American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Legal Instruments and Actors in the Judicial Culture of Ante-Bellum Louisiana,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM

Legal Instruments and Actors in the Judicial Culture of Ante-Bellum Louisiana (Poydras)

Chair: Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University Law Center (moreteau@lsu.edu), Commentator: Asya Ostroukh, University of the West Indies (asya.ostroukh@fulbrightmail.org)

John W. Cairns, School of Law University of Edinburgh (john.cairns@ed.ac.uk) Printing a Bilingual Code in 1808

Catharine MacMillan, King’s College London (catharine.macmillan@kcl.ac.uk) Ante-Bellum New Orleans: A Lawyer’s Practice in a Mixed Jurisdiction

Kjell Å Modéer, Lund University (Kjell_A.Modeer@jur.lu.se)
A Swedish Law Emigré in Ante-Bellum New Orleans: Gustavus Schmidt (1795–1877)

Agustín Parise, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl) Amalgamation of Legal Traditions in Ante-Bellum Louisiana: A Dissection of Court Decisions that Recur to Common Law, French, and Spanish Sources

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