Asheville, North Carolina
Stephen B. Presser is the Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History Emeritus at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. He is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and clerked on the District of Columbia Circuit for the Honorable Malcolm Richard Wilkey. He taught law for four decades at Northwestern, The University of Virginia and Rutgers University. He was frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He has been the recipient of two Senior Fulbright Scholarships to the United Kingdom, where he was an academic visitor at the London School of Economics, University College, and an Adams Scholar at the Institute for United States Studies of the University of London. He serves on the advisory boards for the Washington Legal Foundation, the Texas Review of Law and Politics, Convention USA and Common Good.
His published works include law texts on legal history, business associations and constitutional law and monographs on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, Piercing the Corporate Veil and Business Combinations.
His latest book, Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law, includes profiles of law professors from William Blackstone to Barack Obama. He held a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has taught in Northwestern's English and history departments. During the academic year 2018-2019 he was one of two Visiting Scholars in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.