Joyce Lee Malcolm is a Professor of Law at George Mason University specializing in legal and constitutional history. She has written six books including TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS: THE ORIGINS OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN RIGHT and GUNS AND VIOLENCE: THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE, both published by Harvard University Press. A seventh book now in press, PETER'S WAR: A NEW ENGLAND SLAVE BOY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, will be published by Yale University Press late this year. My articles have appeared in historical and scholarly journals and in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers and magazines. Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society.