Philip Bobbitt

Philip Chase Bobbitt (born July 22, 1948) is an American legal scholar and political theorist. He is best known for work on U.S. constitutional law and theory, and on the relationship between law, strategy and history in creating and sustaining the State. He 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.

Henry Kissinger called him "the outstanding political philosopher of our time". He is the author of several books, including ''Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution'' (1982), ''The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History'' (2002), and ''Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century'' (2008). Provided by Wikipedia