1825 Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – Pierre Auguste Charles Bourgignon Derbigny : Career, Cases, and Code – Friday, May 2, 2025

On Friday, May 2, 2025, Professor Markus G. Puder of Loyola New Orleans College of Law presented an 1825 Louisiana Civil Code bicentennial CLE about Pierre Derbigny, one of the authors of the 1825 Civil Code. Professor Puder’s program, entitled “Pierre Auguste Charles Bourgignon Derbigny: Career, Cases, and Code,” reintroduced Pierre Derbigny as shaper of great significance in Louisiana’s legal and political history. In addition to reviewing important career milestones in Derbigny’s trajectory as a lawyer and political actor, Professor Masferrer discussed in detail his service as judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court and as one of three framers responsible for the rise of the Civil Code of 1825—the document that celebrates its bicentennial this year. Professor Markus G. Puder is the Distinguished Herbert W. Christenberry Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. At Loyola, he teaches international and comparative law and serves as Faculty Director of Loyola’s LLM programs.  Professor Puder has also been a visiting professor at La Sagesse (Beirut, Lebanon), Federico II (Naples, Italy), Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), and Universidade Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).  Professor Puder, who is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and law and science articles, holds advanced law degrees from the Federal Republic of Germany (Ph.D. in Law, Munich) and the United States (LL.M., Georgetown). In addition to having earned the right to practice in Germany, he is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.

l-r: Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Professor Monica Hof Wallace, Loyola Professor Markus G. Puder