Volume 71 — No. 3 — Special Bicentennial Issue

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society’s Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code

The Dynamics of Codification in Louisiana: Is the Civil Code Soft Law?

Dr. Olivier Moréteau

The 1825 Louisiana Civil Code: Its Janus-Faced Split Between Forward-Looking Principles and the Enshrining of Unfair Rules

Michael H. Rubin

From New York Politician to Louisiana Code Writer: The Tumultuous Life and Times of Edward Livingston

E. Phelps Gay

Tunc Pro Nunc—Modern Cases Through the Lens of the 1825 Civil Code

Judge Brady D. O’Callaghan & Clinton Bowers

Moreau Lislet & the Birth of the Civil Code

Justice Jay B. McCallum

A Bicentennial Approach to an Exegetical School of Private Law in Louisiana

Agustín Parise

The Role of Unwritten Laws in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825: A Historical and Comparative Perspective

Aniceto Masferrer

Politics and the Making of the Civil Code of 1825

Warren M. Billings

Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon Derbigny: Career, Cases and Code

Markus G. Puder

How the 1825 Civil Code Shaped Modern Louisiana Law

Ronald Scalise Jr.

A Mirror to Society: The Legacy of the 1825 Civil Code of Louisiana—What We Are, What We Could Have Been, and What We Will Be

Shawn D. Vance

Saúl Litvinoff’s Impact on the Civil Code

Ana Litvinoff

Culminating Remarks

Justice John Michael Guidry