About
Noah R. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. He specializes in constitutional law, legal history, and the intersection of law with ethics, religion, and technology. His research emphasizes governance design, power dynamics, and legal pluralism, particularly in Islamic and comparative contexts. Feldman advises tech companies like Meta on ethical governance and AI regulation.
Education: A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, D.Phil. (Oxford in Aristotle's Ethics), J.D. from Yale Law School. Clerked for Supreme Court Justice David Souter and D.C. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards.
Research interests include constitutional studies, law and religion, legal theory, and the ethics of emerging technologies. He has authored 10 books, such as To Be a Jew Today (2024) and The Broken Constitution (2021). His columns appear in Bloomberg Opinion, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. He hosts the Deep Background podcast.
Recent articles analyze church-state conflicts, AI ethics, and constitutional crises. Awards include American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellowship. He teaches courses on constitutional law, Jewish legal thought, and governance ethics.
