Stanley Kutler

professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Historian Stanley I. Kutler has been a part of the Law School faculty since 1987, and specializes in American legal and political institutions. He has published extensively in a wide range of fields within American history, concentrating on American constitutional history and the 20th century. Most recently he is probably best known as the author of *Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes*. Professor Kutler's other books include *The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon*; *The American Inquisition*, winner of the Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 1983; *Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case*; and *Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics*. In addition, Professor Kutler has authored or edited a half-dozen textbooks in various fields of American history. His scholarly articles have appeared in leading history and legal periodicals. Most recently, he has edited the four-volume work, *Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century America*, winner of the prize for the best reference work by the Association of Book Publishers, and *The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War*.