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Samuel Moyn was born in 1972. He earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D from the University of California Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.

He is notable for his research in human rights, international law, war, political and legal thought, historical theory, and modern European intellectual history. His first book, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics, was published in 2005, and his most recent work, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, was published in 2018. He has won numerous fellowships and honors from organizations such as the Berggruen Institute and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His written works have won the Morris Forkosch Prize and the Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize and he was honored by undergraduate students at Columbia University, who gave him the Mark van Doren Teaching Award.

Today, he continues his work as a Professor of Jurisprudence and History at Yale University, while researching and writing a new book about the origins of humane war for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He is also a guest columnist for such publications as The New York Times, Boston Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more.

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017. Previously, he was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirteen years and a professor of history and of law at Harvard University for three years. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies.

Samuel Moyn's Published Works

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (1022)
Global intellectual history (149)
Democracy Past and Future (117)
The Future of Human Rights (94)
Human Rights and the Uses of History (91)
The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (88)
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (81)
Christian Human Rights (65)
A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism (62)
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (53)
Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (46)
EMPATHY IN HISTORY, EMPATHIZING WITH HUMANITY (43)
French Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity: Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography* (38)
Substance, Scale, and Salience: The Recent Historiography of Human Rights (31)
Hannah Arendt on the Secular (31)
A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (26)
Judith Shklar versus the International Criminal Court (24)
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights (23)
The First Historian of Human Rights (21)
Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention (20)
1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History (19)
The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity (19)
Is Revelation in the World? (18)
Divine and Human Love: Franz Rosenzweig's History of the Song of Songs (18)
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It (17)
Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History (17)
Savage and Modern Liberty (16)
OF SAVAGERY AND CIVIL SOCIETY: PIERRE CLASTRES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH POLITICAL THOUGHT (16)
Fantasies of Federalism (15)
Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism (14)
From Communist to Muslim: European Human Rights, the Cold War, and Religious Liberty (13)
The End of Human Rights History (12)
Drones and Imagination: A Response to Paul Kahn (12)
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day: The politics of individual rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort (12)
The Last Utopia (12)
Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Birth of Human Rights (11)
Judaism against Paganism: Emmanuel Levinas's Response to Heidegger and Nazism in the 1930s (11)
From experience to law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar crisis of the philosophy of religion (11)
6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century (10)
Two Regimes of Memory (10)
Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law (10)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism (10)
German Jewry and the Question of Identity: Historiography and Theory (9)
Reflections on ‘The Last Utopia’: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn (9)
8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas (8)
THE ASSUMPTION BY MAN OF HIS ORIGINAL FRACTURING: MARCEL GAUCHET, GLADYS SWAIN, AND THE HISTORY OF THE SELF (8)
Imaginary Intellectual History (8)
The Continuing Perplexities of Human Rights (8)
11. Making and Taking Worlds (8)
Chapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History (7)
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law: Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? (7)
Anxiety and Secularization (7)
Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division (7)
Anti-Impunity as Deflection of Argument (6)
Metaphorically Speaking: Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the Problem of Origins (6)
Human Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism (5)
Beyond Liberal Internationalism (5)
ON THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF FRANÇOIS FURET'S MASTERPIECE (5)
Antisemitism, philosemitism and the rise of Holocaust memory (5)
Knowledge and Politics in International Law (4)
Thomas Piketty and the Future of Legal Scholarship (4)
4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange (4)
13. Global Intellectual History Meanings and Methods (4)
Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights (3)
From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics (3)
2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun (3)
The Meanings of Rights: Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights (3)
5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy (3)
From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law (3)
History and Political Theory: A Difficult Reunion (3)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion (3)
Before - And Beyond - The Liberalism of Fear (3)
The Doctor’s Plot: The Origins of the Philosophy of Human Rights (3)
Human Rights in Heaven (3)
Transcendence, morality, and history: Emmanuel Levinas and the discovery of Søren Kierkegaard in France (2)
4. Globalizing Welfare after Empire (2)
Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought (2)
Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn (review) (2)
Christian Human Rights: An Introduction (2)
The Court Is Not Your Friend (2)
Legal Theory among the Ruins (2)
Human Rights in the Absence of Virtue (2)
Why the Court Was Right About the Alien Tort Statute (2)
Democratizing the Supreme Court (2)
Putting Liberalism in Its Place , Paul W. Kahn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 336 pp., $29.95 cloth. (2)
Introduction: Interim Intellectual History (2)
Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division (2)
Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights (2)
The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights (2)
On a Self-Deconstructing Symposium (2)
After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2)
Martti Koskenniemi and the Historiography of International Law in the Age of the War on Terror (1)
Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War (1)
13 The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn (1)
Civil Liberties and Endless War (1)
Intellectual History and Democracy: An Interview with Pierre Rosanvallon: Introduction (1)
3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity (1)
9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet” Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History (1)
10. Anxiety and Secularization Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism (1)
The Spirit of Jewish History (1)
5. Basic Needs and Human Rights (1)
Book Review: Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire, by Jennifer Pitts: (1)
Too Much Secularism? Religious Freedom in European History and the European Court of Human Rights (1)
The International Human Rights Movement: A History , Neier (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012), 379 pp., $35 cloth. (1)
Intellectuals and Nazism (1)
A powerless companion (1)
Christianity and Human Rights (1)
JONATHAN JUDAKEN. Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual. (Texts and Contexts.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 390. $45.00 (0)
Book reviews (0)
John Locke on intervention, uncertainty, and insurgency* (0)
Chapter 11. Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic / Samuel Moyn (0)
The Vertical Alliance Today (0)
Global Reconfigurations, Constitutional Obligations, and Everyday Life (0)
Louis Henkin, Human Rights, and American Jewish Constitutional Patriotism (0)
EDITORS' ANNOUNCEMENT (0)
Rodogno, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914 , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 376. $39.50 (ISBN 978-0-691-15133-5). (0)
Human Rights and Humanitarianization (0)
Chapter 1. Before–and Beyond–the Liberalism of Fear (0)
Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation. By Pierre Birnbaum. Translated by, Charlotte Mandell. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Edited by, Aron Rodrigue and Steven J. Zipperstein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+479. $65.00.Judaism Musical an (0)
Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television. By Tamara Chaplin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+334. $62.50 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). (0)
1. HISTORIOGRAPHY, IDEOLOGY, AND LAW: AN INTRODUCTION (0)
The International Law That Is America: Reflections on the Last Chapter of the Gentle Civilizer of Nations (0)
America, Christianity, and Beyond (0)
The Intimacies of Four Continents (0)
Globalizing the Intellectual History of Democracy (0)
Luke Glanville, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. x + 294. $32.50 paper (ISBN 9780226076928). (0)
Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh (review) (0)
The Second Bill of Rights: A Reconsideration (0)
Legal History as a Source of International Law (0)
Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism (0)
The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian. By Helen M. Kinsella. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 264p. $39.95. (0)
12. Coals to Newcastle (0)
Steven E. Aschheim.Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad.:Beyond the Border: The German‐Jewish Legacy Abroad (0)
What’s wrong with rights? (0)
Steven E. Aschheim. Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 194. $27.95 (0)
International Human Rights–A Messy Business (0)
Beyond the Human Rights Measurement Controversy (0)
Book Reviews (0)
T. H. Marshall, the Moral Economy, and Social Rights (0)
Foreword to the 2020 edition (0)
Coals to Newcastle? On the Anglo-American Reception of Pierre Rosanvallon (0)
Dystopia: A Natural History. By Gregory Claeys.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+556. $130.00. (0)
From Revolution to Restoration (0)
The High Tide of Anticolonial Legalism (0)
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective (0)
The Irrelevance of the Pandemic (0)
Joe Renouard. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse. (0)
The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Adam Rayski (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005), xvi + 388 pp., $35.00. (0)
The Politics of Economy (0)
A Black Hole in Democracy? (0)
On the “Public-ness” of the State (0)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion. By Johannes Morsink (0)
The Ghosts of Totalitarianism (0)
Religious freedom between truth and tactic (0)
Welfare World (0)
A Discussion of Kathryn Sikkink's Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (0)
Obama's legacy and beyond (0)
The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance (review) (0)
2. ON THE DOMESTICATION OF CRITICAL LEGAL HISTORY (0)
Afterword / Macron, the Nouveau Monde, and the Crowning of the Public-Private Elite (0)
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe (review) (0)
Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention (0)
In-Between the Public and the Private (0)
1. Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism (0)
26. Donald Trump and the Irrelevance of Human Rights (0)
Swords Turned into Plowshares (0)
The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, Authority, Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 641 pp., $35 cloth. (0)
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding . By Alon Confino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xi + 180. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978-0521516655. Paper $24.99. ISBN 978-0521736329. (0)
Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs (0)
10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place (0)
Book Review: Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson’s Political Philosophy, by Alexandre Lefebvre (0)
Steven L.B. Jensen, The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values (0)
The Historical Origins and Setting of the Friendly Relations Declaration (0)
Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity (0)
The Hollowing Out of the Public Interest (0)
The Public-Private Foundations of the Neoliberal State (0)
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Festschrift (0)
From Aggression to Atrocity (0)
On Human Rights and Majority Politics: Felix Frankfurter's Democratic Theory (0)
Towards a History of the Decolonization of International Law. An Introduction to the Special Issue (0)
Studying the Fault Lines (0)
Christian Human Rights: A Debate (0)
Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism. By Onur Ulas Ince. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 232p. $74.00 cloth. (0)
Tradition and Beyond: Christian Human Rights in Debate (0)
How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin . By Deborah Hertz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xii+276. Cloth $38.00. ISBN 0300110944. Paper $24.00. ISBN 0300151640. (0)

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