Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker
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 commer
Transformations in American Legal History—Law, Ideology, and Methods is the second of two volumes of essays by Morton J. Horwitz's students, colleagues, and friends. The essays are inspired by Horwit
