Philip B. Heymann

James Barr Ames Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Comparative Criminal Law
• Criminal Justice
• Political Violence and Terrorism
• Problems of United States Law Enforcement

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Criminal Justice
• Criminal Law
• Politics of Law and Legal Change
• Problems of Law Enforcement
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• Violence in the U.S.

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Drugs
• Organized Crime/Mafia, Racketeering, RICO, Conspiracy
• Prosecution
• Terrorism
• Violence

Education

• Yale University A.B. 1954, Philosophy
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1960

Appointments

• Clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan
• Assistant to Solicitor General, Justice Department
• Acting Administrator, State Department Bureau of Security & Consular Affairs
• Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of international Organizations
• Executive Assistant to Undersecretary of State
• Former Associate Prosecutor & Consultant to Watergate Special Force
• Lecturer on Law, 1969
• Professor of Law, 1971
• Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Criminal Division, 1978-1981
• Director, Center for Criminal Justice, 1981
• Associate Dean, 1985-87
• James Barr Ames Professor of Law, 1989
• Deputy Attorney General, 1993-1994

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Heymann, Philip B. & Juliette Kayyem. Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror (MIT Press 2005).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (Based on the Published Report "Long-Term Legal Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Freedoms in the War on Terror")
  
• Heymann, Philip B. Terrorism, Freedom, and Security (MIT Press 2003).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Heymann, Philip B. The Politics of Public Management (Yale University 1987).
  

Bibliography

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