Philip Bobbitt

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Philip Bobbitt KBE
Bobbitt in 2007
Born	(1948-07-22) July 22, 1948 (age 75) Temple, Texas, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) Nuffield College, Oxford (DPhil)
Occupations	Law professor political strategist advisor author
Children	4
Relatives	Lyndon B. Johnson (uncle) Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. (grandfather)

Philip Chase Bobbitt KBE (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.^[1]

Henry Kissinger called him "the outstanding political philosopher of our time".^[2] 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).