Ronald Zellar

Ronald C. Zellar combines a career as an attorney with a love of history to analyze the treason trial of Aaron Burr and other early US legal confrontations. The course and the outcomes of these events influenced the evolution of the three branches of the United States Government and helped shape the relationship between the Executive and the Judiciary.Zellar earned his JD at Wayne State University, was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1972, and practiced law for his entire career, most of it in government law as a prosecuting attorney and Assistant Attorney General in Michigan and Kentucky.