Recent Events

Interview with Jacob Briskman of The Logic Constortium - Chicago Public Radio
Tuesday, February 10, 2012

Launch of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's book, "Kosher Jesus: The Legacy of Jesus Among Jews and Christians "
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:00PM EST

Voice of America- Press Conference USA Interview on Shariah Law
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Featured Commentator in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's film, "Prohibition" by Florentine Films Aired as a Three Part Series on WGBH- PBS
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 8:00PM - 10:00 EST

Humboldt University, Center for Globalization and the Rule of Law of the WZB, "The Right of Conscience in the Frame of Politics"
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 4:00PM

New Regular Contributor to Bloomberg View
As of May 2011- Current

Tel Aviv University- The Fourth Annual Cegla Lecture on Legal Theory, "An Islamic and Democratic State"
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 5:00PM

Past Events

Miami Book Fair
Sunday, November 21, 2010, 12:30PM

Boston Jewish Book Fair
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 7:00PM

The Boston Book Festival
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Aspen Ideas Festival 2010
July 5-11, Aspen, Colorado

BookExpo America, "Roosevelt Dynasty Book Club," with Edmund Morris and Jeffrey Toobin
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 2:30-3:15PM, Jacob K. Javits Center, New York

The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause and Its Contemporary Implications
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, Colgate University

The Rule of Law in the Middle East
Wednesday January 14, 2009, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

IDEAS Boston 2008
Thursday October 30, 2008, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Council on Foreign Relations Interview, "The Supreme Court's Mixed Signals on International Law"
Friday October 10, 2008

Lecture marking appointment to the Bemis Professorship of International Law, "The Constitution and the International Order"
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Harvard Law School

92nd Street Y lecture, "Past and Present in the Middle East: Seven Years Since 9/11"
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York

WMUK interview, "Harvard prof says the U.S. owes Iraq,"
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sunday with the Magazine, "What We Believe" panel
12:00-1:15 PM Sunday May 4, 2008, The Times Center, New York

The Colbert Report
Wednesday April 30, 2008

Beyond the Pale
Sunday April 27, 2008, WBAI, New York Pacifica, 99.5FM

Moderator, Harvard Law School Armed Forces Association, "Serving in Iraq: HLS Student Veterans Share Their Experiences"
Thursday April 17, 2008, Harvard Law School

The Dave Baum Show, "Grading the Troop Surge" episode segment
Wednesday January 16, 2007

Mormonism and American Politics
Saturday November 10, 2007, Princeton University

Past Articles

Supreme Court Sibling Rivalry
Slate, November 8, 2010

The Triumphant Decline of the WASP
New York Times, June 25, 2010

Imagining a Liberal Court
New York Times Magazine, June 21, 2010

For President Obama, Many Gaps to Fill on the Bench
New York Times, May 8, 2010

The Next Supreme Court Nominee
Esquire, February 2010

Religion and the Earthly City
76 Social Research 989 (Winter 2009)

When Arrogance Takes the Bench
New York Times, June 10, 2009

A Prison of Words
New York Times, March 18, 2009

In Defense of Secrecy
New York Times Magazine, February 10, 2009

Fighting the Last War?
New York Times Magazine, November 30, 2008

When Judges Make Foreign Policy
New York Times Magazine, September 28, 2008

Buildup to the Next War
New York Times Magazine, August 10, 2008

The New Pariahs?
New York Times Magazine, June 22, 2008

Indecisive Moments
New York Times Magazine, April 6, 2008

Why Shariah?
New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2008

Veiled Democracy?
New York Times, February 8, 2008

Vanishing Act
New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2008

What Is It About Mormonism?
New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008

Take It on Faith
Review of John DiIulio's Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future
New York Times Book Review, December 16, 2007

Democratosis
New York Times Magazine, October 7, 2007

Shorter Pieces in Collections

The Framers’ Church-State Problem—and Ours, in Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, eds., The Constitution in 2020 (Oxford University Press 2009)

Enemy-Criminals: The Law and the War on Terror, in Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press 2008)

Shari’a and Islamic Democracy in the Age of al-Jazeera, in Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel, eds., Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context (Stanford University Press 2007)

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

Ethics of War: Judaism, in Richard Sorabji and David Rodin, ed., The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (Ashgate Publishing Limited 2006)

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