Cynthia L. Nicoletti
- Professor of Law
- Professor of History
Cynthia Nicoletti is a legal historian and professor of law at Virginia Law. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the William Nelson Cromwell Prize for the best dissertation in legal history, awarded by the American Society for Legal History in 2011. Her book, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, won the 2018 Cromwell Book Prize, given by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation each year for excellence in scholarship to an early career scholar working in the field of American legal history.
Education
- J.D.Harvard Law School2003
- Ph.D.University of Virginia2010
- M.A.University of Virginia2004
- B.A.University of Virginia1999
IN THE NEWS
03/23/2023
07/19/2022
Congratulations to the Winner of The Journal of the Civil War Era’s George and Ann Richards Prize (The Journal of the Civil War Era)
10/22/2021
Bye, Maryland? Lawmakers in 3 Counties Float a Plan to Secede From the State. (The New York Times)
04/09/2020
Putting Secession and Jefferson Davis on Trial With Cynthia Nicoletti (Washington’s Library)
11/16/2016