Tulane University Law School

A. N. Yiannopoulos

Emeritus Eason-Weinmann Professor of Law and Chair, Eason Weinmann Center for International and Comparative Law

Diploma in Law, 1950, LLD, 1995, University of Thessaloniki (Greece); MCL, 1954, University of Chicago; LLM, 1955, JSD, 1956, University of California at Berkeley; DrJur, 1960, University of Cologne

E-mail: ayianno@tulane.edu
Telephone: 504.865.5984
Office: Weinmann Hall, Room 355-G

Biography:
Professor Yiannopoulos is an internationally renowned scholar of civil law, comparative law, and maritime law. He came to Tulane in 1979. He has been in charge of the revision of the Louisiana Civil Code as reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute and has been the editor of West’s Pamphlet Edition of the Louisiana Civil Code since 1980. He has also authored three volumes of the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise series, now in the fourth edition. Professor Yiannopoulos has published widely in the fields of civil law, comparative law, conflict of laws, and admiralty. He has directed the Law School's summer programs in Greece since 1980. He is currently revising portions of the civil code, collecting materials for an admiralty textbook, and working on the next edition of his property treatise. His revision of the Civil Code provisions on quasi-contracts became law in 1996, on representation and mandate in 1998, on deposit and sequestration in 2003, and on loan in 2004. Professor Yiannopoulos is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (The Hague) and of the American Law Institute. He retired from the full-time faculty at the end of the 2007-08 academic year, but continues to teach one course each year in his area of expertise.

Courses:

Spring 2012 - Civil Law Seminar

Articles
Of Immovables, Component Parts, Societal Expectations, and the Forehead of Zeus, 60 LA. L. REV. 1 (2000)
The Role of the Supreme Court at the National and International Level - The Historical Aspect, in THE ROLE OF THE SUPREME COURT 67-98 (1998)
Abuse of Rights in Louisiana Civil Law, in AEQUITAS AND EQUITY: EQUITY IN CIVIL LAW AND MIXED JURISDICTIONS 201-216 (A.M. Rabello ed., 1997)
Legislation and Custom as Sources of Law: The Louisiana Experience, in ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN LAW AND ISRAEL 690-726 (A.M. Rabello ed., 1996)
Revision of the Law of Property: The Louisiana Experience, in PROPERTY LAW ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY 215-233 (G.E. van Maanen & A. J. van der Walt eds., 1996)
The Legal Servitude of Passage, 71 TUL. L. REV. 1 (1996)
The Hellenic Legal Tradition in the United States, 49 HORMENOPOULOS 1361 (1996); reprinted in 42 LOY. L. REV. 1 (1996)
Civil Liability for Abuse of Right: Something Old, Something New…, 54 LA. L. REV. 1173 (1994)
Current Developments Concerning the Form of Bills of Lading, in INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COMPARATIVE LAW GENERAL REPORTS (1994)
Introduction to the Louisiana Civil Code, in West's LSA-CIVIL CODE, vol. 1 (1993)
Property, in INTRODUCTION TO GREEK LAW 121-132 (Kerameus & Kozyris eds., 1988) (2d ed. 1993)
Historical Development of Greek Law, in INTRODUCTION TO GREEK LAW 1-12 (Kerameus & Kozyris eds., 1988) (2d ed. 1993)
Two Critical Years in the Life of the Louisiana Civil Code: 1870 and 1913, 53 LA. L. REV. 5 (1992)
Property, in INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES 199-218 (Clark and Ansay eds., 1992)
Possession, 51 LA. L. REV. 523 (1991)
Of Legal Usufruct, the Surviving Spouse, and Article 890 of the Lousiana Civil Code: Heyday for Estate Planning, 49 LA. L. REV. 803 (1989)
A Tale of Two Codes: The Code Napoleon and the Louisiana Civil Code, in NAPOLEON IN AMERICA 195 (La. State Museum 1989)
Five Babes Lost in the Tide -- A Saga of Land Titles in Two States: Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Mississippi, 62 TUL. L. REV. 1357 (1988)
Civil Law in Judge Tate's Court: Three Decades of Challenge, 61 TUL. L. REV. 743 (1986)
John H. Tucker, Jr., The Jurisconsult, 45 LA. L. REV. 1011 (1985)
The Early Sources of Louisiana Law: Critical Appraisal of a Controversy, in LOUISIANA's LEGAL HERITAGE (E.F. Haas ed., 1983)
Extinction of Predial Servitudes, 56 TUL. L. REV. 1285 (1983)
Foreign Sovereign Immunity and the Arrest of State Owned Ships: The Need for an Admiralty FSIA, 57 TUL. L. REV. 1274 (1983)
Creation of Predial Servitudes by Prescription and Destination of the Owner, 43 LA. L. REV. 1 (1982)
Louisiana Civil Law: A Lost Cause?, 54 TUL. L. REV. 83 (1980)
Actions for the Protection of Predial Servitudes: Louisiana and Comparative Law, 24 LOY. L. REV. 581 (1978)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1976-77 Term B Property, 38 LA. L. REV. 332 (1978)
Enclosed Estates: Lousiana and Comparative Law, 23 LOY. L. REV. 343 (1977)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1975-76 Term B Property, 37 LA. L. REV. 317 (1977)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1974-75 Term B Property, 36 LA. L. REV. 346 (1976)
The Usufruct of Mineral Rights in Louisiana, 22ND ANN. INST. OF MIN. L. 155 (1975)
Jurisprudence and Doctrine as Sources of Law in Louisiana and in France, in THE ROLE OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS AND DOCTRINE IN CIVIL LAW AND IN MIXED JURISDICTIONS (Dainow ed., 1975)
Common Walls, Fences and Ditches: Louisiana and Comparative Law, 35 LA. L. REV. 1249 (1975)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1973-74 Term B Property, 35 LA. L. REV. 266 (1975)
Civil Responsibility in the Framework of Vicinage: Articles 667-669 and 2315 of the Civil Code, 48 TUL. L. REV. 185 (1974)
Violations of the Obligations of Vicinage: Remedies under Articles 667 and 669, 34 LA. L. REV. 475 (1974)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1972-73 Term B Property, 34 LA. L. REV. 207 (1974)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1971-72 Term, 33 LA. L. REV. 172 (1973)
Validity of Patents Conveying Navigable Waterbottoms - Act 62 of 1912, Price, Carter, and All That, 32 LA. L. REV. 1 (1972)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1970-71 Term B Property, 23 LA. L. REV. 172 (1972)
Predial Servitudes: Creation by Title, 45 TUL. L. REV. 459 (1971)
The Public Use of the Banks of Navigable Rivers in Louisiana, 32 LA. L. REV. 563 (1971)
Railroad Tracks as Constructions: Ruminations on American Creosote Co. v. Springer, 19 LA. B.J. 37 (1971)
Standing Crops: Movables or Immovables?, 17 LOY. L. REV. 323 (1971)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1969-70 Terms, 31 LA. L. REV. 196 (1970)
Limited Personal Servitudes, in FESTSCHRIFT FRAGISTAS (1969)
Real Obligations, in ESSAYS ON THE CIVIL LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 292-313 (Dainow ed., 1969)
Real Rights: Limits of Contractual and Testamentary Freedom, 30 LA. L. REV. 44 (1969)
The Work of the Louisiana Appellate Courts for the 1968-1969 Term, 30 LA. L. REV. 181 (1969)
Predial Servitudes: General Principles, Louisiana, and Comparative Law, 29 LA. L. REV. 1 (1968)
Legal Usufructs: Louisiana and Comparative Law, 14 LOY. L. REV. 1 (1968)
Testamentary Dispositions in Favor of the Surviving Spouse and the Legitime of Descendants, 28 LA. L. REV. 509 (1968)
Rights of a Usufructuary: Louisiana and Comparative Law, 27 LA. L. REV. 668 (1967)
Usufruct: General Principles in Louisiana and Comparative Law, 27 LA. L. REV. 369 (1967)
Real Actions in Louisiana and Comparative Law, 25 LA. L. REV. 589 (1965)
The Unification of Private Maritime Law by International Convention, 30 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 370 (1965)
The Civil Law Program of the Louisiana State Law Institute, 12 LA. B. J. 89 (1964)
Real Rights in Louisiana and Comparative Law, Part I, 23 LA. L. REV. 161 (1963)
Real Rights in Louisiana and Comparative Law, Part II, 23 LA. L. REV. 518 (1963)
Report: First Annual Meeting of the Civil Law Section of the Louisiana State Law Institute, 12 AM. J. COMP. L. 629 (1963)
An Introduction to the Law of Things, 22 LA. L. REV. 756 (1962)
Movables and Immovables in Louisiana and Comparative Law, 22 LA. L. REV. 517 (1962)
Conflict of Laws and the Brussels Convention of 1924: Validity of "Negligence" Clauses in Germany, 39 U. DET. L.J. 89 (1961)
Conflict of Laws and Unification of Law by International Convention: The Experience of the Brussels Convention of 1924, 21 LA. L. REV. 553 (1961)
Uniform Rules Governing Bills of Lading: The Brussels Convention of 1924 in the Light of National Legislation, 10 AM. J. COMP. L. 374 (1961)
Common, Public, and Private Things in Louisiana: Civilian Tradition and Modern Practice, 21 LA. L. REV. 697 (1961)
The Work of the Louisiana Supreme Court for the 1958-1959 Term C Corporations, 20 LA. L. REV. 257 (1960)
Bills of Lading and the Conflict of Laws: Validity of Negligence Clauses in England, 27 U. DET. L. J. 198 (1959)
Bills of Lading and the Conflict of Laws: Validity of Negligence Clauses in France, 7 AM. J. COMP. L. 516 (1958)
Brokerage, Mandate, and Agency in Louisiana: Civilian Tradition and Modern Practice, 19 LA. L. REV. 777 (1958)
Conflict Problems in International Bills of Lading: Validity of Negligence Clauses in the United States, 19 LA. L. REV. 609 (1958)
Wills of Movables in American International Conflicts Law: A Critique of the Domiciliary Rule, 46 CAL. L. REV. 185 (1958)