A History of American Law, 1780-1860
FAIN: FB-11333-72
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Morton J. Horwitz (Project Director: July 1972 to present)
To study the history of private American Law--torts, contracts, property, commercial and family law--during the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. To trace and explain major transformations in legal doctrine in terms of the vast social and economic changes that were taking place at this time.