Mary Algero

Mary Garvey Algero is the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Academic
Affairs, a position she has held since 2015. She is the Warren E. Mouledoux
Distinguished Professor of Law and the Philip and Eugenie Brooks Distinguished
Professor of Law. She co-directs the Lawyering Program and co-directs the Westerfield
Fellows Program. She directs the Loyola Study Abroad Program held in Spetses,
Greece. She is the author of Louisiana Legal Research and co-author of Federal Legal
Research, both books published by Carolina Academic Press. She has published
articles on issues of federal civil procedure and jurisdiction, the Louisiana civil law
system, and the contracts clause and frequently presents on her scholarship and on
teaching at professional conferences. She is a former president of the Association of
Legal Writing Directors www.alwd.org and has served on the editorial board of Legal
Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute http://www.journallegalwritinginstitute.org/. 

She has chaired and served on the executive committee of the AALS Associate Deans of Academic Affairs & Research section. She has served on the executive committee of the AALS Legal Writing,
Reasoning, & Research section. She teaches courses primarily focused on civil
procedure, federal courts, legal research and writing, and ethics. She has also taught
Comparative Judicial Process at the University of Vienna as part of the Loyola study
abroad program and has taught this course in Loyola’s study abroad programs in
Panama and Greece. Prior to joining the faculty of the Loyola New Orleans College of
Law, she practiced law with the New Orleans law firms of McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz,
Cellini & Lang and Pulaski, Gieger & Laborde, primarily in the areas of aviation,
admiralty, and products liability. In law school, she served as the Editor in Chief of the
Loyola Law Review.

Classes Taught
 Civil Procedure I and II
 Advanced Civil Procedure Seminar
 Lawyering I, II, and III (Legal Research & Writing, Appellate Advocacy, & Legal Ethics)
 Advanced Legal Writing
 Scholarly Writing for Law Students
 Law & Poverty
 Courts in a Federal System

Areas of Expertise
Legal research, legal writing, civil procedure, and legal ethics.