Athanassios Nicholas "Thanassi" Yiannopoulos (March 13, 1928, in

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– February 1, 2017, in

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) was a professor at

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, expert on civil law and

comparative law Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law (legal systems) of different countries. More specifically, it involves the study of the different legal "systems" (or "families") in existence in the world, including the ...

, and founder of the ''

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''. He acquired his law degree at the Law School of the Aristotle University and continued his graduate studies at the

University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious law schools in the world, and has many dist ...

(where he studied on a

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and graduated with a Master of Comparative Law in 1954), the

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(where he graduated with an LL.M. and a J.S.D.)), and the

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. Yiannopoulos was an internationally renowned scholar of civil law, comparative law, and maritime law. From 1958 to 1979, Yiannopoulos served on the faculty of

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's Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He joined the faculty of Tulane University Law School in 1979. Yiannopoulos was in charge of the revision of the

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as reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute and was the editor of West's Pamphlet Edition of the Louisiana Civil Code since 1980. He also authored three volumes of the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise series, now in the fourth edition. Yiannopoulos was published widely in the fields of civil law, comparative law, conflict of laws, and admiralty. He directed the Tulane University Law School's summer programs in Greece since 1980. At the time of his death, he was revising portions of the civil code, collecting materials for an admiralty textbook, and working on the next edition of his property treatise. His revision of the Civil Code provisions on quasi-contracts became law in 1996, on representation and mandate in 1998, on deposit and sequestration in 2003, and on loan in 2004. Yiannopoulos was a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (The Hague) and of the American Law Institute. He retired from the full-time faculty at the end of the 2007–2008 academic year but continued to teach one course each year in his area of expertise.

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A. N. Yiannopoulos
at the Tulane University Law School 1928 births 2017 deaths People from Thessaloniki American people of Greek descent Conflict of laws scholars Louisiana State University faculty Tulane University faculty Tulane University Law School faculty American legal scholars {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub