David W. Gruning

William L. Crowe, Sr. Professor of Law
B.A., 1973, Wesleyan University (Connecticut); M.A., 1975, Middlebury College; J.D., 1982, Tulane University.

Professor Gruning graduated Order of the Coif and magna cum laude from Tulane Law School, where he was articles editor of the law review.  He practiced law with Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson in New Orleans, before joining the Loyola faculty in 1986.  An ability to work in French has led to lectures in several countries, including Morocco and Madagascar, and he taught at the University of Montreal from 2001-2003, where he helped launch the graduate program in common law.  At Loyola, his courses include private and commercial law, in both the civil and in the common-law curriculum, as well as constitutional law.  Current research interests include the problems that arise during recodification of law, particular the law of sale, as well as the comparison of legal institutions in legal systems based on both the civil and the common law.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on several committees of the Louisiana State Law Institute.  This May, Prof. Gruning will give the Fresco Lectures at the University of Genoa on the limits of liability in American tort law.

Web Page: http://www.law.loyno.edu/~gruning/images/index.html
E-mail: gruning@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5653

Publications

Recent Articles:

• Pure Economic Loss in American Tort Law: An Unstable Consensus, Amer J. of Comp. L. (forthcoming 2006).
• Codifying Civil Law: Principle and Practice, in Symposium on the Bicentennial of the French Civil Code, 51 Loy. L. Rev. 57 (2005).
• Vive la différence? Why No Codification of Private Law in the United States?  39 La revue juridique Thémis 153 (2005).
• Bayou State Bijuralism:  Common Law and Civil Law in Louisiana, 81 U. Detroit Mercy L. Rev. 437 (2005).
• Mapping Society Through Law: Louisiana Civil Law Recodified, 39 Tulane European and Civil Law Forum 1 (2004).
• Marbury v. Madison: The Reach of Review: Of Judges, Cases, and Constitutions, 37 La revue juridique Thémis 317 (2003).

Updated April 21, 2006