John A. Lovett

Associate Professor of Law
B.A. 1988, Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa); M.F.A. 1991, Indiana University; J.D. 1995, Tulane University (Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif).

Professor Lovett's teaching and research are focused on the evolution of property law in civil law, common law and mixed jurisdictions and on land use and real estate transactions.  Professor Lovett received his J.D. in 1995 from Tulane Law School where he served as an articles editor on the Tulane Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.  After law school, Professor Lovett served as a law clerk to the Honorable F.A. Little, Jr., United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana, and the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  He then practiced law for five years in the commercial litigation section of Liskow & Lewis, PLC, in New Orleans.  He joined the Loyola faculty in 2002.  Professor Lovett is a past chair of the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools, a contributing editor to the ABA journal, Probate and Property, and serves on as the Treasurer of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists.

Publications

Articles:

• Creating and Controlling Private Land Use Restrictions in Scotland and Louisiana: A Comparative Mixed Jurisdiction Analysis, 12.1 Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (May 2008), available at http://www.ejcl.org/121/issue121.html, ____ Stellenbosch L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2008).
• Symposium Introduction, Revitalizing Community Assets: Blighted, Abandoned and Tax Adjudicated Property and Land use in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 53 Loy. L. Rev. 719 (2007).
• Property and Radically Changed Circumstances, 74 Tenn. L. Rev. 463 (2007).
• Doctrines of Waste in a Landscape of Waste, 72 Mo. L. Rev. 1209 (2007).
• Rebuilding a Region: Housing Recovery Efforts in the Wake of Katrina and Rita, 20 Prob. & Prop.49 (2006).
• A New Way: Servitude Relocation in Scotland and Louisiana, 9 Edinburgh L. Rev. 352 (2005).
• A Bend in the Road: Easement Relocation and Pliability in the New Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2005).
• On the Principle of Legal Certainty in the Louisiana Civil Law Tradition:  From the Manifesto to the Great Repealing Act and Beyond, 63 La. L. Rev. 1397 (2003).
• Another Great Debate?:  The Ambiguous Relationship Between the Revised Civil Code and Pre-Revision Jurisprudence as Seen Through the Prytania Park Controversy, 48 Loy. L. Rev. 615 (2003).
• The Alien Tort Statute:  Subject Matter Jurisdiction and a Cause of Action in United States Courts for Suits by Aliens Alleging Torts in Violation of the Law of Nations, 47 Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Inst. 24-1 (2001) (with Donald R. Abaunza).
• Tortious Interference and Unfair Trade Claims:  Louisiana’s Elusive Remedies for Business Interference, 45 Loy. L. Rev. 395 (1999) (with George Denegre, Jr. and Shannon Holtzman).
• Comment, Batture, Ordinary High Water and the Louisiana Levee Servitude, 69 Tul. L. Rev. 561 (1994).

Book Chapters: 

• Property and Radical Change: Observations on Property Relationships from Post-Katrina New Orleans, in Law and Recovery after Disaster: Hurricane Katrina, Robin Paul Malloy, ed. (forthcoming Ashgate 2008).
• Title Conditions in Restraint of Trade, in Mixed Jurisdictions Compared: Private Law in Louisiana and Scotland, Vernon Palmer and Elspeth Reid, eds. (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press 2009).

Reports:

• The Challenges of Sudden Natural Disasters for Land Administration and Management: The Case of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, J. David Stanfield, ed. (contributor to case study submitted to the United Nations-Habitat Program) (April 2008).

Literature Reviews:

• Keeping Current: Property, 22 No. 3 Prob. & Prop. 20-21 (May/June 2008).
• Keeping Current: Property, 22 No. 2 Prob. & Prop. 31-33 (March/April 2008).
• Keeping Current: Property, 22 No. 1 Prob. & Prop. 17-19 (Jan./Feb. 2008).
• Keeping Current: Property, 21 No. 6 Prob. & Prop. 28-30 (Nov./Dec. 2007).

Newspaper Opinion-Editorial Articles:

• Turn Surplus into an Insurance Solution, The Times-Picayune (Dec. 23,  2006)(with Raphael J. Rabalais, Jr.)
• Road Home Flexibility Aids Recovery, The Times-Picayune (Nov. 4, 2006).
• Why Can’t Our Road Home Be As Simple as Mississippi’s, The Times-Picayune (Aug. 17, 2006).
• Move-away Penalty is Unfair, Impractical, The Times-Picayune (April 18, 2006).
• Our Future: Take it to the Land Bank, The Times-Picayune (March 11, 2006).

Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations:

• The Winding Road to Recovery: Observations on Property Relationships Three Years after Katrina, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (May 29, 2008).
• Review of Recent Developments: Law Professors Perspectives, ABA Section of Real Property, Probate, Trust and Estate Law, Real Property Symposium, Washington, D.C. (May 2, 2008)
• Property and Radically Changed Circumstances: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond, Visitor Colloquia Series, University of Wisconsin School of Law (Oct. 11, 2007).
• Property Law Reform in the 21st Century: A Comparative Mixed Jurisdiction Perspective, Second Worldwide Congress of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, Edinburgh, Scotland (June 27, 2007).
• Meditations on Strathclyde: Exploring the Limits of Private Land Use Restrictions, Property, Society and Social Entrepeneurism (PSCE) Workshop on Comparative, Transnational and Emerging Issues in Property Law, Durham, England (July 17, 2007); Property Works in Progress Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (June 14, 2008).
• Doctrines of Waste in a Landscape of Waste, A Festchrift in Honor of Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law (April 14, 2007).
• Property and Radically Changed Circumstances, Tulane-Loyola Junior Faculty Workshop, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA (March 2, 2007).
• Property and Radically Changed Circumstances, Center on Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepreneurism, 3rd Annual Workshop, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 11, 2006).
• Housing Recovery Efforts on the Gulf Coast in the Wake of Katrina and Rita, 15th Annual Conference on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Washington, D.C. (May 24, 2006).
• Eminent Domain and Disaster Restoration After Katrina and Kelo, (with Robert Verchick) Restoration 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana (May 17, 2006).
• A Renovator’s Perspective on the Louisiana Civil Law Tradition: Past, Present and Future, Scottish Association of Comparative Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (February, 2005).
• On the Principle of Legal Certainty in the Louisiana Civil Law Tradition:  From the Manifesto to the Great Repealing Act and Beyond, Young Scholars Workshop at the Annual Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, Amelia Island, Florida (July, 2004).
• On the Principle of Legal Certainty versus Discontinuity in the Law, Louisiana Bicentenary:  A Fusion of Legal Cultures, Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May 2004).

June 6, 2008