Law, Ideology, and Methods: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz (II) (Transformations in American Legal History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674053273 ISBN 13: 9780674053274

Publisher: Harvard Law School, 2011

Synopsis

Over the course of 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 more recent years he has written extensively on the legal realists and the Warren Court.

Following an earlier festschrift volume by his former students, this volume includes essays by Horwitz’ colleagues at Harvard and those from across the academy, as well as his students. These essays assess specific themes in Horwitz’ work, from the antebellum era to the Warren Court, from jurisprudence to the influence of economics on judicial doctrine. The essays are, like Horwitz, provocative and original as they continue his transformation of American legal history.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel W. Hamilton is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Law School
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674053273
• ISBN 13: 9780674053274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 598
• Editor: Hamilton Daniel W., Brophy Alfred L.