Amalia D Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amalia D Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amalia D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | KESSLER A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
French and American Histories of Animal Prosecutions
Between the early 1800s and the early 1900s, a sudden, and as yet unexplained, transatlantic literature on the history of animal prosecutions emerged. Focusing on France and the United States, this article explores the birth and evolution of this literature. A product of such developments as the rise of historicism, positivist criminology, and a social movement against animal cruelty, this literature addresses what proved to be enduring challenge…
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide
Although the terms “inquisitorial” and “accusatorial” (or as those in the common law world prefer, “adversarial”) are fixtures of the comparative literature on procedure, there remains considerable disagreement regarding their definitions and indeed whether to continue using them at all. Yet, despite these debates, we know remarkably little about how the terms first emerged as central to comparative analysis. This Article begins the work of recov…
The Political Functions of (Premodern) Courts and Procedure and Questions of Comparative Method
Orit Malka's Disqualified Witnesses, Between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law is structured around a puzzle. Why did the rabbinic literature produced in Roman Palestine in the early centuries of the Common Era identify a list of four seemingly disparate types of people—dice-players, usurers, pigeon-flyers, and traders in Seventh Year produce—as disqualified from giving testimony in court? This argument has important implications, I suggest, for al…
Clare Haru Crowston. Credit, Fashion, Sex
Clare Haru Crowston's Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France deploys the varied methods of cultural, social, and economic history to argue that “credit” is an important analytical lens for viewing the interrelationship of aspects of Old Regime society often treated as distinct. These include, among others, the royal court and noble patronage, an expanding consumer market, the rise of new modes of information dissemination,…
Alessandro Stanziani. Rules of Exchange
Alessandro Stanziani's Rules of Exchange is an admirably ambitious and largely successful book that seeks to reframe prevailing conceptions of the relationship between law and market in the formation of the modern capitalist state. Focusing primarily on France, but also briefly exploring such countries as Italy, Germany, England, and the United States, Stanziani undertakes a series of chronologically ordered case studies—including such topics as …
Power, Not Progress
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Marginalization and Myth
When American lawyers think of the French judiciary they imagine a system radically different from their own - a system, in short, of bureaucratized justice. Indeed, the French system is widely viewed as typifying the European judicial model - made perhaps most famous through John Langbein’s much cited article on The German Advantage in Civil Procedure. But while this bureaucratized model of the French judiciary is, insofar as it extends, accurat…
Enforcing Virtue
Recent scholarship on law and norms has emphasized that important social values are at work in the law. But nothing could prepare us for the “Red Ink Case.” Decided by an eighteenth-century French merchant court, the suit was brought by a young woman driven by poverty to prostitute herself in return for a bill of exchange, written with her lover's blood. When the person on whom the bill was drawn refused to accept it for payment, the women sued h…
Juger en Amerique et en France
Journal Article Antoine Garapon & Ioannis Papadopoulos, Juger en Amérique et en France Get access Antoine Garapon & Ioannis Papadopoulos, Juger en Amerique et en France,copyright, 2004, Odile Jacob, pp. 322. Amalia D. Kessle Amalia D. Kessle 1Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. Quotes in English are the reviewer's translation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative …
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Enforcing Virtue
Recent scholarship on law and norms has emphasized that important social values are at work in the law. But nothing could prepare us for the “Red Ink Case.” Decided by an eighteenth-century French merchant court, the suit was brought by a young woman driven by poverty to prostitute herself in return for a bill of exchange, written with her lover's blood. When the person on whom the bill was drawn refused to accept it for payment, the women sued h…
Juger en Amerique et en France
Journal Article Antoine Garapon & Ioannis Papadopoulos, Juger en Amérique et en France Get access Antoine Garapon & Ioannis Papadopoulos, Juger en Amerique et en France,copyright, 2004, Odile Jacob, pp. 322. Amalia D. Kessle Amalia D. Kessle 1Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. Quotes in English are the reviewer's translation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative …
Power, Not Progress
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Marginalization and Myth
When American lawyers think of the French judiciary they imagine a system radically different from their own - a system, in short, of bureaucratized justice. Indeed, the French system is widely viewed as typifying the European judicial model - made perhaps most famous through John Langbein’s much cited article on The German Advantage in Civil Procedure. But while this bureaucratized model of the French judiciary is, insofar as it extends, accurat…
Alessandro Stanziani. Rules of Exchange
Alessandro Stanziani's Rules of Exchange is an admirably ambitious and largely successful book that seeks to reframe prevailing conceptions of the relationship between law and market in the formation of the modern capitalist state. Focusing primarily on France, but also briefly exploring such countries as Italy, Germany, England, and the United States, Stanziani undertakes a series of chronologically ordered case studies—including such topics as …
Clare Haru Crowston. Credit, Fashion, Sex
Clare Haru Crowston's Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France deploys the varied methods of cultural, social, and economic history to argue that “credit” is an important analytical lens for viewing the interrelationship of aspects of Old Regime society often treated as distinct. These include, among others, the royal court and noble patronage, an expanding consumer market, the rise of new modes of information dissemination,…
The Political Functions of (Premodern) Courts and Procedure and Questions of Comparative Method
Orit Malka's Disqualified Witnesses, Between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law is structured around a puzzle. Why did the rabbinic literature produced in Roman Palestine in the early centuries of the Common Era identify a list of four seemingly disparate types of people—dice-players, usurers, pigeon-flyers, and traders in Seventh Year produce—as disqualified from giving testimony in court? This argument has important implications, I suggest, for al…
Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide
Although the terms “inquisitorial” and “accusatorial” (or as those in the common law world prefer, “adversarial”) are fixtures of the comparative literature on procedure, there remains considerable disagreement regarding their definitions and indeed whether to continue using them at all. Yet, despite these debates, we know remarkably little about how the terms first emerged as central to comparative analysis. This Article begins the work of recov…
French and American Histories of Animal Prosecutions
Between the early 1800s and the early 1900s, a sudden, and as yet unexplained, transatlantic literature on the history of animal prosecutions emerged. Focusing on France and the United States, this article explores the birth and evolution of this literature. A product of such developments as the rise of historicism, positivist criminology, and a social movement against animal cruelty, this literature addresses what proved to be enduring challenge…
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