1825 Louisiana Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – How the 1825 Civil Code Shaped Modern Louisiana Civil Law – Friday, May 16, 2025
On Friday, May 16, 2025 Tulane University Law School Professor Ronald J. Scalise Jr. presented a CLE entitled “How the 1825 Civil Code Shaped Modern Louisiana Civil Law†in the Louisiana Supreme Court’s courtroom. Professor Scalise examined the development and history of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code and its relevance in the modern times, demonstrating the Civil Code’s enduring legacy upon its 200th anniversary. Professor Scalise is the John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law at Tulane University Law School. Professor Scalise is a member of the American Law Institute, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Treasurer of the American Society of Comparative Law, a Professeur Invité at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, an academician in the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and an academic fellow to the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). He currently serves as Louisiana State Chair for ACTEC and as a member of the Board of Regents. He writes extensively on civil and comparative law topics, particularly the law of successions, donations, and trusts. He currently serves as the editor for Thomson Reuters’s annual edition of the Louisiana Civil Code as well as the author for the annual updates for six volumes in the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise series on property, obligations, and trusts. His awards include the “2015 Leadership in Law Award†by New Orleans City Business, the Felix Frankfurter Award for law teaching in 2018 and 2024, and the 2018 John Minor Wisdom Award for the best civil law article published in the Tulane Law Review. Professor Scalise has served on numerous law reform projects and on those related to the betterment of the legal profession on both the national and local level. He has previously served as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Community Property Disposition at Death Act and currently serves as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee for an Act on Conflict of Trust and Estate Laws. At the state level, Professor Scalise has served as member of the Board of Governors of the Louisiana State Bar Association on three separate occasions (2013-2015, 2017-2019, and 2021-2023) and as a member of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization (2011-2017), including in positions as both Chair and Vice Chair of the Board. He currently serves as the Reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s Successions and Donations Committee, the Trust Code Committee, the Prescription Committee, and the Committee on Aleatory Contracts/Signification and as a member of the Council and over a dozen other subject-matter specific revision committees.
l-r: John T. Olivier, Co-Chair, Steering Committee to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the 1825 Civil Code ; Professor Ronald J. Scalise Jr.; Alan G. Brackett, Co-Chair, Steering Committee to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the 1825 Civil Code
1825 Louisiana Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – Friday, May 16, 2025