Category Archives: Publications

A Companion to Western Legal Traditions

Posted on February 17, 2024 by moreteau

With Professor Agustín Parise and the late Jacques Vanderlinden, Professor Olivier Moréteau contributed the final chapter of A Companion to Western Legal Traditions, featuring the contemporary period (1900-present): A Companion to Western Legal Traditions From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century … Continue reading →

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New Publication on the French and Spanish Translations of the Civil Code of Louisiana

Posted on November 14, 2023 by moreteau

Professors Olivier Moréteau (LSU Law) and Mariano Vitetta (Austral University, Buenos Aires) just published a book chapter titled Translating the Civil Code of Louisiana into French and Spanish: A Jurilinguistic Exercise. The text is published in the Research Handbook on … Continue reading →

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Comparative Perspectives on Law and Language

Posted on October 18, 2022 by moreteau

Agustín Parise & Olivier Moréteau (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Law and Language, Maastricht Law Series, Eleven, 2022.   Law finds its roots in human experience and its expression in language. It cannot be administered, studied or taught without the instrumentality … Continue reading →

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Comparative Legal History, Olivier MORÉTEAU, Aniceto MASFERRER, and Kjell A. MODÉER, eds.

Posted on April 1, 2019 by moreteau

Olivier MORÉTEAU, Aniceto MASFERRER, and Kjell A. MODÉER, eds., Comparative Legal History [Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series] (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). ISBN 9781781955215, £175.50 Edward Elgar is publishing a research handbook on comparative legal history. ABOUT THE BOOK … Continue reading →

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Re- De- Co-dification? New Insights on the Codification of Private Law

Posted on March 27, 2019 by moreteau

Re- De- Co-dification? New Insights on the Codification of Private Law Agustín Parise and Lars van Vliet (Eds.) Is it time for jurisdictions to undertake recodification, decodification, or even codification of their private laws? This volume addresses this recurring question … Continue reading →

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Professor Paul Baier at the Capital Area Luncheon of the Louisiana Bar Foundation

Posted on May 3, 2018 by moreteau

On Thursday, May 3, 2018, Professor Paul Baier attended the Louisiana Bar Foundation Capital Area Community Partnership Panel Annual Fellows Luncheon in Downtown Baton Rouge. LBF President W. Michael Street invited him to give remarks, acknowledging Prof. Baier as the … Continue reading →

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The Civil Code in French Presented at the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Posted on April 25, 2018 by moreteau

On April 24, 2018, Professor Olivier Moréteau was the guest of the Law Library of Louisiana and Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society to present ‘A Perfect Circle? Code Civil de Louisiane, Edition Bilingue.’ 150 people signed up for free … Continue reading →

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10th Anniversary of the Journal of Civil Law Studies

Posted on March 16, 2018 by moreteau

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Civil Law Studies (JCLS), the Center of Civil Law Studies hosted the first JCLS Annual Event. Professor Olivier Moréteau (editor-in-chief) and visiting professor Agustín Parise (executive editor), co-founders of … Continue reading →

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Robert Pascal: A Priest of Right Order is … Ready to Order!

Posted on February 22, 2018 by moreteau

Professor Emeritus Robert Anthony Pascal passed away in January 2018, at the age of 102. His life was devoted to the study and teaching of law, and he educated generations of lawyers at LSU, with no less ambition than making … Continue reading →

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LSU Law Alum Authors a Book on North African/Sahelian Civil Codes

Posted on August 29, 2017 by moreteau

About the Book: The Santillana Codes: the Civil Codes of Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania. In that book, my objects of focus are the civil codes in force in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania.  The book also explores the history of their “intellectual … Continue reading →

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