Civil Law Commentaries

The Eason Weinman Center for International and Comparative Law is proud to host the Civil Law Commentaries, a student-edited publication primarily dedicated to the study of Louisiana's Civil Code and the state's long civil law tradition. The Commentaries are an online publication distributed free of charge.

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Senior Editors: Thomas M. Fedeli and Margaret V. Glass
Junior Editors: Charlie Marts, Michael Shlansky and Jodie Sullivan
Graduate Student Advisors: Francisco Besosa and Renee Goudeau
Faculty Advisors: James Gordley, Jörg Fedtke and Vernon Palmer


Volume III (2010/2011)

• The Law Journal Editors Carl and Gustavus Schmidt: Two Swedish Lawyers and Brothers as Law Journal Pioneers in the 19th Century 
  Kjell A Modeer

Volume II (2009/2010)

• Cameroon: A Mixed Jurisdiction? 
  Stella Cziment
• Enforceability of Charitable Pledges 
  Thomas B. Lemann

Volume I (2008/2009)

• Masthead 
• The Civil Codes of Louisiana 
  A.N. Yiannopoulos
• An Elegy for Emphyteusis 
  Gregory W. Rome
• No Bonds but those Freely Chosen: An Obituary for the Principle of Forced Heirship in American Law 
  Vincent D. Rougeau