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Amalia D. Kessler
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CA
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Expertise
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Civil Procedure & Litigation
- Comparative Law
- Federal Courts & Federal Jurisdiction
- Law & Society
- Legal History
- Mediation & Dispute Resolution
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 3034253
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Professional Experience
- LEWIS TALBOT AND NADINE HEARN SHELTON PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES, AND PROFESSOR (BY COURTESY) OF HISTORY
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CA
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- FOUNDING DIRECTOR, STANFORD CENTER FOR LAW AND HISTORY, June 2017-present; JEAN-PAUL GIMON DIRECTOR OF THE FRANCE-STANFORD CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, Sept. 2012-present; PROFESSOR OF LAW AND (BY COURTESY) HISTORY, AND HELEN L. CROCKER FACULTY SCHOLAR, Sept. 2008-Sept. 2011; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AND (BY COURTESY) HISTORY, AND HELEN L. CROCKER FACULTY SCHOLAR, Oct. 2007-Aug. 2008; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AND (BY COURTESY) HISTORY, Sept. 2006-Sept. 2007; ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW, Aug. 2003-Aug. 2006.
- TRIAL ATTORNEY (COMMERCIAL LITIGATION), HONORS PROGRAM
- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CIVIL DIVISION, WASHINGTON, DC
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Education
- Yale Law School
- J.D. (1999)
- Honors: Carolyn E. Agger Endowment for Women in Law, Postgraduate Grant Yale Center for Studies in Law, Economics & Public Policy/Olin Research Grant, Dean’s Research Funds.
- Activities: Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Articles Editor; Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization—political asylum clinic.
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- Stanford University
- Ph.D. (1996)
- Honors: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Summer Research; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship.
- Activities: Stanford Humanities Review, Editor; Graduate Resident Assistant Tutor, French
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- Harvard University
- (1994) History & Literature (Modern France & England)
- Honors: magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Lucy Allen Patton Senior Prize, John Harvard and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarships, Detur Prize,
- Activities: The Harvard Advocate (literary magazine), Executive Editor & Circulation Manager; Tutor, French and English as a Second Language
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Professional Associations
- American Society for Legal History, Law and Society Association, American Historical Association, & Society for French Historical Studies
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- American Society of Comparative Law
- Director/Editor (representing Stanford)
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- New York State Bar # 3034253
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