Category Archives: Translation Projects

Visit the Trilingual Louisiana Civil Code Online

Posted on March 2, 2024 by moreteau

The Lousiana Civil Code Online (LCCO) is an online publication of the Center of Civil Law Studies (CCLS). It gives full access to the Civil Code of Louisiana in English, to its French translation, completed in 2016, and to the … 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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Rencontres internationales de la francophonie de Lyon 2023: Louisiane

Posted on March 1, 2023 by moreteau

Louisiana is the topic of an international conference organized in Lyon, March 20 and 21, 2023, by the Institut international pour la francophonie, University Jean Moulin. Click here to access the program.  Dans le cadre du mois de la Francophonie, … Continue reading →

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Translating the Louisiana Civil Code into Spanish: A Jurilinguistic Exercise

Posted on April 28, 2021 by moreteau

A Law Library of Louisiana FREE CLE Co-sponsored by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society Translating the Louisiana Civil Code into Spanish: A Jurilinguistic Exercise Presented by Mariano Vitetta, Research Associate, LSU Center of Civil Law Studies Thursday, May … Continue reading →

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The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana

Posted on April 9, 2021 by moreteau

In celebration of Vernon Valentine Palmer’s fifty years of teaching at Tulane and the publication of his latest book, Tulane Law School and the Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative and International Law invite you to a live virtual conversation between … Continue reading →

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CCLS Translation Projects Featured on Translation & the Law Blog

Posted on February 24, 2021 by moreteau

From Words to Deeds: Translation & the Law is a blog building bridges between academia and practice and between translation, interpreting and legal practitioners. They just published a Guest Post featuring Mariano Vitetta, Research Associate at the Center of Civil … Continue reading →

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From Nantes to Chicago via LSU: the Louisiana Story of Sara Vono

Posted on November 16, 2020 by moreteau

Olivier Moréteau: Bonjour Sara! I remember the day when you arrived from Nantes for a three-month internship at the CCLS, to work on the French translation of the Louisiana Civil Code. After doing fine legal translation work, you joined our … Continue reading →

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Translating the Louisiana Civil Code into French

Posted on December 10, 2019 by moreteau

On December 9, 2019, Professor Olivier Moréteau was the guest speaker of Friends of French Studies at LSU at a campus event taking place at the French House. A Board Member of FFS since his arrival at LSU in fall … Continue reading →

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Four Distinguished French Scholars Discuss the 2016 French Revision of Contractual Obligations

Posted on April 2, 2019 by moreteau

The Louisiana Chapter of the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française invited four distinguished French law professors to present on the French reform of the law of obligations, the first comprehensive revision of time-honored titles of … Continue reading →

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Louisiana Civil Code Online: Summer Update

Posted on July 19, 2018 by moreteau

Louisiana Civil Code Online (LCCO) gives full and free access to the Louisiana Civil Code in English and in French. Whether you know the code article you are looking for or the topic covered, the site is easy to navigate … Continue reading →

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