Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard and the author of five books, most recently "Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices."
Feldman has a bachelor's degree from Harvard, a law degree from Yale and a doctorate in Islamic thought from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He clerked for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. As an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, he contributed to the creation of the country's new constitution. His other books include "Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem - and What We Should Do About It" and "After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy." He lives in Cambridge, Mass., and is a senior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
Articles By Noah Feldman
Romney Is Mormons’ Path to the Christian Mainstream
During the 2008 presidential primary race, evangelical stalwart Mike Huckabee darkly hinted that Mitt Romney might believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. This time around, Romney is the featured graduation speaker at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. What changed?
Israeli Coalition Is About a Fair Draft, Not Iran
Israel’s newly expanded governing coalition may be more cautious about bombing Iran, and it may be marginally more open to serious negotiations with the Palestinians. But neither issue was the immediate reason the centrist Kadima party joined the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 8.
Sept. 11 Trial Set to Have More Chaos Than Justice
U.S. Brigadier General Mark Martins is an honorable man with an impossible job: Convicting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his associates of the Sept. 11 attacks without making it look like a show trial.
Arizona Immigration Argument May Lead to National ID
Can the police stop you and make you show your papers? In Europe, the answer has long been yes.
Egypt’s Shameful Election Bans May Save Its Democracy
When is a democracy not a democracy? Here’s one answer: If you’re free to vote for any of the candidates on the ballot, but your favorite candidate is blocked from running.
Strip-Search Case Reflects Death of American Privacy
To be the swing voter, you have to be willing to swing. In the last three weeks, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has shown how it’s done.
Broccoli-Bungling Defense Hurts Health Care
What’s the difference between broccoli and health insurance?
Supreme Court Should Heed Economic Sense on Health Care
When the sun hits the brilliant white marble of the Supreme Court building on a clear spring day, it is so bright you can’t look at it. Thus illuminated, the court becomes the sun: the epicenter of the Washington world.
Afghanistan Setbacks May Lead to Pre-Election U.S. Exit
A month ago, the one sure thing about Afghanistan was that the U.S. would not withdraw troops before November 2012, staving off potential disaster until after the elections.
Shell Nigeria Case Puts Court in Foreign Territory: Noah Feldman
Should corporations be held liable for acts of torture committed under their auspices? If that had been the only issue considered by the Supreme Court last week in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the logical answer would surely have to be yes.
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