Louisiana
Louisiana State Civil — Type E with Civilian Tradition Lens
The Louisiana civil track is the only U.S. jurisdiction in this project where the substantive law itself — not just the procedural style — comes from a different legal tradition. The Civil Code descends from the Code Napoléon and the Code Louis of 1825. Civilian methodology applies to property, obligations, successions, family law, and prescription. The receiver-profile schema is extended with a second Tradition-lens axis (tradition_civilian) to capture how each court engages with civilian-method arguments — distinct from the standard common-law / equity / admiralty axis.
Louisiana State Criminal — Type E Mixed Jurisdiction
Louisiana is the canonical Type E jurisdiction — the only U.S. state with a civilian-law substantive heritage on the civil side. The criminal track adopts common-law statutory procedure, so the civilian dimension matters less here than it does for property, contracts, and successions. What does matter for the criminal map: La. Const. Art. V § 5(D) creates two structural bypasses from District Court directly to the Louisiana Supreme Court, skipping the Court of Appeal. Capital cases bypass; cases declaring laws unconstitutional bypass. No other state criminal track in this project has a comparable structural feature.