Etienne C. Toussaint is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He teaches Contracts, Business Associations, Secured Transactions, and Law and Political Economy, among other courses. His scholarship sits at the intersection of law, history, culture, and political economy, with a focus on the socioeconomic challenges facing urban communities across the United States.

Professor Toussaint has been nationally recognized for his teaching, scholarship, and service. In 2023, he was awarded both a Faculty Scholarship Award and a Faculty Diversity Leadership Award by the University of South Carolina School of Law. In 2022, he was awarded the Junior Great Teacher Award by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). In 2021 he was honored as the Stegner Center Young Scholar by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & the Environment at The University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

His book chapters, articles, and essays have been published by the American Bar Association, Cambridge University Press, the California Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review,the UCLA Law Review,the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, among other print and online publications.

Professor Toussaint is a graduate of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he earned an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering. He completed an M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. At HLS, he also served as an editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vice-President of the Board of Student Advisers, and a National Executive Board member of the National Black Law Students Association.

Professor Toussaint has served as a Board Member of the Washington Council of Lawyers, as a National Advisory Board Member of the National Black Law Students Association, and as a member of the American Bar Association, Commission on Homelessness and Poverty.

Born and raised in the South Bronx, Professor Toussaint is the proud husband of Dr. Ebony A. Toussaint, Ph.D., and the father of their three amazing sons.