Jed Rubenfeld

Jed L. Rubenfeld (* 1959 in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer , writer, and law professor at Yale University .

Life

Jed Rubenfeld comes from a Jewish family. In 1980 he graduated from Princeton University with “summa cum laude” and received his doctorate in law magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 . Between 1980 and 1982 he also studied theater and acting at the Juilliard School . From 1986 to 1987 he volunteered with Federal Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . He then became an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and assistant attorney at the prosecution in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . After a brief visiting professorship at Duke University , Rubenfeld switched completely to science in 1990 and henceforth taught at Yale University. He has been a professor since 1994 and holds the chair of the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law .

With The Interpretation of Murder Rubenfeld published his first novel in 2006. The thriller was published in German by Heyne Verlag a year later under the title Morddeutung . The story revolves around a fictional murder case during a visit by Sigmund Freud to New York City in 1909. In Great Britain the novel landed at number one on the bestseller list. It has sold over a million times worldwide. His second novel, The Death Instinct , which under the title Death instinct was also published by Heyne, appeared in 2010. The mystery thriller has the bomb attack on Wall Street in 1920 as a core element of the story.

Rubenfeld is married to writer Amy Chua , who is also a professor at Yale University. The couple have two daughters together and live in New Haven , Connecticut .

Works

Non-fiction

• Freedom and Time: A Theory of Constitutional Self-Government (2001)
• Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American Constitutional Law (2005)
• with Amy Chua: The Triple Package . How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. Penguin, 2014, ISBN 978-1-59420-546-0 (English).
  • with Amy Chua: All People Are Equal - Successful Not: The Amazingly Cultural Causes of Success. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50117-8 .

novel

• 2006: The Interpretation of Murder
  • Morddeutung , Heyne Verlag (2007), 527 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-26544-8
• 2010: The Death Instinct
  • Death instinct , Heyne Verlag (2011), 624 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-26703-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Jed Rubenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jed Rubenfeld on law.yale.edu