Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell – San Francisco

San Francisco: Lunch Talk with Professor Amalia Kessler

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell - San Francisco 2 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800–1877 When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial—dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances—that first comes to mind. But as SLS professor and award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in her new book, it was only in the turbulent decades […]