Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and the Founding Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. He is the Chair of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, co-chair of Harvard University’s Institutional Voice Working Group, and a member of the Academy of Arts and Science. Feldman is a widely read policy & public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and writes for The New York Review of Books. He was also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine for nearly a decade. He is also the co-founder of his consulting agency, Ethical Compass Advisors.

Feldman served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1998 – 1999). He received his A.B. summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1992, finishing first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D. Phil. in Islamic Thought from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, serving as Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Feldman is the author of ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including his most recent, New York Times Bestseller, To Be A Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel and the Jewish People (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2024); The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2021); The Arab Winter (Princeton University Press, 2020); The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President (Random House, 2017); Cool War: The Future of Global Competition (Random House, 2013); Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve Publishing, 2010); The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Princeton University Press, 2008); Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics n building (Princeton University Press, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003). He’s also co-authored two textbooks with Kathleen Sullivan: Constitutional Law, 21st Edition (Foundation Press, 2022) and First Amendment Law, 8th Edition (Foundation Press, 2022).