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Noah Feldman

January 07, 2023

Noah R. Feldman (born May 22, 1970) is an American academic and legal scholar. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is the author of 10 books, host of the podcast Deep Background, and a public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He was formerly a contributing writer for The New York Times.

Noah Feldman
Feldman in 2021
Born
Noah R. Feldman

(1970-05-22) May 22, 1970 (age 52)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Academic background
EducationHarvard College (AB)
Christ Church, Oxford (DPhil)
Yale Law School (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineEthics, Legal studies, Religion, Politics
InstitutionsHarvard Law School

Feldman's work is devoted to ethics and constitutional law, with an emphasis on free speech, law and religion, and the history of constitutional ideas.

Feldman graduated from Harvard University, received his doctorate from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and his JD from Yale Law. He was a law clerk for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court.

Early life and education

Feldman grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[1] in an Orthodox Jewish home. Feldman studied Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard University. In 1990, as a junior, he was the Massachusetts recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Feldman graduated in 1992 with an A.B. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa membership.

Upon graduating from Harvard, Feldman was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship which he used to study Islamic thought at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1994, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in just two years—reportedly the fastest on record. While at Oxford, he was a member of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society.[2] Feldman then returned to the United States to attend Yale Law School, where he was the book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1997.

According to Harvard Magazine, Feldman is a "hyperpolyglot." He is fluent in English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French. He also speaks conversational Korean, and read Greek, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish and Aramaic.[3]

Career

Legal career

After graduating from law school, Feldman was a law clerk for chief judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, then for justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.

In 2001, Feldman joined the faculty of New York University Law School (NYU), where he became a tenured full professor in 2005 and was appointed Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law in 2006.

In 2007, Feldman joined the Harvard Law School faculty as the Bemis Professor of International Law, teaching classes on the First Amendment, the Constitution, and the international order. In 2014, he was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[3]

Feldman was a senior adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously an adjunct fellow at New America Foundation.

Writer and author

Feldman has published 9 nonfiction books and 2 case books.

They include The Broken Constitution, Divided By God, What We Owe Iraq, Cool War, Scorpions, The Three Lives of James Madison and The Arab Winter. Reviewing The Arab Winter in The New York Times, Robert F. Worth called Feldman's thesis "bold" and that Feldman "spins out its ramifications in fascinating and persuasive ways."[4] Reviewing The Broken Constitution, James Oakes concludes that Feldman ignores "the voluminous historical evidence that would have added some much-needed nuance to his thoroughly unpersuasive analysis."[5][6]

He was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 2005 to 2011.[7]

Since 2012, he has been a regular columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.[8] He also regularly contributes essays to The New York Review of Books about constitutional topics and the Supreme Court.[3]

Podcast host

Since 2019, Feldman has been the host of the podcast named Deep Background with Noah Feldman, which is produced by Pushkin Industries. Deep Background focuses on the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context underlying the news, with a focus on power & ethics. He has interviewed Malcolm Gladwell, Laurie R. Santos, and Marc Lipsitch, among others.[9]

Organizations and affiliations

In 2003 he was named senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. In that capacity he advised on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law, the precursor to the Iraqi constitution.[10][11]

In 2010, he became a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and in 2020, he was named chair. A Harvard Magazine profile describes the Society as such: "The values it represents to [Feldman] have shaped his career: 'convivial intellectual community with people from many very different backgrounds; interdisciplinary creativity and collaboration; openness to new, unorthodox ideas; pursuing solutions to long-term questions that really matter for the world; generosity to colleagues and across generations; nurturing originality to encourage risk-taking; and belief in sustained, in-person conversation as a central element of the good intellectual life.'"[12]

He is the founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish & Israeli Law at Harvard Law School.

Facebook Oversight Board

Feldman advised Facebook on the creation of its Oversight Board, whose members were announced in June 2020. According to Feldman, the purpose of the Oversight Board is to protect and ensure freedom of expression on the platform by creating an independent body to review Facebook's most important content moderation decisions.[13]

A 2020 profile in Harvard magazine describes the genesis of the board:

"On a bike ride one day, [Feldman] thought: Facebook and other social media are under a lot of pressure to avoid outcomes that are morally repugnant. What if they addressed the problem as governments do, giving independent bodies functioning like courts the authority to decide what content is acceptable and what is not? Social media themselves, he decided, should find ways to protect free expression—and he made a proposal to Facebook, the world’s largest social-media platform, with more than 2.6 billion users who send out an average of 115 billion messages a day: 'To put it simply: we need a Supreme Court of Facebook.'"[12]

Trump testimony

On December 4, 2019, Feldman—alongside law professors Pamela Karlan, Michael Gerhardt, and Jonathan Turley—testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.[14][15] "Some day, we will no longer be alive, and we will go wherever it is we go, the good place or the other place, and we may meet there Madison and Hamilton," Feldman suggested. "And they will ask us, 'When the president of the United States acted to corrupt the structure of the republic, what did you do?' And our answer to that question must be that we followed the guidance of the framers, and it must be that if the evidence supports that conclusion, that the House of Representatives moves to impeach him."[16]

Public perception

Media

In 2020, Harvard Magazine wrote of Feldman, a Harvard professor,

"Feldman is increasingly prominent as a public intellectual and a voice about public affairs ... His work displays the mix of synthesis and substantive mastery that serious journalists aspire to, and the combination of clarity and eloquence that few scholars display. He writes with the conviction that the most important public position in American life is that of citizen, which makes his fellow citizens the most important audience for his writing about American public affairs."[3]

In 2019, The New York Times published in "Who Is Noah Feldman?" that Feldman was "part of a vanishing breed, a public intellectual equally at ease with writing law review articles, books aimed at both popular and scholarly audiences and regular opinion columns, all leaning left but with a distinct contrarian streak."[17] According to The New York Times, Feldman "specializes in constitutional law and the relationship between law and religion and free speech".[18]

In 2008, Feldman was named in Esquire's list of the "75 most influential people of the 21st century." The magazine called him "one of the country's most sought after authorities," "an acclaimed author" and "a public intellectual of our time."[19]

In 2006, New York Magazine named Feldman "the next big public intellectual,"[20] and later, as "most beautiful brainiac" in The Most Beautiful People issue.[21]

In 2005, The New York Observer called Feldman "one of a handful of earnest, platinum-résumé'd law geeks whose prospects for the Big Bench are the source of constant speculation among friends and colleagues".[22]

Criticism of Modern Orthodox Judaism

In a New York Times Magazine article, "Orthodox Paradox", Feldman recounted his experiences of the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion of the Modern Orthodox Jewish community in which he was raised, specifically at his high school alma mater, the Maimonides School.[23] He contended that his choice to marry a non-Jew led to ostracism by the school, in which he and his then-girlfriend were allegedly removed from the 1998 photograph of his class reunion published in the school newsletter. His marriage to a non-Jew is contrary to orthodox Jewish law, although he and his family had been active members of the Harvard Hillel Orthodox minyan. The photographer's account of an over-crowded photograph was used to accuse Feldman of misrepresenting a fundamental fact in the story, namely whether he was purposefully cropped out of the picture, as many other class members were also cropped from the newsletter photograph due to space limitations.[24] His supporters noted that Feldman's claim in the article was that he and his girlfriend were "nowhere to be found" and not that they were cropped or deleted out of the photograph.

His critique of Modern Orthodox Judaism has been commented on by many, including Hillel Halkin, columnist for the New York Sun;[25] Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor of the New Jersey Jewish News;[26] Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union;[27] Marc B. Shapiro[28] Rabbi Shalom Carmy, tenured professor of Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University;[29] Rabbi Norman Lamm, chancellor of Yeshiva University;[30] Rabbi Shmuley Boteach;[31] Gary Rosenblatt, editor of Jewish Week,[32] the editorial board of the Jewish Press;[33][34] Rabbis Ozer Glickman and Aharon Kahn, roshei yeshiva at Yeshiva University;[35][36] Ami Eden, executive editor of The Forward; Rabbi David M. Feldman, author of Where There's Life, There's Life;[37] and Jonathan Rosenblum, columnist for the Jerusalem Post.[38]

Publications

Books

Feldman has published nine non-fiction books and two casebooks.

  • The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (2021) “seeks to retell the story of the meaning of the Constitution in the Civil War and of Lincoln’s decisive action not as the story of successful salvation but as something more dramatic, and more extreme: the frank breaking and frank remaking of the entire union of order, rights, constitution, and liberty.” The book is a history of “an extraordinary transformation” in Lincoln's “beliefs about the meaning of the Constitution.”
  • The Arab Winter: A Tragedy (2020) seeks to "save the Arab spring from the verdict of implicit nonexistence and to propose an alternative account that highlights the exercise of collective, free political action."[39] The book "is an interdisciplinary work of history and sociology, as well as linguistics, using insights of political philosophy to explore the right ways of governing in the very different countries of Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia, as well as the Islamic State."[3]
  • The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President (2017) "explores Madison's reactive and improvisational thinking as it played out in the three uniquely consequential roles, or ‘lives,' he had — as constitutional architect and co-author with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay of the ‘Federalist Papers,' political partisan and wartime president."[40] Feldman writes that Madison's "character emerges most vividly through the cycles of [his] extraordinarily close friendships" and that his biography is "entwined with that of the constitutional republic itself, its personalities, and its permanent struggle to reconcile unity with profound disagreement."[41]
  • Cool War: The Future of Global Competition (2013) is about the relationship between the United States and China, as "the world's two biggest economies are fated to remain geopolitical frenemies, locked in a chilly embrace necessitated by economic interdependence but made tense by constant military and political rivalry in Asia and, increasingly, the rest of the world."[42] As each side vies for supremacy, Feldman warns, the Cool War has the potential to become a hot war.[43]
  • Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (2010) focuses on four of Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William O. Douglas, and "how the backgrounds, personalities, and experiences of the four justices shaped their philosophies and how those philosophies changed the Court from a conservative one resisting America's liberal turn under FDR into the liberal one that helped remake the nation".[3] This group biography demonstrates that their competing judicial philosophies "are the ones that continue to preoccupy lawyers, law professors and judges".[44]
  • The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (2008) explains the increasingly loud call for implementing shari'a in Muslim countries.[45] Feldman argues that current systems of government in certain Muslim countries have unchecked executive power because the previous system – in which scholarly interpretation of shari'a served to counterbalance executive power – was undermined by failed reforms in the modern era.[45] Drawing on the success of this previous system, Feldman proposes a viable path for Islamic governance that depends on legislators to serve as the check on authoritarian executives.[46]
  • Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (2005) describes "key episodes in the history of church-state relations to show how the growing religious diversity of the American people has led to new efforts to find common ground for political and social life."[47] Addressing the divide between the competing camps of "values evangelicals" and "legal secularists," Feldman proposes a compromise "to allow religious symbols in public places but not to allow public funding for specifically religious practices or activities".[48]
  • What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (2004) argues that "having broken the Iraqi government, Washington has an obligation to bring about a new and better one"[49] while ensuring that nation building does not become "a paternalistic, colonialist charade."[50] As a constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Feldman suggests the United States ensure security and organize elections before withdrawing.[49]
  • After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (2003) contends that support of violent jihad in the Muslim world is declining in favor of popularity for both Islam and democracy.[51] Explaining shared traits of Islam and democracy, such as equality and flexibility, Feldman argues that the two are in fact compatible and that "democracy in the Arab world should be Islamic in character."[52]
  • ——— (2003). After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374177690. LCCN 2002192524. OCLC 1024173388.
  • ——— (2004). What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691121796. LCCN 2004016041. OCLC 355628322.
  • ——— (2005). Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem – and What We Should Do About It. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374281311. LCCN 2005007064. OCLC 1033658906.
  • ——— (2008). The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691120454. LCCN 2007047918. OCLC 437427441.
  • ——— (2010). Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. New York: Twelve Books. ISBN 9780446580571. LCCN 2010007788. OCLC 528665984.
  • ——— (2013). Cool War: The Future of Global Competition. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780812992748. LCCN 2013007907. OCLC 846844628.
  • ——— (2017) The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President. Description & arrow/scrollable preview. Random House, New York. ISBN 9780812992755. LCCN 2017-125 OCLC 1008877503.
  • ——— (2020). The Arab Winter: A Tragedy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691194929. LCCN 2019030393. OCLC 9421051640.
  • Feldman, Noah R.; Sullivan, Kathleen M. (2019). Constitutional Law (Twentieth ed.). St. Paul, MN: Foundation Press. ISBN 9781683287872. OCLC 1086016864. – various editions/supplements prior to this version
  • Feldman, Noah R.; Sullivan, Kathleen M. (2019). First Amendment Law (Seventh ed.). St. Paul, MN: Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1684673308. LCCN 2019296312. OCLC 1111925275.

Selected articles

  • Feldman, Noah R. (November 2015). "Chapter 39: Mormonism in the American Political Domain". In Givens, Terryl L.; Barlow, Philip L. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism. Vol. Part VIII Mormonism in the World Community. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199778362.013.36. ISBN 9780199778362. OCLC 5932525069.
  • Weisberg, Jacob; Feldman, Noah (September 28, 2017). "What Are Impeachable Offenses?". The New York Review of Books.
  • Feldman, Noah (October 28, 2017). "Opinion: James Madison's Lessons in Racism". The New York Times.
  • Feldman, Noah (2018). "On "It can't happen here"". In Sunstein, Cass R. (ed.). Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. New York: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow. ISBN 9780062696199. OCLC 1027963797.
  • Feldman, Noah (May 24, 2018). "Crooked Trump?". The New York Review of Books.
  • Feldman, Noah (June 5, 2018). "Opinion: Are You Sure You Want a Right to Trump's Twitter Account?". The New York Times.
  • Feldman, Noah (July 19, 2018). "Tipping the Scales". The New York Review of Books.
  • Feldman, Noah (December 6, 2018). "Justifying Diversity". The New York Review of Books.
  • Feldman, Noah (September 26, 2020). "Amy Coney Barrett Deserves to Be on the Supreme Court". Bloomberg.
  • Feldman, Noah (June 24, 2022). "Ending Roe Is Institutional Suicide for Supreme Court". Bloomberg.

Personal life

He is divorced from Jeannie Suk, professor of law at Harvard Law School and New Yorker contributor, with whom he has two children.[53][54]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Stop Ostracizing Those Who Marry Out, Shmuley Boteach, Huffpost, July 22, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Caplan, Lincoln (September–October 2020). "Near and Distant Objectives". Harvard Magazine.
  4. ^ Worth, Robert F. (May 12, 2020). "Tragedy in the Middle East". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Oakes, James, "Was Emancipation Constitutional?", The New York Review of Books, May 12, 2022
  6. ^ Witt, John Fabian, "Emancipation and the Law of War: A Different Take on the Feldman-Oakes Battle at The NYRB," Balkinization, June 3, 2022
  7. ^ "When Judges Make Foreign Policy", September 25, 2008, example NYT Magazine article, retrieved 2014-03-01.
  8. ^ Feldman, Noah, "Beard-cutting is horrid. It isn’t a hate crime", Bloomberg News via Ohio.com, September 10, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
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  13. ^ Sullivan, Mark (July 8, 2019). "Exclusive: The Harvard professor behind Facebook's oversight board defends its role". Fast Company. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
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  24. ^ "Snap, Crackle, But Not Cropped", thejewishweek.com
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  30. ^ ""A Response to Noah Feldman" by Rabbi Norman Lamm". Forward.com. August 2, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
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  39. ^ Feldman, Noah (2020). The Arab Winter: A Tragedy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. ix. ISBN 978-0691194929.
  40. ^ Dunn, Susan (November 1, 2017). "James Madison's Zigzag Path". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  41. ^ Feldman, Noah (2017). The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780812992755.
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  51. ^ "Review Book Reviews, Bestselling Books & Publishing Business News "After Jihad"". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
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  54. ^ Gibson, Lydialyle (February 9, 2021). "Due Process". Harvard Magazine.

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Noah R Feldman born May 22 1970 is an American academic and legal scholar He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University He is the author of 10 books host of the podcast Deep Background and a public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion He was formerly a contributing writer for The New York Times Noah FeldmanFeldman in 2021BornNoah R Feldman 1970 05 22 May 22 1970 age 52 Boston Massachusetts U S Academic backgroundEducationHarvard College AB Christ Church Oxford DPhil Yale Law School JD Academic workDisciplineEthics Legal studies Religion PoliticsInstitutionsHarvard Law SchoolFeldman s work is devoted to ethics and constitutional law with an emphasis on free speech law and religion and the history of constitutional ideas Feldman graduated from Harvard University received his doctorate from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and his JD from Yale Law He was a law clerk for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Legal career 2 2 Writer and author 2 3 Podcast host 2 4 Organizations and affiliations 2 5 Facebook Oversight Board 2 6 Trump testimony 3 Public perception 3 1 Media 3 2 Criticism of Modern Orthodox Judaism 4 Publications 4 1 Books 4 2 Selected articles 5 Personal life 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditFeldman grew up in Cambridge Massachusetts 1 in an Orthodox Jewish home Feldman studied Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard University In 1990 as a junior he was the Massachusetts recipient of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Feldman graduated in 1992 with an A B summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa membership Upon graduating from Harvard Feldman was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship which he used to study Islamic thought at Christ Church Oxford In 1994 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in just two years reportedly the fastest on record While at Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University L Chaim Society 2 Feldman then returned to the United States to attend Yale Law School where he was the book review editor of the Yale Law Journal He graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1997 According to Harvard Magazine Feldman is a hyperpolyglot He is fluent in English Hebrew Arabic and French He also speaks conversational Korean and read Greek Latin German Italian Spanish and Aramaic 3 Career EditLegal career Edit After graduating from law school Feldman was a law clerk for chief judge Harry T Edwards of the U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998 then for justice David Souter of the U S Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999 In 2001 Feldman joined the faculty of New York University Law School NYU where he became a tenured full professor in 2005 and was appointed Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law in 2006 In 2007 Feldman joined the Harvard Law School faculty as the Bemis Professor of International Law teaching classes on the First Amendment the Constitution and the international order In 2014 he was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School 3 Feldman was a senior adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was previously an adjunct fellow at New America Foundation Writer and author Edit Feldman has published 9 nonfiction books and 2 case books They include The Broken Constitution Divided By God What We Owe Iraq Cool War Scorpions The Three Lives of James Madison and The Arab Winter Reviewing The Arab Winter in The New York Times Robert F Worth called Feldman s thesis bold and that Feldman spins out its ramifications in fascinating and persuasive ways 4 Reviewing The Broken Constitution James Oakes concludes that Feldman ignores the voluminous historical evidence that would have added some much needed nuance to his thoroughly unpersuasive analysis 5 6 He was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 2005 to 2011 7 Since 2012 he has been a regular columnist for Bloomberg Opinion 8 He also regularly contributes essays to The New York Review of Books about constitutional topics and the Supreme Court 3 Podcast host Edit Since 2019 Feldman has been the host of the podcast named Deep Background with Noah Feldman which is produced by Pushkin Industries Deep Background focuses on the historical scientific legal and cultural context underlying the news with a focus on power amp ethics He has interviewed Malcolm Gladwell Laurie R Santos and Marc Lipsitch among others 9 Organizations and affiliations Edit In 2003 he was named senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq In that capacity he advised on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law the precursor to the Iraqi constitution 10 11 In 2010 he became a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and in 2020 he was named chair A Harvard Magazine profile describes the Society as such The values it represents to Feldman have shaped his career convivial intellectual community with people from many very different backgrounds interdisciplinary creativity and collaboration openness to new unorthodox ideas pursuing solutions to long term questions that really matter for the world generosity to colleagues and across generations nurturing originality to encourage risk taking and belief in sustained in person conversation as a central element of the good intellectual life 12 He is the founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on Jewish amp Israeli Law at Harvard Law School Facebook Oversight Board Edit Feldman advised Facebook on the creation of its Oversight Board whose members were announced in June 2020 According to Feldman the purpose of the Oversight Board is to protect and ensure freedom of expression on the platform by creating an independent body to review Facebook s most important content moderation decisions 13 A 2020 profile in Harvard magazine describes the genesis of the board On a bike ride one day Feldman thought Facebook and other social media are under a lot of pressure to avoid outcomes that are morally repugnant What if they addressed the problem as governments do giving independent bodies functioning like courts the authority to decide what content is acceptable and what is not Social media themselves he decided should find ways to protect free expression and he made a proposal to Facebook the world s largest social media platform with more than 2 6 billion users who send out an average of 115 billion messages a day To put it simply we need a Supreme Court of Facebook 12 Trump testimony Edit On December 4 2019 Feldman alongside law professors Pamela Karlan Michael Gerhardt and Jonathan Turley testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump 14 15 Some day we will no longer be alive and we will go wherever it is we go the good place or the other place and we may meet there Madison and Hamilton Feldman suggested And they will ask us When the president of the United States acted to corrupt the structure of the republic what did you do And our answer to that question must be that we followed the guidance of the framers and it must be that if the evidence supports that conclusion that the House of Representatives moves to impeach him 16 Public perception EditMedia EditIn 2020 Harvard Magazine wrote of Feldman a Harvard professor Feldman is increasingly prominent as a public intellectual and a voice about public affairs His work displays the mix of synthesis and substantive mastery that serious journalists aspire to and the combination of clarity and eloquence that few scholars display He writes with the conviction that the most important public position in American life is that of citizen which makes his fellow citizens the most important audience for his writing about American public affairs 3 In 2019 The New York Times published in Who Is Noah Feldman that Feldman was part of a vanishing breed a public intellectual equally at ease with writing law review articles books aimed at both popular and scholarly audiences and regular opinion columns all leaning left but with a distinct contrarian streak 17 According to The New York Times Feldman specializes in constitutional law and the relationship between law and religion and free speech 18 In 2008 Feldman was named in Esquire s list of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century The magazine called him one of the country s most sought after authorities an acclaimed author and a public intellectual of our time 19 In 2006 New York Magazine named Feldman the next big public intellectual 20 and later as most beautiful brainiac in The Most Beautiful People issue 21 In 2005 The New York Observer called Feldman one of a handful of earnest platinum resume d law geeks whose prospects for the Big Bench are the source of constant speculation among friends and colleagues 22 Criticism of Modern Orthodox Judaism Edit In a New York Times Magazine article Orthodox Paradox Feldman recounted his experiences of the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion of the Modern Orthodox Jewish community in which he was raised specifically at his high school alma mater the Maimonides School 23 He contended that his choice to marry a non Jew led to ostracism by the school in which he and his then girlfriend were allegedly removed from the 1998 photograph of his class reunion published in the school newsletter His marriage to a non Jew is contrary to orthodox Jewish law although he and his family had been active members of the Harvard Hillel Orthodox minyan The photographer s account of an over crowded photograph was used to accuse Feldman of misrepresenting a fundamental fact in the story namely whether he was purposefully cropped out of the picture as many other class members were also cropped from the newsletter photograph due to space limitations 24 His supporters noted that Feldman s claim in the article was that he and his girlfriend were nowhere to be found and not that they were cropped or deleted out of the photograph His critique of Modern Orthodox Judaism has been commented on by many including Hillel Halkin columnist for the New York Sun 25 Andrew Silow Carroll editor of the New Jersey Jewish News 26 Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb executive vice president of the Orthodox Union 27 Marc B Shapiro 28 Rabbi Shalom Carmy tenured professor of Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University 29 Rabbi Norman Lamm chancellor of Yeshiva University 30 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 31 Gary Rosenblatt editor of Jewish Week 32 the editorial board of the Jewish Press 33 34 Rabbis Ozer Glickman and Aharon Kahn roshei yeshiva at Yeshiva University 35 36 Ami Eden executive editor of The Forward Rabbi David M Feldman author of Where There s Life There s Life 37 and Jonathan Rosenblum columnist for the Jerusalem Post 38 Publications EditBooks Edit Feldman has published nine non fiction books and two casebooks The Broken Constitution Lincoln Slavery and the Refounding of America 2021 seeks to retell the story of the meaning of the Constitution in the Civil War and of Lincoln s decisive action not as the story of successful salvation but as something more dramatic and more extreme the frank breaking and frank remaking of the entire union of order rights constitution and liberty The book is a history of an extraordinary transformation in Lincoln s beliefs about the meaning of the Constitution The Arab Winter A Tragedy 2020 seeks to save the Arab spring from the verdict of implicit nonexistence and to propose an alternative account that highlights the exercise of collective free political action 39 The book is an interdisciplinary work of history and sociology as well as linguistics using insights of political philosophy to explore the right ways of governing in the very different countries of Egypt Syria and Tunisia as well as the Islamic State 3 The Three Lives of James Madison Genius Partisan President 2017 explores Madison s reactive and improvisational thinking as it played out in the three uniquely consequential roles or lives he had as constitutional architect and co author with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay of the Federalist Papers political partisan and wartime president 40 Feldman writes that Madison s character emerges most vividly through the cycles of his extraordinarily close friendships and that his biography is entwined with that of the constitutional republic itself its personalities and its permanent struggle to reconcile unity with profound disagreement 41 Cool War The Future of Global Competition 2013 is about the relationship between the United States and China as the world s two biggest economies are fated to remain geopolitical frenemies locked in a chilly embrace necessitated by economic interdependence but made tense by constant military and political rivalry in Asia and increasingly the rest of the world 42 As each side vies for supremacy Feldman warns the Cool War has the potential to become a hot war 43 Scorpions The Battles and Triumphs of FDR s Great Supreme Court Justices 2010 focuses on four of Roosevelt s Supreme Court appointees Felix Frankfurter Hugo Black Robert Jackson and William O Douglas and how the backgrounds personalities and experiences of the four justices shaped their philosophies and how those philosophies changed the Court from a conservative one resisting America s liberal turn under FDR into the liberal one that helped remake the nation 3 This group biography demonstrates that their competing judicial philosophies are the ones that continue to preoccupy lawyers law professors and judges 44 The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State 2008 explains the increasingly loud call for implementing shari a in Muslim countries 45 Feldman argues that current systems of government in certain Muslim countries have unchecked executive power because the previous system in which scholarly interpretation of shari a served to counterbalance executive power was undermined by failed reforms in the modern era 45 Drawing on the success of this previous system Feldman proposes a viable path for Islamic governance that depends on legislators to serve as the check on authoritarian executives 46 Divided By God America s Church State Problem and What We Should Do About It 2005 describes key episodes in the history of church state relations to show how the growing religious diversity of the American people has led to new efforts to find common ground for political and social life 47 Addressing the divide between the competing camps of values evangelicals and legal secularists Feldman proposes a compromise to allow religious symbols in public places but not to allow public funding for specifically religious practices or activities 48 What We Owe Iraq War and the Ethics of Nation Building 2004 argues that having broken the Iraqi government Washington has an obligation to bring about a new and better one 49 while ensuring that nation building does not become a paternalistic colonialist charade 50 As a constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq Feldman suggests the United States ensure security and organize elections before withdrawing 49 After Jihad America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy 2003 contends that support of violent jihad in the Muslim world is declining in favor of popularity for both Islam and democracy 51 Explaining shared traits of Islam and democracy such as equality and flexibility Feldman argues that the two are in fact compatible and that democracy in the Arab world should be Islamic in character 52 2003 After Jihad America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy New York Farrar Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374177690 LCCN 2002192524 OCLC 1024173388 2004 What We Owe Iraq War and the Ethics of Nation Building Princeton NJ Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691121796 LCCN 2004016041 OCLC 355628322 2005 Divided by God America s Church State Problem and What We Should Do About It New York Farrar Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374281311 LCCN 2005007064 OCLC 1033658906 2008 The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State Princeton NJ Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691120454 LCCN 2007047918 OCLC 437427441 2010 Scorpions The Battles and Triumphs of FDR s Great Supreme Court Justices New York Twelve Books ISBN 9780446580571 LCCN 2010007788 OCLC 528665984 2013 Cool War The Future of Global Competition New York Random House ISBN 9780812992748 LCCN 2013007907 OCLC 846844628 2017 The Three Lives of James Madison Genius Partisan President Description amp arrow scrollable preview Random House New York ISBN 9780812992755 LCCN 2017 125 OCLC 1008877503 2020 The Arab Winter A Tragedy Princeton NJ Princeton University Press ISBN 978 0691194929 LCCN 2019030393 OCLC 9421051640 Feldman Noah R Sullivan Kathleen M 2019 Constitutional Law Twentieth ed St Paul MN Foundation Press ISBN 9781683287872 OCLC 1086016864 various editions supplements prior to this version Feldman Noah R Sullivan Kathleen M 2019 First Amendment Law Seventh ed St Paul MN Foundation Press ISBN 978 1684673308 LCCN 2019296312 OCLC 1111925275 Selected articles Edit Feldman Noah R November 2015 Chapter 39 Mormonism in the American Political Domain In Givens Terryl L Barlow Philip L eds The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism Vol Part VIII Mormonism in the World Community New York Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 oxfordhb 9780199778362 013 36 ISBN 9780199778362 OCLC 5932525069 Weisberg Jacob Feldman Noah September 28 2017 What Are Impeachable Offenses The New York Review of Books Feldman Noah October 28 2017 Opinion James Madison s Lessons in Racism The New York Times Feldman Noah 2018 On It can t happen here In Sunstein Cass R ed Can It Happen Here Authoritarianism in America New York Dey St an imprint of William Morrow ISBN 9780062696199 OCLC 1027963797 Feldman Noah May 24 2018 Crooked Trump The New York Review of Books Feldman Noah June 5 2018 Opinion Are You Sure You Want a Right to Trump s Twitter Account The New York Times Feldman Noah July 19 2018 Tipping the Scales The New York Review of Books Feldman Noah December 6 2018 Justifying Diversity The New York Review of Books Feldman Noah September 26 2020 Amy Coney Barrett Deserves to Be on the Supreme Court Bloomberg Feldman Noah June 24 2022 Ending Roe Is Institutional Suicide for Supreme Court Bloomberg Personal life EditHe is divorced from Jeannie Suk professor of law at Harvard Law School and New Yorker contributor with whom he has two children 53 54 See also EditList of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Seat 3 References Edit AFTEREFFECTS THE LAW American Will Advise Iraqis On Writing New Constitution The New York Times May 11 2003 Accessed April 21 2008 Professor Feldman grew up in Boston an Orthodox Jew As a child he learned Hebrew and Aramaic to read the ancient and medieval religious texts taught at the Maimonides School a private Jewish school in Brookline Mass Stop Ostracizing Those Who Marry Out Shmuley Boteach Huffpost July 22 2007 a b c d e f Caplan Lincoln September October 2020 Near and Distant Objectives Harvard Magazine Worth Robert F May 12 2020 Tragedy in the Middle East The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 21 2020 Oakes James Was Emancipation Constitutional The New York Review of Books May 12 2022 Witt John Fabian Emancipation and the Law of War A Different Take on the Feldman Oakes Battle at The NYRB Balkinization June 3 2022 When Judges Make Foreign Policy September 25 2008 example NYT Magazine article retrieved 2014 03 01 Feldman Noah Beard cutting is horrid It isn t a hate crime Bloomberg News via Ohio com September 10 2012 Retrieved 2012 09 20 Noah Feldman Not even FDR could pack the Supreme Court Times Leader September 30 2020 Retrieved September 30 2020 Harvard Law School Noah Feldman Faculty Profiles Retrieved August 19 2020 Jeopardy for Jews Who Wants To Be the World s Next Top Torah Scholar Tablet Magazine May 1 2014 Retrieved September 30 2020 a b Caplan Lincoln August 6 2020 Near and Distant Objectives Harvard Magazine Retrieved October 17 2021 Sullivan Mark July 8 2019 Exclusive The Harvard professor behind Facebook s oversight board defends its role Fast Company Retrieved September 30 2020 Swanson Ian December 22 2019 House Judiciary announces impeachment witnesses The Hill Archived from the original on December 4 2019 Retrieved December 2 2019 Oprysko Caitlin Samuelsohn Darren December 2 2019 House Judiciary reveals witnesses for first impeachment hearing Politico Archived from the original on December 3 2019 Retrieved December 5 2019 Blitzer Ronn December 4 2019 Impeachment witness tells lawmakers to consider having to answer to Hamilton and Madison in the afterlife Fox News Retrieved October 24 2020 Sullivan Eileen December 4 2019 Who Is Noah Feldman Scholar Specializes in Constitutional Law The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 17 2021 Sullivan Eileen December 13 2019 Who Is Noah Feldman Scholar Specializes in Constitutional Law The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 24 2020 75 Most Influential People of the 21st century Noah Feldman Esquire October 1 2008 The Most Influential in Ideas New York Magazine Nymag New York Magazine Retrieved August 23 2020 Most Beautiful New Yorkers Liv Tyler Mos Def Noah Feldman Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly nymag com Retrieved August 23 2020 Schneider Mayerson Anna November 3 2005 The Little Supremes The New York Observer Archived from the original on October 13 2008 Retrieved June 10 2015 Feldman Noah Orthodox Paradox The New York Times 2007 07 22 Snap Crackle But Not Cropped thejewishweek com The Fact of Jewish Particularity by Hillel Halkin Nysun com Retrieved November 19 2011 The Way We Do the Things We Do by Andrew Silow Caroll Njjewishnews com Archived from the original on September 27 2011 Retrieved November 19 2011 Letter to the Editor by Rabbi Dr Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The New York Times August 5 2007 Retrieved November 19 2011 The Seforim Blog All about Seforim New and Old and Jewish Bibliography Truth and Consequences by Rabbi Shalom Carmy Kolhamevaser com July 28 2007 Retrieved November 19 2011 A Response to Noah Feldman by Rabbi Norman Lamm Forward com August 2 2007 Retrieved November 19 2011 Shmuley Boteach Stop Ostracizing the Intermarried Archived March 7 2012 at the Wayback Machine Jerusalem Post Modern Orthodoxy Under Attack by Gary Rosenblatt Thejewishweek com November 15 2011 Archived from the original on February 12 2012 Retrieved November 19 2011 Feldman s Complaint by Editorial Board Conceding a Point to Feldman by Editorial Board Kol Hamevaser website Kolhamevaser com July 31 2007 Retrieved November 19 2011 YUTorah Online Selichos and Noah Feldman Rabbi Aharon Kahn www yutorah org Archived from the original on December 31 2008 The Imperative to Heal Jstandard com Retrieved November 19 2011 Rosenblum Jonathan August 9 2007 Feldman s Bad Faith by Jonathan Rosenblum jpost com Retrieved February 6 2017 Feldman Noah 2020 The Arab Winter A Tragedy Princeton NJ Princeton University Press pp ix ISBN 978 0691194929 Dunn Susan November 1 2017 James Madison s Zigzag Path The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 25 2020 Feldman Noah 2017 The Three Lives of James Madison Genius Partisan President New York Random House ISBN 9780812992755 Brauchli Marcus June 14 2013 Cool War The Future of Global Competitionn by Noah Feldman The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved August 25 2020 Strange New Rules of a Cool War Harvard Law Today July 1 2013 Retrieved August 25 2020 Cohen Adam November 5 2010 Jousting Justices The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 25 2020 a b Feldman Noah August 26 2012 The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State ISBN 9780691156248 via press princeton edu The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State Islam and the Secular State Negotiating the Future of Shari a January 28 2009 via www foreignaffairs com a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a Cite magazine requires magazine help Divided by God America s Church State Problem and What We Should Do About It January 28 2009 via www foreignaffairs com a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a Cite magazine requires magazine help Flanders Chad October 1 2007 Noah Feldman Divided by God Ethics 118 1 147 151 doi 10 1086 521283 ISSN 0014 1704 S2CID 171251233 a b Brownmarch April 2005 L Carl January 28 2009 What We Owe Iraq War and the Ethics of Nation Building via www foreignaffairs com a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a Cite magazine requires magazine help Feldman Noah April 2 2006 What We Owe Iraq ISBN 9780691126128 via press princeton edu Review Book Reviews Bestselling Books amp Publishing Business News After Jihad Publishers Weekly Retrieved August 25 2020 Tepperman Jonathan D July 6 2003 A Delicate Balance The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 25 2020 WEDDINGS Noah Feldman and Jeannie Suk August 15 1999 via NYTimes com Gibson Lydialyle February 9 2021 Due Process Harvard Magazine External links EditOfficial website Noah Feldman on Twitter Profile at Harvard Law School Noah Feldman at TED Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Noah Feldman amp oldid 1130142245, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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