Law Professors Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (Academic and Career Success Series)

Law Professors Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (Academic and Career Success Series) by Presser, Stephen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781634590457.

There is no nation in which the teachers of law play a more prominent role than in the United States. In this unique volume Stephen Presser, a law professor for four decades, explains how his colleagues have both furthered and frustrated the American ideals that ours is a government of laws not men, and that our legal system ought to promote justice for all. In a dazzling review of three centuries of teaching about American law, from Blackstone to Barack Obama, Presser shows how these extraordinary men and women shaped not only our law, but also our politics and culture. “The natural audience for this book is academics, members of the bar and law students. For these last in particular, it may become essential reading. Law professors like putting their students through the hoops by asking them bewildering questions; Mr Presser’s book does a good job of distilling what is actually being taught. . . . America is consumed by serious legal debates about issues, what the law says, what people think the law should say―and whether that is law. This may be the book that comes closest to spelling out what is really being argued. . . .” Read full review at