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• "All rise: The Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans is now in session"
• The hunt for the lost translators of 1808
• Henry Paul Nugent : the story of a mercurial man
• Auguste Davezac de Castera : the life of an eloquent docteur
• Reexamining and exhuming a pioneer translation
• Appendix: Selected writings of Henry Paul Nugent and Auguste Valentin Genevieve Davezac de Castera.

"In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English. Those officials, however, did not reveal who received the commission, and the translators never identified themselves. Indeed, the "translators of 1808" guarded their secret so well that their identities have remained unknown for more than two hundred years. Their names, personalities, careers, and credentials, indeed everything about them, have been a missing chapter in Louisiana legal history. In this volume, Vernon Valentine Palmer, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana. One consequence of the translators' previous anonymity has been that the translation itself has never been fully examined before this study. To be sure, the translation has been criticized and specific errors have been pointed out, but Palmer's study is the first general evaluation that considers the translation's goals, the Louisiana context, its merits and demerits, its innovations, failures, and successes. It thus allows us to understand how much and in what ways the translators affected the future course of Louisiana law. The Lost Translators, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana"-- Provided by publisher.

• "All rise: The Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans is now in session"
• The hunt for the lost translators of 1808
• Henry Paul Nugent : the story of a mercurial man
• Auguste Davezac de Castera : the life of an eloquent docteur
• Reexamining and exhuming a pioneer translation
• Appendix: Selected writings of Henry Paul Nugent and Auguste Valentin Genevieve Davezac de Castera.

"In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English. Those officials, however, did not reveal who received the commission, and the translators never identified themselves. Indeed, the "translators of 1808" guarded their secret so well that their identities have remained unknown for more than two hundred years. Their names, personalities, careers, and credentials, indeed everything about them, have been a missing chapter in Louisiana legal history. In this volume, Vernon Valentine Palmer, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana. One consequence of the translators' previous anonymity has been that the translation itself has never been fully examined before this study. To be sure, the translation has been criticized and specific errors have been pointed out, but Palmer's study is the first general evaluation that considers the translation's goals, the Louisiana context, its merits and demerits, its innovations, failures, and successes. It thus allows us to understand how much and in what ways the translators affected the future course of Louisiana law. The Lost Translators, through painstaking research, uncovers the identity of the translators, presents their life stories, and evaluates their translation in the context of the birth of civil law in Louisiana"-- Provided by publisher.

• Fundamental principles of legal research
• Overview of the legal research process and citation
• Research efficiency and organization
• Researching enacted law : constitutions, statutes, and rules
• Bill tracking and researching legislative history
• Judicial systems and judicial opinions
• Researching judicial opinions : digests and other finding tools and strategies
• Researching administrative law and other executive documents
• Citators
• Finding and updating secondary sources

"This book is written to assist attorneys, law students, paralegals, librarians, and others in researching legal materials effectively and efficiently. While focused on Louisiana law, the book provides the reader with information necessary to research federal law as well as the law of other jurisdictions. The book is user-friendly, providing information about legal research in a straightforward, practical format. The book is a must for anyone conducting legal research in Louisiana and is an excellent guide for legal research novices. In addition to discussing research techniques, sources, and strategies, the book explains the primary legal traditions in the United States and the basic structure of court systems in the United States. Against this backdrop, the book highlights the unique characteristics of the Louisiana legal system, including the State's reliance on the Civil Code, statutory law, and the value of precedent in Louisiana. The book also provides specific information on both electronic and print sources for locating law and gives guidance to the researcher on which sources are most efficiently used to research various types of information. The book touches on strategies for presenting legal arguments and provides information on citing legal sources in accordance with Louisiana custom as well as The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation"-- Provided by publisher

A Black teenager bravely challenges the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the help of a young Jewish attorney. Systemic racism meets its match in decisive courtroom battles, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and a lifelong friendship is born

• Prologue: Down the road
• A dirty storm
• The boss
• What is ours
• Contact
• Going to war
• Determination and unity
• Dire straits
• Cruelty
• Klantown, USA
• The case for the prosecution
• The case for the defense
• Investigation
• Trouble
• No error of law
• The chief engineer
• Bailing out
• Where is your law?
• Absent and unrepresented
• The fruits of benevolence
• Losing everything
• Having a field day
• Flambeaux
• Suppression
• The facts of this case
• If it ain't true, it oughta be
• First and foremost
• Workhorse
• Profound judgment
• Tranquility
• A clean storm
• Epilogue
• Afterword

"In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge." In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue: Down the road
• A dirty storm
• The boss
• What is ours
• Contact
• Going to war
• Determination and unity
• Dire straits
• Cruelty
• Klantown, USA
• The case for the prosecution
• The case for the defense
• Investigation
• Trouble
• No error of law
• The chief engineer
• Bailing out
• Where is your law?
• Absent and unrepresented
• The fruits of benevolence
• Losing everything
• Having a field day
• Flambeaux
• Suppression
• The facts of this case
• If it ain't true, it oughta be
• First and foremost
• Workhorse
• Profound judgment
• Tranquility
• A clean storm
• Epilogue
• Afterword

"In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge." In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword
• Obligations, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1756 to 1762
• Kinds of obligations, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1763 to 1785
• Obligations with multiple persons, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1786 to 1806
• Obligations with multiple objects, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1807 to 1820
• Transfer of obligations : assumption-subrogation, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1821 to 1830
• Proof of obligations, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1831 to 1853
• Extinction of obligations, La. Civ. Code Arts. 1854 to 1906

"[This book] was written for the benefit and use of judges and lawyers who are seeking a general and comprehensive treatment of the law of obligations. This treatise emphasises the importance of the Louisiana Civil Code articles as the primary source of law (and includes accompanying references to the French and Québec Civil Codes and relevant doctrinal writings) while also discussing case law as a secondary source of law, providing the reader with a toolbox to further understand this important aspect of civil law"-- Provided by publisher

• Legal history
• Sources of law
• The constitutional framework
• Legal actors
• Criminal law
• Persons
• The family
• Property
• Contract
• Delictual liability
• Quasi-contracts
• Business entities
• Labor and employment law.

• Fundamental principles of legal research
• Overview of the legal research process and citation
• Research efficiency and organization
• Researching enacted law : constitutions, statutes, and rules
• Bill tracking and researching legislative history
• Judicial systems and judicial opinions
• Researching judicial opinions : digests and other finding tools and strategies
• Researching administrative law and other executive documents
• Citators
• Finding and updating secondary sources.

• The plight of Frank Johnson
• The politics of transfer
• The creation of convict lease
• The triumph of the redeemers
• The whisper in the crowd
• The burden of precedent
• The vagaries of due process
• The decision in Johnson
• The ghost in the machine
• The trial of Derrick Todd Lee
• Epilogue.

• The justices of the Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Justice Zenon Labauve
• Justice John Henry Ilsley
• Governor Hahn resigns
• Justice William Bryan Hyman
• Justice Robert Byron Jones
• Justice Rufus King Howell
• The 1865 Court
• Justice James Govan Taliaferro
• The 1865 Court with Justice Taliaferro
• Louisiana's 1868 Constitution
• Justice John Theodore Ludeling
• Justice William Wirt Howe
• Justice William Gillespie Wyly
• The 1868 court
• 1872 politics
• Justice John Hanson Kennard
• The 1868 Court with Justice Kennard
• Justice Philip Hickey Morgan
• The 1868 Court with Justice Morgan
• Justice John Edward Leonard
• The 1868 Court with Justice Leonard
• Justice John Edward King
• 1877 politics
• Justice Robert Hardin Marr
• Justice Thomas Courtland Manning
• Justice Alcibiades DeBlanc
• Justice William Brainerd Spencer
• Justice William B. Giles Egan
• The 1877 Court
• Eighteen men.

• Introduction
• The gulf and its city
• A legal system in flux
• "We shall serve with fidelity and zeal"
• Outside the bonds of matrimony
• Owning so as not to be owned
• When the question Is slavery or freedom?
• Epilogue: From Adele to Plessy

No American city's history better illustrates both thepossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shapingracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War washome to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. Inthe eyes of the law, New Orleans's free people of color did not belong to thesame race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were"negroes, " free people of color were gensde couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans'screoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from "negroes"throughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandated segregationlumped together descendants of slaves with descendants of free people of color. Much of the recent scholarship on NewOrleans examines what race relations in theantebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana's gens de couleur enjoyed rights andprivileges denied to free blacks throughout most of the United States. This book, however, is less concerned with the what and why questions than with how peopleof color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyondtheir control. As its title suggests, Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood notas a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role offree people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction 1
• 1. The Gulf and Its City 17
• 2. A Legal System in Flux 44
• 3. "We Shall Serve with Fidelity and Zeal" 67
• 4. Outside the Bonds of Matrimony 98
• 5. Owning So as Not to Be Owned 127
• 6. "When the Question Is Slavery or Freedom" 153
• Epilogue: From Adele to Plessy 185
• Notes 191
• Index 241
• About the Author 249.
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No American city's history better illustrates both thepossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shapingracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War washome to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. Inthe eyes of the law, New Orleans's free people of color did not belong to thesame race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were"negroes, " free people of color were gensde couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans'screoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from "negroes"throughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandated segregationlumped together descendants of slaves with descendants of free people of color. Much of the recent scholarship on NewOrleans examines what race relations in theantebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana's gens de couleur enjoyed rights andprivileges denied to free blacks throughout most of the United States. This book, however, is less concerned with the what and why questions than with how peopleof color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyondtheir control. As its title suggests, Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood notas a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role offree people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.
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• Fundamental principles of legal research
• Overview of the legal research process and citation
• Researching enacted law: constitutions, statutes, and rules
• Bill tracking and researching legislative history
• Judicial systems and judicial opinions
• Researching judicial opinions: digests and other finding tools and strategies
• Researching administrative law and other executive documents
• Updating
• Finding and updating secondary sources
• Online legal research
• Research efficiency and organization.

• The authors and origins of the Code Noir
• War without arms : the customs of slavery
• The strange science of codifying slavery : Moreau Lislet and the Louisiana digest of 1808
• Slave law under digest and code 1808-1860 : systematic thinking and classical learning
• Appendix Code Noir of 1724 (in French and English) ; Translation by Vernon Valentine Palmer.

• SERIES FOREWORD By G. Alan Tarr
• PREFACE
• PART I. LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
• PART II. CONSTITUTION OF 1974 AND COMMENTARY
• Preamble
• Article I: Declaration Of Rights
• Article II: Distribution Of Powers
• Article III: Legislative Branch
• Article IV: Executive Branch
• Article V: Judicial Branch
• Article VI: Local Government
• Article VII: Revenue And Finance
• Article VIII: Education
• Article IX: Natural Resources
• Article X: Public Officials And Employees
• Article XI: Elections
• Article XII: General Provisions
• Article XIII: Constitutional Revision
• Article XIV: Transitional Provisions
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
• TABLE OF CASES
• INDEX.
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In The Louisiana State Constitution, Lee Hargrave provides a compehensive history and provision-by-provision commentary of the state's current constitution. Descriptive analysis provides readers with important information about the origins of the constitutional provisions, as well as ways in which the courts and other governmental bodies have interpreted them. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series. This title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important new series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.
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