Professor Noah Feldman '97 will discuss his new book To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel and the Jewish People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). The talk will be followed by Q&A moderated by Professor Samuel Moyn. Kosher lunch will be served.
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he is also founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law and Chair of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a contributing writer for Bloomberg View and the author of numerous books, including The Broken Constitution, The Three Lives of James Madison, and Divided by God. Feldman was the architect of Facebook's Oversight Board and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, his D.Phil. from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked for Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the D.C. Circuit and Justice David Souter of the Supreme Court.
Samuel Moyn is the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. His many monographs include Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics, and A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France. His most recent co-edited volume is Hermann Cohen: Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy. Moyn serves on the editorial boards of a range of academic journals, including Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2001.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Yale Jewish Law Students Association