Sally Brown Richardson

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. Her scholarship has been previously selected for the Yale-Stanford-Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and she has received the President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, the highest teaching award offered at Tulane University. In 2021, Professor Richardson was elected to membership for the American Law Institute. Before joining the Tulane Law faculty, Professor Richardson practiced in the energy regulatory practice group at Skadden in Washington, D.C., focusing on issues of market manipulation in energy markets. Prior to joining the Tulane faculty, she also 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.

Before joining the Tulane Law faculty in 2012, Richardson practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C. She clerked for Judge W. Eugene Davis on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and before that worked as deputy communications director for then-U.S. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu.