The Tucker Lecture Series
Once a year, a most distinguished scholar is invited to give a lecture on a civil law topic. This lecture series is given in recognition of Colonel Tucker’s civil law scholarship, and in appreciation of his long career dedicated to law reform.
Colonel John H. Tucker, jr., was one of Louisiana’s foremost legal scholars and distinguished citizens. He served the bar of Louisiana with great ability for many years, both through the bar association and as chairman of the Louisiana State Law Institute. His writings in legal periodicals did much to illuminate the history and present-day viability of our civilian system. Colonel Tucker wrote that the civil law “produced and developed by the learning, philosophy, and character of great jurists and scholars,” is built upon foundations that are “indestructible because its precepts are moral and equitable.” He also noted that “the civil law that commenced with the Twelve Tables in Rome and reached its apogee in the Code Napoleon…is a valid and pervasive force in a great part of the modern world.”
For more information on lectures in the Tucker series, please click on the links below.
- 2024 Professor Frédéric Ferrand
- 2019 Professor Michele Graziadei
- 2018 Professor Attila Harmathy
- 2017 Professor Rosalie Jukier
- 2016 Professor Francisco Reyes
- 2015 Professor Emerita Esin Örücü
- 2014 Justice Nicholas Kasirer
- 2011 Dr. Vernon V. Palmer
- 2008 Professor Jacques Vanderlinden
- 2007 Professor Emeritus Helmut Koziol
- 2006 Professor Olivier P. Moréteau
- 2005 Professor Alan Watson
- 2004 Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson
- 2003 Dean Horacio Spector
- 2002 Professor Kathryn Venturatos Lorio
- 2001 Professor Walter van Gerven
- 2000 Judge Jean-Louis Baudouin
- 1998 Professor Robert A. Pascal
- 1996 Professor E. Allan Farnsworth
- 1996 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- 1995 Professor William Hawkland
- 1994 Judge John Minor Wisdom
- 1993 Justice James L. Dennis
- 1992 Professor Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos
- 1991 Professor Walter F. Murphy
- 1990 Professor Francis Délperée
- 1989 Professor Guy Horsmans
- 1988 Judge Alvin B. Rubin
- 1986 Professor K.D. Kerameus
- 1986 Professor Arthur T. Von Mehren
- 1985 Professor Peter G. Stein
- 1983 Professor Ferdinand Stone
- 1982 Professor Roberto MacLean
- 1981 Lord A. Mackenzie Stuart
- 1980 Professor Genaro R. Carrió
- 1979 Professor Boris Kozolchyk
- 1978 Professor André Tunc
- 1977 Professor John Henry Merryman
- 1976 Professor Julio Cueto-Rua
- 1975 Professor T.B. Smith
- 1974 Professor Paul A. Crépeau
- 1973 Professor René David
- 1972 Professor Panagiotis J. Zepos
