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Three aspects of J. Willard Hurst's locatedness strike me as being noteworthy: his identification as a law teacher, in Wisconsin, in the mid-twentieth century United States of America. It mattered immensely, as Ernst shows in this issue, that his life of mind was significantly formed in the period between the world wars.
Hurst's work is colored by these environments at every turn. Even assuming that he ranks with the likes of Tocqueville, Bryce, or Weber as a “broad-gauged socio-legal thinker of the first order,” it is important to consider him, not as a disembodied, unsituated intellect, but rather as a scholar who lived, worked, and wrote in a context. Though in part “an important extension of and dialogue with several well-established traditions and intellectual frameworks” on both sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the world's longest undefended border, his work was also the product of a mind embodied.
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- Law and History Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1: Engaging Willard Hurst: A Symposium , Spring 2000 , pp. 187 - 196
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