LSBA Board of Governors
Faculty, Tulane University Law School
Mr. Ronald Joseph Scalise Jr
2017-2019
6329 Freret St
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 865-5958
Fax: (504) 862-8844
Ronald J. Scalise, Jr. is the A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law at Tulane University Law School where he served as vice dean from 2012-16. 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 served on the LSBA’s Board of Governors from 2013-15. He has served on the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization since 2011 and the Louisiana Bar Exam Advisory Committee since 2008.
He was elected as an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel in 2014 and as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2013. 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 New Orleans
CityBusiness Leadership in Law Award in 2015, 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 a Gates Fellowship in 2003.
Ronald is married to Sally Richardson and is the father of a daughter.