About the Editor
Lisa A. Tucker is Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University and author of the novel Called On, as well as eleven books for children.
She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, People, Time, and NBC Nightly News.
“Hamilton: An American Musical is a narrative, not just about the Founding, but about the law. And not just because Lin-Manuel Miranda has one of the most quintessentially legal names in the great name book of composers. Not just because the musical explains the writing of the Federalist Papers (although every lawyer I know is still gobsmacked about how that happened) . . . If you listen to the musical carefully, and if you’re looking for it, the Easter egg is right there, plain enough for anyone (not just lawyers and law professors) to hear. The story takes on any number of legal controversies. We know in the first ten minutes of the show that Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton. The rest, as Rabbi Hillel famously said, is commentary. To lawyers and law-curious/law-adjacent folks? A legal commentary.”
— Lisa A. Tucker
(adapted from the Editor’s Preface to Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical)