University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series

University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series

 

The Origins of Modern American Legal History

G. Edward White, University of Virginia Law School

Abstract

This essay was delivered at a conference at Harvard Law School honoring Morton Horwitz in September, 2008. It will be be published by Harvard University Press in a volume of essays drawn from the conference. The essay identifies the origins of modern American legal history in the legal academy with a series of events that took place at Harvard Law school between 1967 and the mid 1970s.

Subject Area

Legal History, Public Law and Legal Theory

Recommended Citation

G. Edward White, "The Origins of Modern American Legal History" (February 2009). University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series. University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. Working Paper 118.
http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art118

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