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Yale University

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Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, with appointments in both the Department of History and Yale Law School. He serves as Head of Grace Hopper College, a position he assumed in 2024. Moyn joined Yale in 2017 after prior faculty positions at Harvard University and Columbia University, where he was awarded the Mark van Doren Prize for undergraduate teaching. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2001, and an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1994. Trained in modern European intellectual history, Moyn's research interests focus on political and legal thought in modern times; constitutional and international law in historical and current perspectives; constitutionalism and democracy; legal theory; the history of international law and human rights; and the Vietnam War. He is a Fellow of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.