LSU Law

by Hargrave, W. Lee

• ISBN13: 9780807129142
• ISBN10: 0807129143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

From its founding in 1906, the Louisiana State University Law School has offered its students a truly distinctive legal education. Integrated programs in Louisiana's unique civil law, in Anglo-American common law and federal law, and in international and comparative law create an overall global law curriculum that is recognized worldwide for its academic excellence and outstanding teaching, research, and public service faculty. In LSU Law, alumnus and professor W. Lee Hargrave chronicles the first seventy years of the institution--up until the point it was made an autonomous Law Center--revealing the faces and forces that have helped to create the special mystique surrounding the school and the meaning of a law degree from LSU. After an initial discussion of the legal profession in Louisiana before the establishment of formal academic instruction, Hargrave maps the LSU Law School's growth and development. He explores all aspects of the school--its administrators and faculty, student body, shifting admission requirements, curriculum, influence on the legal commu

Author Biography

W. Lee Hargrave was a professor emeritus at the LSU Law School, where he taught from 1967 to 2000.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Carolyn H. Hargrave	xi
1. Lawyers in Early Louisiana	1	(7)
2. The Beginnings: 1904-1920	8	(33)
3. The Semi-Roaring Twenties	41	(18)
4. The Extravagant Thirties	59	(47)
5. The Forties: World War II and Postwar Challenges	106	(23)
6. The Fifties: Return to Normalcy	129	(39)
7. The Sixties: Steady Growth	168	(44)
8. 1970-1977: Running Hard to Stay in Place	212	(36)
9. Ruminations and Conclusions	248	(17)
Notes	265	(36)
Bibliography	301	(14)
Index of Names	315	(12)
Subject Index	327