Julie Rocheton

Professor Rocheton joined the law faculty in Fall 2025. She is a legal historian whose teaching and research focus on legal history, civil law, codification, and comparative law. Prior to her appointment at Loyola, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt (2021–2025) to which she remain affiliated as a research affiliate. She has also taught legal history & legal methodology France (Universities of Grenoble, Reims, and Versailles), and held a Grotius Research Scholar Fellowship at the University of Michigan Law School. In addition, she has lectured at Uppsala University, Brunel University London, and other institutions in Europe.

Professor Rocheton earned her Ph.D. in Legal History, summa cum laude, from the Universidad de Valencia in 2021. She also holds a Master’s degree in Legal History from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and a Bachelor of Law with specialization in civil law from Université Montpellier I, where she also completed a Certificate in Legal English.

Her book, The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States (Brill, 2024), analyzes the development of the 19th century American Civil Codes. She is also the author of articles on codification, family law legal history, Louisiana legal history and women’s legal history. Her expertise in civil law and legal history continues to guide her scholarship on private law and its transnational development.