Faculty
Professor Keith Vetter is the Ted and Louana Frois Distinguished Professor of International Law Studies at Loyola College of Law. He teaches Comparative Law and Latin American Legal Systems at Loyola, has written numerous articles and books and has lectured on comparative law topics at law schools in Japan, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, France, Holland, England ( Oxford), Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil. He has taught at the Institut de Droit Compare, Faculte de Droit, Universite-Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, the Vytatus Magus University Law School in Kaunas, Lithuania and the State University of Rio de Janeiro School of Law, and was the first director of Loyola’s Foreign Summer Sessions.
Professor John Rooney is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School and the University of Miami Law School. He has written numerous articles and has practiced extensively in Latin America as counsel to Pan American Life Insurance Company and as vice president/assistant general counsel for John Alden Life Insurance Company. Rooney is now in private practice centered almost exclusively in Latin America.
James Etienne Viator is the Adams & Reese Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola College of Law. Professor Viator joined the law faculty in 1990 after teaching at Texas Tech School of Law from 1986-1990. Prior to attending law school, Professor Viator worked as a professional musician and also as a foreman on livestock farms in California and his native Louisiana. He was the Executive Editor of the Louisiana Law Review and graduated from LSU Law School with membership in the Order of the Coif. In 1985-1986 he clerked for Judge Henry A. Politz on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Viator regularly teaches courses in contracts, Louisiana obligations, Louisiana torts, American constitutional law and history, common-law property, and constitutional criminal procedure.
Professor Jeanne M. Woods is the Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights, International Trade Law and Law and Poverty. In 2006 she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and in 2004 she was a J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China.
