Transformations in American Legal History

Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz

Edited by Daniel W. Hamilton

Edited by Alfred L. Brophy

    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    1. Debating the Transformation of American Law: James, Kent, Joseph Story, and the Legacy of the Revolution
      Daniel J. Husebosch
    2. Colonial Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law
      Mary Sarah Bilder
    3. Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty
      Alison LaCroix
    4. DeSaussure and Ford: A Charleston Law Firm of the 1790s
      Sally E. Hadden
    5. Utility, History, and the Rule of Law: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in Antebellum Jurisprudence
      Alfred L. Brophy
    6. Stability and Change in Antebellum Property Law: Stare Decisis in Judicial Rhetoric
      Polly J. Price
    7. “The Benefits and Evils of Competition”: James Coolidge Carter's Supreme Court Advocacy

    8. On Limited Liability: A Speculative Essay on Evolution and Justification
      Gregory Mark
    9. Transformations: Pluralism, Individualism, and Democracy
      Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
    10. The Death and Rebirth of the Clear and Present Danger Test
      Stephen A. Siegel
    11. Hugo Black's Civil Rights Movement
      Christopher Schmidt
    12. Peregrinations of the Free Rider: The Changing Logics of collective Obligation
      Elizabeth Blackmar
    13. Two Horwitzian Journeys
      Assaf Likhovski
    14. Morton Horwitz: Legal Historian as Lawyer and Historian
      William Michael Treanor
    15. Whither Legal History?
      Charles Donahue Jr.
    16. The Moral Lives of Intellectual Properties
      Steven Wilf
    17. Geniuses and Owners: The Construction of Inventors and the Emergence of American Intellectual Property
      Oren Bracha
    18. Morton Horwitz and the Teaching of American Legal History
      Daniel W. Hamilton
    • About the Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Transformations in American Legal History
  • A photo of the author

Daniel W. Hamilton is Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Alfred L. Brophy is Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina.