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Louisiana Law Review

About This Journal

Background

The first issue of the Louisiana Law Review went into print in November of 1938. To commemorate the founding of the Law Review, former LSU Law Center Dean Paul M. Hebert wrote, “[I]t is perhaps not too much to say that with common law influences pressing on us from every side, the very existence of the juridical method of the civil law in Louisiana is seriously threatened and its survival would appear to depend upon the ability of the law schools and the legal profession to develop and make available the essential doctrinal materials dealing with the modern civil law. With this end in view, it will be the policy of the Louisiana Law Review to place special emphasis on matters pertaining to civil and comparative law.” Dean Hebert foreshadowed the Law Review’s lasting impact on the legal landscape of Louisiana and the civil law tradition for years to come.

Since 1938, the Louisiana Law Review has served as Louisiana’s flagship legal journal and has become a vibrant forum for scholarship in comparative and civil law topics, just as Dean Hebert predicted. Louisiana Law Review scholars have been recognized around the world for their contributions to both common and civil law doctrine. Subscribers to the Louisiana Law Review reside all over the world in areas such as France, Great Britain, Canada, Central America, South Africa, Thailand, Israel, Japan, and the Philippines.

Mission

The mission of the Louisiana Law Review is two-fold. First, the Law Review endeavors to further the positive development of the law by presenting the highest quality of legal scholarship to the legal community. This objective is accomplished through publication of leading articles, legal essays, practitioners’ notes, and book reviews prepared and submitted by scholars, jurists, and practitioners from across the state, around the country, and throughout the world.

Second, the Louisiana Law Review seeks to engender in the best students of the LSU Law Center a desire to further distinguish themselves through exercises in intense legal research, analysis, and writing. In furtherance of this objective, the Law Review provides associates and members with a forum in which to make unique contributions to the discipline through publication of student-written comments and case notes on issues of contemporary significance.