Robert J. Cottrol

About The Author

Robert J. Cottrol is an American legal scholar and legal historian. He holds a chair in the George Washington University (GWU) 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. 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.

Books by Robert J. Cottrol

Securing Civil Rights

Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms

By Stephen P. Halbrook
Foreword by Robert J. Cottrol
Stephen Halbrook's groundbreaking study of freed slaves and the right to bear arms in the aftermath of the Civil War, cited in Supreme Court cases, now with a new foreword by Robert J. Cottrol.
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