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.
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