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Robert James Cottrol Faculty Member
Positions
Research Areas
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Affiliation
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
- Helpless by Law: Enduring Lessons from a Century-Old Tragedy. Connecticut Law Review (online). 2022
- Guns, Bird Feathers and Over-Criminalization: Why the Courts Should Take the Second Amendment Seriously. Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy vol. 14. 2016
- Second Amendment: Not Constitutional Sysfunction, But Necessary Safeguard, 2014
- In the Civic Republic: Crime, the Inner City and the Democracy of Arms: Being a Disquisition on the Revival of the Militia at Large. University of Connecticut Law Review vol 45 (July 2013). 2013
- The Resurgent Second Amendment. Tulsa Law Review. 2012
- American Historical Association: AHA Today. Member Spotlight. 2012
- La Interpretación Actual de las Enmiendas de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos. Aequitas: Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas, Universidad del Salvador. 2009
- Normative Nominalism: The Paradox of Egalitarian Law in Inegalitarian Cultures: Some Lessons from Recent Latin American Historiography. Tulane Law Review. 2007
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article
- "Ubiratan Castro de Araujo". Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Knight and Gates, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016). 2016
- Benedicto Fonseca Filho. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Knight and Gates, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016). 2016
- Carlos Alberto Oliveira dos Santos. DEictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Knight and Gates, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016). 2016
- Hamilton Bernardes Cardoso. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Knight and Gates, eds. (oxford University Press, 2016). 2016
- Jose Vincente. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Knight and Gates, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016). 2016
- "Affirmative Action". Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders (editors). 2013
- "Slavery in South and Central America". Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Stanley Katz, et. al. eds.. 2009
- "The Right to Bear Arms". Oxford International Encylopedia of Legal History, Stanley Katz, et. al. eds.. 2009
- Review Essay examining Linda Lewin, Surprise Heirs I. American Journal of Legal History. 2007
- Beyond Invisibility: Afro-Argentines in their Nation’s Culture and Memory. Latin American Research Review. 2007
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book
- Insurgent Victory, Heller, McDonald and the Restoration of the Second Amendment. University Press of Kansas (in press). 2022
- Scenes From the Shadows: Afro-Argentine Life in the Twentieth Century. Ohio University Press (Under Contract). 2022
- The Long Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law, in the American Hemisphere. University of Georgia Press. 2013
- Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture and the Constitution. University Press of Kansas. 2003
- From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum NewEngland. M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 1998
- Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment. Garland Press series. 1993
- The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era. Greenwood Press. 1982
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chapter
- "Africans and Afro-Descendants". A Companion to the Legal History of Latin America. 2021
- "Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms". The Bill of Rights in Modern America 3rd Ed.. 2021
- Foreward. Securing Civil Rights: Freedom the Fourteenth Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms. 2021
- "Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito". Great Christian Jurists in Latin America. 2020
- Affirmative Action. Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law. 2013
- Developing Effective Tools Against Racial Discrimination: Lessons from the U. S. Experience with Employment Discrimination. Taller de Expertos de la Temática Afrodescendiente en las Americas. 2010
- Slavery in South and Central America. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. 2009
- The Right to Bear Arms. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. 2009
- Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms. The Bill of Rights in Modern America. 2008
- Some Immediate Post-Heller Thoughts. The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed. 2008
- African Americans: Free Blacks Before the Civil War. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. 2001
- Civil Rights Cases. The Oxford Companion to American History. 2001
- Death and Deterrence: Notes on a Still Inchoate Judicial Inquiry. Statistical Science in the Courtroom. 2000
- The Second Amendment: Invitation to a Multi-Dimensional Debate. Gun Control and the Constitution. 1994
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. 1993
- The Civil Rights Act of 1960. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. 1993
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. 1993
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conference paper
- Accion Affirmativa y la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidoa: Doctrinas Conservadores, Resultados Progresistas y un Futuro Incierto: 2019
- Beyond 1619: Looking at Slavery, Race and Justice from a Hemispheric Perspective 2019
- Negro Laborers, Low-Browed Foreigners and the Efficiency of a Well-Regulated Militia: The Politics and Jurisprudence of Gun Control Before the Second World War 2016
- Second Amendment Not Constitutional Sysfunction, But Necessary Safeguard, 2013
- Race at the Founding: Did a Pro-Slavery Constitution Mandate Racial Exclusion? 2013
- Rights, Race and Railways: New Perspectives on the Legal Resistance to Segregation during the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson 2013
- Raça no Pais do Futuro: Brazil’s Journey from Branqueamento to Racial Democracy 2012
- Comparative Approaches to the Law of Slavery and Race in the Americas 2012
- Discriminación racial en el sistema electoral norteamericana: Una mirada desde Historia Constitucional 2012
- Los Desafios contemporáneos del Derecho Electoral Argentina 2012
- Raça no Pais do Futuro: Brazil’s Journey from Branqueamento to “Racial Democracy 2012
- In the Civic Republic: Crime, the Inner City and the Democracy of Arms, A Disquisition on the Revival of the Militia at Large 2012
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review
- Review of Race and Transnationalism in the Americas, eds. Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Shenin. H-Lat Am. 2022
- Review of The Journey to Separate ButEqual: Madame DeCuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Jack M.Beerman. Journal of Interdisciplinary Hisatory. 2022
- Review of Lolita Buckner Innis, The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins. Journal of American History. 2021
- Review of Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom and Law in Cuba, Virginia and Louisiana. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 2021
- Review of Hendrik Hartog, The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North 2020
- Review of Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Journal of American History. 2019
- Review of Daniel W. Crofts, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union. Journal of the Early Republic. 2018
- Review of Ben Keppel, Brown v. Board of Education and the Transformation of American Culture. Pacific Historical Review,. 2018
- Review of Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans by Kenneth R. Aslakson. Journal of American History. 2016
- Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America by Edward Teller. Hispanic American Historical Review. 2015
- Review of The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Sussman 2015
- Review of Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History, Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter. Journal of Interdisciplinary History vol 44 No. 4. 2014
- Review of Dennis K. Bowman, The Original Rush Limbaugh: Lawyer, Legislator and Civil Libertarian. Journal of Southern History vol. LXXIX No. 4. 2013
- Slavery in Brazil (by Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 2012
- Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Courtroom by Ariela J. Gross. The Southern Quarterly. 2007
presentations
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presentation
- Panel on Upcoming Supreme Court Cases, Federalist Society 2019
- Law and History in Latin America, An Historiographical Balance: Slavery, Indian Subjecthood, Family and Violent Crimes, American Society for Legal History 2010
- Race Based Slavery and Race Based Citizenship: How Brazil and the United States Became Different, The Historical Society 2010
- Slavery, History and the Future: Where do we go From Here, The Historical Society 2010
- The Long Lingering Shadow, Eastern Sociological Society 2010
- Developing Effective Legal Tools Against Racial Discrimination: Lessons from the U.S. Experience with Employment Discrimination, Taller de Expertos de la Temática Afrodescendiente en las Américas, Organización de los Estados Americanos (OAS) 2010
- Recent Developments in US Constitutional Law, La Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009
- Terra de Nosso Senhor: The Paradox of Race and Slavery in Brazil, Latin American Studies Association 2009
- Terra de Nosso Senhor: The Paradox of Race and Slavery in Brazil, Latin American Studies Association 2009
- Terra de Nosso Senhor: The Paradox of Race and Slavery in Brazil, Latin American Studies Association 2009
- Terra de Nosso Senhor: The Paradox of Race and Slavery in Brazil, Latin American Studies Association 2008
- La Pena de Muertes en Casos Juveniles en Estados Unidos de Norte America in conference Las Penas de los Niños en el Derecho Comparado: Nuevos Horizontes ante los Tratados de Derechose Humanos, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007
- Tannenbaum and Beyond, New Ways of Thinking About the Comparative Legal History of Slavery in the United States and Latin America, Washington Area Legal History Roundtable: Slavery 2007
- Logros Legales y Constitucionales del Movimiento Norteamericano Contra Discriminación Racial, US Society, Values and Politics Section, Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State 2007
- Legal and Constitutional Accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement, US Society, Values and Politics Section, Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State 2007
- Civil Rights and Affirmative Action in the US: An Overview, 5th International Seminar on Fundamental Rights,Pontifica Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 2006
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Service
reviewer of
- Cambridge University Press (Journal)
- Howard University Press (Journal)
- Journal of American History (Journal)
- Journal of Southern History (Journal)
- Law and History Review (Journal)
- Law and History Review (Journal)
- Law and Society Review (Journal)
- Law, Culture and the Humanities (Journal)
- New York University Press (Journal)
- Ohio University Press (Journal)
- Oxford University Press (Journal)
- Social Science History (Journal)
- The University of Chicago Press (Journal)
- University Press of Kansas (Journal)
- University Press of Kansas (Journal)
- University Press of New England (Journal)
- University of Alabama Press (Journal)
- University of Chicago Press (Journal)
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Background
education and training
- A. B degree in American Studies, Yale University
- J.D degree, Georgetown University Law Center
- M. A degree in History, Yale University
- Ph.D degree in American Studies, Yale University
awards and honors
- Appointed by the Honorable George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, to serve on the Holmes Devise, conferred by None, 2008
- Elected to membership in American Law Institute, conferred by None, 2004
- Presidente Extranjero del Congreso Internacional de Responsibilidad Civil del Instittuto de Altos Estudios de Derecho Civil Argentino y Comparado de la Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, conferred by None, 2003
- John C. Donovan Memorial Lecturer, conferred by Bowdin College, 1995
- James A. Thomas Lecturer Endowed lectureship honoring outstanding minority scholars, conferred by Yale Law School, 1994
- Who's Who in American Law, conferred by None
- Who's Who in the South and Southwest, conferred by None
- Who's Who in America, conferred by None
- Who's Who Among African Americans, conferred by None
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Contact
full name
- Robert James Cottrol
mailing address
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Law School
2000 H St NW M406A
Washington, DC 20052
USA
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