Cambridge University Press Law, Society, and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Product Description This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays by colleagues and disciples, this volume presents a sustained examination and application of Friedman's ideas and methods. Together, the essays in this volume show the powerful ripple effects of Friedman's work on American and comparative legal sociology, American and comparative legal history and the general sociology of law and legal change. Book Description This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by a group of distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Lawrence M. Friedman. About the Author Robert W. Gordon is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale University. He has also taught at the universities of Buffalo, Wisconsin and Stanford. He is the author of The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Critical Legal Histories and many articles on the history of the legal profession, the uses of history in legal argument and contract law. He is at work on a history of the American legal profession in the twentieth century.Morton J. Horwitz is Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law at Harvard University. He is the author of The Transformation of American Law 1780–1860, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, The Transformation of American Law, 1870–1960 and The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice. He is at work on a history of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren, a volume in the Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court.