I've been spending some quality time of late reading the page proofs for Transformations in American Legal History — Law, Ideology, and Methods — Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz. It's a great volume (I'm obviously incredibly biased), which has a lot of talk by distinguished historians about Horwitz' scholarship. There is more discussion of Horwitz' constitutional law scholarship and less on the common law than I might have expected. There's also a lot of talk about the trajectory of legal history, how it's now populated with more women and African Americans as subjects of study than when Horwitz began — and how it's engaged with issues of contemporary concern, instead of antiquarian interests.
Anyway, the volume will be off to the printer shortly. Barnes and Noble is offering it for just under $31 if you pre-order now. The first festchrift volume is still available (at the list price of $45), though I am reliably informed that the supply of the first volume is running low and so if this is something you're going to want, I hope you'll get it soon. Or better yet, pass the recommendation along to your favorite librarian. My guess is that the first volume will go out of print soon.
The table of contents for the second volume is as follows:
Foreword, William W. Fisher, The Continuity of Morton Horwitz
PART I LEGAL HISTORY AND MORTON HORWITZ
1 Frank I. Michelman, A Civilized Man: Morton Horwitz Struggles with “Fundamental Law”
2 Martha Minow, Reading the World: Law and Social Science
3 Hendrik Hartog, Horwitz and the End of Socio-legal History: 1975
4 G. Edward White, The Origins of Modern American Legal History
5 Laura Kalman, Morton Horwitz and the General Historian
6 William E. Forbath, Courting the State: An Essay for Morton Horwitz
7 Robert W. Gordon, Method and Politics: Morton Horwitz on Lawyers’ Uses of History
8 James R. Hackney Jr., Morton Horwitz’s Methodological Transformation: Some Musings on Transformations I and II
PART II COLONIAL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LAW
9 Christine Desan, Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism
10 Robert J. Steinfeld, The Early Anti-majoritarian Rationale for Judicial Review
11 Alfred S. Konefsky, Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites, and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case
12 Christopher Tomlins, Toward a Materialist Jurisprudence
13 Allison Brownell Tirres, The View from the Border: Law and Community in the Nineteenth Century
PART III TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LAW TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION
14 Felice Batlan, Notes from the Margins: Florence Kelley and the Making of Sociological Jurisprudence
15 Thomas A. Green, Conventional Morality and the Rule of Law: Freedom, Responsibility, and the Criminal Trial Jury in American Legal Thought, 1900–60
16 Edward A. Purcell Jr., Some Horwitzian Themes in the Law and History of the Federal Courts
17 Barbara Aronstein Black, Some Contract History: About Samuel Williston
18 Constance Backhouse, Anti-Semitism and the Law in Québec City: The Plamondon Case, 1910–15
19 Katherine V. W. Stone, John R. Commons and the Origins of Legal Realism; or, The Other Tragedy of the Commons
20 Robert A. Ferguson, Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law
PART IV THE WARREN COURT
21 Tony A. Freyer, The Warren Court as History
22 Owen Fiss, Timeless Truths
23 William H. Simon, The Warren Court, Legalism, and Democracy: Sketch for a Critique in a Style Learned from Morton Horwitz
24 Lawrence M. Friedman, Notes toward a Sociology of Human Rights
25 Mark Tushnet, The Warren Court and the Limits of Justice
26 Elizabeth Borgwardt, “Constitutionalizing” Human Rights: The Rise and Rise of the Nuremberg Principles
PART V THE PAST AND FUTURE OF LEGAL HISTORY
27 Yochai Benkler, Transformations in the Digitally Networked Environment
28 Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Morton Horwitz Wrestles with the Rule of Law
29 William E. Nelson, Horwitz and the Direction of Legal Thought
30 David Sugarman, “Great Beyond His Knowing”: Morton Horwitz’s Influence on Legal Education and Scholarship in England, Canada, and Australia
PART VI APPRECIATIONS
31 Alfred L. Brophy, My Morty
32 Pnina Lahav, Introducing Mort Horwitz
More on the first volume, including the table of contents, is here.