Robert S. Hunt, Humanist in the Law

I first came to know Bob Hunt in the middle 1950\u27s when he pursued research and writing in United States legal history at the University of Wisconsin Law School under a Rockefeller Fellowship. The focus of his work was interactions between law and the economy in the 19th century. The program was a venture into unexplored territory. Scholars had almost always dealt with legal history in terms of the structure and procedures of the formal agencies of law or in terms of constitutional history in its conventional sense. There was little precedent for studying the functional—or dysfunctional—bearing of law on the structure and operation of the private market, of problems of mustering private capital, of government subsidies to private undertakings, of dealings with interest-group lobbies, of the distribution of gains and costs of using natural resources, of employing labor, and of responding to consumers. To move into such uncharted areas—to conceive of legal history as hyphenate history, as legal-economic, legal-social, legal-political history—demanded flexibility, imagination, and persistence from Professor Hunt, who met the challenge

The Slave Trade Question in European Diplomacy, 1807-1822

Despite the importance of the Slave Trade Question in European diplomacy from 1807-1822, historians of this period have neglected it in order to concentrate on Napoleon and the reconstruction of Europe. Scholars of Negro history generally have traced the slave trade up to 1807 and then have turned to the emancipation movement. This thesis represents an attempt to satisfy the need for a diplomatic study of this issue

Justice Holmes on Legal History

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