Bobbitt to deliver Koford Lecture April 13
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8:22 a.m., March 24, 2009----Philip C. Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at the Columbia Law School, will deliver the 2009 Koford Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Monday, April 13, in Room 100 Kirkbride Hall.

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This annual lecture is named in honor of former director of legal studies, the late Kenneth J. Koford. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the UD Legal Studies Program and the Department of Economics in the Lerner College of Business and Economics.

Bobbitt, who joined the Columbia faculty in 2007, will speak on the topic “Terror and Consent.”

Before moving to Columbia, Bobbitt was A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School and remains a senior fellow in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.

He has taught as a visitor at Oxford University, Harvard Law School and Kings College in London. Bobbitt was awarded an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton University, a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in history from Oxford University.

Bobbitt is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

Bobbitt has published seven books, with the most recent being Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century (Knopf, 2008).

U.S. Sen. John McCain praised Terror and Consent as “the best book I've ever read on terrorism,” and Henry Kissinger called Bobbitt, “perhaps the most important political philosopher today.”

Tony Blair wrote of Terror and Consent, “It may be written by an academic but it is actually required reading for political leaders.”

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