A Publication of the Center of Civil Law Studies Paul M. Hebert Law Center Louisiana State University Bicentennial Series Volume 3 R A P : OBERT NTHONY ASCAL A P R O RIEST OF IGHT RDER Edited by OLIVIER MORÉTEAU Baton Rouge 2010 Copyright, April 2010 By Center of Civil Law Studies Paul M. Hebert Law Center Louisiana State University Center of Civil Law Studies Paul M. Hebert Law Center Louisiana State University Bicentennial Series General Editor OLIVIER MORÉTEAU Professor of Law Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair Director of the Center of Civil Law Studies LSU Law Center A Series created on the year of the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Civil Code (Digest of 1808), to promote publications on the civil law of Louisiana and its interaction with other legal systems. Volumes published in the Series: Volume 1. – Essays in Honor of Saúl Litvinoff Edited by Olivier Moréteau, Julio Romañach, Jr. and Alberto Luis Zuppi 2008 (Claitor’s Publishing Division) Volume 2. – A History of the Louisiana Civil Code: The Formative Years, 1803‐1839 Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Jr. (Reprint; first published in 1987) 2008 (Claitor’s Publishing Division) Volume 3. – Robert Anthony Pascal: A Priest of Right Order Edited by Olivier Moréteau 2010 (Center of Civil Law Studies, LSU) Table of Contents AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF ROBERT A. PASCAL by Olivier Moréteau………………………………………………….……….…………………….1 PART 1 – A MAN OF PRINCIPLE RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE STUDYING AND TEACHING LAW ………………………………….25 PUNISHMENT, PARDON, PAROLE……………………………………………………………………97 NATURAL LAW AND RESPECT FOR LAW………………………………………………………….101 PART 2 – A MAN OF VISION A SUMMARY REFLECTION ON LEGAL EDUCATION……………………………………………115 OF THE CIVIL CODE AND US..………………………………………………………………………129 OF TRUSTS, HUMAN DIGNITY, LEGAL SCIENCE, AND TAXES…..……………………..……167 PART 3 – A MAN OF DIVERSE SCHOLARSHIP UPDATING LOUISIANA’S COMMUNITY OF GAINS……………………………………………..199 CHARACTERIZATION AS AN APPROACH TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS………………………245 THE ITALIAN LEGAL SYSTEM: A BOOK REVIEW………………………………………………..263 BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………………………………………………….269 Cuius merito quis nos sacerdotes appellet: iustitiam namque colimus et boni et aequi notitiam profitemur, aequum ab iniquo separantes, licitum ab illicito discernentes, bonos non solum metu poenarum, verum etiam praemiorum quoque exhortatione efficere cupientes, veram nisi fallor philosophiam, non simulatam affectantes.1 1 DIGEST 1.1.1. “Anyone may properly call us the priests of this art, for we cultivate justice and profess to know what is good and equitable, dividing right from wrong, and distinguishing what is lawful from what is unlawful; desiring to make men good through fear of punishment, but also by the encouragement of reward; aiming (if I am not mistaken) at a true, and not a pretended philosophy.” Translated by Samuel P. Scott. 2 THE CIVIL LAW 209 (1932). ROBERT ANTHONY PASCAL
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