Samuel Moyn

Who is Samuel Moyn?

Samuel Moyn is currently the James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Columbia University. He will join the faculty of Harvard Law School on July 1, 2014 as professor of law. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies.

He is co-director of the New York area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History. He is editor of the journal Humanity, and has editorial positions at several other publications.

He earned his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis, his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He attended University City High School.

In 2007, Moyn received Columbia University's annual Mark Van Doren Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, determined by undergraduates, and its Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for "unusual merit across a range of professorial activities". In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.