Rebecca E. Zietlow

Rebecca E. Zietlow is Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law. She is a recipient of the University of Toledo Outstanding Faculty Research Award and a leader of the Thirteenth Amendment Project.

Rebecca Zietlow's most recent book, The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Her widely acclaimed book, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution and the Protection of Individual Rights, studies the history of congressional protection of rights, and the implications of that history for constitutional theory.

Her work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Florida Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Journal, amongst other publications.