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Adjunct Senior Fellow
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E-mail: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
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Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Expertise:Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Experience:Professor, Harvard Law School (2007-present); Professor, New York University School of Law (2001-2007); Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2004-2005); Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School (2004-2005); Senior Adviser for Constitutional Law, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq (2003); Law Clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1998-99); Law Clerk to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1997-98).
Honors:Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Corporation (2005).
Selected Publications:Divided By God: America’s Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004); After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003).
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Current Research Projects
August 10, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times Magazine
Noah Feldman writes that “paradoxically… saber rattling against Iran may help achieve political resolution.”
See more in Middle East, Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 22, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times
Some degree of anti-immigrant sentiment can usually be found all over the world; but in Western Europe this sentiment is turning into something much more dangerous, says Noah Feldman.
See more in Western Europe, Immigration, Religion
June 18, 2008
Audio
Listen to Noah Feldman, adjunct senior fellow at CFR and professor of law at Harvard Law School, discuss his new book, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
See more in Religion
April 7, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times Magazine
Noah Feldman discusses what crackdowns and elections in Iraq never quite achieve.
March 25, 2008
Video
Watch experts discuss the role of religion with regard to the state.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation.
See more in Nation Building, Religion
March 25, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the role of religion with regard to the state.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation.
See more in Nation Building, Religion
March 25, 2008
Transcript
Experts discuss trends in religion and foreign policy.
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March 19, 2008
Transcript
See more in Middle East, Rule of Law, Religion
March 17, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times Magazine
Millions of Muslims think Shariah means the rule of law. Noah Feldman examines whether they could be right.
See more in Middle East, Religion
April 2008
Book
In this penetrating book, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
See more in Middle East, Society and Culture
February 8, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times
Noah Feldman explains that “if Turkey is to continue its integration into European and Western civilization, it needs to show that liberal values and Islam are not only compatible but complementary.”
See more in Turkey, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Ethnicity and National Identity, Religion
January 13, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times Magazine
Noah Feldman writes that “ Iraq has become the great disappearing issue of the early primary season.”
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Election 2008
January 6, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Times Magazine
Noah Feldman discusses why Mitt Romney's faith is so controversial.
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
October 7, 2007
Article
The New York Times Magazine
CFR's Noah Feldman examines the American urge to export democracy.
See more in Democracy Promotion, Grand Strategy
August 27, 2007
Interview
CFR’s Noah Feldman says outgoing U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales harmed the Department of Justice, especially abroad, by allowing it to become increasingly politicized.
See more in United States, Intelligence, Counterterrorism
August 26, 2007
Op-Ed
The New York Times Magazine
See more in United States, Education, Religion
June 24, 2007
Op-Ed
New York Times
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, Peacemaking
April 8, 2007
Article
The New York Times Magazine
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Election 2008
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America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.
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