Battleground for Freedom:

Paul Finkelman, Ph.D.

The author of more than 100 scholarly articles and more than 20 books, Prof. Finkelman is an expert in the law of slavery, constitutional law, and legal issues surrounding baseball. He is named the ninth most cited legal historian according to "Brian Leieter's Law School Rankings". He was 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). His article "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).