Transformations in American legal history
Subtitle: essays in honor of professor Morton J. Horwitz
By: Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy.
Contributors: Horwitz, Morton J., 1938-; Hamilton, Daniel W.; Brophy, Alfred L.
Publisher: Harvard Law School; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780674033467
Subjects: Horwitz, Morton J., -- 1938-; Law -- United States -- History; Law -- United States -- Philosophy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Debating the transformation of American law: James Kent, Joseph Story and the legacy of the revolution / Daniel J. Hulsebosch; title: Colonial constitutionalism and constitutional law / Mary Sarah Bilder; title: Drawing and redrawing the line: the pre-revolutionary origins of federal ideas of sovereignty / Alison LaCroix; title: Desaussure and Ford: a Charleston law firm of the 1790s / Sally E. Hadden; title: Utility, history, and the rule of law: the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in antebellum jurisprudence / Alfred L. Brophy; title: Stability and change in antebellum property law: stare decisis in judicial rhetoric / Polly J. Price; title: "The benefits and evils of competition": James Coolidge Carter's Supreme Court advocacy / Lewis A. Grossman; title: On limited liability: a speculative essay on evolution and justification / Gregory Mark; title: Transformations: pluralism, individualism, and democracy / Dalia Tsuk Mitchell; title: The death and rebirth of the clear and present danger test / Stephen A. Siegel; title: Hugo Black's civil rights movement / Christopher Schmidt; title: Peregrinations of the free rider: the changing logics of collective obligation / Elizabeth Blackmar; title: Two Horwitzian journeys / Assaf Likhovski; title: Morton Horwitz: legal historian as lawyer and historian / William Michael Treanor; title: Whither legal history? / Charles Donahue Jr; title: The moral lives of intellectual properties / Steven Wilf; title: Geniuses and owners: the construction of inventors and the emergence of American intellectual property / Oren Bracha; title: Morton Horwitz and the teaching of American legal history / Daniel W. Hamilton.