At Tulane he started a law clinic to serve low-income people in New Orleans and made Tulane the first law school in the United States to require a specific number of community service hours for graduation.

[1] He publicly defended the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic when it ran afoul of powerful chemical and oil companies in Louisiana.

[1] He also defended the Tulane Appellate Advocacy Program's involvement in a Supreme Court suit against a local utility.

[1] During his tenure, Tulane published the nation's first gay law journal.

[1] He clerked at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.