Eason-Weimann Annual Lecture on International and Comparative Law
Tulane University Law School
Professor John W. Cairns, Edinburgh Law School
The Civil Code of the State of Louisiana: Context & Continuities.
Thursday, November 20, 2025 • 5 PM
John Giffen Weinmann Hall Wendell Gauthier Appellate Moot Court Room 110
Reception to follow in Marian Mayer Berkett Multipurpose Room
CALL FOR PAPERS
LAW
SCHOOL
10th General Conference
Athens, Greece, 8-10 July 2026
Law and/against Reality
Theme:
Law is part of reality.
It regulates behaviour, resolves disputes, and defines rights and
responsibilities. Law can run ahead of reality, to devise and pro-actively
implement a new society. Law can be reactive and retrospective, to stabilise
developments produced by other societal dynamics. Law may be light or heavy,
under- or over-regulating its subject-matter, giving wider or narrower latitude
to other formants. Law may also be on-target or off-target, more or less
willingly, to command or to nudge.
The apparent obviousness
of the relation between the law and its subject-matter may be explored to
analyse the many different ways the law grasps reality and interacts with it –
sometimes to reach, sometimes to depart from the expected or desired results. But
law can lag behind reality by failing to address emerging or burning issues.
Either way, law mirrors and moulds reality.
Juris Diversitas calls
scholars worldwide to contribute their knowledge on this topic for the Juris
Diversitas 2026 International Conference in the beautiful city of Athens, one
of the cradles of the world’s legal heritage, where law has been part of
politics, religion, culture, art, and societal dynamics since times immemorial.
Submissions:
Panel proposals and interdisciplinary presentations are strongly
encouraged, as is the participation of doctoral students and scholars from
outside of the discipline of law. While parallel sessions featuring three
presentations of twenty-minute each will be standard, more creative
arrangements are encouraged.
Proposals should be in English or French. Proposals of circa 250 words
(or 1000 words for panel proposals with three or more speakers) should be
submitted to Professors Anne Tercinet (tercinet@em-lyon.com) and Gianmatteo Sabatino (gianmatteo.sabatino@unitn.it) by 12 January 2026, with a short biography
paragraph listing major or relevant publications. Make this a single Word
document with minimal formatting, so that proposal and biography can be copied
easily into the conference program.
Registration Fees:
€200 or €125 for Juris Diversitas members who paid their 2026
dues. Special rate for young scholars under the age of thirty and scholars
in developing nations: €150
or €75 for Juris Diversitas members who paid their
2026 dues. Note that fees do not cover travel, accommodation, or the
conference dinner (€50).
A reduction of €25 will be
applied to the fees for registration before 30 April 2026.
Dates & Venue:
8-10 July 2026
School of Law
National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece
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LAW
SCHOOL
10e
Congrès général
Athènes, Grèce, 8
au 10 juillet 2026
Droit et réalité :
convergence
ou divergence ?
Thème :
Le droit fait partie de la réalité. Il régit les comportements, règle les
litiges et définit les droits et les responsabilités. Le droit peut anticiper
la réalité, pour concevoir et mettre en œuvre proactivement une nouvelle
société. Le droit peut être réactif et rétrospectif, pour stabiliser les
développements produits par d’autres dynamiques sociétales. Le droit peut être
léger ou pesant, sous- ou sur-réglementant son objet, donnant une latitude plus
ou moins large à d’autres formants. Le droit peut être ciblé ou non, que ce
soit voulu ou non, pour commander ou stimuler.
L’évidence apparente de la relation entre le droit et son objet peut être déconstruite
pour analyser les façons différentes dont le droit comprend la réalité et
interagit avec elle – parfois pour atteindre, parfois pour s’éloigner des
résultats attendus ou souhaités. Le droit peut aussi être en retard sur la
réalité en ne traitant pas les problèmes émergents ou urgents. Quoi qu'il en
soit, le droit reflète et façonne la réalité.
Juris Diversitas appelle les chercheurs et amis du monde entier à apporter
leurs connaissances sur ce sujet pour la Conférence internationale Juris
Diversitas 2026 dans la belle ville d’Athènes, l’un des berceaux du patrimoine
juridique mondial, où depuis des temps immémoriaux le droit fait partie de la
politique, de la religion, de la culture, de l’art et de la dynamique sociétale
générale.
Communications :
Les propositions de tables rondes et présentations interdisciplinaires sont
encouragées, de même que la participation de doctorants et d’universitaires non-juristes.
En plus des sessions parallèles avec trois orateurs parlant chacun vingt
minutes, les organisateurs invitent à une organisation plus originale.
Les propositions, en anglais ou en français, de 250 mots environ (ou 1.000
pour une table ronde de trois présentateurs ou plus) sont à adresser aux Pr
Anne Tercinet (tercinet@em-lyon.com) et Pr
Gianmatteo Sabatino (gianmatteo.sabatino@unitn.it) avant le 12 janvier 2026
avec une brève notice biographique indiquant les publications liées au sujet.
Merci de composer la proposition et la notice biographique dans un seul
document Word, avec le minimum de mise en forme, pour faciliter la composition
du programme.
Droits d’inscription :
€200 ou €125 pour les membres de Juris Diversitas à jour de leur cotisation
pour 2026. Tarif spécial pour jeune universitaire de moins de 30 ans et pour
universitaire venant d’un pays en développement : €150 ou €75 pour les
membres de Juris Diversitas à jour de leur cotisation pour 2024. Les droits ne
couvrent pas les frais de voyage et de logement, ni le banquet du congrès
(€50).
Une réduction de €25 sera appliquée sur les droits en cas
d'inscription avant le 30 avril 2026.
Dates & lieu :
8 au 10 juillet 2026
Faculté de droit
Université nationale et capodistrienne d'Athènes
Athènes, Grèce
Juris Diversitas is pleased to announce the renewal of its
Executive Committee. Olivier Moréteau, President, Ignazio Castellucci, Vice
Presidents for Projects, and Lukas Heckendorn-Urscheler, Treasurer, are reelected
in their respective positions. Anne Tercinet, Development Officer, is elected
Vice President for Events to replace Salvatore Mancuso, who did not seek
reelection. Gianmatteo Sabatino is elected General Secretary to replace Christa
Rautenbach who did not seek reelection.
The President and Vice Presidents appointed two additional
Officers: Anthony Diala, Development Officer for Africa, and Rostam Neuwirth,
Development Officer for Asia.
Warm messages of thanks to Christa Rautenbach and Salvatore
Mancuso for their tireless and effective activity over the past years. Emmanuel
Didier, appointed Officer, helped revive our web presence and will also be
missed.
A warm welcome to the new Officers Anthony Diala, Rostam
Neuwirth, and Gianmatteo Sabatino, who will help developing Juris
Diversitas, and congratulations to Anne Tercinet who moves from an appointed to
elected Office.
Our Executive Committee
Over 30 papers will be presented and discussed by leading experts on the Louisiana Civil Code, along with national and international scholars. The conference will illustrate how Louisiana, as the first jurisdiction in the world to codify its private law following the Napoleonic Code, developed a code that is not merely a replica of the French Civil Code. The relevance and content of the 1825 Civil Code, as well as its influence in the United States, the Americas, and other parts of the world, will also be explored. Additionally, the future of codification in mixed jurisdictions and the global context will be debated.
The papers presented will be of interest to the broader legal community and provide opportunities to earn Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits. The conference will also appeal to those interested in local and world history, law, languages, and social sciences.
The conference will feature the 44th Tucker Lecture in Civil Law as its keynote address on the evening of the first day. This lecture will be delivered by Professor Agustín Parise, who holds two law doctorates from the Universities of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Maastricht (The Netherlands), where he serves as a law professor.
Presentations will primarily be in English, with some in French, as laws at the time were published in both languages. The Consul General of France in New Orleans will open the event, coinciding with the Journée internationale de la francophonie on March 20.
While the Tucker Lecture is open to the public, conference attendance requires prior registration, which is free for LSU faculty and students. The program and registration forms are available on the CCLS website.
Date & Location: March 20-21, 2025, Lod Cook Alumni Center, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (free parking available)
For more information, full program, and registration, visit https://law.lsu.edu/ccls/
Contact: Professor Olivier Moréteau, CCLS Director (moreteau@lsu.edu) and Katie Meek, CCLS Coordinator (katiemeek@lsu.edu).
9th General Conference
Macau, 24-25 October 2024
Visit the Events page to view the program
The Theme:
‘Convivencia’: Com-paring Legal Scenarios of a Life Together in Harmony
In a seemingly dystopian present or era of post-truth, can the various dichotomous conceptions of law based on dualistic reasoning still be maintained? Or, are we no longer able to maintain the narrative of a normative universe by constantly creating and maintaining ‘a world of right and wrong, of lawful and unlawful, of valid and void’, as Robert M. Cover wrote?
In view of the apparent contradictions caused by a growing number of complex cross-cutting, cross-boundary and cross-cultural phenomena, such as artificial intelligence, climate change or zoonotic diseases, the time may have come again to rethink and transcend the dualisms that guided human thinking for a long time, creating wide gaps between not only law and law, but also between law and other scientific areas.
Juris Diversitas invites abstracts for papers that seek to not only identify different legal problems by contrasting their underlying causes but also by ‘com-paring’ them in the spirit of ‘convivencia or living together in harmony and in a way respectful of difference’. Convivencia is a term the late comparatist H. Patrick Glenn applied to explain ‘com-paring’ by describing it as ‘an enduring process of peaceful co-existence (in spite of difference in spite of potential conflict), in a way which ensures not uniformity but ongoing diversity’. While this call for papers is as open as it can be in a spirit of convivencia, we welcome proposals that apply a new legal logic aiming to break free from the ironclad shackles limiting the imaginative and creative power of the legal mind.
Dates & Venue:
24-25 October 2024
University of Macau
Faculty of Law/Department of Global Legal Studies
Avenida da Universidade E32
999078 Taipa, Macao (China)
Le thème :
« Convivencia » : comparaison des scénarios juridiques du vivre ensemble en harmonie
Dans un présent apparemment dystopique ou une ère de post-vérité, les diverses conceptions dichotomiques du droit fondées sur un raisonnement dualiste peuvent-elles encore être maintenues ? Ne sommes-nous plus capables de maintenir le récit d’un univers normatif en créant et en entretenant « un monde de bien et de mal, de licite et d’illicite, de valide et de nul », comme l’écrivait Robert M. Cover ?
Face aux contradictions apparentes causées par un nombre croissant de phénomènes transversaux, transfrontaliers et transculturels complexes, tels que l’intelligence artificielle, le changement climatique ou les maladies zoonotiques, le moment est peut-être venu de repenser et de transcender les dualismes qui ont longtemps guidé la pensée humaine, créant de grands écarts non seulement entre le droit et le droit, mais aussi entre le droit et les autres domaines scientifiques.
Juris Diversitas fait appel à des contributions qui cherchent non seulement à identifier différents problèmes juridiques en contrastant leurs causes sous-jacentes, mais également en les « comparant » dans l’esprit de « convivencia ou vivre ensemble en harmonie et dans le respect de la différence ». Convivencia est un terme que le regretté comparatiste H. Patrick Glenn a utilisé pour expliquer la « comparaison » en la décrivant comme « un processus durable de coexistence pacifique (en dépit des différences et des conflits potentiels), d'une manière qui garantit non pas l’uniformité mais une diversité dynamique ». Si cet appel à communications se veut aussi ouvert que possible dans un esprit de convivialité, nous valorisons les propositions qui appliquent une nouvelle logique juridique visant à se libérer des chaînes qui limitent le pouvoir imaginatif et créatif de l’esprit juridique.
Dates & lieu :
24-25 Octobre 2024
University of Macau
Faculty of Law/Department of Global Legal Studies
Avenida da Universidade E32
999078 Taipa, Macao (China)
The American University Law Review has issued a Call For Papers for its annual symposium. Here is the call.The American University Law Review is placing a call for submissions of original legal articles and scholarly commentaries for its forthcoming issue dedicated to pop culture and the law. Specifically, the Law Review seeks submissions analyzing the sports, media and entertainment, fashion, and social media industries and their effect on the law. However, other topics related to pop culture will be considered. The target publication date is slated for mid-2025.
Next year, the Law Review’s Spring Symposium will be held on February 7, 2025. This symposium will explore and engage with burgeoning legal issues in pop culture. Selected authors may have the opportunity to present their work as a panelist in the Symposium, but participation is not a requirement for consideration.
Legal imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular laws and literatures
Thursday 5th SeptemberPhillipa Weeks Staff Library, Level 4, ANU College of Law
This event represents the first fruits of a new network that targets a specific geographic constellation and identifies, through the language of ‘the imaginary’ and ‘vernacular’, a specific set of theoretical resources. ‘Laws and literatures’ both frames the endeavour in relation to the rich field of studies in law and literature, and pluralises it in significant ways. Collaborative partners in the broader project include University of Wollongong, Hong Kong University, National University of Singapore, and University of British Columbia.
This one-day workshop would be of interest to academics and HDR students in literature, law and the humanities, legal theory, and postcolonial studies. It features new work from prominent and emerging scholars working in law and literature from right across the region -- from Australia, Aotearoa, the Pacific and Mexico to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia – showcasing new directions with what we might call a common indicazione geografica tipica, and indicazione teorica tipica.
Vendredi, 15 novembre :
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Programme (subject to change)
Friday, 15 November:
Saturday, 16 November:
