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.
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