Olivier Moréteau

Biography

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 Assistant Dean for International Programs, Director of the Center of Civil Law Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law Studies.

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). He earned his Doctorate in Law summa cum laude at the Université Jean Moulin, 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), the University of Melbourne (2002, 2004), the University of Luxembourg (2014, 2015), Université Jean Moulin (2012-2018) and Université de Nantes (2013, 2015).

Professor Moréteau has authored and edited 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. A fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and member of the Louisiana Bar Equivalency Panel, he holds memberships in the International Academy of Comparative Law, the European Group on Tort Law (Emeritus), the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, the Société de Législation comparée, the American Law Institute, the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, the European Society of Comparative Legal History, and is the president of Juris Diversitas.

Courses Taught

Western Legal Traditions, Law of Obligations, Introduction to U.S. Law, Introduction to French Law (in French), International Business Transactions

Selected Publications

Books

Comparative Legal History (O. Moréteau, A. Masferrer, K. Modeer eds., Research Handbooks in Comparative Law, Edgar Elgar, forthcoming 2019).

Robert Anthony Pascal: A Priest of Right Order (O. Moréteau ed., Claitor’s 2018).

Code civil de Louisiane, Édition bilingue (O. Moréteau ed. Société de législation comparée, Paris, Droit comparé et européen, vol. 28, 2017) with an Introduction by O. Moréteau.

Comparative Law and … / Le droit comparé et … (A. Albarian, O. Moréteau eds., Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2016).

Le juriste français entre ethnocentrisme et mondialisation (Dalloz, Paris, 2014).

Law Review Articles

The Louisiana Civil Code in French: Translation and Retranslation, 9 Journal of Civil Law Studies 223-258 (2016).

Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Theoretical and Practical Approach to Specific Performance in International Commercial Law, Revue de droit des affaires internationales – International Business Law Journal 639-649 (2017).

Restating Tort Law: The American and European Styles, (with Michael D. Green), 3 Journal of European Tort Law 281-307 (2012).

De revolutionibus, The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and in the Legal Universe, 5 Journal of Civil Law Studies 31-66 (2012).

Book Chapters

Individual Liability in a Vulnerable Environment: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Tort Law, in Essays in Honour of Jaap Spier 239-257 (Helmut Koziol, Ulrich Magnus eds., Jan Sramek Verlag, 2016).

Basic Questions of Tort Law from a French Perspective, in Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective 3-95 (Helmut Koziol ed., Jan Sramek Verlag, 2015).

Honors & Awards

• Prix de thèse du Centre Français de Droit Comparé, Paris, 1991
• Prix de l'Association Nationale des Docteurs en Droit, Lyon, 1991
• John Ashby Hernandez III Memorial Francophone Leadership Award, Louisiana State Bar Association, 2014
• Officier des palmes académiques, 2016