Journal of Civil Law Studies: Volume 8 No. 1


VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1 (2015) IS OUT AND CAN BE READ ONLINE

ARTICLES

Golden Jubilee of the Center of Civil Law Studies: 
Celebrating the Development of Legal Science in Louisiana (Agustín Parise)

Drawing the Line of the Scope of the Duty of Care in American
Negligence and French Fault-Based Tort Liability (Karel Roynette)

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Les unions (il)légalement reconnues: approches internationales
(Il)legally Recognized Unions: International Approaches
La Roche-sur-Yon, December 6, 2013

China (Yuan Fang), France (Dominique Garreau), Italy (Enrica Bracchi & Carolina Simoncini), Spain (Ana Conde), and the United States (Olivier Moréteau)

ESSAYS

An Analysis in Empathy: Why Compassion Need Not Be Exiled from the
Province of Judging Same-Gender Marriage Cases (Kacie Gray)

CIVIL LAW in the WORLD
  
Chile (Carlos Felipe Amunátegui Perelló)

Poland (Ewa Bagińska)

Also in this issue:
NOTE, CIVIL LAW TRANSLATION, CIVIL LAW in LOUISIANA,
and BOOKS REVIEWS

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