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LSU International Scholar Research/Arts & Performance Grant, Louisiana State University

Exemplary Placement Scholarship Award, LSU Law Center

Joanne Archambault Visionary Award

Prosecuting Rape Victims While Rapists Run Free: The Consequences of Police Failure to Investigate Sex Crimes in Britain and the United States

Policing Rape Complainants: When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime

The Chilling Effect: the Politics of Charging Rape Complainants With False Reporting

Reversing the Decriminalization of Sexual Violence

Seeking Consent and the Law of Sexual Assault

Sexual Assault Law & Gender-Based Violence Policing

Lisa Avalos joined the LSU Law Center faculty in 2018. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen Mary University London and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London, UK.

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of criminal law and procedure, with an emphasis on sexual offenses and gender-based violence. Professor Avalos’s articles have been published in the University of Illinois Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Fordham International Law Journal, and others.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Avalos worked as an associate at McDermott Will & Emery in New York City and at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg in Chicago. Prior to attending law school, she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Professional Responsibility

International Law

Gender-Based Violence

Criminal Law and Procedure

Sexual Offenses

Evidence

International Human Rights

Rape victims seeking help become suspects in false reporting claims, documentary finds

'Minute by minute, it's a changing situation,' law professor on Louisiana judge's abortion ruling

Sex crimes: Police can do better

Unbelievable Isn't the Only True Story of a Victim Who Was Charged for Reporting Their Rape

Sex on Trial review – a story of nightmarish twists and turns

Rape victims to be spared ordeal of cross-examination in court

Professor of Law

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