John Fabian Witt
Professor of Law & History
Office: 127 Wall St
Phone: (203) 432-4944
Email: john.witt@yale.edu
Links: Law School
John Fabian Witt is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of widely acclaimed work in the history of American law and in torts, including Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Harvard University Press, 2007), which explores law and nationhood at key moments in American history from the Founding to the Cold War, and the prizewinning book, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (Harvard University Press, 2004), as well as articles in the Columbia Law Review, The Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and other scholarly journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Washington Post. He is currently writing a book on the law of war in American history from the Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.
Professor Witt is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College and he holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale. Before returning to Yale, he was the George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia University. He served as law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Education
Ph.D., Yale, 2000
J.D., Yale, 1999
B.A., Yale, 1994
Courses Taught
History of American Law
The Law of War
Torts
