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Robert J. Cottrol
Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School Professor of History and Sociology
Robert Cottrol's writings on law and history have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Law and Society Review, Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies and American Quarterly, among others. He has lectured on American law at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and the University of Buenos Aires and La Universidad del Museo Social in Argentina. His current research contrasts the role of law in the development of systems of slavery and racial hierarchy in the United States and Latin America. (Complete C.V.)
Selected Publications
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture and the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
- Awarded the Langum Project Prize for Historical Literature in 2003.
- Selected as Book of the Month of the History Book Club.
From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Editor, Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment. New York: Garland Press, 1994.
- Selected as Book of the Month by the History Book Club.
The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
- Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book for 1983.
Courses Taught
Hist 285: U.S. Legal History
Hist 286: The Law of Race and Slavery
Hist 297: The Social and Economic History of Labor Law
Hist 297: Law and Society in Latin America
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1978.
J.D., Georgetown University, 1984.
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