For students of the law of all ages and lawyers faced with transactions involving foreign law in Civil Law or Mixed Jurisdictions, we at LexisNexis can provide you with fundamental tools and sources to enable you to grasp the concepts of non-common law based legal systems.
Welcome to the ILC Civil Law & Mixed Jurisdictions Toolbox!
Whether you’re an actual law student or a legal practitioner encountering or learning about this practice area for the first time, LexisNexis offers several works that can help the beginner in the field.
Foreign and Comparative Law Practice Notes: As an American lawyer, you are not permitted to practice “foreign” law, but you may be faced with your client’s request of you for an opinion, formal or otherwise, about the laws and regulations of another jurisdiction that may impact their transaction in another country. You will need to select foreign local counsel and will likely want their legal opinion on various topics. In order to go about selecting foreign local counsel and to have a meaningful discussion with that foreign counsel, it behooves you to have some understanding of how that jurisdiction’s laws work. You will find a useful summary of such laws in the Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest, but to gain a basic understanding and an analysis of how those laws work, we direct you to the following:
The Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Cases and Materials, 1994
Author: John Henry Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law Emeritus, Stanford Law School; David S. Clark, Maynard and Bertha Wilson Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law; John Owen Haley, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law & Director of the Whitney Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University at St. Louis School of Law
You may also find it useful to examine some of the following works for more particular analysis of the Civil law or mixed jurisdiction legal systems:
Louisiana
Jean Domat
Robert Joseph Pothier
To access the Bookstores of our sister companies around the world for other local foreign law titles:
Go to the LexisNexis Bookstore http://bookstore.lexis.com/bookstore/catalog and select "Non-US Products" in the left Navigation menu. This will take you to a page that will allow you to select one of our various non-US LN Bookstores. If you can’t find what you are seeking there, return to the Lexis.com homepage, select the "Company Information" link at the top of the page, and on the next page at the top click on "Worldwide" by the world map to find a link to the jurisdiction you are seeking then follow that to the particular country Bookstore link.
Work Around the World With The Global Reach of LexisNexis Via Our Online Catalogues and Bookstores
Where you can find these and other great works:
Auteur(s) : Daniel Mainguy
South Africa
Bas-reliefs in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives
Scotland
Glossary – Scottish and European Union Legal Terms and Latin Phrases, Second Edition
Related reference works:
Author: Guillermo Cabanellas del las Cuevas, Eleanor C. Hoague
Author: Gene R. Shreve, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law , Bloomington
Author: Justice Menachem Elon, Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Professor of Jewish Legal Studies, New York University School of Law; Bernard Auerbach, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law (retired); Daniel D. Chazin, Esq., Attorney-at-Law, Teaneck, NJ; Melvin J. Sykes, Esq., Attorney-at-Law, Baltimore, MD
To explore Civil Law more and find other resources, also see:
In addition to the above offerings, you may find the following links to be useful:
For those truly interested in Civil law and mixed jurisdictions, don’t miss the Celebration of the Bi-Centennial of the Louisiana Civil Code:
AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
CELEBRATING THE BI-CENTENNIAL OF
THE LOUISIANA CIVIL CODE 1808-2008
November 19-22, 2008
PRESENTED BY
THE EASON-WEINMANN
CENTER OF
COMPARATIVE LAW
AND
THE TULANE LAW SCHOOL
International Planning Committee
Professor A. N. Yiannopoulos, Chair
Professor Vernon Valentine Palmer, Chair
Dean Symeon Symeonides, Willamette University
Professor Mathias Reimann, Michigan University
Professor Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, Paris, France
Professor Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University
Professor Keith Vetter, Loyola University
Cosponsoring Organizations
World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists
International Academy of Comparative Law
International Association of Legal Science
American Society of Comparative Law
Louisiana State Law Institute
Louisiana Historical Society
Louisiana State University Law School
Loyola University Law School
For the above brochure with full event details, please follow this link