Amalia D. Kessler
Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Amalia Kessler, Book Review: Alessandro Stanziani, Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries, American Historical Review (forthcoming, 2013).
Amalia Kessler, Delineating between Conciliation and Adjudication: A Comment on Resnik and Curtis’s Representing Justice, 56 St. Louis University Law Journal 1099 (2012).
Amalia Kessler, Recalling Past Convergence: Equity Procedure and the United States’ Forgotten Inquisitorial Tradition, 2 Cuadernos de la Maestria en Derecho de la Universidad Sergio Arboleda 45 (2012).
Amaliia D. Kessler, Stuck in Arbitration, New York Times, March 7, 2012, p. A27.
Amalia Kessler, The Making and Debunking of Legal Tradition (Comparative Law Symposium), 16 Roger Williams University Law Review 129 (2011).
Amalia Kessler, Constructing an Ideal: Chancellor Kent, Justice Story, and the Surprising Revival of Equity in Early Nineteenth-Century America, L’Équité et ses Métamorphoses (Annuaire de l'Institut Michel Villey 2010, v. 2) (2011).
Amalia Kessler, Marginalization and Myth: The Corporatist Roots of France's Forgotten Elective Judiciary, 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 679 (2010)
Amalia Kessler, Power, Not Progress: An Alternative Reading of L’Hôpital’s Legal Reforms, 28 Law and History Review 837 (2010)
Amalia D. Kessler, Marginalization and Myth: The Corporatist Roots of France's Forgotten Elective Judiciary, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 1470271 (October 2009).
Amalia Kessler, Book Review (Michael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution), 83 Business History Review 426 (2009).
Amalia Kessler, Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication, 10 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 423 (2009).
Amalia Kessler, Approches procédurales et institutionnelles de la justice: La réponse contrastée américaine et française á l’augmentation des procés civils “orientés public”, in Droit et Èconomie (38e Congrès du Mouvement Jeune Notariat), Paris: Mouvement Jeune Notariat, November 2007.
Amalia D. Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, October 2007. 408 pages.
Amalia D. Kessler, Our Inquisitorial Tradition: Equity Procedures, Due Process, and the Search for an Alternative to the Adversarial, in History of the Common Law, John H. Langbein, editor, New York: Foundation Press (forthcoming 2007).
Amalia Kessler, Revisiting the Question of French and American Difference: A Review of Mitchel de S.O.L'E. Lasser's Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy, 18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 327 (2006).
Amalia D. Kessler, Book Review: Susan Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France, 24 Law and History Review 219 (2006).
Amalia D. Kessler. Book Review: Cindy Skach, Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law In Weimar Germany And The French Fifth Republic, by Cindy Skach, 16 Law and Politics Book Review 344 (2006).
Amalia D. Kessler, Book Review of Legal Ethics: A Comparative Study, by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and Angelo Dondi, 15 Law and Politics Book Review 22 (2005).
Amalia D. Kessler, Our Inquisitorial Tradition: Equity Procedure, Due Process, and the Search for an Alternative to the Adversarial, 90 Cornell Law Review 1181 (2005).
Amalia D. Kessler, A 'Question of Name': Merchant-Court Jurisdiction and the Origins of the Noblesse Commercante, in, A Vast and Useful Art : the Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy. Mary Jane Parrine, editor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 2004.

akessler@law.stanford.edu

650.725.5800

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA Harvard University 1994
MA Stanford University 1996
JD Yale Law School 1999
PhD (European history) Stanford University 2001

Expertise:

Civil Procedure and Litigation
Comparative Law
Legal History