Amalia D. Kessler

Amalia D. Kessler is the Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford Law School. An expert in the areas of civil procedure and litigation, comparative law, and legal history, she also has an appointment (by courtesy) with the Stanford University department of history. Before joining the Stanford Law faculty in 2003, Professor Kessler was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She holds an A.B. from Harvard, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was senior editor of The Yale Law Journal and articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.

Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001
J.D., Yale Law School, 1999
M.A., Stanford University, 1996
A.B., Harvard College, 1994

Courses Taught
Procedure