Conferences & Lectures

The CCLS regularly hosts and sponsors conferences and symposiums that take place at the LSU Law Center. These events are open not only to the legal community, but also to attendees that are interested in interdisciplinary studies.

For more information on conferences and lectures hosted or sponsored by CCLS, please click on the links below:

Bicentennial of the Louisiana Civil Code March 20-21, 2025, Conference Tentative Program (2024.10.30)
How French Tort Law Faces Environmental Challenges, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (April 23, 2024)
“A Perfect Circle ? Code civil de Louisiane, édition bilingue”, O. Moréteau, CLE Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court, New Orleans (April 24, 2018)
Visit of the Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Paris, LSU, Baton Rouge (March 9, 2018)
10^th Anniversary of the Journal of Civil Law Studies, CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (March 6, 2018)
“Argentine Civil and Commercial Code (2015): A Litvinoffian Approach to a Novel Corpus of the Law” Agustín Parise, Faculty Workshop, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (March 5, 2018)
“The Spanish Connection: An Hispanic Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of Louisiana Law” Agustín Parise, ILS & HLSA, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (March 1, 2018)
“Le droit civil louisianais est-il exportable ?” O. Moréteau, Institut de droit des affaires, Aix-Marseille University, France (December 4, 2017)
“Le droit louisianais, un gombo qui s’offre en partage” O. Moréteau, Les Deuxièmes Entretiens d’outre-mer : Tricentenaire de la fondation de La Nouvelle-Orléans, Académie des sciences d’outre-mer, Paris (November 29, 2017)
“From la Beauce to Le Bayou : A Transsystemic Voyage,” Rosalie Jukier, 40^th Tucker Lecture, CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (October 19, 2017)
“Comparative Law and its Application” and “The Santillana Codes, The Civil Codes of Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania” Dan E. Stigall, ILS, SBA & CCLS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (October 2, 2017)
Juris Diversitas 5th Annual Conference, Law and Food, La cuisine juridique, Lyon, France (July 10, 2017)
“Mass litigation for transboundary environmental tort in Central America,” Claudia Castro Valle, UNITEC, Honduras, CCLS Talk (April 4, 2017)
“Natural Law and Constitutional Law” Santiago Legarre, Eric Voegelin Institute and CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (January 24, 2017)
“Des Pyrénées à Cuba en passant par La Nouvelle-Orléans : Pierre Soulé, avocat de la liberté,” O. Moréteau, Louisiane/French Antilles: A Shared Space/Time, International Colloquium, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Center of French and Francophone Studies (November 10, 2016)
“The Printing of the Digest of 1808,” John Cairns, CCLS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (November 7, 2016)
“The Legal System of South Africa,” “The South African Trust,” Francois Du Toit (October 2016)
Juris Diversitas 4th Annual Conference, Unity and/or Diversity, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge (May 30-June 1, 2016)
“The Proposed Organization of American States Model Law on Simplified Corporations: Perspectives and Challenges,” Francisco Reyes, 39^th Tucker Lecture, CCLS, Baton Rouge (May 31, 2016)
“More than a Tradition: The Future of the Civil Law in Louisiana and Abroad” Louisiana Law Review Symposium & CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (March 18, 2016)
“Comparative Law and the International Order,” Dan E. Stigall, ILS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (November 10, 2015)
“Un nouveau dictionnaire du droit civil en anglais,” O. Moréteau, 9^e Institut d’été de Jurilinguistique, McGill University, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, Montreal, Canada (July 10, 2015)
4^th Worldwide Congress, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with presentations by Prof. Paul Baier, Melissa Lonegrass and Olivier Moréteau (June 24-26, 2015)
Juris Diversitas 3^rd Annual Conference, The State of/and Comparative Law, Limerick, Ireland (June 2-4, 2015)
“How Codes Connect to Legal Systems: Revisiting the Concept of Code through a Study of Peripheral Provisions,” M-EPLI Talk by O. Moréteau, European Private Law Institute, Maastricht University, The Netherlands (June 1, 2015)
“Tortious Apples and Criminal Oranges,” Matthew Dyson, CCLS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (April 8, 2015)
“The impact of Civil Code translations on the shaping of civil law systems,” Esin Orucu, 38^th Tucker Lecture, CCLS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (March 17, 2015)
“The Dictionary of the Civil Code” Alain Levasseur, Supreme Court of Louisiana, New Orleans (March 11, 2015)
“Understanding Islamic Sharee’ah” Imam Abdelmadjid Mokhtari, ILS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (March 10, 2015)
Codes, termes et traductions, enjeux transdisciplinaires, Université de Nantes, France (January 22-23, 2015)
“The rise of transnational crimes in an increasingly globalized world,” Dan E. Stigall, ILS, LSU Law, Baton Rouge (November 3, 2014)
Juris Diversitas 2d Annual Conference, Comparative Law and … Aix-en-Provence, France (July 17, 2014)
The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project: Enhancing Visibility and Promoting the Civil Law in English, CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (April 10-11, 2014)
“That Montreal Sound: The Influence of French Legal Ideas and the French Language on the Civil Law Expressed in English,” Nicholas Kasirer, 37^th Tucker Lecture, CCLS, LSU, Baton Rouge (April 10, 2014)
Presentation by Dr. Agustín Parise at the Old Mint (October 30, 2013)
36th John H. Tucker, jr. Lecture in Civil Law (November 17, 2011)
Russian Society and Its Civil Codes: An Historical Survey (April 20, 2010)
Legal Diversity Dialogue Series (April 13, 2010)
International Economic Law in the Midst of Competing Human Rights (April 9, 2010)
Civil Law Workshop (December 8, 2009)
Civil Law Workshop – Saúl Litvinoff Series (January 10, 2009)
200 Years of Codification in Louisiana: A Global Give and Take (October 23, 2008)
European Options after the Irish Vote against the Treaty of Lisbon (October 14, 2008)
The “Austral” Seminar on United States Law (April 28, 2008)
Exploring The Civil Law and Bridging the Divide with the Common Law: A Conference In Honor of Professor Saúl Litvinoff (April 3, 2008)
Codes as Constitutions & Constitutions as Codes: A European Perspective (January 22, 2008)
Law Making in a Global World (January 26, 2007)
Hemispheric Trade Conference (April 25, 2006)

For more information on conferences hosted by CCLS, please click on the links below.

Comparative Law and … (Juris Diversitas Annual Conference) (July 17, 2014)
The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project: Enhancing Visibility and Promoting the Civil Law in English (April 10, 2014)
Presentation by Dr. Agustín Parise at the Old Mint (October 30, 2013)
36th John H. Tucker, jr. Lecture in Civil Law (November 17, 2011)
Russian Society and Its Civil Codes: An Historical Survey (April 20, 2010)
Legal Diversity Dialogue Series (April 13, 2010)
International Economic Law in the Midst of Competing Human Rights (April 9, 2010)
Civil Law Workshop (December 8, 2009)
Civil Law Workshop - Saúl Litvinoff Series (January 10, 2009)
200 Years of Codification in Louisiana: A Global Give and Take (October 23, 2008)
European Options after the Irish Vote against the Treaty of Lisbon (October 14, 2008)
The "Austral" Seminar on United States Law (April 28, 2008)
Exploring The Civil Law and Bridging the Divide with the Common Law: A Conference In Honor of Professor Saúl Litvinoff (April 3, 2008)
Codes as Constitutions & Constitutions as Codes: A European Perspective (January 22, 2008)
Law Making in a Global World (January 26, 2007)
Hemispheric Trade Conference (April 25, 2006)