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The Paul M. Hebert Law Center, part of the [[Louisiana State University]] system and located in [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana, was founded in 1906. Because Louisiana is a [[civil law]] state, unlike its 49 [[common law]] sister states, the curriculum includes both civil law and common law courses, requiring 97 hours for graduation, the longest in the nation. In fact, since Fall 2002, the LSU Law Center became the sole United States law school and only one of two law schools in the Western Hemisphere to offer a course of study leading to the simultaneous conferring of two degrees: the J.D. (Juris Doctor), which is the normal first degree in American law schools, and the B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law), which recognizes the training its students receive in both the Common and the Civil Law. |
The '''Paul M. Hebert Law Center''', part of the [[Louisiana State University]] system and located in [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana, was founded in 1906. Because Louisiana is a [[civil law]] state, unlike its 49 [[common law]] sister states, the curriculum includes both civil law and common law courses, requiring 97 hours for graduation, the longest in the nation. In fact, since Fall 2002, the LSU Law Center became the sole United States law school and only one of two law schools in the Western Hemisphere to offer a course of study leading to the simultaneous conferring of two degrees: the J.D. (Juris Doctor), which is the normal first degree in American law schools, and the B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law), which recognizes the training its students receive in both the Common and the Civil Law. |
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The Law Center is named after [[Dean Paul M. Hebert ]] [[http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/HNF/Pages/home.html] (1907-1977), the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School, serving in that role (with brief interruptions) from 1937 until his death in 1977. One of these interruptions occurred in 1947-1948 when he was appointed as a judge for the United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg. |
The Law Center is named after [[Dean Paul M. Hebert ]] [[http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/HNF/Pages/home.html] (1907-1977), the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School, serving in that role (with brief interruptions) from 1937 until his death in 1977. One of these interruptions occurred in 1947-1948 when he was appointed as a judge for the United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg. |
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Revision as of 17:41, 19 July 2005
The Paul M. Hebert Law Center, part of the Louisiana State University system and located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was founded in 1906. Because Louisiana is a civil law state, unlike its 49 common law sister states, the curriculum includes both civil law and common law courses, requiring 97 hours for graduation, the longest in the nation. In fact, since Fall 2002, the LSU Law Center became the sole United States law school and only one of two law schools in the Western Hemisphere to offer a course of study leading to the simultaneous conferring of two degrees: the J.D. (Juris Doctor), which is the normal first degree in American law schools, and the B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law), which recognizes the training its students receive in both the Common and the Civil Law.
The Law Center is named after Dean Paul M. Hebert [[1] (1907-1977), the longest serving Dean of the LSU Law School, serving in that role (with brief interruptions) from 1937 until his death in 1977. One of these interruptions occurred in 1947-1948 when he was appointed as a judge for the United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg.
The Paul M. Hebert Law Center is unique among university-affiliated law schools because it is an autonomous campus of, rather than a dependent college of, its larger university. Its designation as a Law Center, rather than Law School, derives not only from its campus status but from the centralization on its campus of J.D. and post-J.D. programs, Foreign and Graduate programs, including European programs at the University of Lyon III School of Law, Lyon, France, and Louvain Belgium, and the direction of the Louisiana Law Institute and the Louisiana Judicial College, among other initiatives. From its founding in 1906, the Law Center has offered its students a legal education recognized for its high standards of academic excellence, an outstanding teaching and research faculty, and integrated programs in Louisiana civil law, in Anglo-American common, statute and federal law, and, through a fusion of these programs with international and comparative law, an overall program that truly merits designation as a global law curriculum.
The Paul M. Hebert Law Center owes its distinction among the nation's great law schools to the special character of Louisiana's legal system. Dating from the state's admission into the United States in 1812, this system traces not only to Anglo-American sources in the Common Law but to the Civil Law, a blend of Roman, Spanish, and French legal traditions. Louisiana law, therefore, is global because the Civil Law underpins the legal institutions of Continental nations and their former colonies throughout the world. It is national because federal constitutional and statutory law are the governing component of the nation's 50 states. And, it is statewide insofar as the laws of Louisiana are an appropriate object of study for the state's leading public law school.
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