College of Law Welcomes New Faculty

Loyola University New Orleans is excited to welcome five new faculty members starting this fall. These three assistant professors, one Westerfield Fellow, and one professor of practice bring a wealth of knowledge and professional experience that spans legal fields and global cultures. Their work and scholarship embodies Loyola's Jesuit tradition of academic rigor, pursuit of justice, and service to others.

Julie Rocheton (Assistant Professor of Law)

Julie Rocheton comes to us from the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, where she has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of European and Comparative Legal History. Her research focuses on the comparative history of civil law in Europe and the United States from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, with particular attention to codification processes, transnational legal exchanges, and the intersection of family law and legal strategies in marital dissolution. She is especially interested in how legal actors navigated institutional constraints and adapted legal concepts across jurisdictions. She is the author of The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States (Brill, 2024).

Julie earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Law, specializing in civil law, from the University of Montpellier; her first Master’s Degree in Legal History and Legal Culture from the Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Université de Montpellier; her second Master’s Degree in Legal History with Honors from the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas; and her PhD in Legal History, summa cum laude, from the Universidad de Valencia. She has held teaching positions at the Universities of Grenoble, Reims, and Versailles (2013–2021) and was a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School (2014–2015).

Ata Hindi (Assistant Professor of Law)

Ata Hindi comes to us from Tulane University School of Law where he was a Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professor and, before that, from the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine. His research and scholarly interests are in the field of international law with a focus on human rights, humanitarian law, criminal law, and international organizations.

Ata earned his BA in Political Science and a Masters of Science in Global Affairs from Rutgers University- Newark, an Advanced LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University, and a JD from Emory University School of Law.

Bojan Perovic (Assistant Professor of Law)

Professor Perovic joined the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law faculty in fall 2025. His scholarship focuses on international law, corporate responsibility and human rights, and global governance. Before joining Loyola, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University School of Law, affiliated with the Centre for International and Comparative Law and the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative. In that role, he combined research with teaching responsibilities and helped secure funding for a collaborative comparative project with an international partner law school.

He has taught courses in business and human rights at Hunter College (CUNY) with the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and global issues at Manhattan College in New York. At the University of Michigan Law School, he served as Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law and was a Jean Louis Joris Fellow.

Jack Bohannon (Westerfield Fellow)

Jack Bohannon has worked for over a decade as a public interest lawyer in both the civil and criminal contexts, most recently at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services and, prior to that, as a public defender in Orleans Parish and Pensacola, Florida.

Jack received a PhD from Tulane University in sociology; a JD from New York Law School; and a BA from Tulane University. His teaching and scholarly interests focus on secondary trauma and compassion fatigue in lawyers, particularly those working in public defense.

Anna Mangham (Professor Practice, Bar Preparation)

Anna Mangham comes to us from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana where she served as a career law clerk since 2019. Before that she served as a career law clerk in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Alabama. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of South Alabama and her JD from the Mississippi College School of Law.