The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860Harvard University Press, 1977 - 356 sivua In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. |
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The Emergence of an Instrumental Conception of Law | 1 |
The Transformation in the Conception of Property | 31 |
Subsidization of Economic Growth through the Legal System | 63 |
Competition and Economic Development | 109 |
The Relation between the Bar and Commercial Interests | 140 |
The Triumph of Contract | 160 |
The Development of Commercial Law | 211 |
The Rise of Legal Formalism | 253 |
Notes | 269 |
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