Stephen Presser

American Legal History

Office: 331 Rubloff Building
Phone: 312-503-8371
E-mail: s-presserlaw.northwestern.edu

Stephen Presser (JD Harvard University, 1971), Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern's history department.

Selected Publications:
Law and Jurisprudence in American History: Cases and Materials (with Zainaldin), West Publishing Co.; Recapturing the Constitution: Race, Religion, and Abortion Reconsidered, Regnery Publishing; The Original Misunderstanding: The English, the Americans, and the Dialectic of Federalist Jurisprudence, Carolina Academic Press; Piercing the Corporate Veil, Clark Boardman Callaghan; The American Constitutional Order: History, Cases, and Philosophy (with Kmiec), Anderson Publishing Co.

Courses:
American Legal History; Corporations