Paul Finkelman, the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School, will present “The Declaration, the Constitution and America's Peculiar Institution: The Promise of Liberty and Equality in a Slaveholder's Republic” at the Hamilton College Chapel on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI) and the Publius Society, a Hamilton student organization. The event is free and open to the public.
Finkelman, a specialist in American legal history, race and the law, is author of An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity (1981) and Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (2001). An author of more than 100 scholarly articles and more than 20 books, Finkelman is considered by many to be the foremost scholar in this country on the legal history of slavery and is an expert in the law of slavery, constitutional law and legal issues surrounding baseball. He was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago.
This event is the second annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence, named for David Aldrich Nelson ’54, valedictorian of his Hamilton class, who served as a distinguished federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals on the Sixth Circuit.
Finkelman, a specialist in American legal history, race and the law, is author of An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity (1981) and Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (2001). An author of more than 100 scholarly articles and more than 20 books, Finkelman is considered by many to be the foremost scholar in this country on the legal history of slavery and is an expert in the law of slavery, constitutional law and legal issues surrounding baseball. He was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago.
This event is the second annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence, named for David Aldrich Nelson ’54, valedictorian of his Hamilton class, who served as a distinguished federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals on the Sixth Circuit.
