Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn (born February 14, 1972 ) is an American legal historian.

Life

Samuel Moyn attended University City High School in St. Louis . He studied history and French literature at Washington University in St. Louis (BA) and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 . He also received a JD from Harvard Law School in 2001 .

Moyn was initially a professor of history and law at Harvard University . From 2004 to 2017 he was Professor of History at Columbia University . Moyn became a professor of history and law at Yale University in 2017 .

Fonts (selection)

• Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics . Cornell University Press, 2005
• A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France . Brandeis University Press, 2005
• (Ed.) Pierre Rosanvallon : Democracy Past and Future . Columbia University Press, 2006
• The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010
• Human Rights and the Uses of History . Verso, 2014
• with Darrin M. McMahon (Ed.): Rethinking modern European intellectual history . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-19-976923-0
• Judith Shklar on the philosophy of international criminal law , translation by Hannes Bajohr , in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 4/2014, pp. 683–707
• Christian Human Rights . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
• Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World . Harvard University Press, 2018

literature

• John Witte : The Long History of Human Rights: Review of Samuel Moyn, Christian Human Rights . At Humanities Commons, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Samuel Moyn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Samuel Moyn in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Samuel Moyn , at Yale University