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LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER

www.law.lsu.edu/civillaw & LSU Law Worldwide

The Russell Long Chair and CCLS Newsletter

December 2018 – No. 45

Journal of Civil Law Studies, Volume 11, Number 1

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The Journal of Civil Law Studies starts its second decade of existsence, with the publication of volume 11, number 1. Click here to access the JCLS (https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jcls/). Number 2 is scheduled to be published for February 2019.

The Journal of Civil Law Studies welcomes submissions for volumes 12 and 13.

Russell Long Chair Activity in 2018

In the spring semester 2018, Professor Moréteau taught Obligations (3 credits) and Introduction to French Law (1 credit). The fall semester 2018, he taught Legal Traditions and Systems (3 credits), and Introduction to U.S. Law (2 credits).

During the week of November 26-30, 2018, he taught Comparative Tort Law (18 hours, LL.M. in International and European Business Law) at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France.

Professor Moréteau served as director of the LL.M. program. He chaired the International Programs Committee, and the Diploma of Civil Law Working Group. He also served on the LSU Council for Research.

Professor Moréteau completed the edition of a book titled: COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY, with Aniceto Masferrer and Kjell Å Modéer (forthcoming, January 2019) in the Research Handbooks in Comparative Law book series, edited by Francesco Parisi, Tom Ginsburgh, and Edward Elgar. He co-signed The Emergence of Comparative Legal History, the general introduction to the volume.

He also published:

France, in EUROPEAN TORT LAW, BASIC TEXTS 123-139 (Ernst Karner, Ken Oliphant, Barbara C. Steininger eds., 2d ed., Ian Sramek Verlag, Vienna 2018), including a translation from French into English of the French Preliminary Draft Reform of Civil Liability (127-139).

Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Theoretical and Practical Approach to Specific Performance in International Commercial Law [in French & English], REVUE DE DROIT DES AFFAIRES

INTERNATIONALES – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 639-649 (2017).

Professor Moréteau also wrote three book chapters, forthcoming:

Des Pyrénées à La Nouvelle-Orléans en passant par Haïti et Cuba : Pierre Soulé avocat de la liberté, in LOUISIANE/ANTILLES : UN ESPACE/TEMPS PARTAGÉ (Alexandre Leupin ed., Presses universitaires des Antilles, forthcoming 2019).

Le droit louisianais, un gombo qui s’offre en partage, in DEUXIÈMES ENTRETIENS D’OUTRE-MER : LE TRICENTE-

NAIRE DE LA FONDATION DE LA NOUVELLE-ORLÉANS (Académie des sciences d’outre-mer, Paris forthcoming 2019).

The Louisiana Civil Codes: A Multilingual Experience, in RE- DE- CO-DIFICATION? NEW INSIGHTS ON THE CODI-

FICATION OF PRIVATE LAW (Agustín Parise, Lars van Vliet eds., Eleven Publishers, The Netherlands forth-coming 2019).

In his capacity as Editor-in-Chief of the JOURNAL OF CIVIL LAW STUDIES, he completed Volume 10 (2017), prepared for the publication of volumes 11 (2018) and 12 (2019). He also peer-reviewed articles for publication in international periodicals.

At the Louisiana Supreme Court, presenting on the Bilingual Louisiana Civil Code

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Professor Moréteau presented the following papers:

A Perfect Circle? Code civil de Louisiane, édition bilingue, Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court, New Orleans, April 24, 2018.

The Words of Comparative Law, 50th anniversary of the Notre Dame University London Law Program, Keynote Address, London, UK, October 22, 2018.

Individual Liability for Climate Change, University of East Anglia Law School, Norwich, UK, October 23, 2018.

Bi-Jural Education in a Mixed Jurisdiction: A Gateway to Global Practice (The LSU Model of Legal Education), Annual Meeting of the International Association of Law Schools, Doha, Qatar, November 12, 2018.

He presented on LL.M. and legal studies in the United States, at Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 3, 2018.

Professor Moréteau continued serving on the Equivalency Panel for access of foreign candidates to the Louisiana Bar, as an Adviser at the American Law Institute for the Third Restatement of Torts, and as Board Member of Friends of French Studies at LSU. He also served as the AAUP LSU Chapter Vice President. He is the President of Juris Diversitas.

Professor Attila Harmathy Delivered the 41st Tucker Lecture

On November 8, 2018, Professor Emeritus Attila Harmathy (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary) deliv-ered the 41st John H. Tucker, jr. Lecture in Civil Law. Under the title “Comparative Law and the Develop-ment of Civil Law in a Country Under Transformation,” Professor Harmathy offered a multidimensional panorama of the evolution of the Civil Law in Hungary from the 11th to the 21st century, based on his immense scholarship, his experience as a Justice of the Constitutional Court and as the mastermind of the recent efforts leading to a new Civil Code for Hungary. The event was attended by over 100 alumni, facul-ty, and students.

The CCLS Recruits a Research Associate for 2019-2020

The CCLS plans to recruit a part-time Research Associate (50% effort, 20 hours per week possibly extend-ed to 25) for the period July 1, 2019–June 30, 2020, with possibility to renew for an additional year.

Qualifications: The Research Associate must have a Master of Laws (or equivalent) at the time of applica-tion and be fluent in English (TOEFL of 100 or equivalent). The position is ideal for a doctoral student, leav-ing ample time for personal research. Though LSU Law does not presently have a S.J.D. or Ph.D. in Law program, it offers ideal conditions to pursue doctoral research in comparative or international law, boast-ing a comparative law faculty and one of the best comparative law libraries in North America.

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Job Description: Assisting the CCLS Director and the CCLS Manager in civil law and comparative law relat-ed tasks, including:

- Editing of the Journal of Civil Law Studies in the capacity of Assistant Managing Editor;

- Assisting with the development of a “Civil Law in English” Terminology Guide and Database;

- Assisting with the development of the “Civil Law Online” database, in cooperation with the LSU Law Library;

- Assisting the CCLS Director and Russell Long Chair holder with ongoing research projects;

- Assisting with the organization of civil law and comparative law related lectures and events.

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Application: Send letter of interest and CV to Prof. Olivier Moréteau. Include the names and contact de-tails of three professors who may be contacted for reference. For questions, contact Prof. Moréteau at moreteau@lsu.edu.

LL.M. Recruiting Season: Why Choose LSU Law?

Our LL.M. in Comparative Law is your Gateway to U.S. Law and Practice

A WORLD CLASS PROGRAM IN A WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT

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Full immersion with J.D. Students, as most LL.M. courses are J.D. courses

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Experience Louisiana’s unique and vibrant culture

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On average, the cost of tuition & fees paid by our LL.M. candidates is below $10,000 for the entire

year. This makes our LL.M. program one of the most affordable in the United States.

While the average passage rate of foreign educated test-takers on the New York Bar Exam is less

than 50%, in the past eight years, our LL.M. passage rate has been close to 100%. Our passage rate

for the Louisiana Bar Exam is also 100%.

Contact

Visit the LL.M. Program Website and our new LL.M. Facebook page. Email LLMadmissions@lsu.edu

For the 2019-2020 academic year, we will only accept applications submitted online through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC.org) website. Our LL.M. application will go live on January 4, 2019. We no longer accept paper applications.

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Juris Diversitas 6th General Conference in South Africa

In partnership with

Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/JurisDiversitas/

LAW, ROOTS & SPACE

The Theme: A couple of lawyers’ old friends: ‘Sources’ and ‘Jurisdictions’. In their parlance, these notions are often associated to modern, ‘positive’ law.

The idea of ‘legal formants’ has been introduced to complete the picture, flexibilising it, making it more accurate, nuanced, realistic; an idea associated to comparative, socio-legal, anthropologic studies.

With ‘Roots’ and ‘space’ geographers, historians, political scientists get involved. These are certainly less frequent notions in legal circles: we may still wish to make friends with them, to enrich our perception of legal phenomena.

‘Roots’ is often associated to history of law and related discourses – if legal formants may complete a pic-ture, legal roots do complete the movie, so to speak.

‘Space’: an open notion, perhaps a non-notion in modern legal discourse, generic enough to include every spatial dimension of legal phenomena: dissemination of movie theatres and other forms of diffusion of the various show-biz products could be the appropriate metaphor here, including space law and virtual property.

A legal discourse that goes beyond the checkboards, or the series of juxtaposed swimming pools – Tetris-style – containing water from their respective individual sources, produced by modern, Westphalian con-ceptions of the law. It goes, instead, to normative forces producing their effects without a precise geo-graphic boundary: like radio stations, magnetic or gravitational fields. Or like intricate sets of rivers, lakes, canals, ponds, infiltrated wetlands, oceans, weather, all contributing to a locally diversified but still unitary eco-system and bio-sphere of water, landscape, vegetation, fauna.

A discourse on normative forces and the fuzziness of their historic and geographic reach.

Submissions:

Though we are now past the deadline, late submissions may still be accepted: email moreteau@lsu.edu.

For more detail, visit the Juris Diversitas Events Page