Philip Heymann

Philip Heymann

Philip B. Heymann (born October 30, 1932 ) is an American lawyer who was most recently Deputy US Attorney General .

Life

After attending school, Heymann first studied at the University of Paris and then philosophy at Yale University and graduated in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Philosophy). He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Harvard University with a scholarship from the Fulbright program in 1960 with a Juris Doctor (JD).

Upon graduation, he became the Law Clerk of John Marshall Harlan II , a US Supreme Court Justice . He then entered the government service and was initially from 1961 to 1965 employee in the office of the US Solicitor General in the Justice Department .

He then became an employee of the State Department , where he was successively Executive Assistant to an Undersecretary , Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations and staff in the Office for Security and Consular Affairs. At times he was also an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency's intelligence agency ( CIA Intelligence Science Board ).

After 1973 to 1975 associated prosecutor in the Watergate scandal , he was in 1978, US Assistant Attorney General and the Department of was in this capacity until 1981 also head of criminal law ( Criminal Division ) of the Ministry of Justice.

After several years as a professor at Harvard Law School and assuming the James Barr Ames professorship there in 1989, he was most recently deputy attorney general in the government of US President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994 as US Deputy Attorney General . One of his associates and advisors during this time was Michael Bennet , now a Democratic US Senator for Colorado .

Publications

Heymann also published a number of specialist books , some of which dealt with the subject of terrorism . The most famous publications include:

• The Politics of Public Management (1987)
• Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War (2003)
• Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy for a Democratic Society (2005, co-author Juliette Kayyem)

Web links

• Philip Heymann in nndb (English)
• CV on the Harvard University homepage

Individual evidence

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