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92 Tul. L. Rev. i (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/tulr92 and id is 13 raw text is: Foreword The Gifts of Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos: Ever to Excel! Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos, a member of Tulane University Law School's faculty for thirty-eight years before his passing in February 2017, was a man of extraordinary gifts, in every sense of that phrase. He was, of course, deeply gifted as a scholar, teacher, and academic leader. That part was obvious to everyone-every scholar who ever read his insightful, path-breaking scholarship in at least three fields, every lawyer and judge guided by his incisive revisions of Louisiana's Civil Code, and every student who encountered his infectious enthusiasm and good-natured rigor in the classroom. His accomplishments in each of these realms are too expansive to catalogue here, but even a few stand-out examples illustrate the rare quality of his gifts. As a scholar, it is not too much to say that Professor Yiannopoulos helped remake not one, but three different fields. He made his reputation first in comparative law, and in short order. He arrived in the United States in 1953 as a twenty-five-year-old Fulbright Scholar to study comparative law at the University of Chicago under the famous comparativist Max Rheinstein. Five years, two fellowships, and three degrees later, the California Law Review published his doctoral thesis, Wills of Movables in American International Conflicts Law: A Critique of the Domiciliary Rule., Over the next five decades, Yiannopoulos went on to publish dozens of articles and books in the field, establishing himself as the world's foremost authority in comparative property law. In 1981, he was asked to serve as editor in chief of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law's volume on property and trust, based upon the 1. Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos, Wills of Movables in American International Conflicts Law: A Critique of the Domiciliary Rule, 46 CALiF. L. REv. 185 (1958). In all, Professor Yiannopoulos earned five law degrees: Diploma in Law, 1950, University of Thessaloniki (Greece); M.C.L., 1954, University of Chicago; LL.M., 1955, J.S.D., 1956, University of California, Berkeley; Dr. Jur. magna cum laude, 1960, University of Cologne (Germany). In 1995, the University of Thessaloniki awarded Yiannopoulos an LL.D. honoris causa. 1

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