Cynthia Nicoletti
Professor of Law
Professor of History
434-243-8540
Field & Specialties
American Legal History; Civil War and Reconstruction
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
J.D., Harvard Law School
Biography
Cynthia Nicoletti works on the legal history of the American Civil War. She is currently at work on a project on the disputed legality of the Emancipation Proclamation. Her book manuscript (in progress) examines Jefferson Davis's proposed treason trial and its potential to undermine the war's settlement of the secession question.