A specialist in American legal history, race and the law, Professor Paul Finkelman is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and more than 20 books.
He is an expert in areas such as the law of slavery, constitutional law, and legal issues surrounding baseball. He has published extensively and was recently named the ninth most cited legal historian according to "Brian Leieter's Law School Rankings". Professor Finkelman was the chief expert witness in the Alabama Ten Commandments monument case and his scholarship on religious monuments in public spaces was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Van Orden v. Perry (2005). He was also a key witness in the suit over who owned Barry Bonds' 73rd home run ball.
Professor Finkelman's article titled "Was Dred Scott Correctly Decided? An 'Expert Report' for the Defendant" was recently listed on the Social Science Research Network's (SSRN) Top Ten download list for LSPLCL: Rights & Liberties (Topic).
Prof. Finkelman spent a portion of the fall 2008 semester at Osaka Univeristy in Japan, where he was a visiting research scholar.
