title: The Western crescent rises — a verticality dimension in Louisiana’s mixed legal space
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metadata.value: Puder, Markus G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-03-02T19:47:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-03-02T19:47:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Puder, Markus G. 2023. The Western crescent rises — a verticality dimension in Louisiana’s mixed legal space. Pravovedenie 67 (1): 5–20. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2023.101
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2023.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39200
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The legal literature discussing mixed jurisdictions has mainly focused on horizontal law mixtures,
  especially those involving the Civil Law and the Common Law. Harnessing the legal questions
  raised by land loss in Louisiana’s landscape of waterbodies as a case study, this Article
  illustrates how American federal law, whether constitutional, statutory or judge-made, has interacted
  with the allocation of property rights under Louisiana state law. Among the various
  stakeholders, the legal implications of erosion and subsidence play out in two relationships:
  firstly, the relationship between private property owners and the State of Louisiana with regard
  to lakeshore, banks of rivers, bays and streams, and seashore; and secondly, the relationship
  between the State of Louisiana and the Federal Government with regard to their rights in the territorial
  sea. In the first relationship, the equal footing doctrine enunciated by the U. S. Supreme
  Court declares that, because the original thirteen states in the American Union owned the land
  under their natural navigable water bodies, subsequent entrants would likewise take ownership
  of such land. Based on the federal equal footing doctrine, Louisiana state law has enjoyed a
  margin of maneuver to make its own dispositions for the lakeshore, the bank of a river, bayou
  or stream, and the seashore. Also, when allocating ownership under state law, Louisiana courts
  have traditionally looked to the federal admiralty definition of navigability. The federal-state interface
  dominating the second relationship has come to be known as the “tidelands controversy”
  over submerged lands, along with the wealth of resources, seaward of the low-water mark
  on Louisiana’s coast. This led to a dance between the U. S. Supreme Court, the U. S. Congress
  and the State of Louisiana. Although Louisiana ultimately secured jurisdiction up to three nautical
  miles, its maritime belt still does not match Texas and Florida’s boundaries.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mixed jurisdictions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: federal law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lakes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rivers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: seashore
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: territorial sea
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: erosion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subsidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tidelands Controversy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Western crescent rises — a verticality dimension in Louisiana’s mixed legal space
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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