Raymond T. Diamond

Brief Biography

Ray Diamond re-joined the faculty in 2009. Previously, he  taught, since 1990, at Tulane University, where he held the John Koerner  Professorship in Law and was an Adjunct Professor of African Diaspora Studies. Before his entry into law teaching at LSU in 1984, Professor Diamond spent three years with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he litigated a landmark price signaling case, worked for a year on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant to Rep. Bob Livingston in the 95th Congress, and practiced law privately in New Orleans.

Professor Diamond has written widely in the area of constitutional law, race relations, and legal history. His scholarship in the area of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms has been cited in Supreme Court jurisprudence and has been awarded the 2000 Carter-Knight Freedom Fund Award. His latest scholarship, a chapter in the second edition of The Bill of Rights in Modern America, is “Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms,” published in Fall 2008. In connection with the issues he has raised in his Second Amendment scholarship, he was co-counsel on the amicus brief presented by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, decided in 2008. He is the co-author of Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution, which was awarded the 2003 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize by the Langum Project for Historical Literature.

Professor Diamond is a former member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern Legal History and of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Supreme Court Historical Society, and is a former chair of the section on Legal History of the Association of American Law Schools.

Education

J.D., 1977, Yale Law School
B.A., 1973, Yale College

Contact Info

Office: 440
Phone: 225/578-8846
Email: Ray.Diamond@law.lsu.edu

Additional Info

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