Paul Finkelman is an American legal historian and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Toledo College of Law and the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history, slavery, general American history, and baseball.
Paul Finkelman
Articles
A Martyr for Free Speech
Historian Paul Finkelman praises Brad Snyder’s new account of a wrongfully convicted civil rights hero.
Is It Time to Have Real Universal Suffrage in the United States?
Paul Finkelman reviews Richard L. Hasen’s “A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.”
The Many Faces of Felix Frankfurter: On Brad Snyder’s “Democratic Justice”
Paul Finkelman reviews Brad Snyder's "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment."
The Key to Democracy: A Century of Free Speech
Ian Rosenberg’s “The Fight for Free Speech” is a terrific introduction to the problem of freedom of speech in our society.
Hunting the Last Nazi Murderers Among Us
Paul Finkelman reviews "Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America," the new book from Pulitzer Prize winner Debbie Cenziper.
A California Story of a Slave’s Struggle for Freedom
Paul Finkelman reviews “Archy Lee’s Struggle for Freedom,” the new book from Brian McGinty.
Warriors Without Guns: Yet One Way More to Think About the Civil War
In "Uncivil Warriors," Peter Charles Hoffer looks at how lawyers contributed to the coming conflict, shaped the issues, and helped prosecute the war.
Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool
Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.
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