Loyola Law Viewbook 2024-2025

COLLEGE OF LAW

Define who you want to be.

MEET THE DEAN As a proud native New Orleanian, I am inspired by the culture, diversity, and entrepreneurial spirit of my hometown. The College of Law embodies the soul of our city in so many ways. Here, you become part of a closeknit community that knows you by name, supports your aspirations, and challenges you to grow.

Creating an inclusive space is at the core of our mission as a law school. We recognize that the strength of our legal system lies in embracing different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We seek not only to develop skilled legal professionals—we are educating future leaders equipped to solve tomorrow’s challenges.

Our students’ commitment to social justice issues inspires me every day. Some are working to champion policies that protect coastal wetlands, advocating for incarcerated people, and providing legal services to refugees. Others are thinking of innovative business practices, tackling complex tax policies, or working to understand how technology will shape the delivery of legal services going forward. All are engaged in the work of envisioning a system of laws that embodies the Jesuit value of magis, Latin for “more,” which calls on us to strive for excellence in all that we do.

Having served as a judge for 16 years, I am confident our education and training primes our graduates to be leaders in our profession. You’ll learn by doing starting in your first semester as a law student, gaining the foundational legal research, writing, and oral advocacy skills you’ll need to effectively represent clients. By your third year, you’ll

have the opportunity to represent actual clients under the supervision of experienced clinical faculty.

Our commitment to experiential learning extends beyond the classroom. Our students complete competitive externships around the country, expand their worldviews in our study abroad programs, and partner with their peers and community advocates to create their own grassroots organizations. Walking the halls daily, I see our professors meeting with students to discuss papers or exams, grabbing lunch in our student center, and practicing with members of our nationally ranked moot court and trial advocacy teams.

As a Loyola Law graduate, I’m honored to serve as dean and continue our transformational work of producing practiceready attorneys. I grew up watching my father, family members, and friends benefit from the knowledge and connections gained on this campus. I have seen firsthand how a Loyola education can help bridge divides and inspire purpose-driven achievement.

In the next pages, you will discover the many ways in which Loyola will fuel your passions and jump start your career. But these pages can only say so much about what happens in our classrooms and on our campus. We invite you to grab coffee with a professor. Sit in on a lecture. Second-line throughout the city. Ride the St. Charles Avenue streetcar. Stroll among the oak trees. The opportunities are limitless.

Whether you’re a lifelong resident or a first-time visitor, welcome home!

Madeleine Landrieu Dean and Judge Adrian G. Duplantier Distinguished Professor of Law

Think creatively.

At Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, our students are more than just academic overachievers— they’re creative. Thoughtful. And they strive always for fairness and justice.

Whether they are organizing startups, drafting policies to protect our wetlands, or accessing public benefits for low-income clients, Loyola students use their law degrees to make the world better.

Our programs are designed to fit the unique needs of our students. We offer both a common law and a civil law curriculum – preparing students to practice law anywhere in the world.

Students in our evening program earn their law degrees while working full time. Dual degree programs combine legal expertise with knowledge in business, public administration, or urban and regional planning.

In just one additional semester, law students can earn an LLM with concentrated studies in environmental law, health law & administration, immigration law, or a customized field of study.

Welcome to Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. To learn more, visit law.loyno.edu 1

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One of the most important aspects of Loyola’s Jesuit education is experiential learning. Our students work with real clients and try real cases before they even graduate.

They’ve helped prosecute and defend cases in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. They’ve argued appeals in the Fourth and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. They’ve represented clients before the Department of Justice’s Immigration Courts, Immigration Appeals Courts, and the Department of Homeland Security. They’ve acted as court-appointed lawyers representing children, and they’ve fought on behalf of workers before the National Labor Relations Board. They’ve advocated for environmental justice. When our students graduate, they leave with the real-world experience they need to start their careers.

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Seek more live deeper Professor Andrea Armstrong is a leading national expert on prison and jail conditions and is certified by the U.S. Department of Justice as a Prison Rape Elimination Act auditor. Her scholarship focuses on the constitutional dimensions of prisons and jails, specifically prison labor practices, the intersection of race and conditions of incarceration, and public oversight of detention facilities. In 2019, Professor Armstrong received a significant grant to examine the effects of incarceration on health service use in Louisiana, and in 2023 was named a MacArthur Fellow.

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Judges, lawyers, and clients value graduates who are able to put the law they have learned into action. Moreover,

research shows that we understand concepts more deeply when we critically think about and use them. We provide

students with opportunities to use the legal doctrine and practice the skills they learn about—from written and oral advocacy skills.

Experience the practice of law Associate Dean Mary Garvey Algero has been a leader in the Lawyering Program for many years, focusing on legal research, legal analysis, and legal communication skills. Dean Algero created and teaches the Advanced Legal Writing course, she teaches skills courses on scholarly writing, and she incorporates experiential exercises into her civil procedure course. She is the author of “Louisiana Legal Research,” co-author of “Federal Legal Research,” and author of several scholarly articles.

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At Loyola, we have a history of learning by doing.

In the first year, students research, write, and advocate for clients in simulations as part of the Lawyering Program. By the third year, students have the opportunity to work on actual cases through the law clinic so that they are ready to enter the legal profession upon graduation.

ADVOCACY CENTER PROGRAMS

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH LAB

Building on Loyola Law’s rich tradition of advocacy, students develop and sharpen their skills, from the early stages of writing and negotiation, through mediation or arbitration, and pre-trial, trial, and appellate practice.

This course introduces students to advanced legal research techniques for policy advocacy. Community leaders and advocates often need help identifying the legal and regulatory barriers and opportunities related to their goals. The Community-Based Research Lab allows students to learn how to identify a specific topic’s legal and regulatory components, conduct research, and design an advocacy strategy and theory of change. This experience will teach students how to engage in democratic change processes and apply legal skills to communitybased problems.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP Loyola’s exciting entrepreneurship course allows students to gain hands-on experience working with local startup ventures. Working in pairs, students assist with a variety of contractual needs and help entrepreneurs form business entities and draft ownership agreements.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY LAB In the policy lab, students craft legislation, practice lobbying skills, and use media strategies to advance environmental protection.

EXTERNSHIPS

LAW CLINIC In the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic, third-year law students practice under the supervision of experienced clinic faculty in areas including immigration, family, children’s rights, criminal defense, workplace justice, prosecution, technology and legal innovation, and community justice. Student practitioners act as the lead attorney on cases.

Externships give students the opportunity to combine classroom learning with real legal practice. Students earn course credit while placed with judges, government agencies, and legal nonprofits across the region.

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Loyola’s dual curriculum gives our graduates the preparation to practice in the U.S. or around the globe.

Explore a variety of topics, or concentrate on your passion in one of our areas of study: • ADMIRALTY • CONSTITUTIONAL LAW • CRIMINAL LAW • CORPORATE / BUSINESS / FINANCE LAW • ENVIRONMENTAL LAW* • ENTERTAINMENT LAW • FAMILY LAW

• HEALTH LAW* • IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP LAW AND PRACTICE*

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TECHNOLOGY

• INTERNATIONAL LAW* • LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

• LITIGATION PROCEDURE AND

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

• PROPERTY AND ESTATE PLANNING LAW • PUBLIC INTEREST LAW • SOCIAL JUSTICE* • TAX LAW* • TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP*

STUDY ABROAD: Vienna, Austria; Spetses, Greece; Panama City, Panama; Xiamen City, China

ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND BAR EXAM PREPARATION Loyola strives to support students from the moment they enter law school through studying for their bar exam. Professors teach specialized courses and provide individualized assistance to all students. Upon graduation, Loyola remains closely connected to alumni and provides extensive guidance in both the summer and winter to ensure success on any bar exam.

*certificate option

LOYOLA HAS MORE THAN 20 DIFFERENT STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING: • American Constitution Society •A sian Pacific American Law Students Association

• Association of Women Law Students • Black Law Student Association • Criminal Law Society • Education Law Society • Environmental Law Society • Evening Law Student Association • Federalist Society • Federal Bar Association • Intellectual Property Law Society • International Law Society • Lambda Law Alliance • Latinx Law Student Association • Maritime Law Society • National Lawyers Guild • Phi Alpha Delta • Phi Delta Phi • Public Interest Law Group • St. Thomas More Law Society • Sports and Entertainment Law Society

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PETTY OFFICER KAMAL PACKER, JD ’19 U.S. Coast Guard

Start here.

Go anywhere.

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We’ve been living social justice for a hundred years.

It’s kind of our thing.

It’s who we are.

Our commitment to service comes from a Jesuit vision that treats our strengths as sacred trusts loaned to us so we can use them to serve others.

We find that our training, our knowledge, and our skills are at their best when we use them to make a positive impact on the world.

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BRIANA ORTIZ, JD ’23

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The law touches every facet of society; the nation needs diverse and innovative leaders to solve tomorrow’s problems.

It’s our mission to create an inclusive community where students from diverse backgrounds feel welcomed and supported to pursue their passions and help create a more just and equitable world.

BLAINE LECESNE , JD

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

Professor LeCesne (left) serves as the College of Law’s Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Professor LeCesne works closely with law faculty and students, as well as Loyola’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, to create and expand diversity-focused programming and to promote a university-wide commitment to inclusive excellence.

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Committed toYou

The people you meet here, the ones who will help shape your knowledge of the law and what you’ll do with it, will push you further than you thought possible.

Our faculty are champions of justice, incredible litigators, and accomplished experts in their fields who will guide you toward the start of your career — and inspire you every day.

BOBBY HARGES, JD, LL.M.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Professor Harges’ teaching and consulting interests include mediation and arbitration, evidence and trial practice, torts, criminal law, and criminal procedure. An experienced special master, mediator, arbitrator, and attorney-chair of medical review panels, he has written several books on Louisiana DWI law, evidence, criminal law, and alternative dispute resolution.

MEERA SOSSAMON, JD

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF LAW

Professor Sossamon teaches Louisiana Civil Code courses, including Property and Obligations. She is a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute, and her research is focused on comparative law. As a Loyola Law alumna, Professor Sossamon graduated first in her class within the Civil Law Division. She previously practiced as a partner at the law firm of Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels, LLC and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

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CHUNLIN LEONHARD, JD

BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Professor Leonhard was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship for her research project in China during the 2019-2020 year. Working with the Institute of Legal History, China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, she is researching ancient Chinese dynastic contract law issues, focusing on the Tang Dynasty. Professor Leonhard teaches Contract Law, Sales, Secured Transactions, and Pretrial Litigation.

Her scholarship focuses on examining contract law issues in a cross-cultural context as well as the impact of behavioral economics research on common law contract law.

CRAIG SENN, JD

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW

Voted Favorite Professor of the Year three years in a row by Loyola Law students, Professor Senn teaches Contracts, Commercial Transactions, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, and Labor Law. After law school, Professor Senn worked as a labor and employment lawyer and litigator. He spearheaded the Atlanta employment practice of a prominent transatlantic law firm.

IMRE SZALAI, JD

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

Professor Szalai, a nationally known expert in dispute resolution, is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He writes extensively about arbitration, and his scholarship has been cited in briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court and other federal and state courts in cases involving the Federal Arbitration Act. He is the author of Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America (Carolina Academic Press, 2013).

For more information on our faculty’s work experience and academic achievements, visit law.loyno.edu/faculty 15

Our commitment to service is rooted in the Jesuit tradition of becoming “men and women with and for others.” In the Long Poverty Law Center and in our Law Clinic, students gain practical experience while serving the legal needs of low-income members of our community.

GILLIS LONG POVERTY LAW CENTER

STUART H. SMITH LAW CLINIC AND CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

The Law Center exemplifies Loyola’s commitment to the community by offering educational and experiential opportunities to law students and alumni. Opportunities include paid student internships in legal aid offices and with non-profit organizations, a pro bono program for law students, paid fellowships for recent graduates, and social justice events.

Under the supervision of their clinic faculty professors, law students in the Law Clinic provide free legal services to income-qualified individuals in legal areas including children’s rights and youth justice, immigration, workplace justice, criminal defense, and more.

The Law Clinic is a hands-on academic course that allows law students, in their final year, to practice law under the supervision of a clinic faculty member. Law students gain a range of practical lawyering skills as they represent low-income clients and serve the community in diverse practice areas. Clinic faculty are leading experts and advocates in various justice lawyering areas and work closely with law students in this capstone experiential course.

DAVIDA FINGER CLINIC PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE LAW CLINIC AND LAW CENTER

$7,500 SUMMER INTERNSHIP SALARY PER STUDENT

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In addition to serving as Clinic Professor and Director of the Law Clinic and Center, Professor Finger has also been named a Fulbright Specialist, which allows her to partner with international host institutions to help develop community justice curricula, clinic programs, and experiential learning opportunities around the world.

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You don’t stop at 5 p.m.

Loyola Law’s evening JD program maximizes flexibility without sacrificing the academic rigor and personalized attention we’re proud to offer every student at Loyola.

The evening program combines two evenings of in-person learning with asynchronous online coursework that can be completed from anywhere, on any schedule.

Over the summer, students may choose to take a fully asynchronous schedule.

The program can be completed part time in just four years.

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Husband-and-wife duo KEVIN MULGREW, 2L and JESSICA MULGREW, 2L are pursuing their Loyola Law degrees together.

The community formed with my classmates, and the feeling of accomplishment from mastering new concepts and skills has been the most rewarding aspect of my time at Loyola Law. KEVIN MULGREW, 2L

I appreciate the smaller class sizes, and the evening program is perfect for me as a working professional. I’m very thankful to be here.

JESSICA MULGREW, 2L

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I believe Loyola’s greatest resource is its faculty, hands down. Every encounter I have had, whether it is with a professor, the Academic Success office, the Career Services office, or the library, has been very welcomed, informed, and has kept me on the path towards success.

RENEA PELLEGRINO, 3L

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I chose Loyola Law because when I came to visit and tour, I felt very comfortable and at home when I spoke with faculty and students. I enjoy the small class sizes because I feel less intimidated than I think I would in a large room full of students.

The city of New Orleans gives students the opportunity to learn about culture, diversity, and justice in a manner that goes much further than the classroom.

GIOVANI PIMENTEL-GALVAN, JD ’22

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New Orleans is like no other city in the world. It’s where dining out is a religious experience.

Where jazz was born and lives on. Where the wonder of Mardi Gras lasts all year long. Voted as one of the top five big cities in America by Conde Naste, young professionals and families are flocking to New Orleans.

NOLA LEGAL COMMUNITY New Orleans is a major center for the federal and state judicial systems, including the Louisiana Supreme Court and U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. A number of national and regional law firms have offices in New Orleans, as do many large, medium, and boutique Louisiana-based law firms. The city is brimming with lawyers, judges, and market leaders who are eager to be your mentor.

NOLA FOOD Sample 28 James Beard Award-winning chefs and restaurants within six miles of campus— all before graduation!

NOLA MUSIC NOLA’s fabled festivals extend from EDM to indie: Essence Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, BUKU Music + Art Project, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, French Quarter Festival, and more.

NOLA SPORTS Action-packed sports events entertain you all year—from the Allstate Sugar Bowl to the Crescent City Classic 10K. Fly your flag for the Saints (football), Pelicans (basketball), NOLA Gold (rugby), Jesters (soccer), and the Loyola Wolf Pack.

NOLA NEIGHBORHOODS From Uptown’s grand mansions to the French Quarter’s intricate balconies to the Marigny’s quirky shotgun houses, each New Orleans neighborhood has its own architectural flavor and slice of history.

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Into the City Professor Robert Verchick is a national expert in environmental regulations and climate change. He served in President Obama’s administration as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

He recently published The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, which won the 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title from the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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When you’re thinking about a law school, you want it to be good enough where you’re going to learn the law, but you also want to develop the type of advocate and the person that you’re going to be while you’re learning the law. You can only do that through having interactions, or practicing, or jobs, or talking to your professors, and Loyola sets you up to do that in every way that they can.

MORENIKE ERINKITOLA, JD ’23

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Our community is vibrant and diverse. We want to help you find your own path.

We offer full- and part-time programs, including the opportunity to work full-time while attending classes in the evening.

Loyola Law offers programs that help our students manage the costs of a legal education: IGNATIAN LAW SCHOLARS The Ignatian Law Scholars Program recognizes particularly promising members of the entering law school class, whose applications reflect the Jesuit commitment to academic excellence and service to others. Scholars receive a renewable Dean’s Scholarship and are assigned mentors to help with the transition to law school and practice.

DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIPS Dean’s Scholarships are renewable merit-based awards offered to incoming, first-year students. All Dean’s Scholarship recipients are eligible for scholarship renewal.

LOYOLA LAGNIAPPE In keeping with the New Orleans tradition of giving lagniappe (LAN-yap), a little something extra for good measure, Loyola Law awards one-time scholarships to first-year students who earned an undergraduate degree from Loyola University New Orleans.

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS Gillis Long Poverty Law Center places Loyola College of Law students in paid public interest internships. Interns may earn up to $7,500 for work for non-profit organizations that provide free civil legal services to underserved populations.

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Tuition and fees for the 2024-2025 school year:

$52,908 FULL-TIME

$39,690 PART-TIME

$25,250 MEDIAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO 2021 ENTERING CLASS

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