Noah Feldman

Bemis Professor of International Law

Office:	Hauser 210
Assistant:	Shannon Whalen 617/495-4620
Phone:	617/495-9140
Fax:	617/496-6118
Email:	nfeldman@law.harvard.edu
Web Page:	Personal website

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Books

Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Justices (Twelve Books 2010).

Feldman, Noah. Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Princeton University Press 2008).
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Feldman, Noah. Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem - And What We Should Do About It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005).

Feldman, Noah. What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press 2004).
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Feldman, Noah. After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003).
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Shorter Works in Collection

Feldman, Noah. "The Framers' Church-State Problem--and Ours" in The Constitution in 2020 (Jack M. Balkin & Reva B. Siegel eds., Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Feldman, Noah. "Enemy-Criminals: The Law and the War on Terror" in The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror (Karen J. Greenberg & Joshua L. Dratel eds., Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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Feldman, Noah. "Shari'a and Islamic Democracy in the Age of Al-Jazeera" in Shari'a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context 104 (Abbas Amanat & Frank Griffel eds., Stanford University Press, 2007).

Feldman, Noah. "War and Reason in Maimonides and Averroes" in The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (Richard Sorabji & David Rodin eds., Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006).

Feldman, Noah. "Ethics of War: Judaism" in The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (Richard Sorabji & David Rodin eds., Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006).

Feldman, Noah. "Ugly Americans" in The Torture Debate in America (Karen Greenberg ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Feldman, Noah. "Democracy, Islam, and the Tradition of Ibn Rushd" in Le Dialogue des Cultures: est-il possible? (Ministere de la culture � Rabat � Roaume du Maroc, 2005).

Feldman, Noah. "Aristotelian Equity and Accretionary in Maimonides" in On Law and Equity in Maimonidean Jurisprudence (Hanina Ben-Menahem & Berachyahu Lifshitz eds., 2004).

Articles in a Periodical

Feldman, Noah. "Response to Hamoudi," 2 Middle East Law and Governance 104 (2010).

Feldman, Noah. "Islamic Constitutionalism in Context: A Typology and a Warning," 7 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 436 (2010).

Feldman, Noah. "In Defense of Secrecy," New York Times Magazine, February 10, 2009.
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Feldman, Noah. "Religion and the Earthly City," 76 Social Research 989 (2009).

Feldman, Noah. "Luncheon Speech: Better Sixty Years of Tyranny Than One Night of Anarchy," 31 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 143 (2009).

Feldman, Noah. "Fighting the Last War?" New York Times Magazine, November 30, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "When Judges Make Foreign Policy," New York Times Magazine, September 28, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Buildup to the Next War," New York Times Magazine, August 10, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "The New Pariahs?" New York Times Magazine, June 22, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Indecisive Moments," New York Times Magazine, April 6, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Why Shariah?" New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Vanishing Act," New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "What Is It About Mormonism?" New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Cosmopolitan Law," 116 Yale L. J. 1022 (2007).

Feldman, Noah. "Take It on Faith, Review of John DiIulio's Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future," The New York Times Book Review, December 16, 2007 (book review).

Feldman, Noah. "Democratosis," New York Times Magazine, October 7, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Universal Faith," New York Times Magazine, August 26, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Orthodox Paradox," New York Times Magazine, July 22, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Piece Process," New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "The Undeparted," New York Times Magazine, April 8, 2007.

Feldman, Noah & Samuel Issacharoff. "Declarative Sentences: Congress Has the Power to Make and End War Not Manage It," Slate, March 5, 2007.
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Feldman, Noah. "Choosing a Sect," New York Times Magazine, March 4, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Whose War Powers?" New York Times Magazine, February 4, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Not the Case," New York Times Magazine, January 7, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "In God We Trust," The American Scholar, Winter 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Religion and Morality Iin the Public Square: Excerpts from Keynote Address," 22 St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary 417 (2007).

Feldman, Noah. "Establishing Constitutions and Religions," 4 Faith & International Affairs 3 (2006).

Feldman, Noah & Roman Martinez. "The International Migration of Constitutional Norms in the New World Order," 75 Fordham Law Review 883 (2006).

Feldman, Noah. "Islam, Terror and the Second Nuclear Age," New York Times Magazine, October 29, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "The Mere Midterms," New York Times Magazine, October 22, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Why Not Talk?" New York Times Magazine, October 1, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Ballots and Bullets," New York Times Magazine, July 30, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Out of One, Many," New York Times Book Review, July 30, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "The Only Exit Strategy Left," New York Times Magazine, June 25, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "The God Factor," Washington Post Book World, May 14, 2006 (reviewing Madeline Albright, HarperCollins, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs (2006)).

Feldman, Noah. "Disunities," New York Times Magazine, April 9, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Power Struggle, Tribal Conflict or Religious War?" Time Magazine, March 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Not in the Heavens," New Republic, February 20, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Becoming bin Laden," New York Times Book Review, February 12, 2006 (reviewing Bruce Lawrence ed., James Howarth trans., Verso, Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2006)).

Feldman, Noah. "Deliberation Nation," New York Times Magazine, February 5, 2006.

Feldman, Noah. "Who Can Check the President?" New York Times Magazine, January 8, 2006.

Feldman, Noah & Roman Martinez. "Constitutional Politics and Text in the New Iraq: An Experiment in Islamic Democracy," 75 Fordham Law Review 883 (2006).

Feldman, Noah. "War-Mood Metrics," New York Times Magazine, December 11, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "The Totally Religious, Absolutely Democratic Constitution," New York Times Magazine, December 11, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "The Meaning of No," New York Times Magazine, October 9, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "Foundering?" New York Times Magazine, July 31, 2005.
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Feldman, Noah. "A Church-State Solution," New York Times Magazine, July 3, 2005.
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Feldman, Noah. "Grappling with Iraq," Washington Post Book World, June 12, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "Ugly Americans," New Republic, May 30, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "Political Islam: Global Warning," New York Times Magazine, February 6, 2005.
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Feldman, Noah. "Imposed Constitutionalism," 37 Connecticut Law Review 857 (2005).

Feldman, Noah. "The Democratic Fatwa: Islam and Democracy in the Realm of Constitutional Politics," 58 Oklahoma Law Review 1 (2005).

Feldman, Noah. "Division, Design, and the Divine: Church and State in Today's America," 30 Oklahoma City University Law Review 845 (2005).

Feldman, Noah. "The Voidness of Repugnant Statutes: Another Look at the Meaning of Marbury," 148 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society No. 1 27 (2004).
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Feldman, Noah. "The Theorists� Constitution�and Ours," 117 Harvard Law Review 1163 (2004).

Feldman, Noah. "The Best Hope," Boston Book Review, April/May 2003, at 14.
(Republished in Islam and the Challenge of Democracy (Cohen & Chasman, eds., Princeton University Press, 2004))

Feldman, Noah. "Review of Nathan J. Brown, Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World," 1 International Journal of Constitutional Law 390 (2003) (book review).

Feldman, Noah. "Choices of Law, Choices of War," 25 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 457 (2002).

Feldman, Noah. "The Intellectual Origins of the Establishment Clause," 77 New York University Law Review 346 (2002).

Feldman, Noah. "From Liberty to Equality: The Transformation of the Establishment Clause," 90 California Law Review 673 (2002).

Feldman, Noah. "Non-Sectarianism Reconsidered," 28 Journal of Law & Politics 65 (2002).

Feldman, Noah. "Political Equality in the Islamic State," 30 Philosophical Topics 853 (2002).

Feldman, Noah. "The Translators of Averroes' Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics," 8 Turjuman 69 (1999).

Feldman, Noah. "Unresolved Tensions," 106 Yale L. J. 229 (1996) (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law ).

Articles in a Newspaper

Feldman, Noah. "Ginsburg�s Right, U.S. Constitution Is a Bad Model," Bloomberg, February 12, 2012.

Feldman, Noah. "Obama Team�s Al-Awlaki Memo Furthered Bush Legacy," Bloomberg View, October 16, 2011.
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Feldman, Noah. "Twitter Can Start a Party but Can�t Keep It Going," Bloomberg, October 2, 2011.
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Feldman, Noah. "Balanced budget laws dumb in Europe, too," Providence Journal, August 31, 2011.
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Feldman, Noah. "Tea Partiers, China and Democracy�s Genius, Part 2: Noah Feldman," Bloomberg View, August 14, 2011.
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Feldman, Noah. "Sometimes, Justice Can Play Politics," New York Times, Feb. 11, 2011, Op-Ed, at 9.

Feldman, Noah. "Imagining a Liberal Court," New York Times Magazine, June 27, at MM38.
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Feldman, Noah. "Supreme Court Sibling Rivalry," Slate.com, Nov. 8. 2010.
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Feldman, Noah. "Midterm Maneuvers," The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2010, The Way We Live Now.
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Feldman, Noah. "A Very Long Engagement (Essay)," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 28, 2010, Weekend Journal, at W1.

Feldman, Noah. "A Prison of Words," New York Times, March 18, 2009, (Op-Ed).
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Feldman, Noah. "Veiled Democracy?" New York Times, February 8, 2008.
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Feldman, Noah. "Japan's Uncomfortable History," Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2007.

Suk, Jeannie & Noah Feldman. "Japan's Uncomfortable History," Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2007.

Feldman, Noah. "Agreeing to Disagree in Iraq," New York Times, August 30, 2005.
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Feldman, Noah. "The God Divide," New York Post, July 10, 2005.

Feldman, Noah. "A Backroom Constitution?" Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2005.
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Feldman, Noah. "The Sunni Angle," Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2004.
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Feldman, Noah. "Iraq Can Wait for Democracy," New York Times, September 24, 2004.
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Feldman, Noah. "A Third Way for Iraq," New York Times, February 20, 2004.
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Feldman, Noah. "A New Democracy, Enshrined in Faith," New York Times, November 13, 2003.
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Feldman, Noah. "Democracy, Closer Every Day," New York Times, September 24, 2003.
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Feldman, Noah. "Operation Iraqi Democracy," Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2003.

Feldman, Noah. "Muslim Democrats? Why Not!," Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2003.

Feldman, Noah. "Help Palestinians Nurture Democracy," L.A. Times, May 28, 2002.

Feldman, Noah. "The Link Between Our Minds and Emotions," Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2001, (Book Review) (reviewing Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions ).

Feldman, Noah. "An Exploration of Sexual Trickery in Fact and Fiction," Chicago Tribune, April 24, 2001, (Book Review) (reviewing Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick ).

Feldman, Noah. "A Child's Eye View of Jewish WWII Heroes," Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2000, (Book Review) (reviewing Richard Cohen, The Avengers ).

Internet Publications

Feldman, Noah. Abbas's UN Offensive Might Be a Step Toward Peace (2011).
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