Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Professor Kahn teaches in the areas of constitutional law and theory, international law, cultural theory, and philosophy. Before coming to Yale in 1985, he clerked for Justice White in the United States Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington, D.C., during which time he was on the legal team representing Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice. He is the author of many books on constitutional law, political theory, and philosophy. His latest books include Making the Case: The Art of the Judicial Opinion; Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination; and Testimony. His newest book, Democracy in America 2020, will be out this spring. He earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and J.D. from Yale.