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Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop April 28-29, 2017 UCLA School of Law Announcement and Call for Papers Organized by Máximo Langer (University of California at Los Angeles), Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law), and Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) Co-sponsored by the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois College of Law, Princeton University, and the American Society of Comparative Law We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, 2017, at UCLA School of Law.  We will accept up to seven papers for workshop discussion, and we plan to select a mix of both junior and senior scholars. Interested authors should submit papers to Máximo Langer at UCLA School of Law langer@law.ucla.edu   by February 1, 2017.   We will inform authors of our decision by March 1, 2017.

Early Louisiana and Her Spanish World: Legal Tradition, Laws and Customs in Luisiana and the Floridas 4 November 2016 – Tulane University School of Law Supported by the Tulane University School of Law and The Portalis Society , the conference brings together historians and legal historians to discuss the laws, customs, and institutions of Spanish Louisiana and the Floridas. The scope is intentionally broad and covers almost anything linked to law and culture (doctrine, personalities, property, politics, extra-legal norms, etc). * Lawyers of Early New Orleans Kenneth Aslakson (History, Union College)   Spanish Law, Encyclopaedias, and the Digest of 1808 John W Cairns (Law, Edinburgh) Through a Glass Darkly: The Minor Judiciary of Feliciana, c1803-1810 Seán Patrick Donlan (Law, South Pacific)  “The Spanish Spirit in This Country”: Newcomers to Louisiana in 1803-1805, and Their Perceptions of the Spanish Regime Eberhard (Lo) Faber (Music, Loyola) A Confusion of Institutions: Spanish Law a

The Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center seeks to hire tenure-track or tenured faculty members with a starting date in August 2017. Among others, we are looking for a civil law professor, preferably with a comparative law/international law profile, to teach civil law classes in our bi-jural, civil law and common law curriculum. International applicants should contact Prof. Bill Corbett ( bill.corbett@law.lsu.edu ) or Prof. Missy Lonegrass ( missy.lonegrass@law.lsu.edu ) and email them their resume at their earliest convenience, as the Faculty Appointment Committee will start organizing preliminary interviews in September 2016, and call shortlisted candidates for onsite visits in October and November. They may also want to contact Prof. Olivier Moréteau ( olivier.moreteau@law.lsu.edu ) for feedback on the LSU Law Center and its teaching and research activities. Below is the text of the official announcement. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER seeks to