NEW ORLEANS ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

 

 

Professor Elizabeth R. Carter is the A.N. Yiannopoulos Professor of Law and the Judge Anthony J. Graphia & Jo Ann Graphia Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center, where she teaches and writes in the areas of trusts & estates, tax, family law, and comparative law. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at the Law Center, Professor Carter teaches the courses in Federal Gift and Estate Tax and in Estate Planning in the University of Alabama’s LL.M. program in taxation. She is also an Academic Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

 

At LSU, Professor Carter coaches LSU’s Stutes-Kalinka Tax Moot Court Team, She also serves as the faculty advisor to the LSU Tax Club and the LSU Women Law Students Association.

 

Professor Carter earned a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Memphis, magna cum laude.  She earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School, magna cum laude. She was elected Order of the Coif, and was awarded a Civil Law Certificate. While at Tulane, Professor Carter served as an articles editor of the Tulane Law Review, Volume 81, worked as a research assistant to Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos, and was a founding member of the Tulane Civil Law Society. Professor Carter was awarded the 2006 Dean Rufus C. Harris Award for the Best Writing on a Civil Law Subject by the Tulane Law Review.  Upon graduation, Professor Carter was awarded the 2007 Louisiana Bar Association Civil Law Award for attaining the highest grade in civil law studies. Professor Carter earned her LL.M. in Tax from the University of Alabama in 2010.  

 

Before joining the LSU faculty, Professor Carter worked at the New Orleans law firm of Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard where she practiced in the areas of trusts, estates, successions, probate, business and commercial law, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and marine finance. Professor Carter is active in law reform in Louisiana and serves on several committees for the Louisiana State Law Institute, including the committees on Security Devices and Successions/Donations.