Dr. Olivier Moréteau is Professor of Law, first holder of the Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair, at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Paul M. Hébert Law Center. He joined LSU in 2005. He is the Director of the Center of Civil Law Studies, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law Studies, and the Assistant Dean for International Programs.Professor Moréteau is the former Director of the Édouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France, where he was an Assistant Professor (1982-90), Associate Professor (1990-98) and then Full Professor (Professeur agrégé). He also served as Director and Vice President for international relations at this university (1993-99). A graduate of Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France (Maîtrise en Droit, 1977; D.E.A. de Droit Comparé, 1978; D.E.A. de Droit Privé, 1981) he earned his Doctorate in Law summa cum laude at the same university in 1990, after research conducted in Cambridge with a British Council scholarship. He has been visiting professor at the University of Minnesota (1992), Boston University (1993-97, 1999-00, 2002-04) and the University of Melbourne (2002, 2004). Professor Moréteau has authored and edited several books in French and in English, and written over a hundred articles, chapters, notes and reviews in various languages, published in international periodicals or books, on the civil law, common law, comparative law, law and languages, legal translation, tort law, the law of obligations, codification, and legal education. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the European Group on Tort Law, the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, the Société de Législation comparée, the American Law Institute, the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, and is President of Juris Diversitas.

Nikolaos A. Davrados, Ph.D. joined the LSU Law faculty as a Professor of Law in 2023. In addition, he is an advisory board member of the Journal of Civil Law Studies with the LSU Center of Civil Law studies. Professor Davrados serves on the council of the Louisiana State Law Institute as well as several of its committees and is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed law journals Hellenic Review of International Law and Civil Procedure Law Review. He has taught and written extensively in the areas of civil law, comparative law, conflict of laws, and international business transactions in the United States and Europe. Professor Davrados holds law degrees from Oxford University and the University of Athens, where he later obtained his Ph.D. in law graduating summa cum laude. After completing his postdoctoral research at the University of Texas School of Law, he practiced in international business transactions and arbitration and served as a legal advisor to the Council of the European Union. He then began his academic career as a teaching fellow in law at the University of Athens School of Law and was later an assistant professor of law at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) School of Law where he continues to serve as visiting professor. Professor Davrados was previously an associate Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Katie joined the Center of Civil Law Studies as Coordinator in April 2024, after working in the International Services Office on LSU's main campus. Katie holds two Bachelor's Degrees in International Studies: Middle East and Anthropology from Louisiana State University (2015). She graduated from Loyola University College of Law with a J.D. in May 2019, before passing the Louisiana  bar exam  in July 2019. Immediately after graduation, Katie began working as an associate attorney for Hayes, Harkey, Smith & Cascio in Monroe, Louisiana. Additionally, she clerked for Judge Danny Ellender during his tenure at the Louisiana 4th Judicial District Court. Katie is an active community member both on and off campus.

Aurore Guizonne is Research Associate for the Center of Civil Law Studies and Managing Editor for the Journal of Civil Law Studies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Languages from the University of Bordeaux, France, with an Erasmus year at the University of Bristol, UK (2019), a Master’s degree in Trilingual Legal Studies from the University of Nantes, France, after a six-month remote internship at the CCLS (2021), and the LSU LL.M. in Comparative Law (2022). She served as a Research Assistant for Professor Moréteau during the LL.M. year and was the recipient of the Symeon Symeonides diversity scholarship. Aurore now works remotely from France.

Mariano Vitetta has an M.A. in Legal Translation (English-Spanish) and an LL.B. from the University of Buenos Aires, and an LL.M. in Comparative Law from Louisiana State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Law and the Director of the Law & Language Department at Austral University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While working as Research Associate at the CCLS, he started the translation into Spanish of the Louisiana Civil Code under the direction of Prof. Olivier Moréteau. He has testified as an expert witness on the quality of Spanish-English legal translations before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Now, he is completing his Ph.D. in Law at Maastricht University under the direction of Profs. Agustín Parise and Helga Lell.

Jason Maison-Marcheux holds an LL.B degree (licence en droit, 2013) and a two-year academic degree in Common Law (2014) from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He received a master in Comparative Law from the same University after a two-month research visit at the LSU Law Center and the redaction of a paper, under the supervision of Dr. Olivier Moréteau, on an historical, linguistic, and cultural approach of the Louisiana Civil Code. Jason Maison-Marcheux was a Managing Editor of the Journal of Civil Law Studies and worked at the completion of the French translation of the Louisiana Civil Code.

Dr. Matthias Martin (Université de Lorraine, France) is a scholar in legal theory and comparative civil law, working on codification and codes’ annotation. During his six-month post-doctoral visit to the Center of Civil Law Studies, he worked on the Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project and revised the translation of 850 code articles, and conducted research on the supplements and comments in the Louisiana Civil Code. Dr. Matthias Martin serves on the CCLS Translation Validation Committee.

Alexandru-Daniel On received his LL.B. degree from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2010. He holds an LL.M. in Private Law (Babeş-Bolyai University, 2011) and an LL.M. in Comparative Law (Louisiana State University, 2013). He is the recipient of the first A. N. Yiannopoulos Endowed Scholarship (for the academic year 2011-2012). His research and publications are focused on the law of torts, the law of obligations, and legal translation. Mr. On contributes to the Journal of Civil Law Studies, as a Ph.D. candidate at Maastricht University.

Dr. Agustín Parise received his LL.B. and a doctorate in law at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also holds an LL.M. from the Louisiana State University Law Center. Dr. Parise is currently a member of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a widely published scholar of comparative law. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law Studies.

Dr. Michel Séjean was Assistant Professor at Université Paris 2 when he visited the Center of Civil Law Studies. He is currently a full professor (agrégé) at the Université de Bretagne-Sud (France), and Editor-in-Chief of the Henri Capitant Law Review. A trained expert in legal translation, he contributed to several translation projects from English into French during and after his time at the CCLS: Principles of European Tort Law (Commentary) and Louisiana Civil Code (Obligations). Prof. Séjean serves on the CCLS Translation Validation Committee.

Dan E. Stigall is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs. Mr. Stigall received his J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 2000 and holds an LL.M. degree from George Washington University Law School. He has extensive international experience through his current work with the U.S. federal government, and through his previous active duty service in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, during which he served in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. His research is focused on issues related to international law, comparative civil law, and transnational crime. His articles have appeared in the Louisiana Law Review, the Military Law Review, and numerous other publications, and he is the author of Counterterrorism and the Comparative Law of Investigative Detention (2009). Mr. Stigall also publishes in the Journal of Civil law Studies and mentors LSU law students with international interests. He is a member of Juris Diversitas, an international network of Comparative Law scholars and practitioners. Any opinion expressed in his writing is solely that of the author and not necessarily that of the Department of Defense or the Department of Justice.