[1] In 2022 he was honored by the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris as one of the world's "great comparatists".
Palmer graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford University in 1985, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy.
His Oxford dissertation was an historical study entitled The Paths to Privity: The History of Third Party Beneficiary Contracts at English Law.
He is the author of numerous legal articles and books, including his most recent book "The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana (Georgia Univ.
In addition to being active is his local New Orleans legal and political communities, Palmer has served as a constitutional advisor and consultant to the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Republic of Madagascar.