Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan (1495–1550) was a French

France

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 jurist. He is also variously referred to as Baro, Eguinaire Baron, Eguinarius Baro, Eguinarius Baron, Eguinar Baro or Eguin Baron.

Baro studied law in Poitiers

Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...

, Paris

Paris

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, Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

 and Bourges

Bourges

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, probably with Alciati

Alciati

* Andrea Alciato, or Alciati , Italian jurist* Dr. Giovanni Paolo Alciati della Motta Italian Calvinist* Francesco Alciati , Italian Cardinal* Enrique Alciati , French-Italian sculptor...

. He taught Roman law

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

 in Angers

Angers

Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....

 after 1538 and in 1542, with Douaren

François Douaren

François Douaren was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Bourges....

, in Bourges.

Together with Budaeus, Alciati, Connan

François Connan

François Connan was a French jurist who took part in the humanist development of an historical jurisprudence. He was a student of Andrea Alciato at the University of Bourges and became one of the latter's most distinguished epigone. His most celebrated work is the Commentaria iuris civilis ....

 and others, Baro was among the founders of Humanist

Renaissance humanism

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 jurisprudence in France. He was the first to refer to the ius gallicum, French law, as such, and pioneered the use of paratitla, brief summaries of Pandects

Pandects

The Digest, also known as the Pandects , is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century .The Digest was one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I...

 titles, in his Ad Digesta seu Pandectas Manualium libri septem. His other works include extensive commentaries and monographs on Roman and feudal law.