Paul Finkelman

About

Historian, legal scholar, and former college president. Academic specialties: history of law, American Constitutional history and Constitutional law; history of slavery and race; Civil War history; Native American history and law, religion and law; and American Jewish history; history of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Author of more than 200 scholarly articles and author or editor of more than 50 books; expert witness on cases involving civil rights, voting rights, civil liberties, equal protection, and baseball.

Experience

• Professor and and Historian at Univ. of Toledo College of Law
  Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• Robert T. Boden Visiting Professor of Law Marquette University School of Law at Marquette University Law School
  Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College
  Sep 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  I am currently the Rydell Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College. I will be visiting the college a few times this spring, lecturing across the college.

• Gratz College (5 yrs 1 mo)
  • Chancellor and Distinguished Professor
    Sep 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • President
    Nov 2017 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law University of Saskatchewan at University of Saskatchewan
  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr

  I held the Ariel F. Sallows Visiting Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. I teach courses on the law of slavery and human rights law. I give lectures on civil rights law, legal history, slavery, U.S. Constitutional law, religion and law, American Jewish history, and baseball and law.