CTMUN is honored to present our distinguished guest Philip C. Bobbitt, Ph.D., as this year’s opening ceremonies keynote speaker. One of the nation’s leading constitutional theorists, Dr. Bobbitt’s interests include not only constitutional law but also international security and the history of strategy. He earned his BA from Princeton in 1971, his JD from Yale in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Oxford in 1983.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific council on International Policy, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the executive council of the American Society of International Law. A member of the commission on the continuity of government, he has also served as law clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly, associate counsel to the president, the counselor on international law at the State Department, legal counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra committee, director for intelligence, senior director for critical infrastructure and senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council. He is a former trustee of Princeton University and former member of the Oxford University modern history faculty and war studies department of King’s College, London.
He was the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, fall 2005. For spring term 2007, he was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Formerly the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair at the law school. He serves on the editorial board of “Biosecurity and Bioterrorism,” and has published several books, including “Tragic Choices (with Calabresi),” “Constitutional Fate,” “Democracy and Deterrence,” “U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton),” “Constitutional Interpretation,” “The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History,” and “Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.”