Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and a Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice White in the United States Supreme Court from 1980-1982. Before coming to Yale Law School in 1985, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., during which time he was on the legal team representing Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory, and philosophy. He is the author of fourteen books, including, Democracy in Our America: Can We Still Govern Ourselves?, Testimony, Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination, and Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.

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