NC - "Professor Wood being a historian does not give him credentials for you to constantly invoke him as a legal expert. He does not provide expert legal opinion."
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/Wood/Wood.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS:
Gordon Wood spent the fall term, 2003, teaching the Revolution and the origins of the Constitution at Northwestern Law School. During the fall term he lectured at the National Conference of Editorial Writers, which was held in Providence; at a conference of Massachusetts school teachers in Worcester; at the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, DC; at the Chicago Humanities Festival; and at Washington University. He taught at Brown during the spring 2004 semester. Professor Wood lectured during the winter and spring at the University of Chicago Law School; at Colonial Williamsburg; at the Aspen Institute; at Portsmouth Abbey; at Princeton University; at the University of Kentucky; at a conference of federal court judges at Tucson; at Northwestern University; at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia; at the New York Historical Society; and at a conference of school teachers in Honolulu. He also acted as a commentator at the Organization of American Historian’s Convention and at the convention of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. He wrote several reviews for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. In May he published a book entitled The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Professor Wood served as a consultant to the National Constitution Center and to the US Capitol renovation and continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for Colonial Williamsburg.
e:mail Gordon_Wood@brown.edu
Tell him yourself.
This is very distinguished legal company, and I confess to wondering about my qualifications to be a commentator on Justice Scalia's paper. I do not seem to have too many of them. I have never been to law school, so I have not experienced that intellectual rebirth which Justice Scalia says every first-year law school student experiences. I am not a jurist. I am not a legal philosopher. I am not even a legal or constitutional historian. I am just a plain eighteenth-century American historian who happens to have written something on the origins of the Constitution. I am not sure that this suffices.
Source: Gordon Wood, from his essay which appears in A Matter of Interpretation, Federal Courts and the Law, by Antonin Scalia, 1997, p. 49.
Gordon Wood is well-qualified to do what you cited, "Gordon Wood spent the fall term, 2003, teaching the Revolution and the origins of the Constitution at Northwestern Law School." That is the HISTORY, not law.