36 Facts About Philip Bobbitt

Sir Philip Chase Bobbitt was born on July 22,1948 and is an American legal scholar and political theorist.

Philip Bobbitt is best known for work on US constitutional law and theory, and on the relationship between law, strategy and history in creating and sustaining the State.

Philip Bobbitt is currently the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and a distinguished senior lecturer at The University of Texas School of Law.

Philip Bobbitt is the author of several books, including Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History, and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century.

Philip Bobbitt was born in Temple, Texas, on July 22,1948.

Philip Bobbitt is the only child of Oscar Price Bobbitt Jr and Rebekah Luruth Johnson Bobbitt.

Oscar Price Bobbitt Jr was the son of Oscar Price Bobbitt Sr and Maude Wisner, a direct descendant of Henry Wisner of Swiss descent, the only delegate from New York to vote for the Declaration of Independence.

Rebekah Philip Bobbitt was the daughter of Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr.

Philip Bobbitt's brother was Lyndon B Johnson, 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

Between high school and college, Philip Bobbitt spent a summer with Johnson at the White House.

At the age of 15, Bobbitt graduated from Stephen F Austin High School, where he was elected president of the student council, in 1964.

Philip Bobbitt then attended Princeton University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1971.

Philip Bobbitt left Princeton after three semesters to enter AmeriCorps VISTA.

Philip Bobbitt worked in a poverty program in an all-black area of Los Angeles for two years before returning to college.

In 2005 he was the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; in 2007, Philip Bobbitt was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he accepted a permanent chair later that year; he is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia and director of the Center for National Security there.

Philip Bobbitt remains distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Texas Law School and senior fellow in the Robert S Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.

Philip Bobbitt has delivered the Mellon Lectures at Oxford University, the Murphy Lecture on Constitutional Law at Princeton, the All Souls College Lectures at Oxford University, among several honorary lectures.

Philip Bobbitt has been elected a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Pacific Council on International Affairs, the American Society of International Law, a Life Member of the American Law Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Philip Bobbitt serves as a member of the Commission on the Continuity of Government and served on the Task Force on Law and National Security of the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

In 2012, Philip Bobbitt was appointed to the External Advisory Board for the Central Intelligence Agency, on which he served until January 2017.

Philip Bobbitt has argued in his books for the recognition of the ethical modality, which has to do with the traditional vision we have of the nation and the role government ought to play.

Philip Bobbitt asserts that all branches of government have a duty to assess the constitutionality of their actions.

Philip Bobbitt has served extensively in government, for both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Philip Bobbitt was a principal draftsman of PDD63, the first presidential document to establish a strategy for critical infrastructure and cyber protection.

Philip Bobbitt is currently at work on The Constitution Trilogy for Oxford University Press.

Since 1990, Philip Bobbitt has endowed the Rebekah Johnson Philip Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded biennially by the Library of Congress.

Philip Bobbitt is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former trustee of Princeton University.

Philip Bobbitt occasionally writes essays, typically on foreign policy, published in The New York Times, and The Guardian.

Philip Bobbitt has served on the boards of the Institute for Religious Studies; the Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation, the Rothko Interfaith Chapel, the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and the Editorial Board of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism.

Philip Bobbitt is a member of the Executive Committee of The Pilgrims.

In 2021 Philip Bobbitt was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Philip Bobbitt traces interacting patterns in the history of strategic innovations, major wars, peace conferences, international diplomacy, and constitutional standards for states.

Philip Bobbitt suggests possible future scenarios and policies appropriate to them.

Public officials who followed Philip Bobbitt's works included Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair; the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who built his Dimbleby Lecture around Philip Bobbitt's thesis and the former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

In 2013, Philip Bobbitt published a study of Niccolo Machiavelli entitled The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made.

Philip Bobbitt situates this constitutional treatise in the politics of Machiavelli's day.