Peter Berkowitz was born on 1959 and is an American political philosopher and legal scholar.
15 Facts About Peter Berkowitz
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Peter Berkowitz currently serves as the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and as director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship.
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Peter Berkowitz is a member of the American Academy of Science and Letters and a columnist for RealClearPolitics.
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Peter Berkowitz then earned a PhD in political science from the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Science and later a JD from Yale Law School.
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In 1997, after Harvard University president Neil Rudenstine rejected the Department of Government's recommendation and denied his tenure, Peter Berkowitz challenged the process by which Rudenstine reached his decision through Harvard's internal grievance procedure.
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Peter Berkowitz is co-founder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government and is a member of the policy advisory board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Peter Berkowitz sits on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars.
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Peter Berkowitz has defended George W Bush and neoconservative policies.
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Peter Berkowitz formerly served on the foreign policy advisory team in the Rudy Giuliani 2008 presidential campaign.
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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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On January 1,2019, Peter Berkowitz became the Director of Policy Planning in the first Trump administration.
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Some US State Department officials were angered by Peter Berkowitz's trip, arguing that it was unnecessary.
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Peter Berkowitz writes for other publications and is the author of several books on political philosophy and on international law, most recently Constitutional Conservatism.
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Peter Berkowitz delivered the 2018 Scalia Lecture, "Liberal Education, Law, and Liberal Democracy," at Harvard Law School.
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Peter Berkowitz has co-edited the Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society book series with Tod Lindberg since 2005.