Harvard Law School
The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
The Illinois Legal History Program
Are pleased to announce:
A Conference in Honor of Professor Morton Horwitz
Harvard Law School
September 26 & 27, 2008
This conference is free and open to all.
Conference Schedule:
Friday, September 26
9:00 a.m. Dean Elena Kagan – Welcome
9:15 – 11:00 a.m.
Roundtable I
The Constitution, the Courts, and American Legal Thought
o Frank Michelman – The Constitution of Change
o Terry Fisher – The Transformation of Morton Horwitz
o Robert Gordon – Horwitz on Lawyers’ and Judges’ Uses of History
o Dalia Tsuk – Transformations: Pluralism, Individualism, and Democracy o William Forbath – Courting the State
o Ed Purcell – Horwitzian Themes in the History of the Federal Courts
o Martha Minow – After Brown: Law and Social Science
o Duncan Kennedy – Morton Horwitz and Critical Legal History Moderator: Daniel W. Hamilton
11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Roundtable II
Contract, the Market, and Technology in Law and Legal Theory
o Barbara Black –Some Contract History
o Lewis Grossman – The Benefits and Evils of Competition: James Coolidge Carter’s Supreme Court Advocacy
o Yochai Benkler – Transformations in the Digitally Networked Environment: The Second Time As Farce?
o Greg Mark – On Limited Liability: A Speculative Essay on Evolution and Justification
o Katherine Stone – John R. Commons and the Origins of Legal Realism; Or, The Other Tragedy of the Commons
o Oren Bracha – Geniuses and Owners: The Construction of Inventors and the Emergence of American Intellectual Property
o Steven Wilf – The Moral Lives of Intellectual Properties Moderator: Alfred Brophy
1:00 – 2:10 p.m.
Lunch
Speakers:
o Stan Katz and Dirk Hartog – Our First Encounters with Morty: Notes toward the Historiography of American Legal History after the Coming of Morty
o Ted White The Origins of Modern American Legal History
2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Roundtable III
Colonial Law, the Revolution, and the Early Republic
o Daniel Hulsebosch – Debating the Transformation of American Law: James Kent, Joseph Story, and the Legacy of the Revolution
o Alison LaCroix – Drawing and Redrawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty
o Mary Bilder – Colonial Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law
o Sally Hadden – DeSaussure and Ford: A Charleston Law Firm of the 1790s
o Christine Desan – Contract and the Coming of Capitalism
o Rob Steinfeld – Conflicting Visions of Constitutional Order and Judicial Review in the Early Republic
o Fred Konefsky – Boston Culture and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case
Moderator: Jed Shugerman
4:15 – 6:00 p.m.
Roundtable IV
New Legal Perspectives on the Long Nineteenth Century
o Polly J. Price – Stability and Change in Antebellum Property Law
o Daniel W. Hamilton – Emancipation and the Common Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
o Alfred Brophy – Progress and Law in Antebellum Literary Addresses
o David Barron, War Powers in Historical Perspective
o Sandy Kedar – The Transformation of the Israeli Land Regime
o Constance Backhouse – Anti-Semitism and the Law in Québec City: The Plamondon Case, 1910-1915
o Elizabeth Blackmar – Historical Materialism and the Languages of Law, Ideology, and Common Sense
o Chris Tomlins – One More Time: Marxism and the History of Law
Moderator: Ariela Dubler
6:00 -7:00 p.m.
Reception
Saturday, September 27
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Roundtable V
The Warren Court, Rights, and Democracy
o Owen Fiss – The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice
o Mark Tushnet – The Warren Court and the Limits of Justice
o Chris Schmidt – Hugo Black’s Civil Rights Movement
o Tony Freyer – The Warren Court As History
o Stephen A. Siegel – The Death and Rebirth of the Clear and Present Danger Test
o William Simon – Morton Horwitz, Critical Legal Studies, and the Warren Court
o Thomas Green – Freedom, Responsibility and the Criminal Trial Jury in American Legal Thought
o Lawrence Friedman – Fundamental Rights in Historical Perspective
Moderator: Kenneth Mack
11:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Roundtable VI
The History and Historiography of Legal History
o Charles Donahue, Jr. – Whither Legal History?
o Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin – Morton Horwitz and The Rule of Law
o Laura Kalman – Transformations
o Bill Nelson – Who Should Judge Legal History: Lawyers or Historians?
o Assaf Likhovski – Two Horwitzian Journeys
o James Hackney – Professor Horwitz’s Post-Modern Transformation
o William Michael Treanor – Morton Horwitz: Legal Historian as Lawyer and Historian
o David Sugarman – The Influence of Morton Horwitz in the English-Speaking World Beyond the USA
Moderator: Bruce Mann
12:45 p.m. Morton Horwitz – Remarks
Introduction: Pnina Lahav