Robert J. Cottrol

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Robert J. Cottrol

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#1445

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#1821

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#738

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Jurisprudence

#143

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#268

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#47

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Common Law

#263

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#286

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#47

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International Law

#1905

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#2256

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#851

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Robert J. Cottrol

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#3865

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#5403

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#1413

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According to Wikipedia, Robert J. Cottrol is an American legal scholar and legal historian. Career Cottrol holds a chair in the George Washington University Law School and is also a professor of history and sociology at GWU. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School. His research concentrates on race relations in U.S. legal history and criminal law contexts. He is the author of five books and dozens of book chapters, law review articles, book reviews, and other published works on slavery, gun control, and others topics. He is also the editor of Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment.

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The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration (1991) (68)
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (2003) (31)
The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era (1983) (20)
Never Intended to Be Applied to the White Population: Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity - The Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence - Freedom: Constitutional Law (1995) (19)
The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas (2001) (17)
A New Economic View of American History (1981) (16)
Beyond Invisibility: Afro-Argentines in Their Nation's Culture and Memory (2007) (16)
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (2013) (15)
Robert Stevens, Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850's to the 1980's , Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 334. $19.95 (ISBN: 0-8078-1537-3). (1986) (11)
Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Courtroom (2007) (7)
Codifying Caste: Louisiana's Racial Classification Scheme and the Fourteenth Amendment (1983) (7)
The Virginia Supreme Court, Blacks, and the law, 1870-1902 (1990) (6)
The Fifth Auxiliary Right (1995) (5)
Liberalism and Paternalism: Ideology, Economic Interest and the Business Law of Slavery (1987) (5)
Comparative Slave Studies (1977) (4)
Brown and the Contemporary Brazilian Struggle Against Racial Inequality: Some Preliminary Comparative Thoughts (2004) (4)
Justice Advanced: Comments on William Nelson's Brown v. Board of Education and the Jurisprudence of Legal Realism (2004) (3)
The Thirteenth Amendment and the North's Overlooked Egalitarian Heritage (1989) (3)
The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) (2016) (3)
From Emancipation to Equality: The Afro-Latin's Unfinished Struggle (2005) (2)
The Fifth Auxiliary Right (book review) (1995) (2)
The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes (1998) (2)
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown by Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun (2011) (2)
Black Sects and Cults: The Power Axis in an Ethnic Ethic. (1973) (2)
The Long, Lingering Shadow (2016) (2)
Guns, Bird Feathers, and Overcriminalization: Why Courts Should Take the Second Amendment Seriously (2016) (2)
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE NORTH AMERICAN AND BRAZILIAN SYSTEMS OF COMBATING CORRUPTION (2011) (1)
Clashing traditions: Civil law and common law and the American culture of slave governance (1998) (1)
The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine. By William E. Nelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xiv + 253 pp. $25.00.) (1990) (1)
From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England@@@Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, & Female in the Old South (1999) (1)
Slavery in Brazil (2011) (1)
Static History and Brittle Jurisprudence: Raoul Berger and The Problem of Constitutional Methodology (1985) (1)
Death and Deterrence: Notes on a Still Inchoate Judicial Inquiry (1999) (1)
The Black Muslims in America, by C. Eric Lincoln. Boston: Beacon, 1973 (rev. ed.) 302 pp. $2.95 (1974) (0)
Contributors (1971) (0)
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2019) (0)
Public Safety and the Right to Bear Arms (2008) (0)
Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation. By Elizabeth Regosin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp xi, 239. $49.50, cloth; $17.50, paper. (2003) (0)
In the Civic Republic: Crime, the Inner City, and the Democracy of Arms — Being a Disquisition on the Revival of the Militia at Large (2013) (0)
Rosewood and the Rosewood Massacre: The Untold Story (movie review) (1998) (0)
NAACP v. Jim Crow: The Legal Strategy That Brought Down "Separate but Equal" by Toppling School Segregation (2004) (0)
Slave Testimony (review) (2012) (0)
Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History ed. by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter (review) (2014) (0)
Advocates and scholars : the modern debate on gun control (1993) (0)
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (2021) (0)
Comparative Legal History of Slavery (2021) (0)
The Courts, Congress, and the Second Amendment (1993) (0)
Rosewood@@@The Rosewood Massacre: The Untold Story (1998) (0)
Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives. By Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xv, 221. $12.50 (1980) (0)
The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame DeCuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Jack M. Beermann (2022) (0)
Normative Nominalism: The Paradox of Egalitarian Law in Inegalitarian Cultures - Some Lessons from Recent Latin American Historiography (2007) (0)
The Decline of the Idea of Caste: Setting the Stage for Brown v. Board (2004) (0)
Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History. Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2013) 473 pp $26.95 (2014) (0)
Review: Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation by Ben Keppel (2018) (0)
Book Reviews: The African Dream: Martin R. Delaney and the Emergence of Pan-African Thought, by Cyril E. Griffiths (1977) (0)
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union by Daniel W. Crofts (review) (2018) (0)
Hendrik Hartog. The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North. (2020) (0)
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. By Ruth O'Brien. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 288. $19.00, paper. (2002) (0)
Second Amendment, Constitutional Dysfunction or Necessary Safeguard? (2014) (0)
The Resurgent Second Amendment (2011) (0)
Panel Discussion: Holocaust and Human Rights Law: The Third International Conference -- Special Topics in United States Immigration Policy (1991) (0)
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America (2015) (0)
Book Review: Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (1994) (0)
Heroism and the Origins of Afro-American History@@@The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution@@@The Negro in the Rebellion (1978) (0)
Second Amendment: Not Constitutional Dysfunction, But Necessary Safeguard (2014) (0)
Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Lawrence M. Friedman (2005) (0)
Surprise Heirs I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights and Legal Nationalism in Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750–1821 and Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy Inheritance Rights and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822–1889 (2007) (0)
In the Search for Justice: Passion and the Historiography of Law and Race in the Writings of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1991) (0)
Lawrence Friedman: The Legal Historian and the Social Organization of Criminal Justice (2005) (0)
Special topics on gun control (1993) (0)
Right to Bear Arms (2009) (0)
Book Review: Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (2011) (0)
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross (review) (2021) (0)
Multicultural Education: ...And Ideas about How to Do It Right. (1991) (0)

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