Stacy Seicshnaydre is the William K. Christovich Professor and the Robert A. Ainsworth Professor of the Courts and Federal System at Tulane Law School. She is currently serving as Vice Dean. In addition to Fair Housing Law and Litigation, a course she began teaching in 1998, she teaches Civil Procedure and Legal Profession. Along with Florence Roisman and Rigel Oliveri, she is a co-author of a coursebook under contract with Aspen Publishing entitled The Right to Fair Housing, expected in early 2025. She has taught, litigated, advocated, investigated, and published in the area of fair housing for three decades.

From 2016 to 2021, she served as Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Public Interest Programs. In that role, Prof. Seicshnaydre oversaw the full range of skills training, experiential, and public interest initiatives at Tulane Law School, including Clinics, Trial Advocacy and moot court, externships, Intersession skills boot camps, and Tulane’s pioneering pro bono program.

As director of Tulane Law School’s Civil Litigation Clinic from 2004 to 2016, she guided students in the representation of clients on a variety of civil rights cases in federal courts at the district and appellate levels. She was also founding executive director and later general counsel of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.
Seicshnaydre clerked for Judge W. Eugene Davis of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then received a Skadden Fellowship to work as a staff attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C.
She serves as Board Chair for the Inclusive Communities Project and has served on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance and on the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy cited her work in the landmark disparate impact case of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project.