Biography
I taught at the law school for 41 years, ending up as the Raoul Berger Professor of Law Emeritus, and at Kellogg for 26 years, finishing as a Professor of Strategy Emeritus. I am finishing my academic career this year 2018-2019, as Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Most of my scholarship was as an American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts. I was frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of Constitutional Law. Over my four decades with Northwestern I also taught about 20 times for the history department, and once for the English department (perhaps the highlight of my career). I wrote many law review articles and casebooks, as well as a treatise entitled Piercing the Corporate Veil, and, most recently, a book on the legal academy, Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (2017). I continue to contribute political commentary from the right of the political spectrum to journals and newspapers, including the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsmax, and the American Greatness website.
s-presser@law.northwestern.edu