RESEARCH & SPEAKING
Law in practice. Ideas beyond the courtroom.
Matthew G. Steel is a practicing Louisiana attorney. Alongside legal practice, he independently researches and writes about the civil-law tradition, comparative law, judicial reasoning, and the ways different legal systems construct authority.
CURRENT RESEARCH
WORK IN PROGRESSCode Without Stare Decisis: Louisiana, Lithuania, and What Makes Judicial Reasoning Civilian
A comparative project examining Louisiana and Lithuania as civil-law jurisdictions and asking what actually makes judicial reasoning civilian when precedent does not operate as common-law stare decisis.
Louisiana civil law · Lithuania · comparative law · jurisprudence constante · sources of law · judicial reasoning
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This section will document confirmed talks, conference publications, and presentation materials. Work being prepared or submitted is not presented here as an accepted speaking engagement.