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Southern University Law Center Professor Publishes Louisiana Criminal Law Textbook
Southern University Law Center (SULC) Professor Okechukwu Oko recently published Louisiana Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2025). The book delivers a comprehensive examination of Louisiana criminal law, offering students, scholars, and practitioners rigorous analysis and fresh perspectives that enhance understanding of the field.
The book highlights several key components of Louisiana criminal law. First, it explains the notion of criminal responsibility, providing the foundation for understanding how liability is assigned. Second, it examines defenses that either exculpate or justify otherwise criminal conduct, including insanity, intoxication, mistake, compulsion, necessity, self-defense, and provocation. Third, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of crimes in Louisiana, with detailed explanations of the elements of major offenses such as homicide, assault, battery, sexual offenses, kidnapping, theft, robbery, burglary, and arson. Finally, the text explores inchoate crimes, conspiracy, solicitation, attempt, and parties to a crime, offering clarity on how these offenses operate within Louisiana’s legal framework.
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