Philip Chase Bobbitt

Professor Philip Chase Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and a Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He has contributed to the conceptualization of American constitutional decision-making, to the understanding of the development of the modern state, and to the intricacies of national security policy. He is also the author of Constitutional Fate, Constitutional Interpretation; and The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the 21st Century. Bobbitt is a life member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Pacific Council on International Policy; and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). He is also a member of the Commission on the Continuity of Government. He serves on the editorial board of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. He was the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in 2014; the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 2007; and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2005.