From Dean Tom Galligan to the LSU Law Center Family:
All LSU Law students participating in the study abroad program in France have been accounted for and are safe in the wake of the tragic events at the Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, on Thursday. Five LSU Law students were in Nice at the time of the event, but they were not in the immediate area of the attack and were protected at all times. According to our LSU Law students and professors in Lyon, four students took shelter in a hotel until the attack was over and another was far removed from the location of the attack.
All of our LSU Law students and faculty in France are fine. Thankfully they are safe.
The students are in their fifth week of the six-week Summer in Lyon program, which runs June 13 to July 23. About 45 students are participating in this year’s summer program, which has been held in Lyon, France, for the past 14 years. As you know, the program gives students the opportunity to study international law and an opportunity to experience European cities. Nice is an approximately four-hour train ride from Lyon.
We have reached out to those students – and their families – affected by the attack in Nice and have offered counseling and other assistance. All five of the students in Nice are scheduled to return to Lyon to finish the program.
The LSU Law family offers our sympathy and good thoughts to the families of those killed and to the injured. We mourn for all victims of violence.
Tom
Link to The Advocate coverage.
