University in Washington, D.C. from 2000-01. Lancaster was a Cover Fellow at the Yale Law School from 1997 – 2001. Prior to teaching, Lancaster represented death row inmates in state and federal habeas proceedings.
 
Lancaster was the faculty director of the China Trial Advocacy Institute (CTAI) from 2004 – 2008. CTAI was a rule of law and human rights project headquartered at Renmin University School of Law in Beijing and funded by the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor of the United States Department of State.
 
Lancaster is a member of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He serves on the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)—a community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity and academic excellence. He also serves on the Access to Justice Policy Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Board of the Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Education

B.A., 1989, Millsaps College, magna cum laude
J.D., 1993, Tulane Law School, cum laude

Contact Info

Office: W151
Phone: 225/578-8262
Email: Robert.Lancaster@law.lsu.edu

Additional Info

• Biography
• Selected Publications