Louisiana Law of Torts: A Precis

Frank L. Maraist is the Nolan J. Edwards Professor of Law and the Holt B. Harrison Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center, where he has taught since 1974. A 1958 graduate of the LSU Law Center, he practiced law for over ten years, obtained a Master of Laws from Yale University, and taught at the law schools of the Universities of Texas, Mississippi, and North Carolina, before returning to his Alma Mater. He has also taught at Tulane and Washington University (St. Louis), and has served as a Louisiana District Judge pro tem. Professor Maraist is the co-author of a national torts casebook, and admiralty casebooks, "Admiralty in a Nutshell" (five editions), a Louisiana torts casebook, and treatises in Maritime Personal Injury, Louisiana Evidence and Proof and Louisiana Civil Procedure, and more than a score of law review articles. He has also published the Louisiana Civil Law and Procedure Newsletter since 1976. Professor Maraist served as executive director of the Louisiana Judicial College from 1985 to 1994 and served as executive director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel from 1981 to 2001. He taught at the National Judicial College for a number of years, and in 1992 he received the Harrison Tweed Award for Special Merit in Continuing Legal Education from the American Law Institute/American Bar Association. In 1998, he was named Outstanding Law Professor by the Louisiana Bar Foundation.