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Vernon Valentine Palmer
Thomas Pickles Professor of Law; Co-Director, Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law; and Director, European Legal Studies Program
BA, 1962, LLB, 1965, Tulane University; LLM, 1966, Yale University; DPhil, 1985, Pembroke College, Oxford University
E-mail: vpalmer@tulane.edu
Telephone: 504.865.5978
Office: Weinmann Hall, Room 216-C
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Biography:
Professor Palmer's primary fields of interest have been the civil law, comparative law, and legal history. His research has focused on the comparative law of obligations, code revision, delictual liability, and third party beneficiary contracts. He is the author of more than forty books and articles. Professor Palmer teaches courses in comparative law, obligations, European legal systems, products liability, and sales and leases. Professor Palmer serves as director of Tulane's Institute of European Legal Studies in Paris and as editor of The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum. He received the Sumter Marks Award in 2000 and 2001 in recognition of his research. In 2005, Professor Palmer received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship at Tulane University.
In 1986-87 and again in 1992-93, he held the Chair of Common Law at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). During the 1998-99 academic year, he was Visiting Professor of Comparative Law at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, as well as at the University of Trent in Trento, Italy. In 2000, he was visiting professor of comparative law at the University of Lausanne and the University of Geneva, and in 2005 at the University of Fribourg. Professor Palmer was organizing chair of the First Worldwide Congress on Mixed Jurisdictions, held in New Orleans in November 2002. He was elected President of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists and was elected a titulary member of the International Academy of Comparative Law at the Hague. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac announced that Professor Palmer would be knighted as a "chevalier" in the French Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor, which was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, is the highest civilian award conferred by the French government and recognizes individuals for "eminent services" rendered to France. Courses:
Fall 2012 - Mixed Jurisdictions Seminar; Comparative Law: European Legal Systems
Spring 2013 - Obligations I; European Legal History
Other courses - Obligations II; Products Liability |
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Articles
| The Louisiana Supreme Court in Question: An Empirical and Statistical Study of the Effects of Campaign Money on the Judicial Function, 82 TUL. L. REV. 1291 (2008) (with John Levendis) |
| Mixed Legal Systems...and the Myth of Pure Laws, 67 LA. L. REV. 1205 (2007) |
| The Comparative Law and Economics of Pure Economic Loss, 27 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 29 (2007) |
| The Customs of Slavery: The War Without Arms, 48 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 177 (2006) |
| Professor Shael Herman, 21 TUL. EURO. CIV. L. F. 1 (2006) |
| Translation from French to English of Guy Canivet's The Practice of Comparative Law by the Supreme Courts, published in 80 TUL. L. REV 1377 (2006) |
| Insularity and Leadership in American Comparative Law: The Past One Hundred Years, 75 TUL. L. REV. 1093 (2001) |
| The Fate of the General Clause in a Cross-Cultural Setting: The Tort Experience of Louisiana, 46 LOY. L. REV. 535 (2000) |
| “May God Protect us from the Equity of Parlements.” Comparative Reflections on English and French Equity and Power, 73 TUL. L. REV. 1287 (1999) |
| From Embrace to Banishment: A Study of Judicial Equity in France, 47 AM. J. COMP. L. 277 (1999) |
| The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir, 56 LA. L. REV. 1; and REVUE INT'L DE DROIT COMPARÉ 1-1998, pp. 112-140 (1995) |
| The Many Guises of Equity in a Mixed Jurisdiction: A Functional View of Equity in Louisiana, 69 TUL. L. REV. 7 (1994) |
| The Style of Legislation in the United States: Narrative Norms and Constraining Norms, 42 AM. J. COMP. L. (SUPP.) 15 (1994) |
| L'Enseignement du Droit National aux Étudiants Étrangers: L'Expérience de Tulane, 45 REV. INT. DROIT COMP. 63 (1993) |
| Celebrating the Québec Codification Agreement: A Louisiana Perspective, 38 LOY. L. REV. 311; also in CONFÉRENCES SUR LE NOUVEAU CODE CIVIL DU QUÉBEC: DOCUMENTS CONNEXES (Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies) (1992) |
| A Comparative Study (From a Common Law Perspective) of the French Action for Wrongful Interference With Contract, 40 AM. J. COMP. L. 297 (1992) |
| Tortious Interference with Contract at French Law: An Excursion Along a Road Not Taken, 6/7 TUL. CIV. L. F. 131 (1991-1992) |
| The History of Privity - The Formative Period (1500-1680), 33 AM. J. LEG. HIST. 3 (1989) |
| Revision of the Code or Regression to a Digest? A Rejoinder to Professor Cueto-Rua, 84 TUL. L.REV. 177 (1989) |
| The Death of a Code - The Birth of a Digest, 63 TUL. L. REV. 221 (1988) |
| General Theory of the Inner Structure of Strict Liability B Common Law, Civil Law, Comparative Law, 62 TUL. L. REV. 1303; reprinted in 12 J. OF PROD. LIAB. 257 (1989) |
| Rapport Louisianais, in l'Effectivité des Décisions de Justice, 37 TRAVAUX DE L'ASSOC. HENRI CAPITANT 633 (1988) |
| Common Lawyers as Civilian Intermediaries: The Influence of Roman Law and Civil Law in England and the United States, 7 TUL. LAWYER 40 (1986) |
| Why Privity Entered Tort - An Historical Reexamination of Winterbottom v. Wright, 27 AMER. J. LEGAL HIST. 85 (1983) |
| In Quest of a Strict Liability Standard under the Code, 56 TUL. L. REV. 1317 (1982) |
| Contractual Negligence in the Civil Law - The Evolution of a Defense to Actions for Error, 50 TUL. L. REV. 1 (1975) |
| A Review of the Louisiana Law on Potestative Conditions (with Plauche), 47 TUL. L. REV. 284 (1973) |
| Symposium on Incapacity, 47 TUL. L. REV. 1085 (1973) |
| The Misinterpretation of Article 1801, 46 TUL. L. REV. 859 (1972) |
| Absolute Emancipation, 85 S. AFRICAN L. J. 24 (1968) |
| Liability for Pure Economic Loss in Europe: An Economic Restatement (with Bussani and Parisi)__ AM. J. COMP. L. __ (forthcoming) |
| The Residential Lease in the Civil Law - A Consideration in Social Context, 4 TUL. CIV. L. F. 3 |
| Trois Principes de la Responsabilité sans Faute, 1987 REV. INT'L DE DROIT COMPARÉ 825 |
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