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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 strategies and organization.

• 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

• 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.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)