Transformations in American legal history : law, ideology, and methods : essays in honor of Morton J. Horwitz. Volume II / Daniel W. Hamilton, Alfred L. Brophy, editors.
2010
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Title
Transformations in American legal history : law, ideology, and methods : essays in honor of Morton J. Horwitz. Volume II / Daniel W. Hamilton, Alfred L. Brophy, editors.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KF352 .T73 2010
ISBN
9780674053274 (hbk.)
0674053273 (hbk.)
0674053273 (hbk.)
Description
vii, 579 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)502415336
Note
Published in association with Harvard Law School.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Foreword: The Continuity of Morton Horwitz / William Fisher
ix
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvii
Part I Legal History And Morton Horwitz
1
1.
A Civilized Man: Morton Horwitz Struggles with "Fundamental Law" / Frank I. Michelman
3
2.
Reading the World: Law and Social Science. / Martha Minow
13
3.
Horwitz and the End of Socio-legal History: 1975. / Hendrik Hartog
43
4.
The Origins of Modern American Legal History / G. Edward White
48
5.
Morton Horwitz and the General Historian / Laura Kalman
64
6.
Courting the State: An Essay for Morton Horwitz / William E. Forbath
70
7.
Method and Politics: Morton Horwitz on Lawyers' Uses of History / Robert W Gordon
81
8.
Morton Horwitz's Methodological Transformation: Some Musings on Transformations I and II / James R. Hackney
95
Part II Colonial And Nineteenth-Century American Law
109
9.
Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism / Christine Desan
111
10.
The Early Anti-majoritarian Rationale for Judicial Review / Robert J. Steinfeld
143
11.
Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites, and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case / Alfred S. Konefsky
165
12.
Toward a Materialist Jurisprudence / Christopher Tomlins
196
13.
The View from the Border: Law and Community in the Nineteenth Century / Allison Brownell Tirres
218
Part III Twentieth-Century American Law To The Civil Rights Revolution
237
14.
Notes from the Margins: Florence Kelley and the Making of Sociological Jurisprudence / Felice Batlan
239
15.
Conventional Morality and the Rule of Law: Freedom, Responsibility, and the Criminal Trial Jury in American Legal Thought, 1900-60 / Thomas A. Green
254
16.
Some Horwitzian Themes in the Law and History of the Federal Courts / Edward A. Purcell
271
17.
Some Contract History: About Samuel Williston / Barbara Aronstein Black
287
18.
Anti-Semitism and the Law in Quebec City: The Plamondon Case, 1910-15 / Constance Backhouse
303
19.
John R. Commons and the Origins of Legal Realism; or, The Other Tragedy of the Commons / Katherine V W Stone
326
20.
Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law / Robert A. Ferguson
344
Part IV The Warren Court.
373
21.
The Warren Court as History / Tony A. Freyer
375
22.
Timeless Truths / Owen Piss
400
23.
The Warren Court, Legalism, and Democracy: Sketch for a Critique in a Style Learned from Morton Horwitz / William H. Simon
407
24.
Notes toward a Sociology of Human Rights. / Lawrence M. Friedman
422
25.
The Warren Court and the Limits of Justice / Mark Tushnet
433
26.
"Constitutionalizing" Human Rights: The Rise and Rise of the Nuremberg Principles / Elizabeth Borgwardt
446
Part V The Past And Future Of Legal History
467
27.
Transformations in the Digitally Networked Environment / Yochai Benkler
469
28.
Morton Horwitz Wrestles with the Rule of Law / Sanford Levinson Jack M. Balkin
483
29.
Horwitz and the Direction of Legal Thought / William E. Nelson
500
30.
"Great Beyond His Knowing": Morton Horwitz's Influence on Legal Education and Scholarship in England, Canada, and Australia / David Sugarman
504
Part VI Appreciations
543
31.
My Morty / Alfred L. Brophy
545
32.
Introducing Mort Horwitz / Pnina Lahav
556
About the Editors
559
About the Contributors
561
Index
571