Morton J. Horwitz

Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History

Office:	Griwold 310
Assistant:	Sandra Mays 617/496-3358
Phone:	(617) 495-3164
Fax:	(617) 496-4863
Email:	horwitz@law.harvard.edu

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Bibliography

Books

Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (Hill And Wang 1998).
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American Legal Realism (Morton J. Horwitz, William W. Fisher & Thomas A. Reed eds., Oxford University Press 1993).
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Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (Oxford University Press 1992).
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Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Harvard University Press 1977).
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Articles in a Periodical

Horwitz, Morton J. "Constitutional Transplants," 10 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 535 (2009).

Horwitz, Morton J. "A Brief History of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review," 37 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 249 (2002).
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Horwitz, Morton J. "In Memoriam: William J. Brennan, Jr," 111 Harvard Law Review 23 (1998).
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Horwitz, Morton J. "Why is Anglo-American Jurisprudence Unhistorical?" 17 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 551 (1997).
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Horwitz, Morton J. "The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation," 102 Yale Law Journal 1287 (1993) (book review).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," 50 Washington and Lee Law Review 5 (1993).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Forward: The Constitution of Change: Legal Fundamentality without Fundamentalism," 107 Harvard Law Review 30 (1993).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Is the Third Amendment Obsolete?" 26 Valparaiso Law Review 209 (1991).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Meaning of the Bork Nomination in American Constitutional History," 50 University of Pittsburg Law Review 655 (1989).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Bork Nomination and American Constitutional History," 39 Syracuse Law Review 1029 (1988).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Rights," 23 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 393 (1988).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Warren Court: Rediscovering the Link Between Law and Culture," 55 University of Chicago Law Review 4450 (1988).

Horwitz, Morton J. "History and Theory," 96 Yale Law Journal 1825 (1987).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Republicanism and Liberalism in American Constitutional Thought," 29 William & Mary Law Review 57 (1987).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Are Law Schools Fifty Years Out of Date?" 54 University of Missouri Law Review 1029 (1986).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Santa Clara Revisited: The Development of Corporate Theory," 88 West Virginia Law Review 173 (1986).
(reprinted in 29 Corporate Practice Commentator 313 (1987) and W. J. Samuels and A.S. Miller, eds., Corporations and Society 13 (1987))

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Changing Common Law," 9 Dalhousie Law Journal 55 (1984).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Progressive Legal Historiography," 63 Oregon Law Review 679 (1984).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Comment: The History of Public/Private Distinction," 130 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1423 (1982).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Comment: The Historical Contingency of the Role of History," 90 Yale Law Journal 1057 (1981).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Law and Economics: Science or Politics?" 8 Hofstra Law Review 905 (1980).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Jurisprudence of Brown and the Dilemmas of Liberalism in Namorato, ed., Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown," 14 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 599 (1979).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Rule of Law: An Unqualified Human Good?" 86 Yale Law Journal 561 (1977) (reviewing E. P. Thomson, Random House, Whigs and Hunters (1976)).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Gilmore: The Ages of American Law," 27 Buffalo Law Review 47 (1977) (book review).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Legacy of 1776 in Legal and Economic Thought," 19 Journal of Law and Economy 621 (1976).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Gilmore: The Death of Contract," 42 University of Chicago Law Review 787 (1975) (book review).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Rise of Legal Formalism," 19 American Journal of Legal History 215 (1975).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Historical Foundations of Modern Contract Law," 87 Harvard Law Review 917 (1974).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Transformation in the Conception of Property in American Law, 1780-1860," 40 University of Chicago Law Review 248 (1973).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Conservative Tradition in the Writing of American Legal History," 17 American Journal of Legal History 275 (1973).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Goebel: History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801," 85 Harvard Law Review 1076 (1972) (book review).

Horwitz, Morton J. "The Emergence of an Instrumental Conception of Property in American Law, 1780-1820," 5 Perspectives in American History 281 (1971).
(Reprinted in Law and American History 281)

Horwitz, Morton J. "Some Thoughts on the Relation of Political Theory to Anthropology," 28 American Political Science Review 293 (1968).

Horwitz, Morton J. "Tocqueville and the Tyranny of the Majority," 28 Review of Politics 293 (1968).

Internet Publications

Chayes, Abram, William W. Fisher, Morton J. Horwitz, Frank I. Michelman, Martha L. Minow, Charles R. Nesson & Todd D. Rakoff. The Bridge (1999).
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Unpublished Manuscripts

. "The Latter-Day Fate of Caveat Emptor" (1985)
(unpublished manuscript used in several Harvard Law School classes).

Works in Progress

Horwitz, Morton J. Introduction to Transformation of American Law, 1780-1960 (2002).

Horwitz, Morton J. No title given, (for symposia on work in Tulsa Law Review) (2001).