Kudos to Michelle Shamblin, a third year law student at LSU Paul Hebert Law Center for winning the 2009 Scribes Law Review Award. She becomes the first LSU law student to ever win the national award. Her article “Silencing Chicken Little: Options for School Districts after ‘Parent Involved’” took first place in the annual law review contest.Shamblin’s argument that schools need not abandon their goals of integration and may still employ “race-neutral” and “race-conscious” strategies to maintain or achieve integration impressed the judges and won the prestigious award.
Michelle is a resident of Rapides Parish and graduate of Tioga High School. She was presented her award at the National Conference of Law Reviews on March 19. She is scheduled to graduate in May and plans to clerk for a year for Judge Edith Jones of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
We at Neblett, Beard & Arsenault salute this impressive achievement by one of Cenla’s own!
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
