Russell L. Jones
Jesse N. Stone, Jr. Endowed Professor
(225) 771-3776 ext 205
Russell L. Jones, the Jesse N. Stone, Jr. Endowed Professor, is former vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern University Law Center, 2007- 2016. He earned a B.A. degree in 1974 from Northeast Louisiana University, a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, in 1982 from Southern University School of Law, and a LL.M. degree in 1992 from Georgetown University School of Law. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1982.
In April 2015, Professor Jones was inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame. In 2013, he was awarded the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service to youth in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Professor Jones was recognized as the 2010 Distinguished Professor of Law by the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He also received the 2001 Louisiana Bar Journal Stephen T. Victory Memorial Award for best Journal feature article. Recently, Professor Jones was selected by the Baton Rouge Bar Association as an exemplary lawyer to participate it 90th Anniversary video. Professor Jones is also featured in the Louisiana Bar Foundation’s Oral History Project.
He is the co-author of two books: Harges and Jones, Louisiana Evidence, 2019 (Thomson-West Publishing Co., Lawyers Practice Series); and Harges and Jones, Louisiana Evidence: Problems and Cases (Esquire Books, 2011). He also has written several articles on various topics. He currently focuses on Louisiana Evidence Article 404(B)(1), and Terry v. Ohio and Stop-and-Frisk. Professor Jones’ current teaching assignment is Evidence, Criminal Law and Constitutional Criminal Procedure.
Professor Jones established the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project at SULC in 2009. He is the recipient of the 2014 and 2010 Louis A. Martinet Legal Society’s Outstanding Community Service Award; the 2009 Kean Miller Hawthorne, D’Armond, McCowan & Jarman Diversity Award; the 2001 Baton Rouge Bar Association President’s Award; the 2000 Freeport-McMoRan Community Service Award presented by WAFB and Freeport-McMoRan Company; and the 1984 Pro Bono Attorney Award presented by the Capital Area Legal Service Corporation. Professor Jones has been selected by the Law Center’s student body as Professor of the Year on at least seven occasions.
Professor Jones is a member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Foundation, Louisiana Bar Foundation Education Committee, and Director of the Southern University Law Center/LLBC Fellowship Project.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Louisiana Evidence: Cases, Problems and Materials (2d. Ed.), Harges and Jones, Esquire Books, Inc. 2016.
Louisiana Evidence - A Treatise, Harges and Jones, Thomson-West Publishing Company, 2019 (updated yearly by the authors).
ARTICLES
Terry v. Ohio: A 21st Century Civil Rights Issue
Submitted for publication July 2019.
Terry v. Ohio: Its Failure, Immoral Progeny and Racial Profiling
54 Idaho Law Review 2 at 511, November 2018.
A More Perfect Nation: Ending Racial Profiling
41 Valparaiso School of Law - Law Journal 621, Fall 2006
Supreme Court Nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito and the Fourth Amendment, Special Symposium Edition, Southern University Law Review, November 2006.
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: The Enactment of La.C.E. article 412.2.
Spring 2003, 48 Loyola Law Review 17.
Other Crimes Evidence: How Should It Work?
29 So. U. Law Rev. 129 (2002).
L.C.E. Article 412.2: Has It Destroyed a Well-Established Rule?
50 La. Bar Journal 90 (August 2002) [This article was selected best feature article of the year and was given the Stephen T. Victory Award].
Affirmative Action: Should We or Shouldn’t We?
Southern University Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1996.
African-American Legal Pioneers: A Biography of Vanue B. Lacour,
Southern University Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1995.
Equal Protection Under the Law: The Affirmative Action Debate,
United States Information Service Democracy in Africa Program, 1994.
A Primer on Due Process in American Criminal Procedure,
University of Lagos Law Journal, 1992.
African-American Legal Pioneers: A Biography of Attorney James Sharp Jr.,
Southern University Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1993.
Secondary Boycotts Under the Railway Labor Act After Burlington Northern,
Southern University Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1993.
Racial Disparities in the Bar Examination: A Hypothesis,
Louisiana Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, February 1993.
Minorities in the Legal Profession: Can They Succeed?,
Thurgood Marshall Law Review, Vol. 12, Spring 1988.
Louisiana=s State-of-the-Art Defense,
Southern University Law Review, Volume 13, No. 2, 1987.
Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:445 and 15:446 - Constant Change and Interpretation,
Southern University Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1981.
BOOK REVIEWS
Bernard E. Harcourt’s Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2006), George Mason University School of Law Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, Vol. 4, No.1, Fall 2007.
Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench,
Davis and Clark, Southern University Law Review, Fall 1993.
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: Thurgood Marshall,
Carl T. Rowan, Southern University Law Review, Fall 1993.
Black Robes, White Justice, Bruce Wright, Southern University Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1998.