Peter Berkowitz
Associate Professor of Law
Ph.D., Yale University; J.D., Yale University; M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem; B.A., Swarthmore College
Professional Information
Subjects Taught: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence
Biographical Sketch
PETER BERKOWITZ is an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW at George Mason University School of Law and the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is co-founder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University; an M.A. in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College.
He is the author of Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999), and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995). He is the editor of the companion volumes Varieties of Conservatism in American and Varieties of Progressivism in America, as well as of The Future of American Intelligence, Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases, and Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic.With coeditor Tod Lindberg he has launched Hoover Studies, the first volume of which is Richard Posner's Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11.
He has written on a variety of subjects for a variety of publications, including the American Political Science Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary, Critical Review, First Things, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the London Review of Books, National Review, The New Republic, the New York Post, the New York Sun, Policy Review, the Public Interest, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the Wilson Quarterly, and the Yale Law Journal. He is also at work on two books, The Liberal Spirit in America, which describes our liberalism and shows what is necessary to conserve it, and Rediscovering Liberalism, which collects a variety of his essays.