LSU Law News

Professor Christine Corcos’ review of Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer (Harvard University Press, 2009), will appear in Volume 50 of the American Journal of Legal History.

Professor Olivier Moréteau, the Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Chair, inaugurated a new Workshop Series at McGill University on Civil Law and its Codes: A Journey Across the Americas on November 16. He presented a paper called “De Revolutionibus… The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and the Legal Universe.”  Referring to Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium celestium, he demonstrated how in Louisiana as in other civil law jurisdictions, the legal world is no longer civil-code centered. He concluded that Civil codes may stop becoming peripheral if the whole legal system were re-centered on the citizen.

The Center of Civil Law Studies announces the publication of Volume 2 of the Journal of Civil Law Studies (JCLS). Articles are peer-reviewed and then...