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A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History

A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History

Hardcover

General LawGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0807125830
ISBN13: 9780807125830
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

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.

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