The top-ranked proposal submitted in the Endowed Chairs for Eminent Scholars Program during FY 2010-11, to establish the Nesser Family Endowed Chair in Energy Law at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, is the first Chairs proposal ever to receive a perfect score. The holder of the Nesser Family Chair will provide academic, cultural and scientific leadership for the Law Center’s broad-based energy law initiative. This initiative builds on an established tradition in oil, gas, and mineral law into other categories of energy transformation, including biological-based, solar, wind and nuclear.
