(Source: Lawbook Exchange)
Talbot Publishing has published a new book on
legal traditions in Louisiana and the Floridas in the period from 1763 through
the mid-nineteenth century.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This collection focuses on the period from 1763
through the mid-nineteenth century. In Louisiana and the Floridas, the
territorial ambitions of Britain, France, and Spain, as well as the new American
Republic, led to a rapidly shifting series of political and cultural changes.
The result in the region was the creation of complex hybrids of social mores,
customs, and legal ideas and institutions. Of particular significance were the
land claims that inevitably followed transfers of sovereignty and legal
systems, the social and legal entrenchment of established elites and the
institution of slavery, as well as a legacy of extra-legal violence and folk
justice. The fluid borders of Louisiana and the Floridas, both East and West,
exposed the flexible social identities and political loyalties of those who
were settled there. Indeed, later accounts of the period and place have often
misunderstood mixed motives, and contemporary rhetoric, of its subjects and
citizens. Through a mix of different historiographical methods, a broad
understanding of legal and social history, and the lens of plural comparative
contexts, this collection tells us much about continuity and change in a
critical transition period for the region, as well as for the modern Western
nation-state and its increasingly common laws.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Sean Patrick Donlan is Associate Dean of the
Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law (Canada). His research interests
include Irish history, comparative law, and legal history. Most recently, he
edited Comparative Legal History (Hart/Taylor & Francis (UK), 2013-2016)
and (with D Heirbaut), The Law's Many Bodies: Studies in Legal Hybridity and
Jurisdictional Complexity, c1600-1900 (Duncker & Humblot (Germany), 2015).
Vernon Palmer is Thomas Pickles Professor of
Law and Director of the Eason Weinmann Center for International and Comparative
Law, Tulane University. He is a titular member of the International Academy of
Comparative Law and recipient of the Legion d'Honneur.
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