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Code Napoleon or Code Portalis?

Tulane Law Review, 1969

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Napoleo"!, the Tulane Law Review presents an important and previously untranslated document. The Preliminary Discourse of Port alis here trans1ated by Shael Herman, was addressed to the Fr�nch National Assembly in 1800, and is perhaps the most significant of all the writings preceding the enactment of the Co de Napoleon. Its importance is demonstrated by the fol lowing article by Professor Levasseur. Its relevance �o. the current debate concerning a new Civil Code for Loui�iana should be obvious to the readers of the Tulane Law Review.]

Pipeline Logic and Culpability: Establishing a Continuum of Harm for Sacrifice Zones

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021

This article builds on the concept of Energy Sacrifice Zones, which has been used as a heuristic for areas negatively impacted by environmental degradation and/or pollution that harms nearby residents for broader economic gains elsewhere. Environmental justice scholars have since the 1980s identified urban "fence-line" communities as Sacrifice Zones, such as those along the industrialized Mississippi River corridor downstream of Baton Rouge, La., where public health and property values are impacted by plant emissions. More recent scholarship has identified analogous dispossession in coastal Louisiana, where indigenous and communities of color suffer environmental degradation and land loss from oil industry practices. Coastal oil and gas operations have left behind thousands of miles of pipelines, canals and subsiding oil fields that have accelerated marsh desiccation and land loss. This article argues that both inland and coastal areas of Louisiana are being sacrificed by the fossil fuel industry on a continuum of harm along pipelines from wellheads to inland plants. Oil wells, refineries, and petrochemical plants exist as nodes along a single line of production and manufactured demand for petroleumbased products, which also litter waterways and oceans. Such a continuum establishes a single Sacrifice Zone that conjoins multiple sites. Harmed communities need not be adjacent to one another to be considered logically contiguous and, therefore, subject to consideration of collective harm as long as they are linked by the material infrastructure that connects fossil fuel extraction, production and distribution. This zone of harm, once established, could be used to inform decision makers with more accurate and complex pictures of social and public health costs of industrial emissions and practices, particularly when considering proposals for plant expansions or new facilities. They may also be used to determine legal culpability in restitution claims by communities bearing the burden of the carbon economy.

De Revolutionibus: The Place of the Civil Code in Louisiana and in the Legal Universe

Journal of Civil Law Studies, 2012

in Sweden, searching in a book, MAGNUM ROMANUM CALENDARIUM by Johannes Stoeffler, dated 1518, found several hairs inside the book. This is a manual that Copernicus had used during his life in Poland and which was taken by the Swedes during the Polish-Swedish wars in the first quarter of the seventeenth century." Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus buried,

Peak pressures on low rise buildings: CFD with LES versus full scale and wind tunnel measurements

Wind and Structures, 2020

This paper focuses on the processes of wind flow in the atmospheric boundary layer, to produce realistic full-scale pressures for the design of low-rise buildings. CFD with LES turbulence closure is implemented on a scale 1:1 prototype building. A proximity study was executed computationally in CFD with LES that suggests new recommendations on the computational domain size, in front of a building model, apart from common RANS-based guidelines (e.g. COST and AIJ). Our findings suggest a location of the test building, different from existing guidelines, and the inflow boundary proximity influences pressure correlation and reproduction of peak loads. The CFD LES results are compared to corresponding pressures obtained by open jet, full scale, wind tunnel, and the ASCE 7-10 standard for roof Component & Cladding design. The CFD LES shows its capability to produce peak pressures/loads on buildings, in agreement with field pressures, due to its capabilities of reproducing the spectral contents of the inflow at a 1:1 scale.