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Louisiana's legal heritage has long been a source of fascination, curiosity, and sadly, misinformation. Outsiders have viewed the legal system as an anomaly and have shunned its study because of its perceived quirkiness. Moreover, past writings about the state's legal structure have focused on the minutiae of Louisiana's civil law origins, adding to an image of peculiarity. Consequently, Louisiana has been generally ignored in treatments of American or southern legal history. Recently, however, a new vision has emerged the New Louisiana Legal History. A product of an energetic cadre of writers, this rendering explores new methods and areas of research with the aim of integrating Louisiana into the mainstream of American legal history, southern history, and American history in general.
The ten essays in this volume -- which address law in the state through the nineteenth century -- mark the coming of age of the New Louisiana Legal History. Grounded in novel research methodologies and underutilized manuscripts, this book links the distinctive history of Louisiana law to the wider contexts of southern and American history and offers an exciting new interpretation of the state's unique past.
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Warren M.Billings is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He has written, edited or co-edited several books about Louisiana law, including An Uncommon Experience: Law and Judicial Institutions in Louisiana, 1803-2003.
Mark F.Fernandez is associate professor of early American and southern history at Loyola University in New Orleans.
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- PublisherLSU Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0807125830
- ISBN 13 9780807125830
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
- EditorBillings Warren M., Fernandez Mark
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