Sally Brown Richardson is the A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law at Tulane Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the LSU Law Center.

Professor Richardson specializes in property law, community property law, and comparative law. She is the author of the textbook Community Property in the United States and has written extensively on Louisiana community property and property law. She currently serves as the Reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s Property Committee and has served at the national level as a Reporter for a Uniform Law Commission on property law issues. In 2021, Professor Richardson was elected to membership for the American Law Institute.

Before joining the Tulane Law faculty, Professor Richardson practiced at Skadden, Arps in Washington, D.C., clerked on the U.S. Fifth Circuit for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis, and worked on the legislative and communications staff for former-U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu.