Mitchell F. Crusto

Professor of Law
B.A., 1975, Yale University; B.A., 1980, M.A., 1985, Oxford University; J.D., 1981, Yale Law School.

Professor Crusto has taught at Loyola for over ten years various first year and upper-class courses, including Common Law Property I and I, Business Organizations I, Agency and Partnership, Trust and Estates, Insurance, Environmental Management, and American Legal History among other courses.  His legal scholarship focuses on the inter-disciplinary intersections between law and society, especially business and the environment, the constitution and equality, insurance and fairness, and the law of sole proprietors and liability.  Crusto is a member of the Louisiana, Missouri, and Illinois Bar Associations, and the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple (London, England).  He was a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  He has served two Presidents of the United States in senior governmental policy positions.  He has been a corporate lawyer in St. Louis and was an environmental consultant for Arthur Andersen. He has received several awards for student advising and as well s for teaching. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Washington University (St. Louis), University of Miami (Flordia), and the Vermont Law School.

E-mail: mfcrusto@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5743

Publications

Articles:

• Entity Equality: Modernizing “Legally-Disadvantaged” Sole Proprietorship Law, J. of Corp Law, scheduled January 2008.
• Louisiana’s Valued Policy Law:  Total Loss Equals Total Payment?, La Bar J., August 2007.
• The Katrina Fund: Repairing Breaches in Gulf Coast Insurance Levees, 43 Harv. J. Leg. 329-373 (2006).
• Endangered Green Reports: ‘Cumulative Materiality’ in Corporate Environmental Disclosure after Sarbanes-Oxley? 42 Harv. J. Leg. 483-509 (2005), reprinted 35 ELR 10666 (Oct. 2005).
• Blackness as Property: Sex, Race, Status, and Wealth, 1 Stan. J.C.R.C.L. 51- 169 (April 2005).
• Green Business:  Should We Revoke Corporate Charters for Environmental Violations, 63 La. L. Rev 175- 241 (2003), reprinted 34 ELR (Feb. 2004).
• Toxic Mold:  Punitive Damages for Insurers’ Bad Faith Practices, American Bar Association, Section on Litigation (April 2003).
• Extending the Veil to Solo Entrepreneurs: A Limited Liability Sole Proprietorship Act (LLSP), 2001 Col. Bus. L. Rev. 381-430 (2001).   
• The Supreme Court's New Federalism: An Anti-Rights' Agenda, 16 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 517-572 (2000). 
• All That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Congressional-Driven Global Environmental Policy, 11 Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev. 499- 529 (1999).
• Federalism and Civil Rights, the Meredith Case, 11 Nat’l Black L.J. 301- 315 (1989).
• Smith and Robinson, Business Law, Contributing Editor (1988 - 1997).

Updated July 26, 2007