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

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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 as a result of its perceived quirkiness. Moreover, past writings in regards to the state’s legal structure have focused at the minutiae of Louisiana’s civil law origins, adding to an image of peculiarity. In consequence, Louisiana has been usually ignored in treatments of American or southern legal history. Recently, alternatively, a new vision has emerged the New Louisiana Legal History. A product of an vigorous 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 usually.
The ten essays on this volume — which address law within 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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