In this episode of Faculty on Point, Professor Amalia D. Kessler (MA ’96, PhD ’01) discusses American exceptionalism. In 2018, her book, Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 (Yale University Press, 2017) received the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Award for the best English-language monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar on Anglo-American legal history.