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The Team

Olivier Moréteau
Director, 2005 – present | Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair
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 Davrados
Associate Director, 2023 – present | Curry Family Professorship
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.

Contributing Fellows

Seth Brostoff
Seth Brostoff received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2009.  From 2019-21, he worked as LSU’s Foreign, Comparative, & International Law Librarian and managed the Law Center’s Tucker Civil Law Collection. He has written several articles on mixed legal systems and Louisiana legal history also serving as book reviews editor for the Journal of Civil Law Studies. Prior to coming to LSU, Mr. Brostoff practiced corporate and bankruptcy law in Wilmington, Delaware and taught legal research at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Jason Maison-Marcheux
CCLS Research Associate, 2015 – 2016
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.
Matthias Martin
Visiting Researcher Summer 2014
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
CCLS Research Associate 2012 – 2014
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.
Agustín Parise
CCLS Research Associate 2006 – 2010
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.
Michel Séjean
Visiting Researcher Summer 2009
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 Stigall
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.