Book contents
- Taming the Past
- Studies in Legal History
- Taming the Past
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography
- Part II Legal Historians
- 3 Social-Legal History’s Pioneer: The Work of James Willard Hurst
- 4 Hurst Recaptured
- 5 Morton Horwitz and his Critics: A Conflict of Narratives
- 6 The Elusive Transformation*
- 7 Method and Politics: Morton Horwitz on Lawyers’ Uses of History
- 8 E. P. Thompson’s Legacies
- 9 The Constitution of Liberal Order at the Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State*
- Part III History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument
- Index
7 - Method and Politics: Morton Horwitz on Lawyers’ Uses of History
from Part II - Legal Historians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017
- Taming the Past
- Studies in Legal History
- Taming the Past
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography
- Part II Legal Historians
- 3 Social-Legal History’s Pioneer: The Work of James Willard Hurst
- 4 Hurst Recaptured
- 5 Morton Horwitz and his Critics: A Conflict of Narratives
- 6 The Elusive Transformation*
- 7 Method and Politics: Morton Horwitz on Lawyers’ Uses of History
- 8 E. P. Thompson’s Legacies
- 9 The Constitution of Liberal Order at the Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State*
- Part III History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument
- Index
Summary
[This was a contribution to a Symposium on the occasion of Morton Horwitz’s retirement as the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School. The Symposium was published in a two-volume edition of its proceedings edited by Daniel Hamilton and Al Brophy as Transformations in Legal History (Harvard University Press, 2010).]
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- Taming the PastEssays on Law in History and History in Law, pp. 135 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017