A.N. Yiannopoulos: Louisiana's Great Overlooked Legal Historian

Abstract

Our understanding of Louisiana law owes passing much to the scholarship of Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos. To be asked, therefore, to offer words of gratitude in this Memorial Issue of the Loyola Law Review is a privilege beyond measure. Professor Yiannopoulos was blessed with the gift of enthusiasm, and he was enthusiastic about many things. As a legal scientist, he perhaps cared most about codes, judges, and courts. But as an academician, he cared most about teachers, students, and legal education. And he was, indeed, pure academician. He had no fancy that he was teaching skills that might make his students more effective practitioners, although, of course, he was in fact doing precisely that—by demonstrating the skill of engaging fully and patiently with statutes and cases.