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WORK TITLE: Involuntary Heroes
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http://law.loyno.edu/bios/mitchell-f-crusto * http://law.loyno.edu/sites/law.loyno.edu/files/cv_files/C.V.MitchCrusto.8.19.16.pdf * https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchell-crusto-42265816/
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Male.
EDUCATION:Yale College, B.A., 1975; Oxford University, M.A., 1985; Yale Law School, J.D., 1981.
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Academic, legal expert, and author. Called to the bar in Louisiana, Illinois, and Missouri; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom, clerk; Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Henry F. Bonura, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law. Has also served in senior governmental policy positions for two U.S. Presidents; visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Miami in Florida, and the Vermont Law School.
MEMBER:Honorable Society of the Middle Temple.
AWARDS:Marshall Scholar; recipient of teaching and student advising awards.
WRITINGS
Contributor to academic and legal journals, including the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law, and the University of Miami Law Review.
SIDELIGHTS
Mitchell F. Crusto is an American academic and legal expert. After earning degrees from Yale College and Oxford University, he completed a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981. He was called to the bar in Louisiana, Illinois, and Missouri and clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom. He has also served in senior governmental policy positions for two U.S. Presidents. After garnering experience working in the legal arena with major corporate and international law firms, investment and chemical manufacturing industries, management consulting, and governmental policy positions, he entered academia. Crusto became the Henry F. Bonura, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to his work at Loyola, he has also served as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Miami in Florida, and the Vermont Law School. His academic and legal research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersections between law and society, particularly the constitution and equality, business and the environment, law of sole proprietors and unconscious classism, and insurance and fairness. He has contributed articles to a number of academic and legal journals, including the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law, and the University of Miami Law Review.
Crusto published his first book, Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties, in 2015. The account looks into the connection between those fighting for civil liberties and the way these activities overlap with the action of personnel and events during emergencies. Crusto covers this relationship to the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina across nine chapters, exploring issues of looting, guns, rape, and the elderly. Crusto takes the role of the police, who were tasked with acting as first responders but, due to the then-current makeup of the force and the lack of integrity in the system, ended up acting free from accountability. Crusto pays particular attention to the suspension of constitutional rights during emergencies. In the second section, Crusto shows the way Katrina impacted public schools, noting the mass terminations that followed the storm and how state agencies took control of schools. Experienced, senior teachers were removed from their positions at the state’s wishes without due process under the guise of the emergency forcing their hand. Writing in Choice, A.R.S. Lorenz claimed that “Involuntary Heroes is a progressive, valuable book best suited for graduate students, scholars, lawyers, and” readers who have an interest in civil liberties and issues relating to emergencies. Overall, Lorenz “recommended” the book for all reading levels.
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PERIODICALS
Choice, April 1, 2016, A.R.S. Lorenz, review of Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties, p. 1240.
ONLINE
Loyola University New Orleans Web site, http://www.loyno.edu/ (March 19, 2017), author faculty profile.*
Mitchell F. Crusto
Henry F. Bonura, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law
Mitchell F. Crusto
Mitchell F. Crusto
Professor Mitchell F. Crusto, a native New Orleanian, has a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a M.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, England (Marshall Scholar), and a B.A., Scholar of the House (History), magna cum laude from Yale College. He is a member of the Louisiana, Illinois, and Missouri Bar Associations and the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple in London. He clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and has served two U. S. Presidents in senior governmental policy positions. He came to the legal academy after extensive legal practice with major corporate and international law firms, investment and chemical manufacturing industries, management consulting, and governmental policy positions.
Professor Crusto currently teaches first year Common Law Property and The Legal Profession courses as well as upper level business courses. Over fifteen years at Loyola, he has taught Common Law Property I and II, Business Organizations I and II, Agency and Partnership, Trust and Estates, Insurance, Environmental Management, and American Legal History. In addition to his Loyola teaching experiences, he has taught as a Visiting Professor at Washington University (St. Louis), University of Miami (Florida), and the Vermont Law School. He has received several awards for teaching and for student advising.
Professor Crusto’s legal scholarship focuses on the inter-disciplinary intersections between law and society, especially business and the environment, the constitution and equality, insurance and fairness, and the law of sole proprietors and unconscious classism. He has recently published three important leading constitutional law articles. Enslaved Constitution analyzes the constitutional right to intra-state travel, published in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Unconscious Classism argues for the equal treatment of business entities under constitutional principles, published in the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law. And Obama’s Moral Capitalism proposes a constitutional right against economic exploitation, published in the University of Miami Law Review. He has recently commented on legal issues relative to the BP oil spill on both television and radio.
Crusto's latest book, entitled Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Civil Liberties, is now available from Carolina Academic Press.
List of Publications
Recent Publications
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1396935
http://ssrn.com/author=1396935
http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631814/Involuntary-Heroes
Degrees
J.D., Yale Law School, 1981; M.A., Oxford University, 1985; B.A., Oxford University, 1980; B.A., Yale University, 1975
Classes Taught
Common Law Property I and I
Business Organizations I
Agency and Partnership
Trust and Estates
Insurance
Environmental Management
American Legal History
Legal Profession
Areas of Expertise
Inter-disciplinary intersections between law and society, especially business and the environment; the Constitution and equality; insurance and fairness; and the law of sole proprietors and liability.
Crusto, Mitchell F.: Involuntary heroes:
Hurricane Katrina's impact on civil liberties
A.R.S. Lorenz
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1240.
COPYRIGHT 2016 American Library Association CHOICE
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Full Text:
Crusto, Mitchell F. Involuntary heroes: Hurricane Katrina's impact on civil liberties. Carolina Academic, 2015. 191 p
index afp ISBN 9781611631814 pbk, $17.95
(cc) 533733
KF3750
201527363 CIP
Crusto (Loyola University, College of Law) examines the relationship between emergencies and the fight for the
protection of civil liberties. In nine chapters, he covers ways Hurricane Katrina impacted issues related to guns,
looting, rape, race, and even the elderly. The initial chapters show that although police officers were under pressure to
act as public servants and first responders, many of the structural issues in place, particularly those related to the law,
allowed the police to escape accountability. These chapters are especially helpful in seeing that constitutional rights
are never suspended, especially during emergencies, because that is often when people need them most. The second
half of the book details the impact of Katrina on the public schools. This is especially valuable as it demonstrates the
state takeover and mass terminations that occurred. Essentially, rights were lost in the hurricane, and the state
government used the disaster to punish experienced teachers without due process. Involuntary Heroes is a progressive,
valuable book best suited for graduate students, scholars, lawyers, and those generally interested in issues related to
emergencies and civil liberties. Summing Up: ** Recommended. All readership levels.A. R. S. Lorenz, Ramapo
College
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Lorenz, A.R.S. "Crusto, Mitchell F.: Involuntary heroes: Hurricane Katrina's impact on civil liberties." CHOICE:
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