Andrea ("Andi") Beauchamp Carroll

Biography

Andi Carroll is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center.  Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts.  In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for two decades.

Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field, including the first and only comprehensive treatise on Louisiana family law.  She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her work on comparative law was honored at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

Professor Carroll is a qualified family law, divorce, and custody mediator, and has served as an expert in family litigation nationally.  She is particularly active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Property and Obligations committees.  Professor Carroll has led successful legislative reforms in almost every area of family law.  As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.

Courses Taught

Civil Law Property, Family Law, Matrimonial Regimes (Community Property), Obligations, Western Legal Traditions and Systems

Selected Publications

Law Review Articles

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll, Incentivizing Divorce, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 1925 (2009).

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll, The International Trend Toward Good Cause Eviction: Dangerous Portents for the United States, 38 Seton Hall L. Rev. 427 (2008).

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll, The Superior Position of the Creditor in the Community Property Regime: Has the Community Become a Mere Creditor Collection Device?, 47 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll, Examining a Comparative Law Myth: Two Hundred Years of Riparian Misconception, 80 Tul. L. Rev. 901 (2006).

Books

Andrea Carroll, Louisiana Civil Jury Instruction Companion Handbook (Thomson West 2007-2009).

Honors & Awards

• 2005 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum Presenter
• Order of the Coif