Bar association to celebrate commemoration of tricentennial

Published 5:55 pm Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Francophone Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, will celebrate the Commemoration of the Tricentennial of New Orleans being named the Capitol of the Louisiana Colony (1723-2023) at the Eason Weinmann Center for International and Comparative Law on Feb. 1.

The event will be held at the Tulane Law School, 6329 Freret St., New Orleans, LA.

Featured topics and presenters will include: Civil Codes: Ten Interesting Things You Probably Didn’t Know by Tulane Law Prof. Vernon Palmer; The Multiple Languages of the Louisiana Civil Codes: Connecting Past and Future by LSU Law Prof. Olivier Moreteau; Recent Developments Between Louisiana and the Francophone World By the Honorable Lieutenant Governor William “Billy” Nungesser; The History of the Capitol of the La. Colony by Howard Margot, Archivist The New Orleans Historic Collection; Who was Bienville? By Jason Berry, investigative reporter, author of City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300, and documentary filmmaker. The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion on mediations by Stacey Marcel and Maurice Hebert led by moderator Louis R. Koerner Jr.

To register or become a sponsor of the event, email Warren Perrin at perrin@plddo.com or call (337) 456-7729.

Sponsors for the event are: Canadian Consulate of Dallas, Eason Weinmann Center International and Comparative Law Tulane Law School, Perrin Landry deLaunay Law Firm; Acadian Museum; Louis Koerner Law Firm; Andrepont Printing; Parlons Café LLC/Edwin Fleischmann, PDG; Karsman, McKenzie & Hart; and Broussard & David, LLC.