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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 Visiting 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. She is the President of the American Society for Legal History.

Maeve Devoy, Deputy Director

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.
 

ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

NATIONAL COUNCIL*

Richard A. Baker
Historian of the U.S. Senate
Hon. José A. Cabranes
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Gerhard Casper
Stanford University
Hon. Avern Cohn
U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan
Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Joel Grossman
Johns Hopkins University
Laura Kalman
University of California at Santa Barbara
Hon. Michael McConnell
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Charles W. McCurdy
University of Virginia
Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
New York Law School
Jack Rakove
Stanford University
Hon. Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Benno C. Schmidt
Edison Schools
William Wiecek
Syracuse University College of Law
Sheldon S. Cohen
Farr, Miller & Washington LLP
Richard Ekman
Council of Independent Colleges
David C. Frederick
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC
Hon. C. Boyden Gray
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
J. Roderick Heller III
Carnton Capital Associates
Stanley N. Katz
Princeton University
Frederick M. Lawrence
George Washington University Law School
Betty Southard Murphy
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Gene C. Schaerr
Winston & Strawn LLP
Benno C. Schmidt
Edison Schools
Ira S. Shapiro
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Seth Waxman
WilmerHale

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