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Tulane Law Professor Solves 200-Year-Old Mystery
February 03, 2021
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 3 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University Law School issued the following news on Feb. 2, 2021:

Tulane Law Prof. Vernon Valentine Palmer has solved a legal "whodunit."

In his new book, The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana (Univ. Georgia Press 2021), Palmer (L'65) uncovers the true identity of the men who wrote the English translation of one of Louisiana's founding documents.

"The bo . . .

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