Transformations in American Legal History: 1
Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz
Published on 1. March 2009
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-674-03346-7 (ISBN)
Description
During his career at Harvard, Morton Horwitz changed the questions legal historians ask. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977) disclosed the many ways that judge-made law favored commercial and property interests and remade law to promote economic growth. The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 (1992) continued that project, with a focus on ideas that reshaped law as we struggled for objective and neutral legal responses to our country's crises.
In this book, Horwitz's students re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late twentieth century. They ask classic Horwitzian questions, of how legal doctrine, thought, and practice are shaped by the interests of the powerful, as well as by the ideas of lawyers, politicians, and others. The essays address current questions in legal history, from colonial legal practice to questions of empire, civil rights, and constitutionalism in a democracy. The essays are, like Horwitz, provocative and original as they continue his transformation of American legal history.
In this book, Horwitz's students re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late twentieth century. They ask classic Horwitzian questions, of how legal doctrine, thought, and practice are shaped by the interests of the powerful, as well as by the ideas of lawyers, politicians, and others. The essays address current questions in legal history, from colonial legal practice to questions of empire, civil rights, and constitutionalism in a democracy. The essays are, like Horwitz, provocative and original as they continue his transformation of American legal history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03346-7 (9780674033467)
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Persons
Daniel W. Hamilton is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Alfred L. Brophy is Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Mary Sarah Bilder is Founders Professor of Law and Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School. Alfred L. Brophy is Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Charles Donahue, Jr., is Paul A. Freund Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Sally E. Hadden is Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University. Alison L. LaCroix is Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.