Education
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Staff and Advisors
Maeva Marcus, Director
Maeva Marcus is a leading scholar in the field of constitutional studies. She received a Ph.D. in History with distinction from Columbia University. Her dissertation, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case, was published by Columbia University Press (1977) and remains in print from Duke University Press. As editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, Dr. Marcus published eight volumes along with many related articles on legal history. She is a Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. From 1983 to 1987, she was Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. From 2007–2009, she was president of the American Society for Legal History.
Robert J. Cottrol, Faculty Liaison
Robert J. Cottrol is Professor of Law, of History, and of Sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of The Afro-Yankees: Providence’s Black Community in the Antebellum Era, editor of Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment, and co-author of Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture and the Constitution (winner of the 2003 Langum Project for Historical Literature Prize). Professor Cottrol's articles on constitutional topics have appeared in many leading journals.
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Faculty Liaison
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. is Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He received his B.A. degree in History from Yale University and his J.D. degree from Harvard University. Most of Professor Wilmarth’s published works deal with historical, legal and economic issues related to the regulation of financial institutions. However, he has also published two major law review articles in the George Washington Law Review and the American Criminal Law Review addressing constitutional questions that arose during the drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the early national period.
NATIONAL COUNCIL
Richard Ekman
Council of Independent Colleges
David C. Frederick
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC
J. Roderick Heller III
Carnton Capital Associates
Stanley N. Katz
Princeton University
Gene C. Schaerr
Winston & Strawn LLP
Benno C. Schmidt
New York Historical Society
Ira S. Shapiro
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Seth Waxman
WilmerHale
ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD
Floyd Abrams
Yale University
Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University
David Armitage
Harvard University
Richard Baker
U.S. Senate Historian, Emeritus
Thomas Bender
New York University
Barbara Black
Columbia University
David Blight
Yale University
Hon. José A. Cabranes
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Gerhard Casper
Stanford University
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Hendrik Hartog
Princeton University
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Laura Kalman
University of California at Santa Barbara
Stanley Katz
Princeton University
Nicholas Lemann
Columbia University
Hon. Michael McConnell
Stanford Law School
Charles W. McCurdy
University of Virginia
Barbara Oberg
Princeton University
James Oakes
CUNY Graduate Center
Richard Pious
Barnard College
Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
New York Law School
Jack Rakove
Stanford University
Benno C. Schmidt
New York Historical Society
William Wiecek
Syracuse University
John Fabian Witt
Columbia University