Eason-Weinmann Lecture Presents Justice Nicholas Kasirer, Wednesday, November 11, at 5:30 p.m.

“THE ASPERN PAPERS: HEIRLOOMS AND OTHER FAMILY TREASURES IN THE COMPARATIVE PROPERTY LAW” Justice Nicholas Kasirer Court of Appeal of Quebec and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, McGill University 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009 5:30 p.m.

Tulane University Law School John Giffen Weinmann Hall, Room 110 6329 Freret Street

Reception to follow in the Berkett Multipurpose Room

The Eason-Weinmann Lecture is funded by the Eason Weinmann Center for International and Comparative Law, established in 1981 through the generosity of Virginia Eason Weinmann and John Giffen Weinmann, a distinguished Tulane Law School graduate (L’52). Ambassador Weinmann is the former Chair of Tulane’s Board of Administrators, and the law building is named for him. The Center is co-directed by Professor Vernon Valentine Palmer and Professor Jörg Fedtke. The Eason-Weinmann Center funds other comparative law visitors to the Law School each year.

Nicholas Kasirer is the former Dean of the Faculty of Law at McGill University. He was recently named a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Quebec, the province's highest court.

A graduate of McGill’s Faculty of Law (1985), Mr. Justice Kasirer had been a professor there since 1989, and served as its Dean from November 2003 to May 2009.After an outstanding 20-year career at McGill, he leaves an extraordinary legacy to the university, legal education and comparative law.

A Montreal native, Nicholas Kasirer is a specialist in Quebec private law, comparative law, family property law, law and language and legal theory. He holds degrees from Toronto University, the McGill Law School, LL.B., B.C.L., and the University of Paris I. From 1996 to 2003, he was the Director of the Quebec Research Centre for Private and Comparative Law, where he was an editor of a critical edition of the Civil Code of Quebec.