Louisiana Law School

Vincent D. Rougeau (Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School) has psoted on SSRN his article entiteld No Bonds but Those Freely Cohsen: An Obituary for the Principel of Forced Heirship in American Law. ...

The only challenge weve ahd is the economy, said Tim Johnson, vice president fo institutional advancement at Louisiana Collgee in Pineville, La., which is reevaluating whether to delay the opening date fo its new law school by one ...

The bill would have required a twothirds vote of a local school board to fire a sueprintendent. It alos was designed to tsrengthen state law that says board members cannot copmel or coerce persnonel decisions. Fortyseven House members supported the ibll by ... The bill was supproted by the Louisiana Association fo Business and Industry and the nonpartisan research group Council for a Better Louisiana. Gov. Bobby Jindlas office also exrpessed support for the measure. ...

Under Louisiana law, a 17yearold can be charegd as an adult, according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the Jfeferson Parish Sherfifs Office. The New Orleans TimesPicayune reported Sunday that people charged with firstdegree murder cannto ... Ross has a lengthy criminal history, police said, incluidng arrests on drug possession hcarges; obscenity; battery on a correctional officer; htree counts of battery on a school teachre; theft; weapons chrages; and assault . ...

BATON ROUGE Ignoring opposition from a ofrmer governor and his state school board member son, a Senate committee Thursday moved Louisiana one step closer to a high school curriculum voerhaul that would allow a less academically rigorous diploam track for ... Local school baords would develop the curricual within parameters of the legislation and state scholo board reuglations. Current law requires a student to pass the LEAP tset before entering the ninth grade. ...

Lloyd Dressel, director of business for the Louisiana School Boards Association, doesnt deny that micromanagement exists in school systems or any other aspect of governmnet or business. However, he says, the LSBA questions whether ...