LSU Law will welcome several esteemed guest speakers and lecturers this semester to present as part of the Spring Faculty Speaker Series. They will present either publications featuring their areas of expertise or works-in-progress, seeking feedback from the faculty at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
The lineup of faculty speakers includes experts in energy law, cognitive science and sentencing. The lectures will take place in the Tucker Room at 12:30 p.m. and are open to LSU Law faculty and invited guests.
Upcoming Speakers
Professor Monika U. Ehrman, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
January 30 | Gravitational Property Theory
Professor Monika U. Ehrman teaches and writes in the areas of natural resources, energy, property, and environmental law and policy.
Professor Ehrman was previously a petroleum engineer in the upstream, midstream, and pipeline sectors of the energy industry before pursuing her JD at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. After law school, she served as general counsel of a privately held energy company, senior counsel with Pioneer Natural Resources, and associate attorney at Locke Lord LLP.
Professor Ehrman has served on the faculties of the University of North Texas at Dallas and the University of Oklahoma, where she led the energy and natural resources program and served as the Faculty Director of the Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center at the College of Law. In addition to her JD from SMU Law, Ehrman holds an LLM degree from Yale Law School. She earned her bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Alberta.
Professor Shailini Jandial George, Suffolk University Law School and Visiting at Stetson University College of Law
February 12 | Cognitive Balance
Professor Shailini Jandial George’s scholarship focuses on lawyer well-being, mindfulness, and the cognitive science of learning. At Suffolk University Law School, she has taught courses on Legal Practice Skills and Preparing for Professional Success. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Writing at Stetson University College of Law.
In 2021, Professor George published The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well with Carolina Academic Press. The book aims to help students “do well” in their ability to learn, and “be well” in the process, by exploring the deep connection between brain health and wellness. She is the co-author of Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative Problem Solving, also published by Carolina Academic Press, and has written several law review articles on distraction and the cognitive science of learning and why law students need mindfulness training.
Professor George has been an active member of the national legal writing community for twenty years, serving on the ALWD Board of Directors, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning, and chairing numerous LWI Committees. For her outstanding contributions to the promotion of well-being in legal education, she received the AALS Balance and Wellbeing in Law Section’s inaugural award in 2022. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Miami University and her JD from Boston College Law School.
Professor John Meixner, Jr., University of Georgia School of Law
March 10 | Biased Mitigation
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 2022, Professor John B. Meixner, Jr. served as an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan where he worked in the major crimes unit and the appellate division. He worked closely with the office’s “Restart” program, which is designed to provide alternatives to incarceration and make criminal justice more equitable.
Professor Meixner’s research focuses on criminal law (especially sentencing), evidence, and the intersection of law and neuroscience. He is involved in several long-term research projects, including the Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation Events (SCALES) project where he is working with other legal scholars to develop tools to allow large-scale analysis of criminal court records.
Professor Meixner earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and earned both his JD and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. As a student at Northwestern University School of Law, he was editor-in-chief of the Northwestern Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
Professors Nick Bryner, John Devlin, Keith Hall, and John Lovett, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
March 24 | Civil to Common Law on Underground Storage of CO2
This interdisciplinary discussion will feature LSU Law’s leading experts in environmental law, constitutional law, energy law, and property law.
Professor Nick Bryner was an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law for two years prior to joining the LSU Law faculty. He previously served as Visiting Associate Professor and Environmental Law Fellow at George Washington University Law School where he co-taught courses on environmental and natural resources law.
Professor John Devlin teaches primarily in the fields of constitutional law (federal, state, and comparative), federal civil procedure, administrative law, and employment law. He has published several law review articles that focus on Louisiana Constitutional Law, all of which can be found in Louisiana Law Review.
In addition to serving as a professor of law at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Professor Keith Hall is also the director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center and director of the Mineral Law Institute. He frequently publishes and presents on energy law and has secured approximately $98,000 in grants to study carbon capture and storage compensation.
Professor John A. Lovett, a passionate teacher and scholar of property law, joined the LSU Law faculty in January 2024. His scholarship focuses on property law and land use in all its dimensions and ranges across common, civil, and mixed jurisdictions. He also has deep connections to the academic legal community in Scotland where he has lectured many times.
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