Stephen Presser

Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History

Phone: (312) 503-8371
E-mail: s-presser@law.northwestern.edu

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Stephen Presser 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.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Business Associations

Legal History

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Piercing the Corporate Veil, Thomson/West 1991, updated annually
Recapturing the Constitution: Race, Religion, and Abortion Reconsidered, Regnery, 1994
Law and Jurisprudence in American History, 6th ed. 2006, Thomson/West, with Jamil S. Zainaldin
An Introduction to the Law of Business Organizations, Thomson/West, 2005
The American Constitutional Order, Anderson, 2nd ed., 2004, with Douglas Kmiec, John Eastman, and Raymond Marcin

Recent Publications

Judicial Ideology and the Survival of the Rule of Law: A Field guide to the Current Political War over the Judiciary, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL, 2008
An Introduction to the Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Notes, and Questions, 2008
Piercing the Corporate Veil , 2008
Two American Lives, CHRONICLES: A MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN CULTURE , 2007
Reading the Constitution Right: Clarence Thomas’s Fidelity to Our Founding Documents is Making Its Mark on the Supreme Court , CITY JOURNAL , 2007

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JOINT APPOINTMENTS

EDUCATION

AB cum laude, Harvard University
JD magna cum laude, Harvard University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Class of 1940 Research Professor, 1992-93
Professor of Law, 1979-92
Associate Professor of Law, 1977-79
Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1974-77
Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 1972-74
Law Clerk, Hon. Malcolm R. Wilkey, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1971-72

RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Consultant, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Constitutional Issues Advisor, Citizens Flag Association
Board of Advisors, Common Good
Board of Advisors, Texas Review of Law and Politics
Board of Advisors, Washington Legal Foundation
Board of Advisors, Center for Individual Rights