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Transformations In American Legal Histor
Daniel W. Hamilton
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Hardback. "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. This title focuses on ideas that reshaped law as we struggled for objective and neutral legal responses to our country's crises. Editor(s): Hamilton, Daniel W.; Brophy, Alfred L. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC; LAB; LNCB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1080.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
598
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Number of Pages
598
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780674053274
SKU
V9780674053274
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About Daniel W. Hamilton
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 ... Read more
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