James Willard Hurst

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James Willard Hurst

Law

#1121

World Rank

#1435

Historical Rank

#597

USA Rank

International Law

#1629

World Rank

#1934

Historical Rank

#740

USA Rank

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Why Is James Willard Hurst Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, James Willard Hurst is widely credited as the founder of the modern field of American legal history. Educated at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935, Hurst was a research assistant to Professor Felix Frankfurter, and later a law clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis. Hurst spent most of his professional career as a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin. He was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge in 1967. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1958 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966.

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James Willard Hurst's Published Works

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Published Works

The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (1977) (200)
The Politics of Democracy (1965) (23)
Holland, Switzerland, and Belgium and the English Gold Crisis of 1931 (1932) (21)
Truth and Fiction about the Fourteenth Amendment (1939) (15)
Conflict in Laos (1964) (14)
The Wisconsin pine lands of Cornell University (1944) (11)
Willard Hurst, Consensus History, and the Growth of American Law@@@The Growth of American Law. (1992) (9)
The Legal Process, An Introduction to Decision-Making by Judicial, Legislative, Executive and Administrative Agencies (1963) (6)
Treason in the United States? I. Treason down to the Constitution (1944) (5)
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Proving Years 1870-1882 (1963) (5)
The Legal Process: An Introduction to Decision-Making by Judicial, Legislative, Executive, and Administrative Agencies (1962) (3)
Changing Popular Views About Law and Lawyers (1953) (2)
Law in Society (1941) (2)
Who is the "Great" Appellate Judge? (1949) (2)
Treason in the United States: II. The Constitution (1945) (1)
The Unfinished Work of the Instrumentalists (1984) (1)
Treason in the United States: III. Under the Constitution (1945) (1)
The Life Of John Mclean (1971) (1)
Practical Construction of the War Power@@@War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power: The Origins. (1978) (1)
The Content of Courses in Legislation (1941) (1)
Law in Society: A Course Designed for Undergraduates and Beginning Law Students (1941) (1)
The Laws of Illinois Territory 1809-1818 (1951) (0)
Law; The Science of Inefficiency. By William Seagle. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1952. Pp. vii, 177. $3.50.) (1953) (0)
Living Law of Democratic Society. By Jerome Hall. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1949. Pp. 146. $2.50.) (1950) (0)
Law and the Limits of Individuality (1960) (0)
Review of The Life Insurance Enterprise, 1885-1910: A Study in the Limits of Corporate Power by Morton Keller (1963) (0)
Lawyers as Strategists and Tacticians@@@The New Deal Lawyers. (1983) (0)
Lincoln's Manager: David Davis (Book Review) (1960) (0)

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