Newswise — Workplace discrimination, affirmative action, profiling, stereotyping:Racial and gender discrimination in the workplace is an ongoing issue, especially in light of recent court decisions limiting affirmative action programs. Law professor Joel Friedman is an excellent source for stories about racial and gender disparities in hiring as well as profiling. Contact: Joel Friedman, Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law & Jurisdiction and Director of Tulane-ITESM Ph.D. Program
Right to privacy, wiretappingAs America's war on terrorism continues, more are concerned about balancing government investigations with an individual's right to privacy. Law professor Elizabeth Townsend-Gard is an expert on the legal ramifications of online security and government wiretapping as well as workplace monitoring issues for employees and employers.Contact: Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Associate Professor of Law
Privacy rights extend to health care and medical records. Law professor David Katner is an expert in HIPAA and patient privacy as well as other controversial legal aspects of medical care, including medicinal use of marijuana and euthanasia.Contact: David Katner, Professor of Clinical Law and Felix J. Dreyfous Teaching Fellow in Juvenile Law
Education: campus noose incidents, prayer in schoolInflammatory items such as nooses hung in Jena, La. or other hate symbols appearing in schools have increasingly grabbed headlines. Law professor Robert Westley can talk about the legal aspects of such controversial topics as well as cases involving prayer in schools. Contact: Robert Westley, LOCHEF Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility
U.S. Policy and Despotic RegimesProfessor of law Vernon Palmer is a foremost authority on civil law (European legal systems used throughout the world as distinct from English common law). Professor Palmer can comment on U.S. foreign policy and despotic regimes Venezuela, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Cuba.Contact: Vernon Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law; Co-Director, Eason-Weinmann Center of Comparative Law; and Director, European Legal Studies Program
Faculty website: http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=456&ekmensel=c580fa7b_30_38_456_8
Social Justice: Domestic Violence, Capital Punishment, Prisoner's Rights, Victim's RightsAssociate Professor of Law Tania Tetlow is the director of a domestic violence clinic in New Orleans, which provides legal assistance and other support to battered women. A former assistant U.S. attorney, criminal division, she is an expert in the areas of prisoner's rights, capital punishment and victim's rights. Tetlow is also an active advocate of public libraries and their social role in the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.Contact: Tania Tetlow, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Faculty website: http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=472&ekmensel=c580fa7b_30_40_472_5
Writing a story on freedoms of speech, press, religion, or on the right to bear arms? Keith Werhan, Ashton Phelps Chair of Constitutional Law at Tulane University, is an expert in Constitutional law, the First Amendment, religion and free speech and terrorism. Catherine Hancock, Geoffrey C. Bible & Murray H. Bring Professor of Constitutional Law at Tulane, is an expert in criminal law, Constitutional law, and criminal procedure.
For your stories on war, the Geneva convention, use of torture, and on rights of the war-displaced, contact Ed Sherman, Moise F. Steeg, Jr. Professor of Negotiations at Tulane Univesity Law School. He's an expert on complex litigation, mediation, judicial administration, military law, civil rights and international law.
Death Squads and State-sponsored TortureProfessor of sociology Martha K. Huggins can comment on the sociology of torture and violence by police and the military, with special reference to the recent history of Latin America and Brazil. Professor Huggins is the author or co-author several books and many articles exploring the nature and extent state-sponsored violence in these countries, and how individuals become involved in these activities.Contact: Martha K. Huggins, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professors of Human Relations, Tulane University
Faculty website: http://www.tulane.edu/~sociol/mhuggins/mhuggins.html
Immigrant's Rights, Individual Liberty vs. National SecurityLaw professor Adeno Addis can comment on the many issues that war and the interaction of nations throws up for a democracy—Can the rights of individuals be suspended in wartime situations, should economic sanctions be used against "despotic" regimes, what are the rights of immigrants and ethnic minorities? Professor Addis has published extensively in the areas of constitutional law, international law, communications law, and jurisprudence. He teaches Constitutional Law, Foreign Affairs & the Constitution, International Human Rights, and a seminar on the United Nations Security Council. His teaching interests also include communications law, international communications, international law, jurisprudence, and torts.Contact: Adeno Addis, William Ray Forrester Professor of Public &Constitutional Law
Faculty Website: http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=290
Civil Rights, Racism and Intolerance Lance Hill is the Executive Director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University. He has an expert's knowledge on the history of civil rights; white supremacist groups; Ku Klux Klan; Nazism; and tolerance and bigotry in the United States.
Ray Diamond, John Koerner Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, is an expert in antitrust law, race relations, constitutional law, gun control and the right to bear arms. Stacy Seicshnaydre is an associate professor of law and director of the Civil Litigation Clinic at Tulane. Both would be good sources for stories on civil disobedience, segregation and racial injustice inspired by. The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial holiday.
TerrorismEdward V. Morse, assoc. professor of sociology, has a research interest in the sociology of terrorism. He can comment on what makes a terrorist; government responses to terrorism; the origins of terrorism; terrorism and religion; how the rise of terrorism can result in curtailing of individual freedoms and privacy; and the possible impacts of terrorism on our social institutions.Contact: Edward V. Morse, associate professor of sociology
Faculty Website: http://www.som.tulane.edu/faculty/emorse/
Poverty, socioeconomic disparitiesLaw professor William A. Lovett is an expert on international banking issues, world trade rivalries, and the interactions of politics and economics. Before joining the faculty at Tulane, Professor Lovett was a trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and staff economist for the Federal Trade Commission. His research, consulting, and teaching interests include antitrust, banking and financial institutions, shipping and the maritime sector, torts, economic regulation, and international trade policy.Contact: William A. Lovett, Joseph Merrick Jones Professor of Law & Economics
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