Robert J. Cottrol

George Washington University Law School

Robert J. Cottrol is the Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, and Professor of History and Sociology at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington. He also lectures on a regular basis at La Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His 2023 book TO TRUST THE PEOPLE WITH ARMS: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT (co-author Brannon P. Denning, publisher University Press of Kansas) won the Thomas M. Cooley Prize from the Georgetown Center for the Constitution for 2025. He has written extensively on the legal history of race relations in the United States and Latin America. His previous books include: THE LONG, LINGERING SHADOW: SLAVERY, RACE AND LAW IN THE AMERICAN HEMISPHERE and BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION: CASTE, CULTURE AND THE CONSTITUTION (co-authors, Raymond T. Diamond. Leland B. Ware, publisher University Press of Kansas, which was awarded the David Langum Sr. Prize by the Langum Project for Historical Literature. Robert Cottrol is currently co-editing a book SCENES FROM THE SHADOWS: AFRO-ARGENTINE LIFE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (co-editor Lea Geler)