2018 - Why We Study the Federalist Papers
One of America’s leading constitutional scholars discusses the essays of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay as they apply to contemporary legal questions.
“Why We Study the Federalist Papers”
By Professor Philip C. Bobbitt
Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence
and Director for the Center for National Security,
Columbia Law School
September 19, 2018
4:00 – 5:00 PM
With Book Signing Afterward
Jim Kronzer Appellate Advocacy Classroom & Courtroom, Room 127
Sheila & Walter Umphrey Law Center
1114 South University Parks Drive, Waco, TX 76706
Professor Philip C. Bobbitt
Philip C. Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence and director for the Center for National Security at Columbia Law School. He is one of the nation’s leading constitutional theorists. Bobbitt’s interests include constitutional law, international security, and the history of strategy.
The author of eight books, Bobbitt 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.
Bobbitt is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, 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 has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly; associate counsel to the president; the counselor on international law at the State Department; legal counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee; and senior director for Critical Infrastructure and senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council.
Before joining the Law School’s faculty, Bobbitt was A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School.
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.
He serves as a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Texas.