Samuel Moyn
Born
Samuel Aaron Moyn

1972 (age 51–52)
NationalityAmerican
TitleHenry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University
Academic background
EducationUniversity City High School (St. Louis)
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis (AB)
UC Berkeley (PhD)
Harvard Law School (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineIntellectual history, political theory, legal history
InstitutionsColumbia University
Harvard Law School
Main interestsInternational law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, 20th-century European moral and political theory
Notable worksThe Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)
Christian Human Rights (2015)
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018)
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021)
WebsitePersonal website

Samuel Aaron Moyn (born 1972) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017. Previously, he was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirteen years and a professor of history and of law at Harvard University for three years. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies.[1]

He has been co-director of the New York-area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, is editor of the journal Humanity, and has editorial positions at several other publications.

Academic career

After attending University City High School in St. Louis, Missouri, Moyn earned his A.B. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in history and French literature (1994). He continued his education, earning a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (2000) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (2001).[2]

In 2007, Moyn received Columbia University's annual Mark Van Doren Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, determined by undergraduates, and its Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for "unusual merit across a range of professorial activities".[3] In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently a Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

He is also a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.[4]

Personal life

Samuel Moyn is Jewish.[5] He is also married.[5]

Publications

Books

Selected articles

  • "Imperial Graveyard" (review of George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Cape, 2019, 592 pp., ISBN 978 1 910702 92 5), London Review of Books, vol. 42, no. 3 (6 February 2020), pp. 23–25. Moyn concludes his review, on p. 25: "[Packer's book] Our Man may be the most vivid tour of America's foreign delusions that has been offered since the Vietnam War."
  • "The Road to Hell" (review of Samantha Power's The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir), American Affairs Journal Vol. IV, Spring 2020 pp. 149–160.
  • "Michael Ratner's Tragedy, and Ours" (essay adapted by the author from his 2021 book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War), The New York Review of Books, September 1, 2021.

References

  1. ↑ "Personal website of Samuel Moyn". Yale University. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Samuel Moyn: biography". www.law.yale.edu. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Faculty Distinction Reception". fas.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. ↑ "Samuel Moyn, Author at Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft". Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. 1 2 "Weddings/Celebrations; Alisa Berger, Samuel Moyn". The New York Times. 2003-02-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
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