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24 Tul. Eur. & Civ. L.F. [i] (2009)

handle is hein.journals/teclf24 and id is 1 raw text is: TULANE EUROPEAN AND
CIVIL LAW FORUM
VOLUME 24                                                  2009
THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE DIGEST OF 1808-
COLLECTED PAPERS
Contents
Foreword from the Editor in Chief
1.   The Digest of 1808: Historical Perspectives .............................. 1
GEORGE DARGO
Professor ofLaw, New England Law School, Boston.
2.   The de la Vergne Volume and the
D igestof  1808  .....................................................................   31
JOHN W. CAIRNS
Professor ofLegal History, University ofEdinburgh.
3.   The Strange Science of Codifying Slavery-
Moreau Lislet and the Louisiana Digest of 1808 ................. 83
VERNON VALENTINE PALMER
Thomas Pickles Professor ofLaw and Co-Director,
Eason- Weinmann Center of Comparative Law, Tulane
University
4.   She... Refuses To Deliver Up Herself
as the Slave of Your Petitioner:
1tmigr~s, Enslavement, and the 1808 Louisiana
D igest of the  Civil Law s  ......................................................... 115
REBECCA J. SCOTT
Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of
History and Law, University ofMichigan.