Alison Peck

Author, attorney and professor Alison Peck illuminates the legal issues that shape our lives today by taking a fresh and accessible look at the past. Focusing on the pivotal characters, conflicts, and turning points that underlie every law, Alison crafts a picture of our legal history that is dramatic, gripping, and readable while giving readers a careful and accurate picture of how the law really works. Alison earned a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Butler University. Now a law professor at West Virginia University, she is co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic and teaches courses in property, environmental, and international law.