This year's Eason-Weinmann Endowed Lecture will celebrate the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 with a lecture from Professor John Cairns, a distinguished scholar from Edinburgh Law School. 

Professor Cairns is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and an honorary graduate of Glasgow. His doctorate was supervised by Professors Alan Watson and Sir Alexander McCall Smith. He has held the chair of Civil Law since 2012, before which he was Professor of Legal History (from 2000), having already been Reader, Senior Lecturer, and Lecturer in Law at Edinburgh, and Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the Queen’s University, Belfast.  He has been Chairman of the Council of the Stair Society and President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.

Come join us as we learn more about The Civil Code of the State of Louisiana: Context & Continuities.