A.B., Princeton, 1971; J.D., Yale, 1975; Ph.D., Oxford, 1983. One of
the nation’s leading constitutional theorists, Professor Bobbitt’s interests
include not only constitutional law but also international security
and the history of strategy.
He has published seven books: Tragic Choices, with Calabresi, 1978;
Constitutional Fate, 1982; Democracy and Deterrence, 1987; U.S. Nuclear
Strategy, with...
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A.B., Princeton, 1971; J.D., Yale, 1975; Ph.D., Oxford, 1983. One of
the nation’s leading constitutional theorists, Professor Bobbitt’s interests
include not only constitutional law but also international security
and the history of strategy.
He has published seven books: Tragic Choices, with Calabresi, 1978;
Constitutional Fate, 1982; Democracy and Deterrence, 1987; U.S. Nuclear
Strategy, with Freedman and Treverton, 1989; Constitutional Interpretation,
1991; The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History, Knopf,
2002; and Terror and Consent, Knopf, 2008.
Professor Bobbitt is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He is also a fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is a life member
of the American Law Institute and a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the
International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Executive Council
of the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the
Commission on the Continuity of Government. He has served as law
clerk to the Hon. Henry J. Friendly (Second Circuit), associate counsel
to the president, the counselor on international law at the State
Department, legal counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee, and
director for intelligence, senior director for critical infrastructure and
senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council.
Before coming to Columbia, he was A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in
Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is a former trustee of
Princeton University and a former member of the Oxford University
Modern History faculty and the War Studies Department of Kings
College, London. He serves on the Editorial Board of Biosecurity and
Bioterrorism. For the fall term 2005, he was the James Barr Ames Visiting
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. For the spring term 2007,
he was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law
School at the conclusion of which he joined the faculty of Columbia
Law School. He also serves as a senior fellow at the Robert S. Strauss
Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.
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