Ph.D. (History), University of California, Berkeley, 2000
A.B., Washington University in St. Louis, 1994
Courses Taught
Conservatism
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights
Supreme Court Alternatives
Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, where he also serves as head of Grace Hopper College.
Trained in modern European intellectual history, he works on political and legal thought in modern times and on constitutional and international law in historical and current perspective. His most recent book is Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times1 (Yale University Press, 2023), based on the Carlyle Lectures2 in the History of Political Thought at the University of Oxford.
Currently he is working on (different) projects on aging and politics constitutionalism and democracy, and the Vietnam war.
Moyn is a fellow of the new Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft6. Over the years he has written in venues such as The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, Dissent, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History Samuel Moyn discussed his book, “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.”