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's colleagues at Harvard and those from across the academy, as well as his students. These essays assess specific themes in Horwitz's 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 the Author
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. Martha Minow is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Morton J. Horwitz is a graduate of City College of New York and received a doctorate in Government and a law degree from Harvard University. Author of numerous articles in law and history, Mr. Horwitz is Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, where he teaches legal history. Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. G. Edward White is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and the author of numerous books, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars. William E. Forbath holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law and is Associate Dean for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. Robert A. Ferguson was George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University. Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University. Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Elizabeth (Kopelman) Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.


Book Information
ISBN 9780674053274
Author Daniel W. Hamilton
Format Hardback
Page Count 598
Imprint Harvard Law School
Publisher Harvard University Press