In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

There are many things that Napoleon Bonaparte was known for — his leadership abilities, his rise and fall, his height, his hand tucked in his coat, Josephine. In Louisiana, however, he is widely known ...

Louisiana attorneys who’ve been displaced by Hurricane Katrina are worrying about whether they’ll know enough to pass the bar exam in another state. Meanwhile, law students from New Orleans who ...

As we know that French Revolution has a major impact not only in Europe and but also to the world. Because, this revolution, influences the world through the ideas of nationalism, liberty, fraternity ...

Original manuscripts on the Consulate and Empire that belonged to Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), one of the architects of the Napoleonic Code at an auction in 2012. (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE ...

Napoleon's signed edition of the civil code, a leather-bound collection of laws introduced under his reign, was sold at auction for nearly 400,000 euros ($433,000) on Thursday in Paris, its sellers ...