Philip Chase Bobbitt

Philip Chase Bobbitt "is the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Bobbitt has served as Associate Counsel to the President, the Counselor on International Law at the State Department, Legal Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee, Director for Intelligence, Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council. He is a member of the American Law Institute, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Pacific Council on International Policy, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Professor Bobbitt is a former trustee of Princeton University and a former member of the Oxford University Modern History Faculty and the War Studies Department of Kings College, London. He has published six books: Constitutional Interpretation (1991), Democracy and Deterrence (1987), U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton) (1989), Constitutional Fate (1982), Tragic Choices (with Calabresi) (1978) and most recently The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (Knopf, 2002)."


 * Executive Council, American Society of International Law
 * Director, Rothko Chapel
 * Leadership, Wilton Park USA Foundation