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1825 Louisiana Civil Code Bicentennial CLE–Friday May 30, 2025
On Friday, May 30, 2025, the final CLE program in the months-long commemoration of the bicentennial of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code took place on the campus of Southern University’s Law Center (SULC) in Baton Rouge. The program began with …
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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 …
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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – The Brendan Brown Lecture – The Role of Unwritten Laws in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825: A Historical and Comparative Perspective – Thursday, March 27, 2025
On Thursday, March 27, 2025, Professor Aniceto Masferrer from the law school of the University of Valencia in Spain, delivered the annual Loyola University New Orleans School of Law’s Brendan Brown lecture. This lecture, entitled “The Role of Unwritten Laws …
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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial – Politics and the Making of the Civil Code – Friday, April 11, 2025
On April 11 at Metairie Park Country Day School, Professor Warren M. Billings delivered a lecture about the making of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code as an act of politics, examining its political evolution to 1860, the eve of the …
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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial – Moreau Lislet and the Birth of the Civil Code – March 13, 2025
On March 13 at the University Louisiana Monroe Library, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jay B. McCallum presented a biographical sketch of Louis Casimir Elisabeth Moreau-Lislet and Lislet’s essential contribution to the creation of the 1825 Civil Code of Louisiana. Justice …
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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – Tunc Pro Nunc: Modern Cases Through the Lens of the 1825 Civil Code – February 20, 2025
On Feb. 20, 2025, at Abby Singer’s Bistro in Shreveport, First Judicial District Judge Brady D. O’Callaghan and attorney Clinton M. Bowers presented a CLE program, co-sponsored by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and the Shreveport Bar Association, …
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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial CLE – From New York Politician to Louisiana Code Writer: The Tumultuous Life and Times of Edward Livingston
Continuing its commemoration of the Bicentennial of the 1825 Civil Code, the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society presented a CLE program on February 13, 2025, on the life and times of Code writ-er Edward Livingston. Delivered at the Historic …
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A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court End-of-the-Year Ethics and Professionalism CLE For A Cause – December 5, 2024
The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society was pleased to again co-sponsor with the A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court and the Law Library of Louisiana a year-end professionalism and ethics CLE program, which was held at the Louisiana Supreme …
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The Sad Demise of the Ursulines Chaplains’ Cottage – October 30, 2024
The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and the Law Library of Louisiana co-sponsored a CLE entitled “The Sad Demise of the Ursulines Chaplains’ Cottage,” held at the Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Around 1917 a modest …
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SCLAHS Annual Meeting – October 10, 2024
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society was held on Thursday, October 10 at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette. The guest speaker was former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice James T. “Jimmy” Genovese, who became the …
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