- John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law Emerita
- jcarriere@tulane.edu
- Weinmann Hall, Room 259-F
- 504-865-5892
Education
- JD, summa cum laude, 1986, Tulane University
- PhD, 1975, University of California at Los Angeles
- MA, 1972, University of California at Los Angeles
- BA, 1970, St. Mary's Dominican College
Biography
Jeanne Carriere’s speciality is Civil Law. She is a co-author of the leading casebook on Civil Law Property, the newest edition of which is being published in Fall 2013. She has been a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute since 1987 and of its Council since 1989. The Institute is the state’s law reform body responsible for revisions of the Louisiana Civil Code. In addition, she served on the Louisiana Bar Advisory Committee for seven years. Carriere joined the Tulane Law faculty in 1987 and has taught courses in Civil Law Persons; Civil Law Property; Family Law: Civil and Common Law; and Trusts and Estates, as well as seminars on The Outsider in Law and Literature; Law in the Plays of Shakespeare; and Selected Institutions in the Civil Law of Persons. At Tulane’s summer programs in London and in Cambridge, England, she taught The Ownership of Cultural Property; and at programs in Rhodos and in Spetses, Greece, she taught a course on Concepts of Law and Justice in Ancient Greek Literature. Besides articles on Civil Law subjects, she has written on law and film and on the relationship of culture to law in the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Selected Publications
The Trouble with “Father”: Dual Paternity and the Protection of the Family, in OLIVIER MORETEAU, JULIO ROMANACH, JR. AND ALBERTO LUIS ZUPPI, ESSAYS IN HONOR OF SAUL LITVINOFF 119 (2008).
"Cold Comfort: Law and Community in the Coen Brothers' Fargo," 2003 Utah L. Rev. 371
From “Status” to “Person” in Book 1, Title 1 of the Civil Code, 73 TUL. L. REV. 1263 (1999)
"It's Déjà Vu All Over Again": The Covenant Marriage Act in Popular Cultural Perception and Legal Reality, 72 TUL. L. REV. 1701 (1998)
Reconstructing the Grounds for Interdiction, 54 LA. L. REV. 1199 (1994)
Representing the Native American: Culture, Jurisdiction, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, 79 IOWA L. REV. 585 (1994)
The Rights of the Living Dead: Absent Persons in the Civil Law, 50 LA. L.REV. 901 (1990)
"Of What Value Is Such a Policy to an Insured?" Vesting of the Right to Benefits in Cases of Termination or Amendment of Louisiana Health and Accident Insurance Policies, 61 TUL. L. REV. 653 (1987) Constitutional Criminal Procedure - The Good Faith Exception in Action - Massachusetts v. Sheppard, 59 TUL. L. REV. 1100 (1985).
Books
DIAN TOOLEY-KNOBLETT, JEANNE CARRIERE AND J.-R. TRAHAN, YIANNOPOULOS' CIVIL LAW PROPERTY COURSEBOOK, 9th ED. (2009)
BOETHIAN NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN 14TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (dissertation) (University Microfilms) (1975)
General Publications
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "Knotty Issues," February 12, 2005
Chicago Tribune, "Couples Tie Tighter Knots in 'Covenant' Marriage," January 2, 2005
Associated Press, "A Court Order to Take Out the Garbage?," April 5, 2004
USA Weekend Edition, New "covenant laws" may save marriages, but at what price? May 5, 2002
New York Times, "In Covenant Marriage, Forging Ties That Bind," November 10, 2001
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Christmas Poem, 1 COMITATUS 25 (1970)
Other Legal Writing
Comment, "Of What Value Is Such a Policy to an Insured?" - Vesting of the Right to Benefits in Cases of Termination or Amendment of Louisiana Health and Accident Insurance Policies, 61 TUL. L. REV. 653 (1987)
Note, Constitutional Criminal Procedure - The Good Faith Exception in Action: Massachusetts v. Sheppard, 59 TUL. L. REV. 1100 (1985)