Loday studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Strasbourg in 1975 under the supervision of Max Karoubi, with a dissertation titled K-Théorie algébrique et représentations de groupes. He went on to become a senior scientist at CNRS and a member of the Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research (IRMA) at the University of Strasbourg.

• Loday, Jean-Louis (1998), Cyclic homology, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 301 (2nd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-63074-6, MR 1600246
• Loday, Jean-Louis & Pirashvili, Teimuraz (1993). "Universal enveloping algebras of Leibniz algebras and (co)homology". Mathematische Annalen. 296 (1): 139–158. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.298.1142. doi:10.1007/BF01445099. S2CID 16865683.
• Loday, Jean-Louis; Vallette, Bruno (2012), Algebraic Operads (PDF), Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 346, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-30361-6, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-23, retrieved 2012-06-20
• Zinbiel, Guillaume William (2012), "Encyclopedia of types of algebras 2010", in Guo, Li; Bai, Chengming; Loday, Jean-Louis (eds.), Operads and universal algebra, Nankai Series in Pure, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, vol. 9, pp. 217–298, arXiv:1101.0267, Bibcode:2011arXiv1101.0267Z, ISBN 9789814365116, Zinbiel is a pseudonym of Jean-Louis Loday

• Associahedron
• Blakers–Massey theorem
• Loday functor

• Obituary
• Home page Archived 2017-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Jean-Louis Loday at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Loday's biography of Guillaume William Zinbiel Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine