Ben Allums is an Associate Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where he teaches courses on maritime law, federal civil procedure, and torts. He joined Loyola's law faculty following a sixteen-year career focused on maritime law. He graduated Order of the Coif from Tulane University Law School in 2007, where he earned the Charles Kolhmeyer, Jr. Award as the outstanding graduate in maritime law and served as the Senior Associate Editor of the Tulane Law Review. Upon graduation, he clerked for the late Pascal F. Calogero, Jr., Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. In 2011, he was hired by the Honorable Carl J. Barbier of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to serve as his law clerk on Multidistrict Litigation No. 2179, In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. Allums worked on the sprawling Deepwater Horizon litigation for ten years, then shifted to the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to clerk for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis for one year. He also has four years of private practice experience with two law firms in New Orleans. Allums became a full-time member of Loyola's law faculty in 2023. His latest article, Borrowed Seamen: Evaluating Seaman Status for Borrowed Employees will be published this summer in Volume 50, Issue 3 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.