Louisiana Law Schools

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As one of the 50 states in the United States of America, Louisiana hosts 4 law schools that have national reputation. Check Countryaah to see a list of all towns, cities, and counties in the state of Louisiana. By clicking on links to each city, you can find high schools, colleges, and universities within Louisiana.

Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Joint degrees awarded: N/A

Student activities: The Louisiana Law Review is edited by a board of students with faculty cooperation. The Moot Court Board oversees student participation in approximately 25-30 competitions. Other student organizations representing a variety of interests include the Public Interest Law Society, the International Law Society, the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, and the Tax Club, to name a few.

Address: 1 E. Campus Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Loyola University New Orleans School of Law

Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.U.R.P.; J.D./M.P.A.

Student activities: Loyola offers moot court and law journal programs; Law Review – published four times per year, open to students in top 10%; Moot Court participates in nine competitions. Loyola has student groups of varied interest and wide participation; three publish journals. Loyola sends team to Willem Vis International Arbitration Commercial Law annual competition in Vienna.

Address: 526 Pine Street, New Orleans, LA 70118

Southern University Law Center

Joint degrees awarded: N/A

Student activities: The Southern University Law Review is a scholarly periodical managed by student members. The Moot Court Board is responsible for planning and conducting the annual competition. The Student Bar Association is a self-governing organization that cultivates rapport among students, faculty and members of the profession. All organizations have faculty advisers.

Address: 2 Roosevelt Steptoe Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70813

Tulane University School of Law

Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.H.; J.D./M.A. Political Science/Intl Affairs; J.D./M.A. Classical Studies; J.D./M.S. International Development; J.D./B.S.; J.D./B.A.; J.D./M.H.A.; J.D./M.S.W.; J.D./M.A. Latin American Studies; J.D./M.Acc.; J.D./Ph.D.

Student activities: 8 student-edited journals: Tulane Law Review, plus journals in maritime, environmental, international & comparative, technology & intellectual property, sports law, civil law, and law & sexuality. The Moot Court Board runs intra-school trial and appellate moot court competitions and fields teams for inter-school competitions. 40 other student organizations.

Address: Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret Street, New Orleans, LA 70118

Before you can study in any of the above 4 law programs in Louisiana, you will need to take the Law School Admissions Test. The exam dates throughout the year are also provided on the site.

Louisiana Overview

Louisiana, (after Louis 14th), a state in the southern United States around the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico; 128,595 km2, 4.5 million residents (2010), of which 32% are black. The capital is Baton Rouge (229,500 residents; 2010). Enlisted in the Union in 1812 as the 18th State. Nickname: The Pelican State. Check searchforpublicschools for public primary and high schools in Louisiana.

Population

Although Louisiana since the slave era in the 1800s. has had periodic high economic growth, it belongs to the poorest states of the United States. In 2010, 18% of the population had an income below the official poverty line. Racially and ethnically, the population is very composed, especially in the densely populated areas of the South, dominated by blacks and descendants of immigrants from Europe and Latin America, including many cajuns whose French-speaking culture is a characteristic element. In connection with, inter alia, civil rights struggles in the 1950s and 1960s were the state’s home to violent conflicts, such as the origin of political, religious and cultural contradictions between a predominantly Catholic population in the south and a Protestant-conservative population in the north. Largest city is New Orleansfollowed by Baton Rouge, Shreveport and Lafayette.

Industries

Since World War II, Louisiana has become a major industrial state, the production of which is predominantly based on local raw materials such as oil and gas, as well as sulfur, salt and wood. Extraction of oil and gas was great already in the interwar period, but increased in the 1950s when the offshore fields of the Gulf of Mexico began to be exploited. Growth, however, could not be sustained, and from around 1980 in particular oil extraction and petrochemical industry have had declining production. Farming is far from being as dominant as it was in the 1800s, though it is still of vital importance. Soybeans, rice, sugar cane and maize have since 1960 replaced cotton as the most important crop, while there has been growth in the livestock production and food industry. The farmland is reduced and, together with grazing areas, covers approx. 1/4 of the acreage, but almost half of the state is forest, especially pine forest, which is exploited in the timber and paper industries. Other significant occupations are fishing (shrimp and seafood, etc.) as well as tourism, which, with a focus on New Orleans, has experienced high growth since the 1960s. New Orleans is also a major trading center and, along with Baton Rouge, has some of the United States’ largest shipping ports for grain and oil products.

Climate and nature

Most of Louisiana has a uniform subtropical climate with hot, humid summers (July 25-30 ° C), mild winters (January 8-14 ° C) and high rainfall (annual averages 1400-1600 mm). Despite its southern location – roughly the same latitude as Morocco in North Africa – frost and snowfall can occur in winter, while tropical hurricanes (hurricanes) are common in late summer. The landscape consists mainly of a low-lying, fertile coastal plain with extensive swamps in the Mississippi Delta and adjoining coastal areas to the west. Highest point is Driskill Mountain (163 m) in NV.

Louisiana was hit hard when Hurricane Katrina – one of the strongest ever in the Gulf of Mexico – on August 29, 2005, moved inland, causing havoc in a belt several hundred miles away. The worst hit was the state’s largest city, New Orleans, where more than a thousand people lost their lives when several dikes erupted and flooded much of the city.

History

Archaeological finds testify to Native American settlements in Louisiana, several thousand years before Spanish sailors explored the coast in the 1520s. In 1682 France claimed the entire Mississippi Valley; the first French settlement took place at Biloxi in 1699, and in 1718 New Orleans was built. In 1731 Louisiana became the French crown colony and considerable immigration took place from Germany and from Acadia in Canada. The area was under Spanish rule from 1762, but came back under France in 1800. After the Louisiana acquisition in 1803 it became the Orleans Territory of the United States, and in 1812 Louisiana was admitted as the 18th state of the United States. Political and cultural contradictions between French influence in the South and American in the North led the capital in 1849 to move from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Slavery was introduced as early as the 1730s, but grew significantly in the 1800s. with the establishment of cotton plantations. During the American Civil War1861-65, Louisiana belonged to the Southern States, but was besieged and occupied by the Northern States throughout most of the war. After the Civil War came a period of sharp political contradictions, which resulted in a firmly rooted white rule under the leadership of the Democrats. In 1898 a new constitution was introduced, which included contained a special clause that one would only have the right to vote if one’s grandfather had voted in the state, which effectively prevented blacks from participating in elections. Although this so-called grandfather clause was declared unconstitutional in 1915, the sharp racial divide continued and Louisiana remained politically reactionary despite industrialization in the 1900s. Facing the dominance of the railroad and oil companies, Governor Huey P. Long launched in 1928 a populist campaign. Louisiana has in the 1900s. has been characterized by political corruption, which also after the Second World War reflected the contradiction between the state’s northern and southern parts.

Louisiana Law Schools