Saul Cornell

Who is Saul Cornell?

Saul Cornell, is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University, a former Professor of history at Ohio State University and the former Director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute.

He received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and is now one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought.

He is the author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America and A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. He is also the co-author of many other publications, including the text book Visions of America: A History of the United States. Recently, he authored an article on Salon regarding the 2011 Tucson shooting and Gun Control.

In addition to book writing, he has contributed to numerous Amicus curiae briefs in court cases involving the 2nd Amendment. Most notably, he is the co-author of an Amicus Brief filed in District of Columbia v. Heller.