(1941)
– 1994 author To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
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About Joyce Lee Malcolm
Joyce Lee Malcolm is an American historian and legal scholar whose research on the English roots of the right to arms helped shape the modern understanding of the Second Amendment as an individual right. Born October 17, 1941, she earned her B.A. at Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Brandeis University. After teaching at Princeton, Boston University, Northeastern and Cambridge, she was a professor of history at Bentley University from 1988 to 2006, then joined George Mason University’s law school as the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment. George Mason now lists her among its emeritus faculty.
Her 1994 book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, published by Harvard University Press, traced the right from the English Bill of Rights of 1689 to the American founding and is widely cited by scholars of the “Standard Model” individual-rights interpretation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and her 2009 book Peter’s War was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2021 she joined the Firearms Policy Coalition on an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the right to bear arms outside the home.
Key Facts
- October 17, 1941: Born
- 1988: Joins the history faculty at Bentley University
- 1994: Publishes To Keep and Bear Arms (Harvard University Press)
- 2006: Named Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at George Mason
- 2010: Peter’s War nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
- July 2021: Files Supreme Court amicus brief with the Firearms Policy Coalition
Sources
- Wikipedia: Joyce Lee Malcolm
- George Mason University: Joyce Lee Malcolm
- AmmoLand: FPC, Law Prof. Joyce Lee Malcolm File Brief Urging SCOTUS Uphold 2A
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