161882_Cover_TL-25coverfeature.qxp 9/15/16 8:12 PM Page CvrA TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL TULANE VOL.32–NO. 1 LAWYER FALL 2016 CHARMS CHALLENGES& ALUMNI IRRESISTIBLY PULLED BACK TO NEW ORLEANS ALSO INSIDE BLOGGING PROFESSORS LAW REVIEW CENTENNIAL DIVERSITY ENDOWMENT 161882_Cover_TL-25coverfeature.qxp 9/15/16 8:12 PM Page CvrB THE DOCKET 1 FRONT-PAGE FOOTNOTES 13 2 DEAN MEYER’S MEMO 3 BRIEFS 5 REAL-WORLD APPS Hands-on Learning 7 WORK PRODUCT Faculty Scholarship FOUR FIVE NEW PROFESSORSHIPS AWARDED. FACULTY TEST IDEAS THROUGH BLOGGING. SCHOLARLY WORK SPANS THE GLOBE. 13 CASE IN POINT CHARMS & CHALLENGES Alumni irresistibly pulled back to New Orleans 22 LAWFUL ASSEMBLY Events & Celebrations 27 RAISING THE BAR Donor Support NEW GRADS PROMOTE DIVERSITY. NEW SCHOLARSHIPS IN LITIGATION, BUSINESS, CIVIL LAW. GIFT ENHANCES CHINA INITIATIVES. 39 CLASS ACTIONS Alumni News & Reunions TULANE REMEMBERS JOHN GIFFEN WEINMANN. 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Find us online: law.tulane.edu facebook.com/TulaneLawSchool Twitter: @TulaneLaw bit.ly/TulaneLawLinkedIn www.youtube.com/c/TulaneLaw FALL 2016 TULANE LAWYER VOL.32–NO.1 161882_01-2_TL-25coverfeature.qxp 9/15/16 7:19 PM Page 1 FRONT-PAGE FOOTNOTES CLASS PORTRAIT TULANE LAW SCHOOL CLASS OF 2019 198 students 100+ colleges/universities represented 34 U.S. jurisdictions represented THE CLASS OF 2019 INCLUDES: A speechwriter for a South American country’s mission at the United Nations age range 20–52 The executive assistant to NBC Universal’s general counsel A New York City police officer 20 percent from Louisiana A sergeant in the Louisiana Army National Guard A geologist with experience in environmental consulting 9 percent have other graduate degrees A senior field engineer who worked on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The first woman to compete on a previously all-male high school ice hockey team DOMBALAGIAN ADDS ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE AS NEW VICE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ulane Law School has a new Dombalagian joined the Tulane Law vice dean for academic affairs: School faculty in 2003 and holds the TProfessor Onnig Dombalagian, George Denègre Endowed Professorship an experienced lawyer who specializes in Law. His early industry experience in U.S. and international regulation of was as an attorney fellow at the Securities securities and derivatives markets and and Exchange Commission and in the relationship of federal and state law private practice as an associate at in the governance of public companies. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He follows Professor Ron Scalise He recently completed a three-year (L ’00), a civil law specialist who term as a member of the National served four years as vice dean and was Adjudicatory Council of the Financial instrumental in expanding Tulane’s Industry Regulatory Authority and offerings in practical training. continues to serve as an arbitrator with Dombalagian already is deeply FINRA Dispute Resolution. FINRA Professor Onnig Dombalagian, a 13-year Tulane Law faculty veteran, has added duties as vice dean for academic affairs. involved in promoting innovation in the is the largest independent regulator of law school curriculum as co-director securities firms doing business in the of the transactional practice track United States. Law and Policy in Capital Markets, of Tulane Law’s annual Intersession In his scholarship, Dombalagian published by MIT Press, examines how skills-training boot camp. argues for better market structures and to promote efficiency and transparency “I hope to build upon the extra - more transparency so that investors have in a regulatory framework that lags far ordinary job Ron has done in developing a better understanding of what they’re behind technology and globalization. new courses and curricular opportunities getting into, making it more likely that The graduating class of 2007 chose at the law school,” Dombalagian said. problems are detected early on rather him to receive the Felix Frankfurter A popular classroom teacher than after there have been huge failures Distinguished Teaching Award, and he who has a direct hand in the kind of and billions of dollars lost. His 2015 was a visiting professor at the American securities regulation he teaches about, book Chasing the Tape: Information University of Armenia in 2000. 161882_01-2_TL-25coverfeature.qxp 9/15/16 7:19 PM Page 2 DEAN MEYER’S MEMO 11th anniversary, hit close to home. And like environmental law Professor our community’s outpouring in response Oliver Houck and Mark Davis, director provided another vivid demonstration of Tulane’s Institute for Water Resources Dean David Meyer, Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law of what is so special about this place. Law & Policy, dedicate much of their We reached out to our counterparts professional lives to advancing under - at LSU and Southern law schools to see standing of the conditions that make CONNECTED how we could help. Students organized Louisiana vulnerable to such disasters a drive to collect toiletries, cleaning and to identifying potential solutions. BY COMMUNITY, supplies, diapers, pet food and other Others, like Professors Pamela Metzger essential supplies for those who lost and Katherine Mattes, director of IN GOOD TIMES everything. The Student Bar Association Tulane’s Criminal Litigation Clinic, are AND BAD raised money to help by selling Tulane playing leading roles in addressing the Law sweatshirts and t-shirts. One of our state’s crisis in indigent defense services. staff members, Shari Vice Mellinger, was This issue of the Tulane Lawyer ver three days in August 2016, called into service through the Louisiana features alumni who have elected to more than two feet of rain fell National Guard and spent several weeks return to New Orleans and to invest Oon parts of Louisiana, flooding providing security and assistance in their livelihoods in the city’s remarkable more than 40,000 homes and claiming flood-ravaged neighborhoods. renaissance. Their stories capture aspects 13 lives. The natural disaster — covering This powerful, unifying impulse to of New Orleans’ irresistible allure that a third of the state’s parishes — was serve is part of Louisiana’s DNA and a will be familiar to every person who America’s worst since Sandy ravaged defining trait of the Tulane community, has spent time on Tulane’s campus. the East Coast in 2012. And because not only in times of disaster but always. But, as the response to the late- the water hit areas not usually prone to Students working in Tulane Law summer flooding reminds us, the most flooding, most residents who lost homes, School’s first-in-the-nation pro bono powerful draw of this uniquely vibrant businesses and property were uninsured. program have now provided well more and soulful place is not its cuisine, Though New Orleans itself was than 300,000 hours of legal services to culture, architecture or music, but its spared, the tragedy just upriver, coming those in need (and that’s just the hours fiercely generous people and the sense two weeks shy of Hurricane Katrina’s they bother to count). Faculty members of community that connects us. T ULANE UNIVERSIT Y LAW SCHOOL T ULANE VOL.32–NO. 1 DEAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER/COPY EDITOR LAWYER FALL 2016 DAVID MEYER GEOFF CAMPBELL CHARMS CHALLENGES& EDITOR/LEAD WRITER CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS ALUMNI IRRESIST IBLY PULLED BACK T O NEW ORLEANS LINDA P. CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR Paula Burch-Celentano, Geoff Campbell, Candid Campus OF COMMUNICATIONS Photography, Digital Roux Photography, Ryan Rivet DESIGNER ALSO INSIDE BLOGGING PROFESSORS LAW REVIEW CENT ENNIAL TANA COMAN DIVERSIT Y ENDOWMENT FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER ABOUT THE COVER TRACIE MORRIS SCHAEFER TULANE LAWYER is published by Tulane Law School and Imtiaz Siddiqui (L ’03) handled is provided to the school’s alumni, faculty, staff and friends. some legal work on New Orleans’ Please send comments, suggestions, questions to new Crescent Park. Photograph [email protected]. Tulane Law School, Tulane University is an Affirmative Action/Equal by Tracie Morris Schaefer Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret St., New Orleans LA 70118 Employment Opportunity institution. 161882_03-4_TL-25coverfeature.qxp 9/15/16 7:13 PM Page 3 BRIEFS LABOR/EMPLOYMENT MASTER’S OFFERS ONLINE-ONLY OPTION FOR HUMAN RESOURCES FIELD ulane Law School ventured into the hire, train, promote or discipline an world of online-only legal education employee. This program will provide that Tin 2016, offering a master’s degree in understanding in a format that enables labor and employment law to meet the needs professionals at all career stages to benefit.” of human resources professionals facing The 30-credit-hour master’s degree can increasingly complex regulations. be completed in less than two years, entirely This Master of Jurisprudence in Labor and online. The curriculum incorporates a com- Employment Law gives students high-quality prehensive blend of learning tools: students legal education with the flexibility to study can complete readings and listen to recorded from anywhere around the globe. lectures at a pace convenient to their sched- Professor Joel Friedman, a 40-year Tulane ules, while live virtual sessions allow for Law faculty veteran who writes the major regular interaction and discussion. Everspring Professor Joel Friedman leads Tulane Law’s new casebook that law schools use to teach manages the online platform. online master’s degree program. employment discrimination law, leads The first class started in May 2016 with the program. 14 students from across the United States, to enhance her expertise after starting her He said it will “equip non-lawyers with ranging from new college graduates to own firm. the tools to understand and act upon current professionals with 30 years’ workforce “My clients ask me questions on a daily and future employment law.” experience. A second group started classes basis that require me to have a thorough Tulane Law Dean David Meyer said the in early September.