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Easements and Change

Easements on the Move: The Uniform Easement Relocation Act

Adverse Possession by the State: Toward Remedial Equivalency

Oil, Trees, and Water: Evaluating the Transition from Natural Property Rights to Property Conventions

Ownership of Submerged Land on the Louisiana Coast: Resolving the Dual-Claimed Land Dilemma

Louisiana Property Law: The Civil Code, Cases, and Commentary

Property Law & Land Use Regulation

John A. Lovett, a passionate teacher and scholar of property law, joined the LSU Law Faculty in January 2024. He grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and earned a B.A. from Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University-Bloomington. He received his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1995 where he served as an Articles Editor for the Tulane Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.

After law school, Lovett clerked for Chief Judge F.A. Little, Jr., United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., United States Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit. He worked as an associate at Liskow & Lewis in New Orleans from 1997 to 2002, focusing on commercial litigation.

Lovett joined the faculty at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2002, became full professor in 2009, and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development from 2012 to 2015. He held the De Van D. Daggett Jr. Distinguished Professorship at Loyola from 2012 to 2023.

Lovett’s teaching and scholarship focus on property law and land use in all its dimensions. He has taught Civil Law Property, Common Law Property, Louisiana Sale and Lease, Land Use Regulation, Real Estate Transactions, and Property, Land Use, and Justice, a new course he created that addresses racial discrimination in property and land use law in the United States.

Lovett’s scholarship ranges across common, civil, and mixed jurisdictions. He has published articles and book chapters on easements, covenants, and servitudes, adverse possession and acquisitive prescription, community land trusts, land reform in Scotland, the impact of natural disasters on property law and housing, and the impact of changes in our natural environment on property rights. His articles and book chapters have been published in the United States, Scotland, the Netherlands, and South Africa and have been cited widely by scholars and courts, including the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa. He is also a co-author of Louisiana Property Law: The Civil Code, Cases, and Commentary (2d edition, Carolina Academic Press 2020), a widely used casebook in Louisiana law schools.

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