 Since 2003, he has been a board member of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance at Yale University.Since 2001, he has been the scholar/convener of the annual scholarly conference of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.Called an "excellent legal historian", even by scholars who disagree with him, Finkelman was an expert witness against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in "Glassroth v. Moore" (Al.