Book contents
- Taming the Past
- Studies in Legal History
- Taming the Past
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography
- Part II Legal Historians
- Part III History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument
- 10 Historicism in Legal Scholarship*
- 11 Critical Legal Histories*
- 12 The Past as Authority and as Social Critic: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of History in Legal Argument*
- 13 Taming the Past: Histories of Liberal Society in American Legal Thought*
- 14 Originalism and Nostalgic Traditionalism
- 15 Undoing Historical Injustice*
- Index
13 - Taming the Past: Histories of Liberal Society in American Legal Thought*
from Part III - History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017
- Taming the Past
- Studies in Legal History
- Taming the Past
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography
- Part II Legal Historians
- Part III History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument
- 10 Historicism in Legal Scholarship*
- 11 Critical Legal Histories*
- 12 The Past as Authority and as Social Critic: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Functions of History in Legal Argument*
- 13 Taming the Past: Histories of Liberal Society in American Legal Thought*
- 14 Originalism and Nostalgic Traditionalism
- 15 Undoing Historical Injustice*
- Index
Summary
[This essay is a somewhat revised and expanded version of the Thomas M. Cooley Lectures given at the University of Michigan Law School in February of 1993.]
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- Taming the PastEssays on Law in History and History in Law, pp. 317 - 360Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017