Southern University Law Center

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The mission and tradition of the Law Center are to provide access and opportunity to a diverse group of students from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups to obtain a high-quality legal education with particular emphasis on the Louisiana civil law. Additionally, our mission is to train a cadre of lawyers equipped with the skills necessary for law and leadership positions in society.
The SULC Office of Financial Aid is committed to helping prospective and current students understand and plan for the financial investment involved in pursuing a law degree. Financial assistance from many sources is available to help pay for your legal education. The SULC financial aid staff will make every effort to assist you in identifying these sources. SULC has the lowest in-state tuition rate in Louisiana.
Although loans and work-study programs are sources of financial assistance, the Southern University Law Center provides additional assistance through scholarships, awards, and gifts from alumni and other sources. It is possible that any award listed may not materialize due to the unavailability of funds.
Graduating from SULC, you will become part of an expansive 4,000+ national network of alumni working in both the public and private sectors as lawyers, judges, entrepreneurs, CEOs, legislators, business professionals, policy advisers, and districts and U.S. attorneys, and public defenders.
The Office of Career Services focuses on helping students make the connection to employment opportunities. Career Services constantly explores new resources to assist students with their job search efforts. Its goals are to provide the students with the most up-to-date information regarding the job market and assist each student with their individual career development needs.
When you attend SULC, you join a warm, family-like environment with a small classroom setting that fosters excellent relationships between students and professors. Professors and fellow law students show tremendous pride in each other’s accomplishments.
An array of on-campus and off-campus activities, educational and social, encourages learning and camaraderie, making SULC one of the best places in the world to be a law student. The Southern University Law Center provides students with a once-in-a-lifetime experience to obtain an invaluable legal education.
Southern University Law Center (SULC) administers one of the most comprehensive Academic Support Programs in the country. Through its Office of Academic Support, the law school offers various programs designed to help students transition to the rigors of a law school academic environment. In light of our mission of accepting non-traditional law students, the Office of Academic Support also assists those who have not been in an academic setting for several years and are first-generation law students. The programs of the Office of Academic Support provide opportunities to analyze and synthesize legal precedent, interpret statutes, and construct policy arguments. Additionally, the programs assist students in writing with clarity and precision. Once necessary law school learning skills have been developed, students are expected to proceed with their studies without significant supplemental assistance from the Office of Academic Support.
As an SULC community member, you will become part of a rich history spanning nearly seventy years. Conceived on the historical cusp of significant changes in the social and legal fabric of our country, and nurtured in the rich tradition of training leaders in the law, business, and government who would help advance the causes of civil rights and equal justice for all, SULC today continues to evolve and lead as it prepares lawyer-leaders for the opportunities and challenges now and in the future.
On December 16, 1946, in response to a lawsuit by an African-American resident seeking to attend law school at a state institution, the Louisiana State Board of Education took “positive steps to establish a Law School for Negroes at Southern University…to be in operation for the 1947-1948 session.”
The State Board approved plans for the law school of Education at its January 10, 1947, meeting. On June 14, 1947, the Board of Liquidation of State Debt appropriated $40,000 for the school's operation. The Southern University Law School was officially opened in September 1947 to provide legal education for African-American students.
Southern University Law Center graduates, beginning with the legendary civil rights attorney, political leader, and educator Jesse N. Stone, Jr., Alvin Basile Jones, Leroy White, Ellyson Fredrick Dyson, and Alex Louis Pitcher of the class of 1950, have spread across the state and nation as trailblazers in the legal profession, securing equal rights for others. To date, the Law Center has more than 2,500 graduates and is one of the nation’s most racially diverse law schools.
After 38 years of operation as a School of Law, the Southern University Board of Supervisors re-designated the school as the Southern University Law Center, enhancing its image in the region and the nation. The Law Center stresses legal education of high quality for students from diverse backgrounds.

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