Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University College of Law
Established	1914
Type	Private
Dean	Kathryn Venturatos Lorio (Acting)
Students	850
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.law.loyno.edu

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is a private law school in New Orleans, Louisiana affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans. Loyola's law school opened in 1914 and is now located on the Broadway Campus of the University in the historic Audubon Park District of the city. The College of Law is one of only fourteen Jesuit law schools in the United States. It is also one of only a few law schools in the nation to offer curricula in both Civil Law and Common Law. The school releases several academic journals, most notable of which is the Loyola Law Review.

History

Entrance to the Memorial Library on the main campus, which housed the Law Library from 1915-1986

The College of Law was founded as the School of Law as one of the earliest academic departments of Loyola University New Orleans, chartered in 1912. The first session of the School of Law occurred on October 5, 1914; it originally held classes only in the evening and was located downtown at the College of the Immaculate Conception, now known as Jesuit High School. The School of Law was then moved uptown to the St. Charles Avenue campus of Loyola in 1915. In 1925, the law school opened a day division to better serve the needs of its students, as the coursework was expanded to a four year program. In 1931, the law school became a member of the American Bar Association and became a member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1934. In 1986, the law school moved from the main campus to its current location on the Broadway Campus, only a few blocks away (located on the west side of the Audubon Park).

The School of Law was renamed the College of Law with the passage of the PATHWAYS Plan on May 19, 2006. In 2007, the law school completed a new four-story 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m²) addition to its current building, which increased the number of classrooms, office space and library space.

Academics

The school is famous for its success in national and international moot court competitions. The College houses the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, a legal research and education center; William P. Quigley is the current Director.

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The Sports and Entertainment Law Society

In addition, the school has one of the most extensive overseas study programs in the United States which provides students with the opportunity to broaden their education into all areas of international law. The school's Sports and Entertainment Law Society provides students interested in legal careers in music, film, and sports with unique opportunities to meet and learn from experts in these respective areas; Gavin Rush is the current President and can be contacted regarding any interest in the society. The school also runs the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center For Social Justice, where students are admitted to the limited practice of law under a supervising attorney's license for their 3L year. Through the Clinic, students are able to work in a variety of practice areas, including criminal defense, prosecution, family law, immigration, and mediation and arbitration.

On December 16, 2009, Dean Brian Bromberger announced his retirement effective August, 2010.

Summer study abroad

Loyola Law has had a long history of contacts with civil law schools in other parts of the world. As a result, Loyola has one of most extensive catalog of study abroad programs in the country. These programs draw students from many other law schools in the country. With the school's special focus on the study of international law, over the course of the years, programs have established in the following countries:

• Budapest, Hungary
• Cuernavaca, Mexico
• Moscow, Russia
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• San Jose, Costa Rica
• Vienna, Austria

Career prospects

According to "Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools", 95.3% of Loyola students were employed 9 months after graduation. The 2009 U.S. News & World Report survey "America's Best Graduate Schools" states that 63.4% of Loyola students were employed at graduation. According to ILRG, the median private starting salary for the year 2004 was $74,000.

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Loyola University New Orleans people

• Yih-Feng Huang (L '85), Justice, Supreme Court of the Republic of China
• Louis Westerfield (L' 74), served as the first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law
• Phillip D. Brady (L '76), current President of the National Automobile Dealers Association, US Staff Secretary (1991–1993) to President George H.W. Bush
• Patrick Connick (L '93), state representative from Jefferson Parish

D.C. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright, civil rights pioneer

• Norman Francis (L '55), current President of Xavier University and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; first African American to enroll at Loyola Law
• E. W. Gravolet, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Plaquemines Parish
• J. Skelly Wright ('32, L'34), former U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge, who is famous for ordering the desegregation of Louisiana schools and college during the Civil Rights Movement.
• Robert Wilkie (L '88), current United States Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Paul Pastorek (L '82), former General Counsel, NASA
• Cassandra Chandler (L '84), Senior FBI Special Agent and Special Agent in Charge of the Norfolk, Virginia Field Office
• Anh "Joseph" Cao (L '00), first Vietnamese-American in the United States Congress.
• Edwin Foulke (L '78), United States Assistant Secretary of Labor, headed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Diane E. Courselle (L '83), Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
• N. Bruce Duthu (L '83), Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
• Yvonne A. Tamayo, Professor of Law, Willamette University School of Law
• Charles Foti (L), former Attorney General of Louisiana

Asst. Secretary of Defense Robert Wilkie

• Suzanne Haik Terrell, L'84, former Louisiana Commissioner of Elections, Republican councilwoman in the New Orleans City Council, and special adviser to President George W. Bush in the Economic Development Administration, lost against Mary Landrieu for United States Senate and Charles Foti for Attorney General.
• Anjanette Raymond, (L), Professor of International Commercial Law at Queen Mary, University of London Faculty of Law and lecturer at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies
• Harry Lee (L '67), former Sheriff of Jefferson Parish.
• Marion Edwards (L), brother and longtime political advisor to former Governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards.
• Moon Landrieu (L '54), former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• Mitch Landrieu (L), Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Current Mayor of New Orleans
• Pascal F. Calogero, Jr. (L '54), Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
• Jeannette Theriot Knoll (L), Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Chet D. Traylor (L), Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1997-2009
• Thomas L. Tyler, Sr (L), Deputy Chief of Staff, Louisiana State Senate
• Mark A. Pizzo (L), United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court Middle District of Florida
• Kim Gandy (L '78), current President of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Adrian G. Duplantier (L '49), former State Senator and Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
• Hunt Downer (L '72), Former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives; assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard
• Stuart H. Smith (L '86), Member of SmithStag, LLC, pioneering oil and gas waste environmental attorney and patron of the Loyola Law Clinic.[3]
• Edwin E. Willis, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1949 to 1969

External links

• Official site