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About Andrea Beauchamp Carroll

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll is the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.  Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation.  In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for the last twelve years.

Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field, and has most recently been published in the Indiana, Tulane, Brooklyn, and Cardozo law reviews.  Her Tulane article on civil law property was honored at the 2005 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

Professor Carroll is also active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Children’s Code, and Adult Guardianship Committees.  She led the comprehensive revision of Louisiana’s community property law in the area of reimbursement rights in 2009, the first substantial revision of Louisiana’s community property rules since 1979.  And she led a successful reform of Louisiana’s child relocation rules in 2012.  As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.

Positions

2015 - Present Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs, Louisiana State University Law Center
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2009 - Present Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law, Louisiana State University Law Center
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2006 - 2009 C.E. Laborde, Jr. Professor of Law and Donna W. Lee Professor of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center
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2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center
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Curriculum Vitae




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Honors and Awards

  • 2005 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum Presenter
  • Order of the Coif

Courses

  • Civil Law Property
  • Family Law
  • Matrimonial Regimes (Community Property)
  • Obligations
  • Western Legal Traditions and Systems: Louisiana Impact

Education

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2000 J.D., Louisiana State University ‐ Law Center
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1997 B.S., Louisiana State University
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Contact Information

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll
C.E. Laborde, Jr. Professor of Law and Donna W. Lee Professor of Law
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
1 E. Campus Dr.
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Office: 400E
Phone: 225.578.8846

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Articles (11)

Books (3)