In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos

• Author: Elizabeth R. Carter
• Position: A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor of Law; Judge Anthony J. Graphia & Jo Ann Graphia Professor of Law, Louisiana State University. B.A., B.S., University of Memphis; J.D., Tulane University; LL.M., University of Alabama.
• Pages: 1103-1106

In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos Elizabeth R. Carter * This issue of the Louisiana Law Review is dedicated to the life and legacy of A.N. “Thanassi” Yiannopoulos 1 —who spent the first part of his teaching career here at LSU. 2 Professor Yiannopoulos accepted an offer to become a tenured member of the LSU law faculty in 1958. He later confessed that he accepted the position “under the mistaken assumption that LSU was located, if not in New Orleans, at least in a suburb of the historical city.” 3 Louisiana and LSU will be forever indebted to Professor Yiannopoulos’s mistake. I am honored to introduce this issue of the Louisiana Law Review and celebrate the life of my mentor, Professor Yiannopoulos. By the time we finish law school, most of us have been in school for 20 years or more and have had dozens of excellent teachers. If you are truly fortunate, however, you also will have a teacher to whom you can point and say: “That is the one.” The “one” is that teacher who helped to set you on the path you were meant to be on all along. The “one” is that teacher who motivated you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. For me, Professor Yiannopoulos was the “one.” I began law school at Tulane in 2004—towards the end of Professor Yiannopoulos’s teaching career. I confess that, like Professor Yiannopoulos, I was a bit confused when I decided to move to New Orleans from Memphis. I did not know much about the law or Louisiana. I did not know that Louisiana had a different legal system than the other 49 states. Yet civil law peaked my interest. I met Professor Yiannopoulos in the fall of my 2L year when I enrolled in his Civil Law Property II course. The semester did not go as planned—Hurricane Katrina hit shortly after that first week of class and Tulane was closed for the semester. I eventually took two courses with Professor Yiannopoulos, and I spent a good deal of time with him outside of class. I was incredibly fortunate that Professor Yiannopoulos took me under his wing—supervising my paper Copyright 2018, by ELIZABETH R. CARTER. * A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor of Law; Judge Anthony J. Graphia & Jo Ann Graphia Professor of Law, Louisiana State University. B.A., B.S., University of Memphis; J.D., Tulane University; LL.M., University of Alabama. 1. As his students, we often referred to him as “Yippy.” See Jeanne Louise Carriere, From Status to Person in Book I, Title 1 of the Civil Code, 73 TUL. L. REV. 1263, 1264 (1999). 2. At Tulane, he affectionately referred to LSU...