LSBA Board of Governors

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Ronald J. Scalise, Jr. is the John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law at Tulane University Law School, where he has served on the faculty since 2009 and held the A.D. Freeman Professorship from 2009-18. He served as vice dean of the law school from 2012-16. From 2004-09, he served on the faculty of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center; in 2007, he was awarded the McGlinchey Stafford Associate Professorship there and, in 2009, served as acting vice chancellor for academic affairs.

He received a BA degree in 1997 from Tulane University, his JD degree in 2000 from Tulane Law School (articles editor for the Tulane Law Review), and an LLM in 2003 from Cambridge University (Trinity College). He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2000.

Professor Scalise is a member of the American Law Institute, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Treasurer of the American Society of Comparative Law, a Professeur Invité at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, an academician in the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and an academic fellow to the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). He currently serves as Louisiana State Chair for ACTEC and as a member of the Board of Regents. He writes extensively on civil and comparative law topics, particularly the law of successions, donations, and trusts. He currently serves as the editor for Thomson Reuter’s annual edition of the Louisiana Civil Code as well as the author for the annual updates for six volumes in the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise series on property, obligations, and trusts.

His awards include the “2015 Leadership in Law Award” by New Orleans CityBusiness, the Felix Frankfurter Award for law teaching in 2018 and 2024, and the 2018 John Minor Wisdom Award for the best civil law article published in the Tulane Law Review. Professor Scalise has served on numerous law reform projects and on those related to the betterment of the legal profession on both the national and local level. He has previously served as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Community Property Disposition at Death Act and currently serves as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee for an Act on Conflict of Trust and Estate Laws.

Professor Scalise has served as member of the Board of Governors of the LSBA on three separate occasions and as a member of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, including in positions as both Chair and Vice Chair of the Board. He currently serves as the Reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s Successions and Donations Committee, the Trust Code Committee, the Prescription Committee, and the Committee on Aleatory Contracts/Signification and as a member of the Council and over a dozen other subject-matter specific revision committees.