Talk:Southern University Law Center

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Integration order

To provide a more neutral viewpoint for this article I think it would be appropriate to include some information regarding the desegregation order in 1989 which ordered LSU law school and SULC to merge. Southern University's president, Dolores Spikes, acknowledged the paradox in black schools' contesting a desegregation order that resulted from a suit originally filed by the Federal Government on behalf of blacks. (found at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DA143DF935A3575BC0A96F948260)Anothersliceofhistory 05:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tons of issues with this article

First off, in interest of full disclosure, I am currently a 2L at SULC. I checked this article out to just see what it had to say, and I was shocked to see the various problems with this article. I have tagged the article with these issues, but to summarize:

Missing citations - the article cites nothing but mystery quotes. Please cite these quotes.
References - there are absolutely no references in this article.
NPOV and advertisement - this article reads just like something you would see on the school's own website, in an attempt to recruit students.
Trivia sections - generally not allowed under wiki policy.
Quotations - this article is just quotation after quotation.

As I am a law student, I don't have much time to dedicate to these issues, but they need to be fixed. I hope somebody can clean this article up. --Mr. Brown (talk) 05:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clinics

I am a recent graduate of SULC. I agree with all of the above. This article is awful, and I can taste the "seriousness of purpose" (the school's motto) dripping off of each sentence.

Another area that troubles me is, "There are six different clinics."

This means nothing to the average person, or the average law student, or the average college graduate considering law school. The praise for the clinical program, though deserved, also does not explain what it is.

Finally, the single reference cited is misleading. The link to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools" leads one to believe that SULC is a school featured there; this is not the case. As a matter of fact, to find any reference to SULC, one must do quite a bit of digging there. It is featured in the "diversity index," but it doesn't make the general rankings.

Note to author: A quote followed by, "boasts one student," is not appropriate in an encyclopedia article.

DPM, 10/2/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.207.232.243 (talk) 23:43, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Civil Law

The article states that Louisiana is a "civil law jurisdiction" and that Southern Law students "learn both" civil law and common law.

Louisiana is not exactly a civil law jurisdiction. Louisiana's legal system is a hybrid system based on the Spanish and French civil law, but many of Louisiana's legal concepts have been imported from United States common law. Southern's policy of teaching "both" systems of law is not unique in Louisiana-- the state's other three accredited law schools also teach both common law and civil law concepts, and the Louisiana bar exam tests "both."

72.207.232.243 (talk) 23:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)DPM, 10/2/2008[reply]

Faculty and deans

If you are going to include a sentence about Louis Berry, you need to include the dean who succeeded Lenoir, Vanue B. Lacour, Sr. Lacour was an original faculty member when the school opened in 1947. He was a law school classmate of Berry at Howard University and also a noted attorney in Louisiana. Lacour won the case of Weber v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. 406 U.S. 164 (1972) before the United States Supreme Court. 2601:2C6:837F:6850:ED7B:9C7D:5EE:A42D (talk) 21:58, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]