Orientation

Subject to confirmation, orientation will be held on the Sunday before the first day of classes. Please meet in front of the law school, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 15 Quai Claude Bernard, Time TBA.  From there, we will walk to a nearby café.

The University

LSU’s Summer in Lyon program is held at Jean Moulin Université Lyon 3. Located in the heart of Lyon, the classrooms are walking distance from most student residences. Students have access to Wi-Fi while at school, and there is also a café on the first floor of the building where they can grab a bite to eat or an espresso.

The curriculum is subject to change prior to the beginning of the first session. More information will be provided as the semester goes on. Below is a Class Schedule for reference on how the program is normally set up:

Dates will be June 2 (Orientation) – July 12, 2024

2024 Class Schedule

FIRST SESSION (June 3 – 20, Exams on June 21)

Time Course Faculty
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Comparative Data Protection Law Prof. Pailler
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM Contemporary Issues in International Criminal Law Judge Jackson
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Comparative Criminal Legal Systems Prof. Lancaster

SECOND SESSION (June 24 – July 11, Exams on July 12)

Trip to Geneva: July 4

Time Course Faculty
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Introduction to Comparative Company Law Prof. Reyes
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM Human Rights and the Environment Prof. Bryner
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Comparative Criminal Legal Systems Prof. Lancaster

Course Titles and Description

Comparative Criminal Legal Systems (2 credits) [First and second session]

Professor Robert E. Lancaster, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, LSU, Lyon Program Director 2024

This course is a comparative overview of criminal legal systems around the world with primary focus on the United States, England and Wales, France, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and China. Areas of comparison will include how common law, civil law, Islamic law, and Eastern Asian legal traditions inform the development and implementation of legal systems that address deviant social behavior. The course will provide a comparative overview of policing, adjudication, criminal procedure, prosecution function, defense counsel function, theories of punishment, and administration of corrections. Students will develop a cross-cultural understanding of crime and the operation of criminal legal systems.

 

Comparative Data Protection Law (1 Credit) [First Session]

Professor Ludovic Pailler, University Jean Moulin, Lyon, France

The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to data protection law from a comparative and practical perspective. Students will be invited to identify and address the major issues in relation with technological innovation (AI) and economic growth, which depends on the free flow of data across borders. The course will highlight the different institutional and legal models of data protection that exist, especially in the US and the EU, the level of protection they provide and how they should be articulated to enable the data flow. The reality and extent of EU Law influence on foreign data protection laws (Brazil, Japan for example) will be highlighted. Finally, the need for a global data protection law will be discussed.

 

Contemporary Issues in International Criminal Law (1 hour) [First Session]

Judge Brian A. Jackson, United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

The course examines current issues in International Criminal Law, including, 1) the jurisdictional principles that underpin International Criminal Law, 2) the acts and circumstances that comprise international crimes, and 3) prosecution and enforcement mechanisms applied in international criminal investigations and prosecutions. Among other topics, the course will address modern examples of crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and extradition issues. Students will be required to engage in lively and open-minded discourse from a variety of perspectives.

 

Human Rights and the Environment (1 Credit) [Second Session]

Professor Nicholas Bryner, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, LSU

In 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing “the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right.” This course explores the relationship and overlap between international human rights law and environmental law.

The course begins with a basic overview of key concepts in human rights law and a brief history of the development of international environmental law. After this introduction, the course examines the question of how environmental harms impact traditionally recognized human rights. It then turns to converse question of how the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural human rights influence environmental protection. Students will consider whether, from a policy and legal perspective, it makes sense to approach environmental issues with a human rights framework, as well as what difference it makes to recognize, as the majority of countries in the world now do, a human right to a healthy environment.

 

Introduction to to Comparative Company Law (1 Credit) [Second Session]

Dr. Francisco Reyes, Bogota, Colombia

The continuing harmonization of European Corporate Law as well as the various regulatory approaches that exist in the U.S., Latin America and other jurisdictions about incorporated entities and other business associations provide an interesting background for Comparative Law studies. This course is intended to introduce students to the regulation of business forms as they exist in multiple jurisdictions. It will start by focusing on the rationale that brings together the Company Law systems of the US, Europe and Latin America and will then trace the evolution of business forms and corporate governance regimes in these jurisdictions. The course will highlight specific traits that set apart the Company Law regimes adopted by such countries.

The program will also explore specific topics related to mergers and acquisitions in a comparative context. Emphasis will be placed in the practical aspects that are considered in international deals, such as the different types of transactions, the due diligence process, and the drafting of basic M&A documents.

 

Faculty 

Prof. Nicholas Bryner

Professor Bryner was an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law for 2016-18. He served as Visiting Associate Professor and Environmental Law Fellow at George Washington University Law School (August 2014-June 2016) where he co-taught courses on environmental and natural resources law.

Bryner received his B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science from the University of Utah, with minors in Latin American Studies and Chemistry. He also earned joint degrees (J.D. / M.A.) in law and Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from The George Washington University Law School and Elliott School of International Affairs. At GW, Bryner was elected to the Order of Coif, received the Pro Bono Service Award and the Patton Boggs Foundation Public Policy Fellowship, and was a Presidential Merit Scholar. In addition, he served as an Articles Editor for The George Washington Law Review.

Email: bryner@lsu.edu

 

Judge Brian A. Jackson

Judge Brian A. Jackson, Xavier University of Louisiana (BA), Southern University (JD), Georgetown University (LLM), serves as a United States District Judge on the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana. He assumed office on June 5, 2010, and served as Chief Judge (2011-2018).

After graduating from law school in 1985, Jackson took a job as a general attorney for the Los Angeles office of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. He served in that capacity until 1987, when he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as an assistant general counsel for the INS. In 1988, Jackson left INS and returned to New Orleans, taking a job in the United States Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, where he worked first as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and then, from 1990 until 1992, as an Assistant United States Attorney. From 1992 until 1994, Jackson worked in the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in the United States Department of Justice, serving as the assistant director for the Evaluation and Review staff. From 1994 until 2002, Jackson worked in the United States Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Louisiana, serving as a First Assistant United States Attorney and then in 2001 as an interim United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana. During that tenure, Jackson also was detailed to Washington from 1998 until 1999 to work in the office of the United States Deputy Attorney General, serving as an associate deputy attorney general. From 2002 until 2010, Jackson worked as a partner for Liskow & Lewis, a law firm with offices in New Orleans, Lafayette, and Houston.

Email: Brian_Jackson@lamd.uscourts.gov

 

Prof. Robert E. Lancaster

Robert Lancaster is the Assistant Dean of Experiential Education at LSU Law. He teaches the Parole and Re-entry Clinic, Divorce and Child Custody Mediation, and Legal Interviewing and Counseling. His professional interests are primarily focused on the pedagogy of experiential legal education, exploration of issues of mass incarceration and prisoner reentry, and alternative methods of conflict resolution in family decision making.

Prior to LSU, he was a Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law -Indianapolis where he taught in the Civil Practice Clinic, the Judicial Field Placement Program, Lawyering Practice, and a seminar exploring wrongful convictions. Professor Lancaster has also taught in the Criminal Justice Defense Clinic at the Washington School of Law, American University in Washington, D.C. and was a Cover Fellow at the Yale Law School. Prior to teaching, he represented death row inmates in state post-conviction and federal habeas proceedings.

Professor Lancaster has extensive experience living and working overseas. He spent a gap year after his college graduation living and working in Japan. He has travelled throughout the provinces of China for four years while he was the faculty director of the China Trial Advocacy Institute (CTAI) — a rule of law and human rights project headquartered at Renmin University School of Law in Beijing and funded by the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor of the United States Department of State. He also served as resident faculty for the China Law Summer Program and the European Law Summer Program while at Indiana University.  Professor Lancaster regularly serves as a visiting professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes Faculté de droit in France and at Shandong University School of Law in Weihai, China.

Professor Lancaster is a founding member and President of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Parole Project – a non-profit focused on decarceration and the successful reentry of individuals who have served long prison sentences. He serves on the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and he also serves the Louisiana State Bar Association as a member of the Access to Justice Committee and the LGBT Section of the Diversity Committee. Professor Lancaster was also a longstanding member of the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)—a community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity and academic excellence.

Professor Lancaster received his BA, magna cum laude, in Philosophy (with Honors in English) from Millsaps College and his JD, cum laude, from Tulane Law School.  He is admitted to practice in Louisiana, Indiana, and Connecticut and is a Qualified Child Custody and Visitation Mediator in Louisiana.

Email: rlancast@lsu.edu

 

Prof. Ludovic Pailler

Professor Ludovic Pailler joined the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University Law Faculty in 2017 as an Associate Professor and was appointed Full Professor (Agrégé des facultés de droit) in 2019. He is currently Vice-Dean for undergraduate students and Director of the legal clinic. He was a visiting professor in several universities (Ain Shams, Egypt; Sao Paolo, Brasil; El Salvador, Argentina; French University in Armenia; Bucharest, Romania; Vientiane Laos).

Professor Ludovic Pailler earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude at the Limoges University (2015) and was awarded the René Cassin Prize. He is a member of several academic societies (Comité français de droit international privé; International Law Association; European Association of Private International Law) and is co-president of the Code and Law section of Société de législation comparée. His publications mainly relate to private international law, fundamental rights law, and data protection law. He authored two books, co-authored a digital law book and is preparing a private international law book. He edited two volumes of proceedings from an international symposium he organized, and took part to many conferences, particularly in France and Canada. He regularly publishes articles, notes and reviews in French and English.

Email: ludovic.pailler@univ-lyon3.fr

 

Dr. Francisco Reyes Villamizar

Francisco Reyes Villamizar has been a research fellow at Max Planck Institute. A former Superintendent of Companies from Colombia he was also the Chairman of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He co-drafted the 2022 Commercial Code of Mozambique.

He has been an active participant and draftsman of several comprehensive legislative reforms to the Colombian laws of Corporations and Bankruptcy, including the successful law on Simplified Stock Corporations enacted in 2008. He prepared the OAS Model Law on Simplified Corporations. He also presided over the governmental commissions for the amendment of the Colombian Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Secured Transactions.

LLB from Javeriana University in Bogotá, LLM from the University of Miami School of Law and PhD in Law from the University of Tilburg. He also holds a diploma in Portuguese Culture from the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

Dr. Reyes Villamizar has been a Visiting Professor in four continents, including Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), Stetson College of Law (Gulfport, FL), University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), University of Miami (FL), Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), University of Fribourg (Switzerland), University of Tilburg (The Netherlands), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola), Doshisha of Kyoto (Japan) and Universidad Austral (Argentina).

Author of several books and articles in the fields of Business Associations and Bankruptcy. His extensive scholarly production includes publications in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author of the books Latin American Company Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2013), Direito Societario Americano (Quatier Latin, 2012), Análisis Económico del Derecho Societario (Astrea, 2018), and a two-volume treatise on Colombian Company Law (Temis, 2006).

Speaker at several international fora, including those at the Supreme Courts of Brazil and Mexico, as well as Columbia, Harvard and Fordham Universities. For several years he served as director and Chairman of the Board at the Latin American publishing company Legis S.A. He has been an expert witness before courts in New York, Florida, Arizona and California.

Email: societario@gmail.com

 

Trip to the International Labour Organization (ILO) 

This year, students will be visiting the ILO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Students will take a bus to the ILO headquarters on July 4, where they will participate in discussions and simulations guided by ILO employees. More details will be available as the Lyon program gets closer.

Academic Policies

The program fully follows all policies of the LSU Law Center on all matters, including class attendance and grading. For more information, please consult the Summer in Lyon Program Official Brochure and the LSU Law Center Catalog. Visiting students admitted in the program: acceptance of any credit or grade for any course or activity taken in the program must be verified with your home school.

Program Director: Professor Robert E. Lancaster, rlancast@lsu.edu




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