Transformations in American Legal History

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674033469
• ISBN13: 9780674033467
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard Law School
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"