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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Amalia D. Kessler, Book Review of Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina, by Kristen Ruggiero. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004, 14 Law and Politics Book Review 320 (2004).
Amalia D. Kessler, Enforcing Virtue: Social Norms and Self-Interest in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Court, 22 Law and History Review, 71 (Spring 2004).
Amalia D. Kessler, Book Review of Juger en Amerique et en France: Culture Juridique Francaise et Common Law, by Antoine Garapon and Joannis Papdopoulos, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 777 (2004).
Amalia D. Kessler, Limited Liability in Context: Lessons From the French Origins of the American Limited Partnership, 32 Journal of Legal Studies 511 (June 2003).
Amalia D. Kessler, Searching for a “New System” of Government: Linguet and the Rise of the Centralized, Administrative State, 28 Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 93 (2002).
Amalia D. Kessler, From Virtue to Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France, Stanford University, Dept. of History, Thesis (Ph.D.), 456 pages (2001).

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