The couple later divorced and he married Irene Till, on July 20, 1937, adopting her son by a previous marriage later having two children.
He taught courses in trade regulation, torts, and public control of business.
He argued that legal concepts evolved in specific historical and social contexts and that, when they were removed from their context and generalized into universal legal principles, they led to socially undesirable, often unexpected results.
He developed these arguments in a series of articles in the 1930s, which included: Affectation with a Public Interest (1930),[1] The Ancient Maxim Caveat Emptor (1931),[2] and The Path of Due Process of Law (1938).
[3] Hamilton also undertook a series of industry studies that sought to show that wages and prices were not set by market forces as understood by neoclassical economists but instead depended on social and historical contexts, so that the results were noncompetitive wages and prices.