Robert J. Spitzer

Spitzer’s chief areas of expertise include gun policy (including politics, history, law, and criminological consequences of guns) and the American presidency (especially president’s veto power and other constitutional powers, presidential behavior, electoral, political, and policy dimensions of the office, and inter-branch relations). He has served as an administrative hearing officer for the County Boards of Health in Cortland, Tompkins, and Chenango Counties (New York State) and for the Zoning Board of Appeals (Homer, NY). Spitzer has testified before U.S. Congress on five occasions and before New York State Legislative committees. He has also co-authored amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh and Ninth Circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeal.