GENTILI CONFERENCE

John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt is Professor of Law and History at Columbia Law School and Columbia University, where he teaches and writes about the history of law in America.  He is the author of two books, most recently Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law  (Harvard Press, 2007), which explores law and and American national identity through the little-known stories of key moments in American history.  His prizewinning first book, The Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law  (Harvard Press, 2004), rediscovered the forgotten crisis of industrial accidents that transformed the institutions of American law at the turn of the twentieth century.  Professor Witt's articles have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the New York Times, Slate, the Washington Post, the Yale Law Journal, and elsewhere.  Witt joined the Columbia faculty in 2001 after clerking for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City. He received his B.A. (1994), J.D. (1999), and Ph.D. in history (2000) from Yale University.  He is currently working on a book on Francis Lieber and the history of the law of war in the United States.

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