Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.

Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., has been dean of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center since July 1, 2016, and holds the James Huntington and Patricia Kleinpeter Odom Professorship of Law.He also teaches Torts and Admiralty: Maritime Torts.

Prior to his appointment as the dean of the LSU Law Center, he served as the President and Professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College. He was formerly the dean and the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he also taught torts and admiralty.

Galligan began his teaching career at the LSU Law Center where he initially taught from 1986-1998, where he was named the Dr. Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law.During his first tenure at LSU the students named him the Outstanding LSU Professor six times. From 1995-1998, he served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Judicial College.

He holds an A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University, a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law where he graduated summa cum laude and first in his class, and an LL.M. from the Columbia University Law School.

He and his wife Susan have been married for 37 years and are the proud parents of Patrick, Sarah, Aisling, and Jennifer, and the proud parents-in-law of Jeremiah Gould and soon to be parents-in-law of Ethan O’Connell.

Professor Oliver A. Houck

Oliver A. Houck, the David Boies Chair in Public Interest Law at Tulane University, is a graduate of Harvard College (1960) and Georgetown Law Center (1967), with three intervening years of military service.He served as an Assistant US Attorney in Washington, DC and then General Counsel to the National Wildlife Federation, before joining the Tulane faculty in l981 where he has taught and published widely on environmental, criminal, and constitutional law issues.He is the author of two books featuring New Orleans, Down on the Batture, and Downstream Toward Home, and a history of seminal environmental cases around the world, Taking Back Eden, just re-published by the University of Peking Press in Beijing.

Professor Houck co-founded the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, and Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, and continues to provide pro bono assistance to local citizens. He has received several awards from the Law School and the University, and from others including New Orleans City Business, Gambit Magazine, the Young Leadership Council of New Orleans, the Tulane Black Law Student Association, and the American Bar Association.

Professor Houck and his wife Lisa raised two boys in New Orleans, where she has been an educator, school principal and social worker for special needs children.They came to the city for a one-year visit over 35 years ago, which says something about this place we live.

Howard W. L’Enfant, Jr.

Howard L’Enfant, the Henry Plauche’ Dart Professor of Law, retired from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 2011 following a 40-year career as one of the school’s most distinguished and respected teachers. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1963, and completed his L.L.B. at LSU in 1966. He was the Editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Law Review and a member of The Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Fraternity.

Following graduation, L’Enfant entered the private practice of law in New Orleans, but soon found his calling as he experienced teaching for the first time at Loyola University Law School. In 1969, he began what would become a lifetime career in teaching at LSU – a career that would influence four generations of students and future lawyers. During his time at LSU, L’Enfant also served as Acting Associate Dean, Vice Chancellor, and Interim Chancellor for the Law Center. He served on a variety of legal committees, having served as Reporter for the Continuing Revision of the Code of Civil Procedure for the Louisiana Law Institute, among other scholarly pursuits. He taught Evidence, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts throughout his teaching career.

L’Enfant was known for his fairness, warm personality, and love of the law. He made learning the law fun, according to his students.

L’Enfant is a native of New Orleans, and he is married to his wife, Jean Ann. They now reside part time in North Carolina. In 2002, he was ordained as an Episcopalian priest. He served as an Associate Pastor of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

Alain A. Levasseur

Professor Emeritus Alain A. Levasseur was the Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professor of Law; Director, European Studies Program; Associate Director for International Studies, Center for Commercial and Business Law, until he retired in June 2015 from the LSU Law Center. He holds a DESS from the Faculté de Droit de Paris, and an MCL from Tulane University Law School. He was an associate with the Paris firm of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. Professor Levasseur served as a Technical Assistant at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. from 1969 to 1970. In the fall of 1970, he resumed teaching at Tulane University Law School until he joined the LSU Law Center faculty. In 1998, the Université d'Aix Marseille Paul Cézanne bestowed on Professor Levasseur the degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa. In January 2010, Professor Levasseur received a second Doctorate Honoris Causa, this one from the Université de Paris Panthéon Assas. The French government named him Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In 2014 he was selected as Scholar in Residence by the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Professor Levasseur is the author of over twenty books in English and French, and some thirty articles in English and fifty in French. He is most proud of his latest book, "Deciphering a Civil Code" (2015) written with the support of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He has also spearheaded many translations particularly the Dictionary of the Civil Code, and the French Civil Code for the official site of the French government (Légifrance).