Professor of Law
cpicou@sulc.edu
(225) 771-4900 ext. 223

Courses taught: successions and donations, matrimonial regimes, comparative community property, obligations, civil procedure, family law, torts, criminal law, evidence, offshore personal injuries, seminar on products liability, and workers’ compensation

A former partner in Picou and Butterworth and former assistant district attorney, Cynthia Picou joined the Law Center faculty in 1976. Professor Picou has published widely on successions and donations. She also has been a continuing legal education seminar presenter on this topic for the LSU Law Center, Tulane Estate Planning Seminar, Louisiana State Bar Association, Louisiana Trial Lawyers, Baton Rouge Bar Association, and Southern University Law Center. She has also taught toxic torts and presented a series of lectures on human rights at the Georgia Technological Institute.

Her previous professional experience in the general practice of law included property disputes, domestic matters, and successions. While serving the 20th Judicial District in West Feliciana Parish, she prosecuted felonies and assisted grand jury investigation of two governmental institutions, the Louisiana Mental and Forensic Hospital and Louisiana State Penitentiary.

From 1965-67, Picou served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Stagui, Colombia, working as an educational television supervisor. She is a 1970 graduate of the LSU Law School and was inducted into the Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa Phi.