News and Past Events
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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1825 Civil Code Bicentennial Lecture at Fall Judges Conference
Right to left: Professor Monica Hof Wallace, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; John T. Olivier, Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society Vice Chair; Professor Olivier Moréteau, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. The commemoration of the bicentennial of …
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“The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction” – April 16, 2024
The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society and the Law Library of Louisiana co-sponsored a CLE entitled The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction, held at the Historic New Orleans Collection on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. In …
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A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court End-of-Year Ethics and Professionalism CLE for a Cause – December 13, 2022
SCLAHS once again co-sponsored with the A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court and the Law Library of Louisiana the annual end-of-the year CLE for a Cause, back again in-person, which included 1.0 hour each of continuing legal education in Ethics …
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A Lie Will Suffice: A Family’s Criminal Law History (1921-1935)
On Monday, November 7, 2022, the Law Library of Louisiana and the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society sponsored a free CLE presented by retired federal magistrate judge Jay Wilkinson. Judge Wilkinson’s great-grandfather and great-grandmother emigrated from Sicily to New Orleans …
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