Noah Feldman Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, all at Harvard University. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas. Feldman is the author of 9 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery & The Refounding of America (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2021). Other works include: The Arab Winter: A Tragedy (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 of Nation building (Princeton University Press 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003). He is also the author of two casebooks with Kathleen Sullivan: Constitutional Law, Twentieth Edition (Foundation Press, Fall 2019) and First Amendment, Seventh Edition (Foundation Press, 2019). In 2003, Feldman 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 Iraq’s interim constitution. Earning his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, Feldman finished first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D.Phil. from Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s Ethics and its Islamic reception. Feldman received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as a book reviews editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Susan Kahn, Ph.D.Associate Director
Susan Kahn received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and a master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. From 2003-2015 she served as Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, Director of the Master's Program in Middle Eastern Studies, and Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; she received 14 Certificates of Excellence and Distinction in Teaching and was nominated for the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. Her new book Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel is forthcoming from Brandeis University Press. Her previous book Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel (Duke 2000) won a National Jewish Book Award, the Eileen Basker Prize for Outstanding Research in Gender and Health from the American Anthropological Association and the Musher Publication Prize, awarded biennially by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture for the outstanding dissertation on Jewish life in Israel or America.
Shannon Whalen-Lipko Program Administrator Shannon Whalen-Lipko is the Executive Assistant to Professor Noah Feldman and the Program Administrator who coordinates finances for the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. She received a bachelor’s degree (2006) and master’s degree (2018) from Harvard University.
Menachem Butler Program Fellow Menachem Butler is a Program Fellow at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a contributing editor at Tablet Magazine and co-editor at the Seforim blog.
