Rate My Professor Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. He serves as Chair of the Society of Fellows and as founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. Feldman specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas.

Feldman earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, finishing first in his class. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as book reviews editor of the Yale Law Journal. Feldman clerked for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 2007 as the Bemis Professor of International Law and was later appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law before his current University Professorship. Feldman is the author of ten books, including To Be a Jew Today (2024), The Broken Constitution (2021), The Arab Winter (2020), The Three Lives of James Madison (2017), Cool War (2013), Scorpions (2010), The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (2008), Divided by God (2005), What We Owe Iraq (2004), and After Jihad (2003). He has also co-authored textbooks on constitutional law and the First Amendment. Feldman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as co-chair of Harvard’s Institutional Voice Working Group.