21 Facts About Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Noah Feldman is the author of 10 books, host of the podcast Deep Background, and a public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

Noah Feldman was formerly a contributing writer for The New York Times.

Noah Feldman grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in an Orthodox Jewish home.

Noah Feldman studied Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard University.

Noah Feldman then returned to the United States to attend Yale Law School, where he was the book review editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Noah Feldman speaks conversational Korean, and reads Greek, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish and Aramaic.

In 2001, Noah Feldman joined the faculty of New York University Law School, where he became a tenured full professor in 2005 and was appointed Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law in 2006.

In 2007, Noah Feldman joined the Harvard Law School faculty as the Bemis Professor of International Law, teaching classes on the First Amendment, the Constitution, and the international order.

Noah Feldman was a senior adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously an adjunct fellow at New America Foundation.

Noah Feldman has published 9 nonfiction books and 2 case books.

Noah Feldman was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 2005 to 2011.

Noah Feldman regularly contributes essays to The New York Review of Books about constitutional topics and the Supreme Court.

Since 2019, Feldman has been the host of the podcast named Deep Background with Noah Feldman, which is produced by Pushkin Industries.

Noah Feldman has interviewed Malcolm Gladwell, Laurie R Santos, and Marc Lipsitch, among others.

Noah Feldman advised Facebook on the creation of its Oversight Board, whose members were announced in June 2020.

Noah Feldman writes with the conviction that the most important public position in American life is that of citizen, which makes his fellow citizens the most important audience for his writing about American public affairs.

Noah Feldman contended that his choice to marry a non-Jew led to ostracism by the school, in which he and his then-girlfriend were allegedly removed from the 1998 photograph of his class reunion published in the school newsletter.

The photographer's account of an over-crowded photograph was used to accuse Noah Feldman of misrepresenting a fundamental fact in the story, namely whether he was purposefully cropped out of the picture, as many other class members were cropped from the newsletter photograph due to space limitations.

Noah Feldman's supporters noted that Feldman's claim in the article was that he and his girlfriend were "nowhere to be found" and not that they were cropped or deleted out of the photograph.

Noah Feldman is divorced from Jeannie Suk, professor of law at Harvard Law School and New Yorker contributor, with whom he has two children.