DR. OLIVIER P. MORÉTEAU
Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center W326C Law Center 1 East Campus Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1000, USA
Tel: 225-578-0067 (direct) Tel: 225-578-1126 (office) Fax: 225-578-3677 Email: [email protected]
PRESENT POSITION:
Professor of Law Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair Director of the Center of Civil Law Studies Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Appointed full professor with tenure, as from August 1, 2005
Assistant Dean for International Programs (2015-), formerly Associate Vice-Chancellor for International Programs (2006-2015)
Professor of French Studies (courtesy appointment), LSU Department of French Studies (three years, as from January 1, 2015)
FORMER POSITIONS:
At the Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France: - Professor of Comparative Law (2000-2005) - Director, Edouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law (2000-2005) - Associate Professor, with tenure (Maître de conférences) (1990-1998) - Associate Director, Institut de droit comparé Edouard Lambert (1985-2000) - Vice-President for International Relations (1997-1999) - Director of International Relations (1993-1995) - Assistant Professor (1982-1990) - Part-time Teaching and Research Assistant (1980-1982)
At the Université Pierre Mendès-France – Grenoble 2, France: - Professor of Private Law (1998-2000)
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EDUCATION:
At Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France : 1990 : Doctorat d'Etat en Droit (S.J.D., Doctorate in Law) 1981 : D.E.A. de Droit Privé (Postgraduate program in French Private Law) 1978 : D.E.A. de Droit Comparé (Postgraduate program in Comparative Law) 1977 : Maîtrise en Droit (French Law Degree)
PUBLICATIONS & WRITINGS:
IN ENGLISH:
1. Books
Comparative Legal History (A. Masferrer, K. Modeer, O. Moréteau, Eds.), Research Handbooks in Comparative Law (series editors F. Parisi, T. Ginsburg), Edgar Elgar, forthcoming, January 2019.
Comparative Law and… / Le droit comparé et… (A. Albarian, O. Moréteau Eds.), Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2016.
Essays in Honor of Saúl Litvinoff (O. Moréteau, J. Romañach, A. Zuppi, Eds.), Claitor’s, Baton Rouge, 2008 (860 p.).
Robert A. Pascal: A Priest of Right Order, (O. Moréteau, Ed.), LSU, Baton Rouge, 2010 (288 p.), with an Introduction by O. Moréteau (in print with Claitor’s Publishing 2018, with an additional Foreword) http://www.law.lsu.edu/index.cfm?geaux=ccls.publications
2. Articles & Book Chapters
“1900-Present,” in Western Legal Traditions: Texts and Materials, Sean Patrick Donlan and others (Eds.), Ius Commune Series, (forthcoming, 2018).
“Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Theoretical and Practical Approach to Specific Performance in International Commercial Law” (in French & English), Revue de droit des affaires internationales – International Business Law Journal, 2017:6, 639-649.
“The Louisiana Civil Code in French: Translation and Retranslation,” 9 J. Civ. L. Stud. 223-258 (2016).
“Rod Macdonald (1948-2014) ‘A True Bow is never Straight’ or Juris Diversitas Incarnata” (with Jacques Vanderlinden), in Le droit comparé et… Comparative Law and…, Alexis Albarian and Olivier Moréteau, Eds., Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2016, pp. 15- 20. O. Moréteau 2 July 2018
“Individual Liability in a Vulnerable Environment: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Tort Law,” in Essays in Honour of Jaap Spier, Helmut Koziol, Ulrich Magnus (Eds.), Jan Sramek Verlag, 2016, pp. 239-257.
“Basic Questions of Tort Law from a French Perspective,” in Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective, Helmut Koziol (Ed.), Jan Sramek Verlag, 2015, pp. 3-95.
“French Tort Law in the Light of European Harmonization,” 6 J. Civ. L. Stud. 759-801 (2013).
“France”, in European Tort Law 2012 (with Alexandru-Daniel On), European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, Ken Oliphant and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2013, pp. 229-259.
“The Draft Reforms of French Tort Law in the Light of European Harmonization,” Festschrift für Ulrich Magnus, Peter Mangowski, Wolfgang Wurmnest (Eds.), Sellier, Munich, 2014, pp. 77-91.
“Causal Uncertainty and Proportional Liability in France,” in Proportional Liability: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives, Israel Gilhead, Michael D. Green, Bernhard Koch (Eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2013, pp. 141-152.
“France”, in European Tort Law 2011, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, Ken Oliphant and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2012, pp. 216-241.
“De revolutionibus, The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and in the Legal Universe,” 5 Journal of Civil Law Studies 31-66 (2012).
“Restating Tort Law: The American and European Styles,” (with Michael D. Green), 3 Journal of European Tort Law 281-307 (2012).
“France,” in European Tort Law 2010, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2011, pp. 175- 199.
“France,” in European Tort Law, Basic Texts, Ken Oliphant and Barbara C. Steininger (Eds.), Ian Sramek Verlag, Vienna, 2011, pp. 85-90.
“Mare Nostrum as the Cauldron of Western Legal Traditions: Stirring the Broth, Making Sense of Legal Gumbo whilst Understanding Contamination,” 4 Journal of Civil Law Studies 516-538 (2011).
“De revolutionibus, The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and in the Legal Universe,” in Le droit civil et ses codes: parcours à travers les Amériques, Jimena Andino Dorato, Jean- Frédérick Ménard & Lionel Smith (Eds.), Les Editions Thémis, Montreal, 2011, pp. 1-34.
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“Policing the Compensation of Victims of Catastrophes: Combining Solidarity and Self- Responsibility” (2007), Disaster Law, Daniel A. Farber, Michael G. Faure (Eds.), Elgar, 2010, Chapter 18.
“Catastrophic Harm in United States Law: Liability and Insurance”, 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 69-96 (2010).
“France”, in European Tort Law 2009, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2010, pp. 198- 216.
“An Introduction to the Life and Work of Robert A. Pascal,” in Robert A. Pascal: A Priest of Right Order, (O. Moréteau, Ed.), LSU, Baton Rouge, 2010, pp. 1-21.
“An Introduction to Contamination,” 3 Journal of Civil Law Studies 9-15 (2010).
“A Summary Reflection on the Future of Civil Codes in Europe,” Festschrift für Helmut Koziol, Peter Apathy et alii (Eds.), Jan Sramek Verlag, 2010, pp. 1449-1459.
“France”, in European Tort Law 2008, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2009, pp. 264-284.
“Recodification in Louisiana and Latin America” (with Agustín Parise), 83 Tulane Law Review, 1103-1162 (2009).
“The Future of Civil Codes in France and Louisiana”, 2 Journal of Civil Law Studies 39-60 (2009).
“The French “Action Directe”: The Justification for Going beyond Privity (with Michel Cannarsa), in European Perspectives on Producers’ Liability, Direct Producers’ Liability for Non-conformity and the Sellers’ Right of Redress, Martin Ebers, André Janssen, Olaf Meyer (Eds.), Sellier, Munich, 2009, pp. 241-251.
“France”, in European Tort Law 2007, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2008, pp. 274-287.
“Policing the Compensation of Victims of Catastrophes: Combining Solidarity and Self- Responsibility”, 54 Loyola Law Review, 65-93 (2008).
“The Future of Civil Codes in France and Louisiana”, Essays in Honor of Saúl Litvinoff (O. Moréteau, J. Romañach, A. Zuppi, Eds.), Claitor’s, Baton Rouge, 2008, pp. 605-632.
“Policing the Compensation of Victims of Catastrophes: Combining Solidarity and Self- Responsibility”, Shifts in Compensation between Private and Public Systems, Willem H. Van Boom, Michael Faure (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2007, pp. 199-218.
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“Opening Remarks”, Symposium on Law Making in a Global World, 67 Louisiana Law Review, 1015-1019 (2007).
“Post Scriptum to Law Making in a Global World: From Human Rights to a Law of Mankind”, 67 Louisiana Law Review, 1223-1231 (2007).
“France”, in European Tort Law 2006, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2007, pp. 196-212.
“France”, in European Tort Law 2005, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2006, pp. 270-280.
“Children as Victims Under French Law”, with Laurence Francoz-Terminal, Fabien Lafay and Caroline Pellerin-Rugliano, Children in Tort Law, Part II: Children as Victims, Miquel Martin-Casals (Ed.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2006, pp. 89-120.
“Children as Tortfeasors Under French Law”, with Laurence Francoz-Terminal, Fabien Lafay and Caroline Pellerin-Rugliano, Children in Tort Law, Part I: Children as Tortfeasors, Miquel Martin-Casals (Ed.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2006, pp. 169- 215.
“Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes, France”, with Michel Cannarsa and Fabien Lafay, Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes: A Comparative Legal Approach, Michael Faure, Ton Hartlief (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2006, pp. 81-118.
“Revisiting the Grey Zone between Contract and Tort: The Role of Estoppel and Reliance in Mapping out the Law of Obligations”, European Tort Law 2004, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 60-80.
“France”, with Michel Cannarsa, Fabien Lafay and Caroline Pellerin-Rugliano, in European Tort Law 2004, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 274-299.
“The Protection of Personality Rights against Invasions by Mass Media in France”, with Karine Anterion, in The Protection of Personality Rights against Invasion by Mass Media, Helmut Koziol and Alexander Warzilek (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 117-135.
“France”, with Fabien Lafay and Caroline Pellerin-Rugliano, in European Tort Law 2003, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, H. Koziol and Barbara Steininger (Eds.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2004, pp. 156-179.
“Liability for Acts of Terrorism Under French Law”, with Fabien Lafay, in Terrorism, Tort Law and Insurance, A Comparative Survey, Bernhard Koch (Ed.), Springer, Vienna and New York, 2004, pp. 29-46.
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“Can English become the Common Legal Language in Europe?”, in R. Schulze and G. Ajani (Eds.), Common Principles of European Private Law, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2003, pp. 405-418.
“Codes as Strait-Jackets, Safeguards and Alibis: The Experience of the French Civil Code”, 20 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 273 (1995).
3. Notes, Reviews, Commentaries, Reports
“A Dialogue to Conclude a Conference on Legal Translation: Synthèse à deux voix,” with Matthias Martin, 9 J. Civ. L. Stud. 457-469 (2016).
Book Review, John W. Cairns, Codification, Transplants and History, Law Reform in Louisiana (1808) and Quebec (1866), Talbot Publishing, 2015, 4 Comparative Legal History 94-98 (2016).
Introduction (with Alexis Albarian), Le droit comparé et… Comparative Law and…, Alexis Albarian and Olivier Moréteau, Eds., Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2016, pp. 13- 14.
Invitation au voyage, 8 Journal of Civil Law Studies 377-379 (2015).
Introduction, Special Issue: Africa related articles from the 2014 Juris Diversitas Conference, Aix-en-Provence, 2:2 Journal of Comparative Law in Africa 1 (2015).
Book Review, François Terré (ed), Pour une réforme du droit de la responsabilité civile, Collection: Thèmes & commentaires (Dalloz, 2011). xiv +224 pages, 4 Journal of European Tort Law 342-346 (2013).
François-Xavier Martin Revisited: Louisiana Views on Codification, Jurisprudence, Legal Education and Practice, 60 Louisiana Bar Journal 475-479 (2013).
The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project: An Introduction, 5 Journal of Civil Law Studies 97-104 (2012).
Book Review, Véronique Bruggeman, Compensating Catastrophe Victims, A Comparative Law and Economics Approach, Wolters Kluwer, 2010, xxviii and 614 pages, 3 Carbon and Climate Law Review, 270-272 (2012).
Louisiana 1812-2012: 200 Years of Statehood and 300 Years of French Law Influence, 59 Louisiana Bar Journal 325-326 (2012).
Hans-Albrecht Schwarz-Liebermann von Wahlendorf (1922-2011), 4 Journal of Civil Law Studies 227-231 (2011).
Book Review, N. Whitty & R. Zimmermann (eds.), Rights of Personality in Scots Law (Dundee University Press, 2009), 4 Journal of Civil Law Studies 217-225 (2011). O. Moréteau 6 July 2018
Book Review, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study (Oxford University Press, 2009), 3 Journal of European Tort Law 383-389 (2010).
Book Review, The Interference of Third Parties in Contractual relations, A Comparative Study, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi, L’interferenza del terzo nei rapporti contrattuali, un’indagine comparatistica, Giuffrè, Milan, 2008, 394 pages,” 5 European Review of Contract Law 394-398 (2009).
“Tribute to Professor Edward Tomlinson”, 64 Maryland Law Review 954 (2005).
“Commentary on Liability for Others”, Principles of European Tort Law, European Group on Tort Law, Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 112-119.
“Commentary on Reduction of Damages”, Principles of European Tort Law, European Group on Tort Law, Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 179-181.
“Report on the Seminar on Commercial Law in Bhutan” submitted to the Government of Bhutan, the Chief Justice of Bhutan and the United Nations Development Programme, (seminar on Commercial Law, Thimphu, 15-19 November, 1999), [on file with the author].
“Principles of Commercial Law: Introduction Speech to the Seminar on Commercial Law in Bhutan”, Thimphu, 15 November, 1999, [on file with the author].
5. Forewords
“Foreword,” Robert Anthony Pascal: A Priest of Right Order (Claitor’s 2018).
“Avant-Propos”, 200 Years of Statehood, 300 Years of Civil Law: New Perspectives on Louisiana’s Multilingual Legal Experience, 5 Journal of Civil Law Studies 1-4 (2012).
“Foreword” (with Ronald Scalise Jr.), Civil Law Workshop, Saúl Litvinoff Series, Civil Law and Common Law: Cross Influences, Contamination and Permeability, 3 Journal of Civil Law Studies 1-7 (2010).
“Avant-Propos”, Civil Law Workshop, Robert A. Pascal Series, Revisiting the Distinction Between Persons and Things, 1 Journal of Civil Law Studies 1-7 (2008).
“A Summary Reflection on Legal Education” by Robert A. Pascal, 69 Louisiana Law Review, 125-128 (2008).
Essays in Honor of Saúl Litvinoff (O. Moréteau, J. Romañach, A. Zuppi, Eds.), with J. Romeñach and A. Zuppi, Claitor’s, Baton Rouge, 2008.
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Jacques Royal: Louisiana History, 1804-1808 Digest of the Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Orleans (Ancestor of the Louisiana Civil Code), Bilingual edition, Art by Royal and Associates, 2008.
Andrea Borroni, Comparative Gastronomy: Legal and Cultural Framework, Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, vol. 57, Schultess, 2007.
7. Others
Gérard Cornu and Association Henri Capitant, Dictionary of the Civil Code, translation under the supervision of Alain Levasseur and Marie-Eugénie Laporte-Legeais, Lexis Nexis, 2014 (translation of 130 out of 1,600 entries)
4. Websites
Louisiana Civil Code Online, including a translation into French of the current Louisiana Civil Code (work in progress), http://www.law.lsu.edu/index.cfm?geaux=clo.lcco
Digest of the Civil Laws now in Force in the Territory of Orleans, with the full text in French and in English of the Digest of 1808, the manuscript notes of Louis Moreau-Lislet and introductory materials (with Agustin Parise), www.law.lsu.edu/digest
IN FRENCH:
1. Books
Code civil de Louisiane, Édition bilingue, O. Moréteau (Ed.), Société de législation comparée, Paris, Droit comparé et européen, vol. 28, 2017 (780 pages).
Le juriste français entre ethnocentrisme et mondialisation (A comparative overview of the challenges of globalization on the French legal culture), Dalloz, Paris, 2014 (338 p.).
European Group on Tort Law, Les Principes du droit européen de la responsabilité civile, textes et commentaires, (French edition of the Principles of European Tort Law), O. Moréteau (Ed.), Michel Séjean (Translation), Société de législation comparée, Paris, 2011 (266 p.).
Le mandat et la société en nom collectif (The Law of Agency and Partnership), collection “La common law en poche”, edited by J. Vanderlinden, Y. Blais et Bruylant, 2008 (116 p.).
La structure des systèmes juridiques (The Structure of Legal Systems), O. Moréteau & J. Vanderlinden (Eds.), Bruylant, Brussels, 2003 (432 p.).
Droit anglais des affaires (English Business Law: a presentation of English commercial law for lawyers trained in the civil law tradition), Dalloz, Paris, 2000 (555 p.).
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L'estoppel et la protection de la confiance légitime (Estoppel and protection of detrimental reliance, a comparative study, English law and French law, with elements of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand laws), Ph.D. thesis Lyon 1990 (850 p.), http://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/faculty_scholarship/12/.
Guide juridique et fiscal de l'exportation (A legal and taxation guide for export companies), with G. Brayer, P. Schulz, J.L. Soulier, Editions du Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (C.F.C.E.), Paris, 1988.
2. Articles & Book Chapters
“La traduction du Code civil louisianais, exercice historico linguistique” (The translation of the Louisiana Civil Code, an exercise in history and linguistics), in Codes, termes et traduction, Enrica Bracchi et Dominique Garreau (Eds.), Giuffré, Milan, 2017, 107-119.
“Les remèdes à l’inexécution du contrat : Approche théorique et pratique de l’exécution forcée en droit du commerce international” (Remedies for Breach of Contract: A Theoretical and Practical Approach to Specific Performance in International Commercial Law), Revue de droit des affaires internationales – International Business Law Journal, 2017:6, 639-649.
“Le code civil de Louisiane en français, introduction à l’édition bilingue” (The Louisiana Civil Code in French, Introduction to the bilingual edition), in Code civil de Louisiane, Édition bilingue, O. Moréteau (Ed.), Société de législation comparée, Paris, Droit comparé et européen, vol. 28, 2017, 19-30.
“Mariages et unions de même sexe aux États-Unis : une affaire compliquée par le fédéralisme” (Same-sex marriage in the United States: federal complexity), 8 Journal of Civil Law Studies 163-185 (2015).
“Le Code civil de Louisiane en français : traduction et retraduction” (The louisiana Civil Code : Translation and Retranslation), 28 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 155-175 (2015).
“Des grands systèmes aux petits, la contamination des droits et des cultures juridiques,” in Liber amicorum, Mélanges en l’honneur de Camille Jauffret-Spinosi, Dalloz, Paris, 2013, pp. 875-885.
“La traduction de l’œuvre de François Gény : méthode de traduction et sources doctrinales” (The translation of the work of François Gény, a translation method for doctrinal sources), in La pensée de Francois Gény, Olivier Cachard, Francois-Xavier Licari & Francois Lormant (Eds.), Dalloz, Paris, 2013, pp. 69-81.
“Le suicide médicalement assisté : le droit de mourir avec dignité en Oregon” (Medically Assisted Suicide, The Right to Die with Dignity in Oregon), in Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean-Pierre Lassale, Gabriel Montagnier et Luc Saïdj, Jean-Luc Albert (Ed.), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2012, pp. 303-308. O. Moréteau 9 July 2018
“Les frontières de la langue et du droit: vers une méthodologie de la traduction juridique” (The frontiers of law and languages : towards a methodology of legal translation), Revue internationale de droit comparé 2009, pp. 695-713.
“Les frontières de la langue et du droit” (The frontiers of law and languages), in The New Ambitions of Legal Science: Legal Anthropology and Legal Traductology, R. Sacco (Ed.), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2009, pp. 63-80.
“Libres propos sur l’avenir des codes civils en Europe” (A Summary Reflection on the Future of Civil Codes in Europe), Mélanges en l’honneur de Serge Guinchard, Dalloz, 2010, pp. 1049-1059.
“Une vision bigarrée des droits et des mots”, interview of Olivier Moréteau by Didier Lamèthe, Lettre du Centre français de droit comparé, Number 52, 2007, pp. 2-7 (http://www.centrefdc.org/publications/Lettre_52.pdf) and Number 53, 2008, pp. 2-5 (http://www.centrefdc.org/publications/Lettre_53.pdf).
“Sortir de la caverne pour comprendre la guerre des droits” (Coming out of Plato’s Cave to understand the competition among legal systems), Droit et économie, Rapport du 38e congrès du Mouvement Jeune Notariat, San Francisco, 18-24 novembre 2007, www.mjn.fr/congres2007 pp. 41-49.
“Edouard Lambert et l’enseignement du droit comme science sociale et comparative” (Edouard Lambert: teaching law as a social and comparative science), in Le renouveau des sciences sociales et juridiques sous la IIIe République : La Faculté de droit de Lyon, D. Deroussin (Ed.), La mémoire du droit, Paris, 2007, pp. 193-212.
“Les éléments constitutifs de l’estoppel : L’inconséquence” (The Constitutive Elements of Estoppels: The Representor’s Inconsistency), Revue de la common law en français, 2007, vol. 9, pp. 115-182.
“Regards sur le droit des Etats-Unis en 2006 : La vie humaine, de la conception à la mort” (A survey of United States Law in 2006: Human Life, from Conception to Death), with Agustín Parise and Aissatou Sylla, Revue de la common law en français, 2007, vol. 9, pp. 287-343.
“Bilan de santé de l’enseignement du droit” (The health of legal education), in Etudier et enseigner le droit : hier, aujourd’hui et demain. Etudes offertes à Jacques Vanderlinden, Bruylant, Brussels, and Blais, Cowansville, 2006, pp. 273-301.
“La structure des systèmes juridiques” (The Structure of Legal Systems), with Jacques Vanderlinden, Convergence of Legal Systems in the 21st Century, General Reports delivered at the XVIth International Congress of Comparative Law, Brisbane 2002 (International Academy of Comparative Law), Bruylant, Brussels, 2006, pp. 167-240.
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“L’interprétation des textes juridiques rédigés dans plus d’une langue” (Interpretation of Multilingual Texts), with Didier Lamèthe, French Report, XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2006, Revue internationale de droit comparé 2006, pp. 327-362.
“Conclusions générales”, in Le devenir du droit comparé en France (The future of comparative law in France), J. du Bois de Gaudusson (Ed.), Groupement de droit comparé (http://gdc.cnrs.fr), Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2005, pp. 217-222.
“Le standard et la diversité” (Standard and diversity), Law and Human Diversity, Mauro Bussani and Michele Graziadei (Eds.), Stämpfli, Bern, 2005, pp. 71-90.
“Boissonade revisité: de la codification doctrinale à une langue juridique commune” (Boissonade revisited: from doctrinal codification to a common legal language), in De tous horizons, Mélanges Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, Paris, Société de législation comparée, 2005, pp. 103-127.
“Remarques comparatives sur l’organisation de la recherche dans les pays de common law” (The organization of research in common law countries, a comparative approach), in Propriété scientifique et recherche : des pistes pour l’avenir, C. Blaizot-Hazard (Ed.), Académie des sciences et Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Tec & Doc, London, Paris, New York, 2005, pp. 235-249.
“Premiers pas dans la comparaison des droits” (First steps in legal comparison), in Jurilinguistique : entre langues et droits ; Jurilinguistics: Between Law and Language, Jean-Claude Gémar et Nicholas Kasirer (Eds.), Bruylant (Bruxelles) and Thémis (Montréal), 2005, pp. 407-430.
“Le développement historique de la règle de l’estoppel” (The historical development of estoppel), Revue de la common law en français, 2005, vol. 7, pp. 187-264.
“Ne tirez pas sur le comparatiste” (Don’t shoot the comparatist), Recueil Dalloz, 2005, 452.
“La structure des systèmes juridiques” (The Structure of Legal Systems), with Jacques Vanderlinden, in La structure des systèmes juridiques, O. Moréteau & J. Vanderlinden (Eds.), Bruylant, Brussels, 2003, pp. 13-88.
“La common law en français et l’Europe” (The common law in French in the European context), Revue de la common law en français, 2003, vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 135-160.
“Le prototype, clé de l’interprétation uniforme : la standardisation des notions floues en droit du commerce international” (Prototypes as a key for the interpretation and standardisation of blurred concepts in international commercial law) , L’interprétation des textes juridiques rédigés en plus d’une langue, R. Sacco (Ed.), L’Harmattan-Italia, 2002, pp. 183-202.
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“Le raisonnable et le droit : standards, prototypes et interprétation uniforme” (Reasonableness and the Law: Standards, Prototypes and Uniform Interpretation), Ars Interpretandi, Jahrbuch für Juristische Hermeneutik/Journal of Legal Hermeneutics, Vol. 7, 2002, pp. 221-238.
“La modernité de la pensée juridique de Boissonade: de la codification doctrinale à une langue juridique commune” (The modernity of Boissonade’s legal doctrines, from doctrinal codification to a common legal language), Symposium for the 120th anniversary of the University of Hosei, published by the Univ. of Hosei, Tokyo, 2001 (also in Japanese).
“L'anglais pourrait-il devenir la langue juridique commune en Europe?” (Can English Become the Common Legal Language in Europe), Les multiples langues du droit européen uniforme, R. Sacco & L. Castellani (Eds.), L’Harmattan-Italia, 1999, pp. 143-162.
“Le juriste français entre ethnocentrisme et mondialisation” (The French Lawyer, between Ethnocentrism and Globalization), Université de Montréal et Réseau européen Droit et Société, 1999, (http://sos-net.eu.org/red&s/communic/moretea1.htm)
“La réforme de la procédure civile anglaise : première approche” (A first approach to the English reform of civil procedure), Revue générale des procédures, 1998, p. 770.
“L'influence internationale de l'œuvre d'Edouard Lambert” (The international influence of Edouard Lambert), Conference for the 50th anniversary of the Egyptian Civil Code, Cairo, 1998 (published by the Egyptian Ministry of Justice).
“L'effet de la mise en place de la monnaie unique sur les contrats en cours en droit américain” (A study of the impact of the implementation of the European currency on existing contracts under American Laws), International conference on The Legal Consequences of the Implementation of the Euro, published in Les aspects juridiques du passage à l'Euro, Centre interprofessionnel de recherches en droit bancaire, Lyon, April 1996.
“Le droit anglais et les ordres de juridictions” (Court categories in English Law), Justices, Revue de droit processuel, 1995, No. 2, 358.
“Les juges de paix en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles” (Justices of the Peace in England and Wales), Justices, Revue de droit processuel, 1995, No. 1, 292.
“Droit anglais, particularisme et Union européenne” (The efforts made by the U.K. and English lawyers to comply with European Community Law, in a historical and comparative perspective), Gazette du Palais, 1995, I, 217.
“Les professions juridiques et judiciaires en Angleterre” (A description of the English Court system and the legal profession in England), in Professions juridiques et judiciaires - Quelle déontologie pour 1993? (The Rules of conduct in the French, English, German and Italian legal professions in the Prospect of European Unification), H. Croze and E. Joly-
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Sibuet (Eds.), Commissariat Géneral au Plan, 1993.
“L'enseignement du droit national aux étudiants étrangers en France”, with F. Ferrand (French report in Colloquium Teaching national law to foreign students, organised by the Centre Français de Droit Comparé, Paris, November 1992), Revue internationale de droit comparé, 1993, 67.
”Le dol et l'obligation de renseignements dans la formation des contrats”, with C. Garcin (A study of the duty of disclosure in the French law of contract), Annales de la Faculté de Droit de Lyon, 1983.
“Le juge et la validité du contrat” (Validity of contracts in French Law : a study of the judicial approach), in Exigence sociale, Jugements de valeur et responsabilité civile, Ed. by H.A. Schwarz-Liebermann von Wahlendorf, Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence (L.G.D.J.), Paris, 1983.
3. Notes, Reviews, Commentaries, Reports
Book review of Michal Bobek, Comparative Reasoning in European Supreme Courts, Oxford University Press 2013, in Revue internationale de droit comparé 2014, 899.
“Estoppel”, in Alexis Albarian (ed.), Les 100 mots du droit anglais, 100 notions fondamentales du droit anglais à l’épreuve du droit français, Lamy, 2013, pp. 267-276.
“Le droit comparé comme remède à l’ethnocentrisme juridique” M.J.N. (Mouvement Jeune Notariat), 2009-3, pp. 20-21.
“French Translation”, Principles of European Tort Law, European Group on Tort Law, Springer, Vienna and New York, 2005, pp. 202-208.
Book review of Z.K. Bankowski, N.R. Hutton and J.J. McManus, Lay Justice, in Revue internationale de droit comparé 1990, 1361.
4. Forewords
“Avant-propos”, Alexis Albarian (ed.), Les 100 mots du droit anglais, 100 notions fondamentales du droit anglais à l’épreuve du droit français, Lamy, 2013, pp. 21-23.
Emmanuelle Dhonte-Isnard, L’embryon humain in vitro et le droit (The law relating to in vitro embryos) with J. Rubellin-Devichi, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2004.
Emmanuelle Dhonte-Isnard, L’embryon surnuméraire (The legal status of spare in vitro embryos) with J. Rubellin-Devichi, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2004.
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Michel Cannarsa, La responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux, étude comparative (Product liability, a comparative study), Milan, Giuffrè, 2005.
Pierre Loiseau, La maîtrise des dépenses de santé confrontée à la responsabilité médicale, aux États-Unis comme en France, Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2005.
Jacques Royal: Louisiana History, 1804-1808 Digeste des Lois Civiles actuellement en force dans le Territoire d’Orléans (Ancêtre du Code Civil Louisianais), Edition bilingue, Art by Royal and Associates, 2008.
5. Blog
Le juriste français, http://jurexpat.blog.lemonde.fr/ (2014-)
IN GERMAN:
“Grundfragen des Schadenersatzrechts aus französischer Sicht”, in Grundfragen des Schadenersatzrechts aus Rechtsvergleichender Sicht, Helmut Koziol (Ed.), Jan Sramek Verlang, 2014, pp. 3-112.
IN JAPANESE:
“La modernité de la pensée juridique de Boissonade: de la codification doctrinale à une langue juridique commune” (The modernity of Boissonade’s legal doctrines, from doctrinal codification to a common legal language), Symposium for the 120th anniversary of the University of Hosei, published by the Univ. of Hosei, Tokyo, 2001 (also in French).
IN SPANISH:
“Estándard y diversidad”, Revista Argentina de Derecho Empresario, Universidad Austral, 2007, no. 7, pp. 79-103 (translated from the French by Carla Arrobo).
EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS:
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Civil Law Studies. Peer-reviewed periodical, published online by the Center of Civil Law Studies of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center (www.law.lsu.edu/jcls). First Volume published in December 2008.
General Editor, Bicentennial Series, Claitor’s Publishing Division, Baton Rouge (two titles published in 2008, third volume online 2010 and in print in 2018, fourth volume in progress).
Member, Editorial Board, Revue internationale de droit comparé, Paris, France (2015-). O. Moréteau 14 July 2018
Member, Advisory Board, Elte Law Journal, Budapest, Hungary (2013-).
Member, Board of Editors, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Netherlands (2007-).
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Netherlands (2008-).
Member, International Advisory Board, Glossae, European Journal of Legal History, Spain (2012-).
Correspondent for English Law, Justices and Revue générale des procédures, France (1995-2000).
LECTURES & PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES:
“A Perfect Circle ? Code civil de Louisiane, édition bilingue”, Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court, New Orleans, April 24, 2018.
“Pourquoi un LL.M. aux États-Unis ?” Master-Class, Institut de droit et d’économie des affaires, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, December 8, 2017.
“Le droit civil louisianais est-il exportable ?” Institut de droit des affaires, Aix-Marseille University, December 4, 2017.
“Étudier le droit aux États-Unis,” Faculty of Law, Aix-Marseille University, December 4, 2017.
“Le droit louisianais, un gombo juridique qui s’offre en partage” Les Deuxièmes Entretiens d’outre-mer : Tricentenaire de la fondation de La Nouvelle-Orléans, Académie des sciences d’outre-mer, Paris, November 29, 2017.
“A Discussion on Sovereignty and International Law: How Free Trade Agreements Can Affect U.S.,” with John Baker, Federalist Society, LSU Law, September 28, 2017.
“Á la recherche des ingrédients du droit louisianais : comment cuisiner et déguster le gombo juridique,” Juris Diversitas 5th Annual Conference, Law and Food, La cuisine juridique, Lyon, July 10, 2017.
“Étudier le droit aux États-Unis,” Faculty of Law, Aix-Marseille University, December 5, 2016.
“Les remèdes à l’inexécution du contrat, Droit français des contrats et arbitrage commercial international,” Conference, De la concurrence à la cohabitation de la Civil Law et de la Common Law, Faculté de droit de Besançon, November 17, 2016 (by videoconference). O. Moréteau 15 July 2018
“Des Pyrénées à Cuba en passant par La Nouvelle-Orléans : Pierre Soulé, avocat de la liberté,” Louisiane/French Antilles: A Shared Space/Time, International Colloquium, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Center of French and Francophone Studies, November 10, 2016.
“Comment le juriste français projette sa vision du droit dans le contexte de la mondialisation : une affaire d’influence ?,” Juris Diversitas 4th Annual Conference, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, May 31, 2016.
“Alternative Approaches to Higher Education: American and European University Systems,” With Dr. Dominique Homberger, Louisiana State University, Joint Meeting, Association of Louisiana Faculty Senates and the Louisiana Statewide Colleagues Collaborative, February 20, 2016, Louisiana State University in Alexandria
“Abrogation Clauses, Peripheral Provisions, and their Impact on the Concept of Civil Code: France, Louisiana, California, and Quebec,” Faculty Workshop, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, February 16, 2016.
“Un nouveau dictionnaire du droit civil en anglais,” Institut d’été de Jurilinguistique, McGill University, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, Montreal, Canada, July 10, 2015.
“Teaching the Civil Law in Louisiana: Should the Professor Be System-Neutral or Militant?” World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, 4th Worldwide Congress, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 24-26, 2015.
“How Codes Connect to Legal Systems: Revisiting the Concept of Code through a Study of Peripheral Provisions,” M-EPLI Talk, European Private Law Institute, Maastricht University (The Netherlands), June 1, 2015.
“La traduction du Code civil louisianais, exercice historico-linguistique,” Codes, termes et traductions, enjeux transdisciplinaires, Université de Nantes, France, January 22-23, 2015.
“The Linguistic Rights of les sauvages créoles,” Native Americans in Louisiana History and their Rights: The Atakapa-Ishak Experience, The French American Chamber of Commerce, Gulf Coast, and the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, November 5, 2014.
“Abrogation Clauses, Peripheral Provisions, and their Impact on the Concept of Civil Code: France, Louisiana, California, and Quebec,” Central States Law Schools Association, 2014 Annual Scholarship Conference, LSU, Baton Rouge, October 10-11, 2014.
“Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014), Juris Diversitas Incarnata,” with Jacques Vanderlinden, 2nd Annual Conference, Juris Diversitas, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en- Provence, France, July 18, 2014.
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“The Louisiana Civil Code Project and its International Impact,” Judge Allen M. Babineaux International Civil Law Symposium, US Federal Courthouse, Lafayette, April 25, 2014.
“Introduction,” The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project: Enhancing Visibility and Promoting the Civil Law in English, CCLS Conference, LSU Baton Rouge, April 10, 2014.
“Mariage et union de personnes de même sexe aux États-Unis : une affaire compliquée par le fédéralisme,” 3d workshop, Les unions (il)légalement reconnues : approches internationales, Université de Nantes, Pôle universitaire Yonnais, La Roche-sur-Yon, December 6, 2013.
“19th century Justice Xavier Martin,” The Judge Allen M. Babineaux International Civil Law Symposium, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, November 21, 2013.
“The Louisiana Civil Code in French: Translation and Retranslation, Francophone Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, Vermilionville, Lafayette, October 11, 2013.
”How Codes Connect to Legal Systems: Revisiting the Concept of Code through a Study of Peripheral Provisions,” Comparative Legal History Workshop, Lund University, Sweden, August 20, 2013.
“Introductory Remarks on Academic Formalism in France and the United States,” Juris Diversitas Annual Conference, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, June 4, 2013.
“Mind the Gap, Mend it or Hide it! What Gap-Filling Reveals about Legal Systems and Cultures,” World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists and Johns Hopkins University Conference: “Filling the Gaps: The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond,” University of Catania, Italy, May 27, 2013.
“Le Code civil de Louisiane en français: traduction et retraduction,” and participation on panel on land registration in Haiti, Programme délégation avocats Haïtiens, Centre international, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 26, 2013.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2012,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 12th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 5, 2013 (by videoconference).
“La place du droit comparé dans la réforme du Code civil louisianais,” Centre d’études économiques, Aix-Marseille Université, France, November 28, 2012.
“The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project,” Business Symposium “Louisiana Civil Law and Business Opportunities” (chaired by O. Moréteau), French Week, French American Chamber of Commerce, New Orleans, November 14, 2012.
“Abrogation Clauses, Peripheral Provisions, and their Impact on the Concept of Code: Comparing Codification in France, Louisiana, and California,” 2nd Biennial Conference of O. Moréteau 17 July 2018 the European Society for Comparative Legal History, Free University of Amsterdam, July 10, 2012.
“Comparative Overview of Land Registration,” Conference on Property of Immovables and Land Registration in Louisiana and Haiti, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, April 26, 2012.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2011,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 11th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 13, 2012.
“Response to Michael D. Green, Restating Tort Law – The American and European Styles,” Keynote speech, 11th Annual Conference on European Tort Law Vienna, Austria, April 12, 2012.
“Louisiana Law as Gumbo: Mixing and Remixing French, Spanish, and Anglo-American Ingredients in a Dynamic Legal Culture,” From Territory to State: Louisiana Statehood 2012, Louisiana State University, College of Education, Baton Rouge, February 3, 2012.
“Le Code civil louisianais comme élément identitaire et instrument pédagogique,” From Territory to State: Louisiana Statehood 2012, Louisiana State University, College of Education, Baton Rouge, February 4, 2012.
“La traduction de l’œuvre de François Gény,” International Conference on La Pensée de François Gény, organized by the Institut Francois Gény, University of Nancy 2 and University of Metz, Nancy, France, October 20, 2011.
“Droit louisianais: why should we care? Comment la tradition civiliste survit en langue anglaise dans un environnement dominé par la common law et les leçons à tirer pour la France et pour l’Europe,” Lecture at the Ecole Doctorale de Droit and Institut de droit comparé Edouard Lambert, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, October 17, 2011.
“The Center of Civil Law Studies at LSU: Developing the Louisiana Civil Law International Outreach,” Lunch talk at the monthly meeting of Property Lawyers, Baton Rouge, June 7, 2011.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2010,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 10th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 29, 2011 (by videoconference).
“Francois-Xavier Martin, Father of Louisiana Jurisprudence,” The Society of Bartolus, New Orleans, October 15, 2010.
“Haiti-Louisiana: Reviving Links between Two Sister Jurisdictions,” Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 6, 2010.
“The Louisiana Civil Code: A Global Give and Take,” Hemispheric Freedom Symposium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, September 21-22, 2010 (with Agustín Parise).
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“De A à Z et d’un mot à l’autre : promenade dans le dictionnaire d’un comparatiste,” 4e Institut d’été de jurilinguistique, Moncton, Canada, August 13, 2010.
“The Ethnocentrism of French Legal Culture: Origins and Effects of a Superiority Complex,” in “Law and Historical Development from a Comparative Perspective,” inaugural conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, University of Valencia (Spain) July 5-6, 2010.
“Ouverture et tradition : la place du droit comparé dans la révision du Code civil louisianais,” Centre d’études juridiques européennes et comparées, Université Paris Ouest, France, June 17, 2010.
“Mare Nostrum as the Caldron of Western Legal Traditions: Stirring the Broth, Making Sense of Legal Gumbo,” Opening Speech at the Symposium on ‘Mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Mixtures and Movements’, the relationship between the legal and normative traditions of the region, Malta, June 12, 2010.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2009,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 9th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 9, 2010 (by videoconference).
“François-Xavier Martin, Father of Louisiana Jurisprudence,” Annual Meeting of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society, March 25, 2010.
“The Future of Civil Codes in Europe,” The University of Georgia Law School, Faculty Workshop, Athens, Georgia, February 15, 2010.
“De revolutionibus, The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and in the Legal Universe Five Hundred Years after Copernicus,” Inaugural Session of "Civil Law and its Codes: a Journey Across the Americas" Workshops, which are presented by the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law, and the Grupo Hispano de la Facultad de Derecho, McGill University Law School, Montreal, Canada, November 16, 2009.
“Rediscussion of the 200th Anniversary of the Civil Code in Louisiana – Digest of 1808 – What have we Learned in a Year?” The Judge Allen M. Babineaux International Civil Law Symposium, organized by the Francophone Section of the Louisiana Bar Association, Lafayette, Louisiana, October 9, 2009.
“The Digest of 1808, a Milestone in Louisiana History, a Cornerstone in Louisiana Identity,” Lectures at the Mound Series, Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 8, 2009.
“Reconciling the Civil Law and the Common Law Traditions: Lessons from Hybrid Louisiana,” Conference on La sociedad por acciones simplificada y los transplantes en el derecho privado contemporáneo, Universidad de La Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, May 13, 2009.
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“Tort Law in France in the Year 2008,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 8th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 2009 (by videoconference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaj4Y1_93Hs).
“Boundaries of Race and Citizenship in the South and Atlantic World,” A Panel Discussion, LSU Atlantic Studies, Baton Rouge, April 16, 2009.
“Recodification in Louisiana and Latin America,” International Colloquium Celebrating the Bi-Centennial of the Louisiana Civil Code, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, November 19-22, 2008.
“François-Xavier Martin, Father of Louisiana Jurisprudence,” Opening of the Capitant Journées, Old State Capitol of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, May 18, 2008.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2007,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 7th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, March 27, 2008.
“Les frontières de la langue et du droit” (The Frontiers of Language and Law), The new Ambitions of Legal Science: Legal Anthropology and Legal Traductology, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (National Italian Academy), Rome, Italy, March 12-13, 2008.
“Drafting Contracts and Juridical Documents in Several Languages,” Professorial Seminar of the Department of Civil Law, Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 2007.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2006,” European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 6th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 2007 (by videoconference).
“Opening Remarks”, Louisiana Law Review Symposium on Law Making in a Global World, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, January 2007.
“Are Solidarity, Self-Responsibility and Tort Liability Irreconcilable? Policing the Compensation of Victims of Catastrophes in America and in Europe”, Workshop on Remedies: Justice and the Bottom Line, Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting, January 2007, Washington D.C.
“A “Restatement” of European Union Tort Law: Analyzing the Work of the European Group on Tort Law” (Comparative Remarks), Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting, January 2007, Washington D.C.
“Interpretation of Multilingual Texts”, French Report, XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2006 (Revue internationale de droit comparé 2006, pp. 327-362)
“Policing the Compensation of Victims of Catastrophes: Combining Solidarity and Self- Responsibility”, Shifts in Compensation, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 2006. O. Moréteau 20 July 2018
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2005”, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 5th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, April 2006 (by videoconference).
“The Future of Codification in France and Louisiana”, 33rd Tucker Lecture, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, March 2006.
“Les expériences d’enseignement étrangères” (Legal Education in the United States), Conference on Legal Education, Lyon, France, November 2005.
“La traduction du contrat: L’apport du droit comparé” (Translating Contracts: The Input of Comparative Law), Seminar in Legal Translation, Ecole de traduction et d’interprétation, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2005 (by videoconference).
“Liability for Others” and “Reduction Clause”, Principles of European Tort Law, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, April 2005.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2004”, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 4th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, March 2005.
“Revisiting the Grey Zone between Contract and Tort: The Role of Estoppel and Reliance”, Opening speech at the 4th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, March 2005.
“Edouard Lambert et l’enseignement du droit comme science sociale et comparative” (Edouard Lambert: teaching law as a social and comparative science), in La Faculté de droit de Lyon et le renouveau de la science juridique sous la Troisième République, Lyon, France, February 2005.
“The Health of Legal Education”, Annual Meeting of the Franco-British Lawyers Society, University of Edinburgh, UK, November 2004.
“Bilan de santé de l’enseignement du droit” (The Health of Legal Education), International Conference for Jacques Vanderlinden, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 2004.
“General Conclusions on the Future of Comparative Law in France”, Le devenir du droit comparé en France, Groupement de droit comparé, Institut de France, Paris, June 2004.
“Tort Law in France in the Year 2003”, European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, 3rd Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, March 2004.
“Can English become the Common Legal Language in Europe?”, The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, March 2004.
“Remarques comparatives sur l’organisation de la recherche dans les pays de common law” (Organization of Research in Common Law Countries : A Comparative Approach) O. Moréteau 21 July 2018
Entreprise de recherche et recherche dans l’entreprise, Académie des sciences et Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Paris, France, January 2004.
“Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes, France”, Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes: A Comparative Legal Approach, University of Maastricht, Netherlands, January 2004.
“Law Standards and Languages: The Example of Reasonableness”, Law and Human Diversity, Turin, October 2003.
“The Future of European Legal Education”, Graduation Speech, Pallas LL.M. in European Business Law, Nijmegen, Netherlands, September 2003.
“Can English become the Common Legal Language in Europe?”, Faculty Luncheon, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, September 2003.
“Can English become the Common Legal Language in Europe?”, Faculty Workshop, Boston University School of Law, September 2003.
“Opening Remarks,” La Procédure civile mondiale modélisée (Transnational Civil Procedure), International Conference on the ALI (American Law Institute) and UNIDROIT (Institute for the Unification of Pricvale Law) Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, June 12, 2003.
“La common law en français et l’Europe” (The common law in French in the European context), Conference for the 25th Anniversary of the Faculté de droit de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, April 2003.
“Liability for Acts of Terrorism under French Law”, Terrorism, Tort Law and Insurance, A Comparative Survey, Munich Re, Munich, Germany, March 2003.
“The Borderline between Contract and Tort”, Conference on Harmonization of European Contract Law, Milan, Italy, November 2002.
“The Common Law in the Francophone World”, Vanuatu Francophone University Center, Port Vila, Vanuatu, July 2002.
“La structure des systèmes juridiques” (The Structure of Legal Systems), Convergence of Legal Systems in the 21st Century, General Report delivered at the XVIth International Congress of Comparative Law, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
“Le prototype, clé de l’interprétation uniforme : la standardisation des notions floues en droit du commerce international” (Prototypes as a key for the interpretation and standardisation of vague concepts in international commercial law), L’interprétation des textes juridiques rédigés en plus d’une langue, ISAIDAT, Turin, Italy, December 2001.
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“The French Jurist, between Ethnocentrism and Globalization”, Panamerican University Shool of Law, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2000.
“An Analysis of the Treaty between Mexico and the European Union”, Symposium for the 25th Anniversary of the Panamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2000.
“The French Jurist, between Ethnocentrism and Globalization”, University of Hosei School of Law, Tokyo, Japan, September 2000.
“La modernité de la pensée juridique de Boissonade: de la codification doctrinale à une langue juridique commune” (The modernity of Boissonade’s legal doctrines, from doctrinal codification to a common legal language), Symposium for the 120th anniversary of the University of Hosei, Tokyo, Japan, September 2000.
“Remarques introductives” (Opening remarks), L’argent du crime organisé (The Finances of Organized Crime), European Law Student Association, Lyon, France, April 2000.
“Comparative Corporate Law”, “International Sale of Goods”, Seminar on Commercial Law in Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan, November 1999.
“Principles of Commercial Law: Introduction Speech to the Seminar on Commercial Law in Bhutan”, Thimphu, Bhutan, November 1999.
“Le juriste français entre ethnocentrisme et mondialisation” (The French Jurist, between Ethnocentrism and Globalization), Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 1999.
“L'anglais pourrait-il devenir la langue juridique commune en Europe?” (Can English become the Common Legal Language in Europe ?), Les multiples langues du droit européen uniforme, ISAIDAT, Turin, Italy, November 1998.
“La réforme de la procédure civile anglaise” (The English reform of civil procedure), Ecole Nationale de Magistrature, Paris, France, October 1998.
“L'influence internationale de l'œuvre d'Edouard Lambert” (The international influence of Edouard Lambert), Conference for the 50th anniversary of the Egyptian Civil Code, Cairo, Egypt, April 1998.
“L'effet de la mise en place de la monnaie unique sur les contrats en cours en droit américain” (A study of the impact of the implementation of the European currency on existing contracts under American Laws), International conference on The Legal Consequences of the Implementation of the Euro, Lyon, France, April 1996.
“The French Procédure de Référé (Interlocutory Proceedings): Basic Rules and Recent Evolution”, University of Kingston, Kingston upon Thames, UK, March 1996.
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“Droit anglais, particularisme et Union européenne” (The efforts made by the U.K. and English lawyers to comply with European Community Law, a comparative perspective), Chamber of Commerce, Lyon, France, February 1995.
“Codes as Strait-Jackets, Safeguards and Alibis: The Experience of the French Civil Code”, University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, September 1994.
“The French Procédure de Référé (Interlocutory Proceedings): Basic Rules and Recent Evolution”, University of Oxford, March 1994.
“L'enseignement du droit national aux étudiants étrangers en France” (Teaching French Law to Foreign Students), Teaching national law to foreign students, Centre Français de Droit Comparé, Paris, France, November 1992.
“The French Experience of Codification”, University of Lund, Lund, Sweeden, April 1990.
“Estoppel and Protection of Reliance: A Case Study”, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, March 1988.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES:
1. Conferences directed at LSU
“Unity and/or Diversity,” Juris Diversitas 4th Annual Conference, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, May 30-June 1, 2016.
“The Louisiana Civil Code Translation Project: Enhancing Visibility and Promoting the Civil Law in English,” LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, April 10-11, 2014.
“Property of Immovables and Land Registration in Louisiana and Haiti,” LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, April 26, 2012.
“Civil Law and Common Law: Cross Influences, Contamination and Permeability,” Civil Law Workshop, Center of Civil Law Studies, 2009 (papers published in 3 Journal of Civil Law Studies (2010)).
“Revisiting the Distinction between Persons and Things”, Civil Law Workshop, Center of Civil Law Studies, 2006-2007 (papers published in 1 Journal of Civil Law Studies (2008)).
“Law Making in a Global World”, Louisiana Law Review Symposium, January 2007 (papers published in 67 Louisiana Law Review (2007)).
2. Conferences directed at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
“The Uniform Terminology for European Private Law: Joint Projects”, with the European Research Network “Uniform Terminology for European Private Law”, January 2005. O. Moréteau 24 July 2018
“The Principles of European Private Law: The Present State of the Project and its Perspectives”, with members of the European Group on Tort Law (Tilburg Group), November 2003.
“Liability of Member States for Default of Implementation of European Community Law” (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom), April 1998.
“Access to the Legal Profession in the European Union” (England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden), March 1997.
3. Juris Diversitas Conferences
“Food and Law, La cuisine juridique,” Juris Diversitas 5th Annual Conference, Lyon (University Jean Moulin and EM Lyon Business School), July 10-12, 2017.
“Unity and/or Diversity,” Juris Diversitas 4th Annual Conference, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, May 30-June 1, 2016.
“The State of/and Comparative Law,” Juris Diversitas 3rd Annual Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 2015.
“Comparative Law and … / Le droit comparé et …” Juris Diversitas 2nd Annual Conference, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, July 2014.
“Diffusion,” Juris Diversitas 1st Annual Conference, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, June 2013.
SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH:
1. Doctoral dissertations supervised and defended at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon
Ibrahim Abdouraoufi, Le clivage entre civilistes et juristes de common law dans la perspective d’un droit africain des affaires (The Divide between Civilians and Common Law Lawyers in the Perspective of an African Business Law), May 2011.
Céline Michaud-Tulquois, L’étude du statut de l’idée littéraire et artistique en droit américain et droit français (The Status of Literary and Artistic Ideas in American Law and French Law), June 2008.
Constantin Aurel Iscru (once a Research Assistant at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, now a practicing attorney in Paris), Le transfert de créance en droit anglais et droit français (Assignment of Debt in English and French Law), November 2007.
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Georges Cavalier (now Associate Professor at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France), Essai sur le contrat de service en droit international privé (An Essay on Contract for Services in Private International Law), Doctorate delivered simultaneously by Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France and the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, December 2005.
Fabien Lafay (now Research Associate, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon) Le pouvoir modérateur du juge en droit privé (Judicial Discretion in French Private Law, with some comparative remarks), December 2004 (published under the title La modulation du droit par le juge – Etude de droit privé et de sciences criminelles, Presses universitaires d’Aix- Marseille, 2006, 2 volumes, 691 p.).
Michel Cannarsa (once Legal Advisor Conseil national du notariat, Paris, now Professor at the Catholic University, Lyon), La responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux: Étude comparative (Product Liability, A Comparative Study), Doctorate delivered simultaneously by Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France and the University of Turin, Italy, December 2003 (published by Giuffrè, Milan, Italy, 2005, with a foreword by O. Moréteau).
Loic Courtot (now Legal Advisor of a large French public research group in the field of transportation), La preuve de la propriété immobilière (The Proof of Real Property under French Law, with a Comparative Approach), December 2002.
Isabelle Isnard-Dhonte (now a practicing Attorney in Paris), L’embryon humain in vitro et le droit: approche comparative (The Human in Vitro Embryo and the Law: A Comparative Approach), January 2002 (published in two volumes by L’Harmattan, Paris, 2003, with a foreword by O. Moréteau).
Gaelle Meilhac-Redon (now a practicing Attorney in Lyon), Les clauses abusives à l’épreuve de l’harmonisation: Etude comparative des droits français, allemand et anglais (Unfair Contract Terms: The Impact of European Harmonization on the Laws of England, France and Germany), November 2001.
Béatrice Morel (now a practicing Attorney in Singapore), La protection des droits d’auteur en France et aux Etats-Unis: Etude de droit comparé (Copyright Protection in France and the United States of America, A Comparative Study), October 2001.
2. Participation to doctoral juries at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
Vanessa Barbaro, Les nouveaux risques : aspects de responsabilité civile et d’assurance. Étude de droit français à la lumière des droits américains et chinois (Insurance and liability for new risks, a comparative approach), July 2015.
Cédric Montfort, La loyauté des pratiques commerciales en droit communautaire du marché (Fair dealing in commercial practice in European Union law), December 2004.
Agnès Judith Mbouk-Dongmo, L’étude de la situation du conjoint du débiteur dans les procédures de règlement du passif ; Réforme du régime matrimonial légal à la lueur
O. Moréteau 26 July 2018 d’éléments tirés du droit américain (The debtor’s spouse in bankruptcy proceedings ; reforming the French system using some American solutions), September 2002.
T. Malongue-Atangana, La protection de la personne de l’enfant : Etude du droit positif camerounais à la lumière de la Convention relative au droit de l’enfant (Child protection in Cameroun, as based on the Convention on Children Rights), 2001.
Clara Le Moal, La transmission universelle de patrimoine en droit français et italien, Nouvelle approche du droit français des fusions et opérations assimilées par rapport au droit italien (The transfer of assetts and liabilities in French and Italian law, A new approach of mergers and acquisitions based on recent evolutions of French and Italian laws), April 1999.
Sandrine Riffard, Les droits du conjoint survivant dans les législations européennes (The rights of the surviving spouse in the European legal systems), February 1999.
Valérie Crombez, La doctrine en droit privé, Droit anglais et droit français (Doctrinal writing in private law, English law and French law), 1995.
Dario David Boccara, Essai sur le rapprochement des systèmes de droit romano- germanique et de common law, Théorie générale d’une convergence assymptotique (An essay on the convergence of civil law and common law systems), 1992.
3. Participation to doctoral juries at other universities
Asya Ostroukh, Reception of the French Civil Code in Quebec, Louisiana and Francophone Switzerland: A Socio-Legal Study, The University of Edinburgh, December 15, 2016, 236 pages.
Hao Jiang, Freedom of Contract under State Supervision, Tulane University School of Law, February 2, 2016, 282 pages.
Laurent Chassot, Juridicité et internormativité: les défis des droits pré-européens entre exception et globalisation, l’application au Vanuatu (The challenge of pre-European laws between exception and globalization, the situation in Vanuatu), Université of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, December 2, 2009, 390 pages.
Reiner Neises, Die Provision des Immobilienmaklers in Frankreich – Ein Modell für das deutsche und das europäische Recht ? (The remuneration of estate agents in France – A model for German law and European law?), University of Münster, June 2005 (published by Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2006, 339 pages).
Pierre Loiseau, La maîtrise des dépenses de santé confrontée à la responsabilité médicale, aux Etats-Unis comme en France (The cost of health care v. Medical liability in France and the USA), University of Perpignan, France, January 2005 (published by Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2005 with a foreword by O. Moréteau). O. Moréteau 27 July 2018
Isabelle Brenn, L’individu dans les médias américains (Le sacrifice de la vie privée sur l’autel de la liberté de la presse (The protection of privacy and freeom of the press in United States law), Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France, January 2002.
Ingrid Poulet, La garde à vue en France et aux États-Unis à l’aube du XXIe siècle Une mesure à la recherche d’un équilibre (Investigative detention in French and American criminal procedure), University of Metz, France, December 2001.
4. Supervision of Graduate Papers
Supervision of over 20 graduate research papers at LSU (since fall 2005), 5 graduate papers at Nijmegen and Amsterdam (Pallas LL.M. in European Business Law, 1998-2005) and over 60 graduate papers at Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France (1990-2005).
DIRECTION OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS:
Director of the Graduate Program in comparative law (LL.M.) at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center (2006-). Member (2005-2006) and Chair (2006-) of the Graduate Committee, now International Programs Committee.
Founder and Director of the Master in Comparative and International Private Law, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, 2004-2005.
ORGANIZATION OF SUMMER PROGRAMS:
Program Director, Lyon Summer Program, Session II, July 2014.
Member (2005-2006) and Chair (2006-) of the Summer Programs Committee at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, coordinating and supervising summer programs in Lyon, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina
Program Director, Buenos Aires Summer Program, A three week summer program for LSU with Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (May-June 2007)
ORGANIZATION OF EXCHANGE PROGRAMS:
Supervision of student and faculty exchanges at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, coordinating the Distinguished Global Visitors Program, identifying the candidates and proposing the invitation of 6 to 8 foreign visiting faculty every year, and coordinating their visit and activity (2006-2010)
Creation and direction in Lyon of the Erasmus student and faculty exchange programs, at the law school (in charge of the whole program between 1985-2005) and at the university level (Director of international programs 1993-1996, Vice President of Université Jean O. Moréteau 28 July 2018
Moulin, in charge of International Program, 1997-1999). This included setting up a proper International Relations Office at university level, staffed with 7 administrators, and the coordination of a team of 12 faculty members, managing every year up to 500 outgoing students and 600 incoming exchange students.
Creation and direction of an ABA approved student exchange program between Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, and Boston University, University of Minnesota and University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1993-2005.
CREATION OF E-LEARNING PROGRAMS:
Founder and Director of Campus numérique Multidroit, Université Jean Moulin Lyon (www.multidroit.org), an e-learning project created in 2000, funded by the French Ministry of Research and based on a consortium with the universities of Paris 12 Val-de-Marne (France) and of Moncton (New Brunswick, Canada): Diploma of Common Law in French, with six courses covering History of the common law, Sources of the common law, Law of contract, Sale of Goods, Agency and Company Law, plus a Comparative law course.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
- Western Legal Traditions, at LSU (2005-).
- Law of Obligations, at LSU (2006-).
- Introduction to United States Law (LL.M. Program), at LSU (2006-).
- Introduction to French Law (in French), at LSU (2010-).
- International Business Transactions, LSU Summer Program at Austral University, Buenos Aires (2007), at LSU (2015, 2017).
- Comparative Tort Law, LLM Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France (2012, 2013, 2014). - European Tort Law, LLM Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2014, 2015).
- International Commercial Law (semester course and postgraduate seminar): WTO and regional organisations; transnational contracts, international sale of goods, international carriage of goods; international payments, guarantees and securities; international arbitration.
- Comparative Law (semester course, postgraduate course and seminar): Comparative legal systems, introduction to comparative law, comparative method, international and European unification of the law.
- English Law for French Students (taught in English at the Institut de Droit Comparé Edouard Lambert): * English Law 1: General Introduction to Common Law and Equity, The English Legal System, Constitutional Law, Torts, Contracts, Trusts. O. Moréteau 29 July 2018
* English Law 2: Commercial Law (Agency, Sale of Goods, Bills of Exchange, International Trade Law)
- English Law in French, Sale of Goods, Agency, Campus numérique Multidroit (e- learning), (www.multidroit.org)
- Coordinator and teacher, Contract Law in a European Context, LL.M. in European Business Law, Pallas Consortium (Universities of Barcelona, Bologna, Constance, LUISS (Rome), Lyon 3, Münster, Nijmegen), Nijmegen (1995-2003), Amsterdam (2003-2005); Member of the Supervisory Board (1995-2005) and Managerial Board (2003-2005) of the Pallas Consortium (www.pallas-llm.org).
- Introduction to Civil Law (in English) (University of Minnesota Law School, fall 1992; Boston University School of Law, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004).
- Fundamentals of Civil Law (in English), The University of Melbourne, August 2002, July 2004.
- Courses and seminars in French Civil Law: General Introduction, Property, Torts and Contracts, Family Law, Successions.
- Introduction to French Law for Foreign Students (in French)
- Louisiana Law in a North-American and Global Context, Institut de Droit Comparé Edouard Lambert, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, December 2017.
AWARDS, PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS:
- Officier (Officer) des palmes académiques, 2016 (a national order of France for distinguished academics and figures in the world of culture and education). - John Ashby Hernandez III Memorial Francophone Leadership Award, Louisiana State Bar Association, 2014. - Chevalier (Knight) des palmes académiques, 1998 (a national order of France for distinguished academics and figures in the world of culture and education). - Prix de thèse du Centre Français de Droit Comparé, Paris, 1991. - Prix de l'Association Nationale des Docteurs en Droit, Lyon, 1991. - British Council Scholarship (summer 1980), to finance doctorate research at the University of Cambridge, U.K. (Sydney Sussex College), 1980 to 1982.
MEMBERSHIPS:
- Member of the European Society of Comparative Legal History (2010-). - Founding Member and Member of the Executive Committee of Juris Diversitas, (2009-), Vice President (2011-2015), President (2015-). - Member of the Order of the Coif, Louisiana Chapter, May 2007. - Member of the American Law Institute (elected, May 2006). O. Moréteau 30 July 2018
- Member of the Louisiana Chapter, Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française (2006-) - Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law (2002-). - Member of the European Group on Tort Law (Tilburg Group) (2002-2012), now Member Emeritus. - Member, European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna (2002-). - Member, Franco-British Lawyers Society. - Member, Société de Législation Comparée, Paris.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS:
- Associate Professor, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2014, 2015) - Visiting Professor, Université de Nantes (2013, 2015) - Visiting Professor, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017). - Visiting Professor, The University of Surrey (2002-2005). - Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor, The University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, August 2002, July 2004. - Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Law, fall 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004. - Visiting Fellow, Kingston University (GB), February 1996. - Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, fall 1992.
BOARDS & COMMITTEES:
At Louisiana State University: - Council for Research (2015-2017) - Faculty Appointments Committee (2014-2015) - Civil Law Committee (2013-) - Promotion and Tenure Committee (2013-2015) - Executive Committee (2012-2013) - Curriculum Committee (2012-2014) - Law Center Library Director Search Committee (2011, 2017) - International Student Programs & LL.M. Committee (Chair 2009-) - Law Center Chancellor Search Committee (2006-2007) - Graduate Committee (2005-; Chair 2006-2009) - Summer Programs Committee (2005-; chair 2006-2008) - International Student Programs Committee (Chair, 2008-2009) - Friends of French Studies at LSU, Board of Directors (2006-)
At US/Louisiana Institutions - Member of Equivalency Determination Panel (access to the Louisiana Bar), Supreme Court of Louisiana (2007-)
At Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France: - Member of the University Board (1993-1998) - Member of the Council for Research (2001-2005) - Member of the Faculty Board, Law Faculty (1990-1998 and 2002-2005) O. Moréteau 31 July 2018
- Member of the Appointment and Promotion Committee, Private Law (1986-1998 and 2002-2005), Public Law (1996-1998) and Legal History (1998-2005) - Member of the International Relations Board (2000-2005) - Member of the Edouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law Board (1985-)
At other institutions: - Elected member, National Council of Universities, Private Law Section (Conseil National des Universités), Paris (1994-1995) - Member of the Supervisory Board (1995-2006) and Managerial Board (2003-2005), Pallas Consortium (consisting of the Universities of Barcelona, Bologna, Constance, Essex, LUISS (Rome), Lyon 3, Münster, Nijmegen and operating the Pallas LL.M. in European Business Law, Nijmegen (1995-2003) and Amsterdam (2003-2006) www.pallas-llm.org - Administrator, Pallas Foundation (Pallas Stichte), Amsterdam (2003-2006) - Member of the ISAIDAT Board (Istituto subalpino per l’analisi e l’insegnamento del diritti delle attività transnazionali), Turin (1997-) - Academic Member of the ECTIL Supervisory Board (European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law), Vienna (2003-2015) - Member of the Scientific Committee for the codification in French of the laws of the Republic of Vanuatu (2002-2005) - Member of the Managerial Board of the Research Group in Comparative Law (Groupement de droit comparé, CNRS 1199), Paris (1996-2005) - Member of the Academic Council, Master of Laws, Austral University, Buenos Aires (2009-)
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
- Consultant for various law firms in France and the United States (international business transactions; transnational litigation; international tort disputes; French- American successions). - Legal Consultant on the standardization of the French vocabulary of the Common Law in Canada, Centre de traduction et terminologie juridiques, University of Moncton (2006-2010). - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Expert for the development of the commercial law of the Kingdom of Bhutan (November 1999). - Academic Inspector for overseas programs in France (Paris, Grenoble, Montpellier, Toulouse) and Spain (Barcelona), Oxford Brookes University (1993-1998). - International Banking and Finance Institute (Banque de France), Seminars in Comparative Law (2001-2005). - Admitted Lyon Bar, 1992 (Avocat au Barreau de Lyon) (not practising). - Consultant for Casino, French based multinational company operating nearly 10,000 supermarkets and stores in 11 countries, for the drafting and translation from French into English of distributorship agreements and mergers and acquisitions (1986-1990).
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