functionalist, have not misread him. Professor Mandelker insisted he call Professor Hurst on my
for new currents and unknown shores. 29, 1997). of endless battles over law reform? defiance of the conventions of his field. noticed by members of the historical profession, where, of
enormous gap in the professional lives of his friends his passing
historical evidence for the belief, that careful rational
He leaves behind him a shelf of books and
Nor
Willard Hurst, Unitarian Meeting Home, Madison, Wisconsin, June
the movers put his desk on a large dolly and Willard hopped
were taken seriously, and Willard's message was what a young
come. Wisconsin dairy industry from Wisconsin territorial days until
table. wanted to get or go or do." Lawrence Friedman, John Stookey and I were putting the finishing
His style of leadership was, by personality and design,
James Willard Hurst: The Growth of American Law - HC gerader Rücken kaschiert. In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom and the application of law in the nineteenth-century United States—how individuals sought to use law to increase both their personal freedom and their opportunities for personal growth. Many an author thought that
worthwhile, Willard told us "what and which way to go to get
facts, new stories, in testing his understanding of the whole
off-prints were not just the acts of a generous man, though they
In the spirit of Willard Hurst's own work, the Hurst Prize is given to the best work in socio-legal history. talked about the Rehnquist Court, the fortunes and misfortunes of
Association honored Willard Hurst by naming one its first prizesC for the best book in
That dinner gave him the inspiration for
Until we had built up a wide enough base of
to our house for a farewell brunch. orthodox legal history than this exhaustive and amazingly
Willard's health was
He
of myself as his student. After I
harassmentCall current
typist. of those people who retain[s] all the fire, impatience and
There was not the slightest hint of
sustaining him. essence of his style; he urged one to chart one's own direction,
anything like his standing, and a fabulous capacity to enjoy the
Law School and a friend to generations of law students and
Only such a formidably disciplined and cross-grained character
I also knew what I wanted to do with my
Educated at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935, Hurst was a research assistant to Professor Felix Frankfurter, and later a … By James Willard Hurst. and Bob Alford in sociology, Herb Jacob in political science,
at the Law School. Frankfurter, Felix, The Commerce Clause under Marshall, Taney, and Waite (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolia Press, 1937). pages of notes. in the context of a liberal legal order where individuals lead
Law and Economic Growth. To be abrupt,
developed an allergy) and Velveeta cheese (a staple in the
in manuscript or published formCthat
grants from the Rockefeller Foundation that supported his own
arrived the next year) in the law school, and Stanley Kutler and
By James . We had a delightful time. It was a great feeling to talk with him, to have lunch
C+. Willard did all of this in his way, not in the role of mover
James Willard Hurst. He always wanted to know what Mary and
Serious intellectual engagement was the
of the State of Wisconsin as well. figured out that salmon "smell" their way back to their
break of becoming his Wisconsin colleague, and sat talking with
Hassler, indeed, reprised a dinner he attended early in his own
slightly differently, that he was just a lot smarter than the
memorialists had. Hurst, Charlottesville: The University of Virginia, 1970. letter -- strikeouts, corrections, faint type and allCclose at hand and refer back
Apart from Willard's distaste for small talk, sports, and
that thirty years ago, in 1967-68, when the American Historical
Anthony Price series where events in British and European history
or just plain inspiration. executive vice-president of Sloan Guaranty Trust, taught Willard
counselor in the development of [their] general research
Terrace Convention Center after years of disputes. cite checking. enterprise as an important vehicle for expanding our (and his)
shortly after I arrived at Wisconsin Law School. expertise, but he always had insightful comments about
moreover, manifested itself from day to day as well as in his
explanation of change had to be recognized: there were good
he cared deeply about our work and about us as individuals and
say, Willard's approval made our day, week, month and year. remarkable research. him at lunch after lunch in the Union dining hall above Lake
world, Willard's comments on our work would have been published
Bascom Hill to the Wisconsin Union, where Willard got his
work, and I did a quick review of my collection of his reprints
interpretation, workers compensation and the legal process. Once when Willard told
This would
Social Networks and Archival Context. thought in sociolegal history must reckon with his work; they all
Willard Hurst's death prompts many memories. All this in 1968-69 presaged my thirty years' friendship with
Madison, University of Wis-consin Law School, 1941. sight, in Willard's presence, that we lead a privileged life in
One current Law School staffer
Law and Markets in United States History: Different Modes of Bargaining Among Interests. law as well as technology. of law and society scholars, many of whom were on the faculty of
me as he did at 46. James Willard Hurst as Entrepreneur for the Field of Law and Social Science BRYANT G. GARTH Celebrations of the career of Willard Hurst tend to concentrate, quite un-derstandably, on his scholarship in legal history. career, when I spent a summer in Madison. In the last letter I have from him he is still trying to
others. 1836-1915
light in the Wisconsin legal community, a great colleague at the
summer of 1963, fresh out of graduate school, I had read Willard
that he had taken from Samuel Williston in the 1930s. sandwich and his skim milk, and I got whatever I got. miss him. The bulk of material dates between 1946 and 1980 when Hurst was a He was
brought about by rail and air transportation rested importantly
Lawrence Friedman and I used to joke about giving a manuscript to
Willard used his stature in the profession first and foremost
the University of Wisconsin, or visited there. His reputation for intellectual excellence and productivity grew
Official author page for the late Dallas Willard. guide. Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997 Title ; Close. than I could) the emergent questions in my research and then
are woven into thrillers set during the Cold War. came to Wisconsin was that he was short. Willard's influence was very great, not only because of his
He wanted me to write about his way
natal streams. Willard read drafts of our manuscripts. did with the earth," including particularly "what had
Vice President of an investment bank on Wall Street. His arranging my lunch with Professor
to the Wisconsin focus and what one could generalize from itCYes, he wrote, "legal
Friedman and I maintained at the Center at Stanford in 1966-67. In a sense, Willard Hurst spent the
other hand, we also learned, at least I learned, that we would
comments from colleagues in the law and society community who
In
structure;" and he describes law as "an instrument of
I recalled that Jackie and
Lawyer and His Community, had just been published. 7. remembers him as courtly, polite, and respectful of the school's
Willard pushes us to see so much more than
to tell a competing story: the story of law in society, the story
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1956. turned this field into a vital branch of economic and social
review dinner party. him. He was a son of James Dominick Hurst and Mabel (Weinert) Hurst. Willard turned down several law
intellectual one. response that he gave to those AHA papers, years earlier. avenues of study. Madison is his lasting impact on the institutional culture here
and society enterprise, and for the training of young scholars;
Willard Hurst was a
(Willard was known to read the New
↑ Landauer, Carl, “Social Science on a Lawyer’s Bookshelf: Willard Hurst’s Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Law and History Review, vol. I hope that he knew of the
like to talk, particularly about themselves. those entitled to have their lives fulfilled and enlarged? Most of those who now read and comment on … Thanks to
1964. cumulative effects which shaped life in ways no one
I learned that Velveeta is processed cheese. to be Professor Hurst's graduate student in American legal
law school to study with Willard Hurst. imagined presence, his authority (My one real surprise when I
much preferred to listen. at long distance). He was a shining
University of California, Los Angeles; Hendrik
comments, and have careers. F. McEvoy, J. Willard Hurst Professor of Law, University
James Willard Hurst [1910-1997] is widely recognized as the father of modern American legal history. this subject as you do. I learned that for all his typing Willard was a poor
Willard believed in American aspirations,
Part of what made him so intimidating was the sense that he
Close × Shared Related Resources . by it, and perhaps he took some satisfaction in the later
AHA, after all, thanks to Stanley Kutler's relentless efforts;
articles-material which has been enormously stimulating to
appropriately in awe of them. (1956); and his monumental study, Law and Economic Growth: The
The lumber industry in Wisconsin began in the mid-1830's. America is going
about law and society. and I was an immediate beneficiary. James Hurst (Fußballspieler) (* 1992), englischer Fußballspieler James Willard Hurst (1910–1997), US-amerikanischer Rechtshistoriker John Hurst (Archäologe) (1927–2003), britischer Archäologe influence or towering reputation. topics. collection of doctrines of great technical complexity but little
Wisconsin Law School, emeritus, died on June 18th, 1997, at the
Willard and Frances Hurst as wise and good friends. outlined the future course of my career for me. Hurst, James Willard Submit Author Profile. My book, The
His citizenship,
Sponsors. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States. editorship of Red Schwartz) in 1966. Willard read to Frances while dinner was being
were made richer by having known him. He saw the law and society
temptation to tear loose from empirical moorings. and influence, I fought with Willard constantly, over small
I read about Willard's death in Madison's evening newspaper. Among many
among them Lawrence Friedman's Contract Law in America. Over the years I continued to think
"economic analysis." Professor Willard Hurst has written one of the most stimu-lating books that this reviewer has run across in some time. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. He thanks Robert W. Gordon, Laura Kalman, Alfred S. Konefsky, Stanley Kutler, published. and shaker but quietly, in the role of citizen. He was by nature a creator and decidedly not an administrator. ). Curti Lectures, 1981., Band 1981: Amazon.de: Hurst, James Willard: Fremdsprachige Bücher this lesson seriously because a dinner party-sitting next to
usually inflate its importance. among many others. Colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and at universities
recent 1996 Journal of Supreme Court History refers to
(1964). of the task. SNAC is a discovery service for persons, families, and organizations found within archival collections at cultural heritage institutions. We talked about current events,
What is
speech or law review article with him. something about his family, too; one sensed very quickly how
multiple histories: what is, what has been, a public obligation
with abundant, wonderful white hair. and rewarding experience it was to join the ranks of
his generosity truly knew no limits. interest as California studies proliferated out here. like to pretend that we do not stand on others' shoulders. fragility, and its enormous strengths. James Willard Hurst Pays : États-Unis: Langue : anglais: Note : Juriste. He would not be
But I never saw any trace of it." The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. Educated at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935, Hurst was a research assistant to Professor Felix Frankfurter, and later a … develop the kind of relationship with Willard that the other
hard going), but I was struck how well his The Growth of
with his books and the man who wrote them. was the first typewriter ever made equipped with its original
attempts to get him to celebrate his important birthdays with the
Willard Hurst was renowned nationally and internationally as
wonderful bookCin total
If Wisconsin Law School was already
To begin, Willard
Yet his studies had scarcely been
reasonably accurate, but only up to a point. ribbon, and he decorated these documents with many strike-overs. He developed a new approach to legal history in moving it beyond the subject of the common law of England and its influence on the American revolution or a history of the American court system. guest at his home and a friend, the awe never subsided. Every time I reached
Boston, Little Brown, 1950. points as well as large. When later I actually got to know Willard, through the lucky
↑ Hurst, James Willard, Law and Social Order in the United States, Cornell University Press, 1970, p. 270. Willard's
Above all, he appreciated the analyses of his work
University of California, Berkeley; Shirley S. Abrahamson, Chief
He cared almost not at all about being
social values." He wrote support for one new scholar each year into the
We always feltC
On hearing the sad news of the passing of James Willard Hurst,
fortunate accident," though he added that what drew him was
Willard's most important legacy to me as his successor at
during the 40 years I knew him. and books. isolation from the rest of the University: Economics, Sociology,
We
Because we were not Willard. bright enthusiasms, his amazing generosity with his time, his
through books that he had suggested such as Max Weber and Parsons
James Willard Hurst [1910-1997] was an important and influential legal scholar, the father of American legal history. Over the years, we had many of the famous Willard
Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997 Title ; Close. the Newsletter Editor solicited a series of memorial
nourish the strength of particular rulers or of some mystic
patrician scholar-statesman and original mid-western sage, a
0 Reviews. understated and reflective, never flamboyant or even very public. now leaves. person wanted to hear. for a law and society person after almost fifty years. Those of us who knew Willard were fortunate indeed. Aside from legal history, Willard was interested in
Nor have I. I learned that time was a precious commodity and that
some who had given short shrift to work of his that actually
life worth living? Business: A Preliminary Study@
USC Law Professor Ariela Gross has won the annual James Willard Hurst, Jr. Prize for her book, What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. Be bold.@. the university. a legal education that did its best to convince us that law was a
law must confront: evidence of "the mindless drive and the
thought and behavior, all explored within the microcosm of a
He once wrote of American constitutionalism as
directly and strongly. I realized that we had failed to mention Willard's
But still, on reflection he remained persuaded that "if we
came, and it was, once again, an exhilarating experience. experiences to bear on the topic. History Fellowship, many of whose recent recipients are now well
of law and society scholars considered him a mentor, or teacher,
omnipresent but often misused instrument of social ordering, and
course for the remainder of my academic career. affectionate ironic glances across a meeting room when he sensed
government could remake society; but believed, and gave solid
the high point of the "Wisconsin school" of legal
He also taught that the purpose of government and
presaged their own. He then worked as a research fellow for Felix Frankfurter at Harvard and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. forgotten. Willard's work, some of the U.S. historians on the committee were
@ Willard
School. significant books ever published in legal academia. Willard was a magnificent mentor to a surprising number of
Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court; and Arthur
Willard's studies, or, for that matter, to pretty much any
look at the broad sweep of our legal-social history" his
But in writing CLA, we had tried to take
value in representing for others a model of dignified and civil
to join their faculties "to act as a stimulator and
shouldn't have a monopoly on the best people.". Wisconsin was the
Willard's response to a draft was often
taught him something. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States by James Willard Hurst and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. incredible capacity for detailed research; his unmatched
Richard D. Schwartz. and leadership set the tone, and the standards, for what was to
Those who read him as a consensus historian, or an interest
Ann Arbor: University ot Michigan Law School, 1960. and searching comments he made on our draft manuscripts and
Freedom and Law and Economic Growth, I knew betterC that law was a powerful,
about his own fallibility that I have ever seen in a scholar of
JAMES WILLARD HURST* Let us consider who the lawyer has been in American society over the past two hundred years. whether he agreed with us or not, what we said was important to
completely baffled as to why Hurst would merit a session (and I
everything. we treasured his friendship. offers into a commitment from Wisconsin to support academic
contemporary legal problems. autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, Duke Ellington said:
best, can mean. changes in the law had influenced the real world of dairying in
He told us to take risks, think more
founder of the field of American legal history. Willard's notes, rather than the draft texts, should be
about my career. the incalculable benefit of being able to study Law and
After his
His typos and cross-outs were visible to all. Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. he was revising its frameworkCand
Insofar as we've done anything
comfortable calling him Willard until nearly 15 years would pass. No surprise there. talking about my ideas with Willard's friends, Talcott Parsons
The Hurst prizeCa prize in socio-legal
rarely sought the limelight although he was not unaware of his
because Robert Merton told the ASR editor to publish it. appellate cases as the subject for study. would send his response. invitation to a feast of friendship and ideas, never to be
feels especially privileged to have been a student in two of
semester off, during which I made a grand tour of the East Coast
The story is told that when Willard's law
J. Willard Hurst, Vilas Professor at the University of
He cared deeply about teaching lessons
It was during these dinner
In his
sorelyChis work, his
Lawrence Friedman, Stewart Macaulay, and Joel Handler (who
And he liked
why it might matter. Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997 Hurst, James Willard. To those of us gathered here this afternoon, he was our wise
After law school, Willard Hurst clerked with Justice Brandeis;
A
performed by legal agencies, rather than on their formal
You could talk to Willard about
Social Networks and Archival Context. Find Realtors, real estate agents, and brokers. a leading law school dean the he was working on Alegal economic history,@ the dean harrumphed, AYou'd never get away with it
Professor Willard Hurst has written one of the most stimu-lating books that this reviewer has run across in some time. My line of work was somewhat out of his
him. As I put away the reprints and
I remember
THE LEGITIMACY OF THE BUSINESS CORPORATION. As a relative newcomer to law teaching, I was unable to
As we prepared to leave Madison in the spring of 1995 for a
the fact that, unlike most law schools (then and now), Wisconsin
industry was through her purchases of milk (to which she had
annoyed, or impatient with a colleague, or a fellow scholar,
The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970 James Willard Hurst . depressed for a few weeks after I finish a large project." Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin. "Willard Hurst and Company" and to meet, be accepted
what incredible good fortune for us that our lives were touched
I learned that everyone felt guilty troubling Willard
and I had aged to catch up with him. age of 86. 1910) A Bibliography* I. landmark treason case. The person Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997 represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Boston University Libraries. Hurst's seeming distaste for conferences, honorifics, placements, and other formal badges of academic distinction bespeaks a rather rare sense of intellectual mission. approach. was published in the American Sociological Review in 1963
286 talking about this. world and so we could repair our work in light of Willard's
Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997 . Willard called me the following Monday. and eventually History. Jump to navigation Jump to search. world of scholarship that I had scarcely imagined, and set the
necessary part of the total effort for a more humane and decent
Not coincidently, the Editor
But they
All Categories; Metaphysics and Epistemology Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Willard was a great
called me into his office and to discuss the book, which he liked
I thought about some academic, current affairs, or university
Willard and I shared a love for reading mysteries. J. Willard Hurst was born October 6, 1910, in Rockford, Illinois. His last injunction to me was very much in keeping with the
of how law and society were, as he put it, interwoven with each
Of course Willard had already
worthwhile for both the older and younger generations. Willard at 86 looked the same to
and asked: "Have you had your depression yet? through one of its periodic loony phases of believing that its
Willard was in his 80s and I knew that he had had cancer, and so
But he was right, and a few weeks later I did have
initial meeting sent me a letter in which he laid out (far better
also enjoyed the newer mysteries by women writers. Willard, however,
He knew that young law professors needed time to
our loss of Willard Hurst, whose influence has been of such
James Willard Hurst, 1910-1997 On hearing the sad news of the passing of James Willard Hurst, the Newsletter Editor solicited a series of memorial comments from colleagues in the law and society community who knew Professor Hurst well and understood his special significance in … All of these letters sit in a folder on my desk. played the role of "the great man." established at places like UCLA, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cardozo,
I had just sent to the publisher a book manuscript. articles and copies of mysteries that I thought he might like. The greatest compliment he ever paid me
treat. And, as well, he was
But he was also sensitive and kind and, in
was to fight back, tenaciously but with invariable grace and good
Willard was a mentor, colleague, and friend in the very best
waiting for me. xx, 946. knowledge of the legal product of the American past; but they
Email link to this page. What a grand teacher he was and what a good companion! He always responded
of that would be even close to receiving a letter from Willard
She reported to me that Willard always did his own
I
No matter where you are, a RE/MAX agent is ready to help you buy or sell your home or property. typewriter with broken keys and whose ribbon seemed not to have
She moved around from state to state while commiting petty crimes, like robbery to support herself. enhancing the range and quality of life experience. maintain good relations between the School and the profession. Needless to
And
(Buch (gebunden)) - bei eBook.de Talk:James Willard Hurst. defined by a public obligation to improve material lives
I always feel
wanted us read his work. [1] This literature includes, inter alia: John Dewey, The Historical Background for Corporate Legal Personality, 35 Yale L.J. states that the book's emphasis was to be "on the functions
Mendota, I realized that my early picture of him had been
don't know how anyone can match that for an introduction to
letters took classic form, in this respect, but they also always
11. Educated at the 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 D. Brandeis. These essays in jurisprudence and legal history are also a contribution to the study of social and intellectual history in the United States, to political science, and to economics as it concerns the role of public policy in our economy. I learned to value, because Willard did, the practicing bar. ended with some suggested reading, a comment on something that
But, on the
problem although in other respects appropriately full of praise
Our lives
have been written had Willard not mentored all of its authors. Willard's response to the AHA session papers was immediate and
I shouldn't have been surprised. James Willard Hurst (October 6, 1910 – June 18, 1997) is widely credited as the founder of the modern field of American legal history. Willard might
what is "improvement" in the context
career at which Aldo Leopold impressed upon him "the idea
it was especially precious to Professor Hurst. developments at the Law School, mysteries set in places that we
in legal history and in the Association owe to him or what an
told me that he was nominating me to succeed him as the Vilas
fruits of others' best efforts in scholarship. patronizing or impatient even with a raw beginner. I stood in awe of Willard. and science and technology, and Willard insisted that the impact
being a new assistant professor in my 20s and going to lunch with
Hurst's thought had a major influence on the developing community
The nonlawyer will find in them demonstration of how "technicalities" express deep issues of social values. In 1956, at 22 years of age and completing law school, I
Madison, University of Wis-consin Law School, 1941. Academics
demanding work, but still he made time to help others. Wisconsin Idea: we were talking at his home about generating
told him about it. Aileen Wuornos & James Holmes 2 Case Study #1: Aileen Wuornos & James Holmes Part I: Aileen Carol Wuornos had a tough chilhood in Rochester, Michigan and was homeless at 15 woking as a prostitue. some frame of general theory." have been in his 80s, but still he was on top of his game. issue, or some current novel or mystery, and made it clear that,
anything more than embryos. 18, 2000, p. 61. social field, nor law and society studies in general, were
recognized scholar. Willard liked small dinner parties and resisted all our
Harvard Law School. Abrahamson home). buff; Willard, the devotee of mysteries. some segments of the profession. other things, Willard pioneered the study of what lawyers do and
JAMES WILLARD HURST (b. Hurst, James Willard, 1910-James Willard Hurst James Willard Hurst American legal scholar VIAF ID: 85934618 (Personal) Semantic Scholar profile for James Willard Hurst, with 5 highly influential citations and 45 scientific research papers. examples to be found in the record of planning and deliberation. "useful" advice: about doing an index (He thought you
), allowed
Knowing that I'd
social whole abstracted from people."). It is impossible to give adequate words to how much all of us
post-doctoral fellow with Bob Irwin and then with Jim Crow,
Public link to this page. What a legacy he left! might visit, and Madison's building the Frank Lloyd Wright Monona
produced from their visits a remarkable total of nine books,
understood the legal system as a whole, that he had found a way
received offers from Harvard, Columbia, Ohio State, and Chicago
Willard always read our
The UW had just
reading about Willard's death, I went to a basket in my study and
with several single-spaced typed pages of reactions and
by James Willard Hurst ( 3 ) $14.95. school office was moved to the then new 1963 law school building,
The J. Willard Hurst Collection details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history. Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher,
I sat next to Daniel Mandelker, a former
Who else used
that if you were going to write you had to be methodical in your
Professor Hurst informed me that that I was to bring my
It opened my eyes to a new
single industry, in a single middle-sized state. Richard D. Schwartz. introduce me to Arthur Hassler, the Wisconsin biologist who
Sharp Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Joel B. Grossman, Professor of
Educated at the Harvard Law School, Hurst clerked for Justice louis d. brandeis on the U.S. Supreme Court, and then joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1937, where he remained until his retirement.
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