As John Witt and Sarah Gordon tell us in their foreword to Taming the Past, Bob Gordon’s lifetime of work offers “a sharp and uncompromising theoretical apparatus.” The chapters in the third part of Taming the Past in particular live up to this promise: They point to legal history’s potential and lay out a plan of research and, while it might have been difficult to discern in the 1980s, by now we might say that they laid out a history of the future—our future as legal historians.

* Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.