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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
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and counties in the state of Louisiana. By clicking on links to each
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Louisiana.
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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