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Prof. Odinet gives talk on civil law/common law tension in La. law reform
Prof. Chris Odinet recently gave a presentation on the tension between maintaining the civil law tradition in Louisiana and the state’s desire to be more economically competitive by enacting uniform and more common law-based legal concepts, all within the larger context of law reform and the legislative process.
Odinet’s presentation was one of many during the course of the two-day Juris Diversities conference, which took place at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center on May 30-June 1, 2016, in Baton Rouge. The conference brought together scholars from civil law, common law, and mixed jurisdictions from across the globe to discuss on-going issues and trends of the world’s two major legal systems.
Juris Diversitas, founded in 2007, is an international, interdisciplinary community for the study of legal and normative mixtures and movements. While the organization was originally comprised chiefly of comparative law scholars, it has since come to include anthropologists, geographers, historians, philosophers, and sociologists, within the law and beyond.
Prof. Odinet, the Horatio C. Thompson Endowed Professor and an assistant professor at the Southern University Law Center, teaches courses in Commercial Paper, Property Law, Security Devices, and Sale & Lease. His research focuses on the role that debt and credit play in property-related transactions. His recent articles have appeared in the Washington University Law Review, the SMU Law Review, and the Washington and Lee Law Review. He also recently published a desk book, Louisiana Secured Transactions, with West Academic Publishing Company. Odinet is a 2016-18 Louisiana Bar Foundation Scholar-in-Residence. View his scholarship by clicking here.
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