Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner professor of law and the humanities, and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice White in the United States Supreme Court from 1980 to 1982. Before coming to Yale Law School, he practiced law in Washington, DC, during which time he was on the legal team representing Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory and philosophy. He is the author of many books, including Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty and Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Mr. Kahn earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.