Jonathan Walsh

Jonathan M. Walsh is a general partner and co-chair of the Civil Litigation Department at the law firm of Deutsch Kerrigan, L.L.P. in New Orleans.  He has a juris doctor from Tulane University’s School of Law, a Master of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame.

Mr. Walsh has been teaching in the School of Professional Advancement since 2007 and developed the syllabi and curricula for Transportation and Border Security, Legal Aspects of Homeland Security, and Counter Terrorism.  He has taught on both the graduate and undergraduate levels and serves as a Faculty Fellow.  Before teaching at Tulane, Mr. Walsh was an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at Notre Dame and taught French.  

Mr. Walsh served in the United States Coast Guard (Reserve), completing tours in port security and legal assistance.  He was the landward security officer for a naval coastal warfare group conducting anti-terrorism and force protection at the Strategic Port of Debarkation/Embarkation from 2003-2004 in Kuwait.  He deployed to Gulfport, Mississippi, following Hurricane Katrina to support the Coast Guard’s response, to include the establishment of a base of operations and shore services for a port security unit and medium endurance cutter.  In 2002, he led a landward security detachment to the City of Mobile to provide anti-terrorism and force protection to an international flotilla that included the Cutter Eagle.  This was the first domestic deployment of a port security unit and involved close coordination with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.  He attended courses in operation law, homeland security law, and the law of armed conflict at the Naval Justice School, The Judge Advocate General Legal Center and School, and the Air Force Judge Advocate General's School.

Mr. Walsh published in the Tulane Maritime Law Journal’s Summer 2018 edition on the Coast Guard’s landward jurisdiction and lectured on the same topic at the Admiralty Law Institute that year. In 2016, he was a panelist at the Tulane Environmental Law Summit presenting on "National Security & Climate Change." 
He also published on "Joint Service Protection: PSU 308 in Operation Iraqi Freedom" in the Joint Center for Operational Analysis and Lessons Learned (JCOA-LL) Bulletin, Vol. VI, No. 4.  

Originally from New Jersey, Mr. Walsh has lived in New Orleans since 1995.