Noah Feldman | |
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![]() Feldman in 2009
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Born |
Boston, Massachusetts |
May 20, 1970
Nationality | United States |
Fields | Legal studies, religion, politics |
Institutions | Harvard Law School |
Alma mater |
Harvard College University of Oxford Yale Law School |
Spouse | Jeannie Suk (m. 1999–2011) |
Noah R. Feldman (born May 22, 1970) is an American author and the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Feldman grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the Maimonides School.
In 1992, Feldman received his A.B. summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard College, where he was awarded the Sophia Freund Prize (awarded to the highest-ranked graduate) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in Islamic Thought in 1994. Upon his return from Oxford, he received his J.D., in 1997, from Yale Law School, where he was the book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. He later served as a law clerk for Associate Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, he joined the faculty of New York University Law School (NYU), leaving for Harvard Law School in 2007. In 2008, he was appointed the Bemis Professor of International Law.
Feldman is a senior adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a previous fellow at New America Foundation, and regularly contributes features and opinion pieces to The New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg View columns.