Carla Laroche
Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Carla Laroche (she/her) has dedicated her career to increasing access to justice and opportunities for systemically excluded communities. She is the Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law and the Murphy Institute. Professor Laroche’s legal scholarship, teaching, and work experiences address how people navigate civil legal systems and seek to access their rights when they have arrest and conviction histories, with a focus on criminal law, gender, race, voting rights, and family law. Her work is published or forthcoming in traditional law journals, including Boston University Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, University of Richmond Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Race and Law, bar journals, and newspapers. Professor Laroche has presented these pressing issues at workshops, conferences, and community events around the nation and internationally, and been interviewed for print and other media outlets.
Learn more about Professor Laroche's work here: https://law.tulane.edu/carla-laroche
Publications
Selected Publications
Carla Laroche, Voter Emancipation in Slavery’s Afterlife, 56 Seton Hall Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
Carla Laroche, Black Women’s Voter Emancipation in Slavery’s Afterlife, Address at the University of Richmond Law Review Symposium: Vestiges of the Confederacy: Reckoning with the Legacy of the South (Mar. 1, 2024), in 58 University of Richmond Law Review 653, 653-669 (2024).
Carla Laroche, Black Women and Voter Suppression, 102 Boston University Law Review 2431, 2431-2495 (2022).
Carla Laroche, The New Jim and Jane Crow Intersect: Challenges to Defending the Parental Rights of Mothers During Incarceration, 12 Columbia Journal of Race & Law 517, 517-556 (2022).
Nonvote Voting in the Disenfranchisement Maze (work-in-progress)
Family Legal Fiction (work-in-progress)
Books and Book Chapters
Carla Laroche et al., "Sexual Assault Proceedings on College Campuses: Current Issues", in The State of Criminal Justice 2017 (Mark E. Wojcik ed., 2017).
Carla Laroche et al., "Double Sentence: The Consequences Incarcerated Mothers Face and the Impact on Their Children", in The State of Criminal Justice 2016, 207 (Mark E. Wojcik ed., 2016).
Other Legal Writing by Professor Laroche: https://law.tulane.edu/carla-laroche
Education & Affiliations
- A.B., Princeton University, 2006
- MPP, Harvard Kennedy School, 2012
- J.D. Columbia Law School, 2012
