The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices- Noah Feldman

Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Mr. Professor Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions, which tells the story of the FDR Court and four of its outstanding judges; Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Henry Jackson, and William O. Douglas.                              

Noah Feldman specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. Bemis Professor of law at Harvard Law School, he is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Feldman was Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.  He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.  In 2004 he was a visiting professor at Yale Law School and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.  In 2003 he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution.   From 1999 to 2002, he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.  Before that he served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1998 to 1999) and to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1997 to 1998). He received his A.B. summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1992. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D.Phil. in Islamic Thought from Oxford University in 1994. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997, serving as Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He is the author of five books: Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve, forthcoming November 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 of Nation building (Princeton University Press, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003).