Gerard A. Rault , Jr.

Judge John D. Wessel Distingushied Professor of Law
J.D., 1968, Louisiana State University.

Professor Rault regularly teaches Evidence, Obligations and Criminal Law. He is a native New Orleanian, and attended Jesuit, Loyola and Spring Hill. He was an honor graduate of the Louisiana State University Law Center, where he served as an editor on the Louisiana Law Review. After service in the Marine Corps (enlisted and officer), and general civil practice in a large New Orleans law firm, he taught at Southern University Law School and was the creator and director of the L.S.U. Law Clinic. He joined the Loyola faculty in 1972. Professor Rault has served on the A.B.A.'s Client Counseling Committee, and created and served as the first director of the International (U.S., U.K., Canada) Client Counseling Competition. He has served as a special prosecutor on occasion, and has been qualified in Louisiana state courts as an expert in the defense of criminal cases. He has been active in the defense of death penalty cases in Louisiana, both at the trial and appellate levels, and created the Loyola Death Penalty Clinic, in which he and senior students are appointed to defend first degree murder cases. Professor Rault is a frequent lecturer and an author of several books and numerous law review articles. He is a coauthor of the annual Handbook on Louisiana Evidence Law. During the 1997-1998 school year, he was on sabbatical, serving as a Fulbright scholar and Distinguished Lecturer in Law in the People's Republic of China. During the Fall 1999 semester he was a Visiting Professor of Law at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

E-mail: rault@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5657

Publications

Books:

• Louisiana's Common Law of Crimes (2004).
• Handbook on Louisiana Evidence Law, with Pugh, Force and Triche (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1989-present). Current volume on Reserve. Older volumes in regular collection. 2004 ed., 899 pp.
• Proposed Louisiana Code of Evidence (On the Recommendation of the Louisiana State Law Institute; Co-Reporter; St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1986). 119 pages.
• Trial Manual for Louisiana Prosecutors, with Lemann and Vitiello (Baton Rouge: O. Brown, District Attorney, East Baton Rouge Parish, 1981). 326 pages.

Audiotapes:

• The Law of Evidence in Louisiana, Tape 6, “Contents of Writing, Recordings and Photographs: Miscellaneous Rules”(Baton Rouge: Center of Continuing Professional Development, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, 1988). 1 hour.
• Evidence in Louisiana for Civil Cases, Tape 6, “Contents of Writing, Recordings and Photographs: Miscellaneous Rules”(Baton Rouge: Center of Continuing Professional Development, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, 1986). 1 hour.

Articles:

• “Classroom Methods in American Legal Education,” 1 J. Int'l Conf. on Legal Educ. 284 (1999). (Beijing, China, 1999) (in English and Chinese).
• Book Review. Dead Man Walking, by Prejean, 41 Loy. L. Rev. 577-584 (1995).
• “Evidence,”(5th Circuit Symposium) 37 Loy. L. Rev. 725-737 (1991).
• “The Louisiana Code of Evidence -- A Retrospective and Prospective View,”with Pugh, Force and Triche, 49 La. L. Rev. 689-695 (1989).
• “An Overview of the New Louisiana Code of Evidence -- Its Imperfections and Uncertainties,”49 La. L. Rev. 697-731 (1989).
• “Evidence and Criminal Procedure,”(5th Circuit Symposium) 33 Loy. L. Rev. 745-770 (1987).
• “Criminal Law and Procedure,”(5th Circuit Symposium) 24 Loy. L. Rev. 413-433 (1978).
• “Evidence,”(5th Circuit Symposium) 22 Loy. L. Rev. 531-539 (1976).
• “On Louisiana's New Homicide Statutes: Purpose, Constitutionality and Problems of Interpretation,”19 Loy. L. Rev. 563-578 (1973).
• “Constitutional Criminal Procedure,”(5th Circuit Symposium) 19 Loy. L. Rev. 667-702 (1973).
• Book Review. Louisiana Community Property, by Riley, 46 Tul. L. Rev. 1082-1084 (1972).
• Comment. “Representation of Indigents in Criminal Cases: Guidelines for Louisiana,”27 La. L. Rev. 592-606 (1967).
• Note. “Constitutional Law -- The 1966 Obscenity Cases,”27 La. L. Rev. 100-109 (1967).

Updated August 7, 2007