Professor Andrea B. Carroll
LSU Law Center
Andi Beauchamp Carroll is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for nearly two decades. Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field. She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her Tulane article on civil law property was honored as outstanding scholarship at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Carroll is active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Children’s Code, Adult Guardianship, Surrogacy, and Property Committees. She has led successful legislative reforms in the areas of child relocation, spousal support, surrogacy, and community property reimbursement rights. As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.
Professor John M. Church
LSU Law Center
Professor John M. Church is the Joe W. Sanders Law Alumni Association Professorship and Allen L. Smith, Jr. Professorship Associate Professor of Law at LSU Law Center. He also serves as Director of the Apprenticeship Program at the Law Center. Professor Church teaches Torts, Products Liability, Toxic Torts, Wine Law, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust Law. He has a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Colorado, where he was a Harlo Fellow, the Case Note Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Church clerked for Judge Robert H. McWilliams of the U.S. Tenth Circuit, and practiced law in Denver. He serves as the Law Center’s representative to the Board of Governors of the Louisiana State Bar Association and is active in local and state bar activities. He is one of the founding board members of the Louisiana Civil Justice Center, an organization dedicated to the provision of legal services to those in need. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is the co-author of Tort Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives and Louisiana Tort Law. He focuses most of his writing in the area of food and wine regulation, tort law and toxic torts.
Professor William R. Corbett
LSU Law Center
Professor William R. Corbett holds the Frank L. Maraist, Wex S. Malone, Rosemary Neal Hawkland, and Cheney C. Joseph Professorships at LSU Law Center, where he teaches and writes primarily in the area of Labor and Employment Law, but he also teaches Torts and Louisiana Civil Procedure. He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Professor Corbett served as Interim Dean at LSU Law Center during fiscal year 2015-2016, and served as Vice Chancellor from May 1997 to January 2000. He was honored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as the 2013 Distinguished Professor. He received his B.A. from Auburn University and his law degree from the University of Alabama, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Alabama Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received the M. Leigh Harrison Award presented to those graduating in the top 5 percent. He joined the law faculty at LSU in 1991, after practicing in Birmingham, Alabama with Burr & Forman. Professor Corbett has served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel for the last 25 years. Prior to that, he served for several years as Executive Director, and then as faculty advisor, of the Louisiana Judicial College.
Professor Tracy L. M. Norton
LSU Law Center
Tracy L. M. Norton holds the Erick Vincent Anderson Professorship and Professional Responsibility Professorship #6 at Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she has pioneered technology integration in legal education for three decades. Her current AI leadership includes co-creating The Law Profs' AI Sandbox and authoring the open educational resource Lawyering Skills for the AI Era (2026). Norton co-chairs the Legal Writing Institute's AI Task Force and chairs LSU's Faculty Senate AI Committee. She is the 2026 recipient of the Association of American Law Schools Technology Mentorship Award, one of National Law Review's 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, and a finalist in the education category of the 2026 American Legal Technology Awards. She develops innovative AI-integrated curricula and presents nationally on prompt architecture, AI literacy, and ethical AI adoption in legal practice and education.
Clare S. Roubion
The Roubion Law Firm
Clare Roubion is an experienced lawyer whose practice focuses on legal ethics, professional responsibility, lawyer discipline, judicial conduct, legal malpractice, lawyer disqualification motions, and lawyer fee disputes. She provides specialized legal representation and strategic counsel to lawyers, judges, law firms, and legal professionals navigating complex ethical and professional responsibility matters.
Clare represents clients before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, and the Louisiana Judiciary Commission. She advises lawyers and law firms on disciplinary proceedings, ethics issues, conflicts of interest, law firm risk management, and professional responsibility questions, providing practical guidance and strategic solutions tailored to the unique challenges of the legal profession. She is licensed to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts.
Prior to opening her own practice, Clare practiced with Louisiana Legal Ethics, LLC, where she represented lawyers, judges, and law firms in disciplinary proceedings, ethics matters, legal malpractice litigation, fee disputes, and other professional responsibility matters. Earlier in her career, she served as a public defender for the Fifteenth Judicial District Court in Lafayette, Louisiana, and as the Research and Writing Lawyer for the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle and Western District of Louisiana. These positions provided extensive experience in legal research, persuasive writing, and appellate advocacy, which continue to serve as the foundation of her practice.
In addition to her practice, Clare is a frequent lecturer on legal ethics and professional responsibility. She regularly presents continuing legal education programs for lawyers on topics including legal ethics, malpractice avoidance, conflicts of interest, law practice management, and emerging issues affecting the legal profession. Through both her presentations and her practice, she is committed to helping lawyers navigate complex ethical issues with practical, thoughtful guidance.
Clare is a graduate of Louisiana State University, where she earned her undergraduate degree cum laude in 2011, and Louisiana State University Law Center, where she earned her Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 2014. While in law school, she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served on the LSU Law Review.
Clare lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, with her husband, Ross, and their three children, Roy, Gus, and Rosie.
