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Faculty, Tulane University Law School
Mr. Ronald Joseph Scalise Jr

2013-15
6329 Freret St
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 865-5958
Fax: (504) 862-8844

Ronald J. Scalise, Jr. is vice dean for academic affairs and the A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law at Tulane Law School. He received a BA degree in 1997 from Tulane University, his JD degree in 2000 from Tulane Law School and an LLM in 2003 from Cambridge University (Trinity College). He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2000.

Ronald has served on the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization since 2011 and the Louisiana Bar Exam Advisory Committee since 2008. He also served on the Committee to Review Proposed Changes to the Louisiana Bar Exam.

He is a member of the American Society of Comparative Law, the American Bar Association and the Louisiana State Law Institute (council member, committee member and reporter). He received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 2009, the Hessel Yntema Prize for Outstanding Comparative Law Scholarship in 2008 and the Gates Fellowship in 2003.

He is the father of a daughter.



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