is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. After completing his Ph.D he first began his carrier as law clerk for Byron R. White at the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1985 he returned to Yale University, where from 1993 to 1999 he was the Nicholas B. Katzenbach Professor of Law. He teaches public law, legal theory and cultural philosophy. Paul Kahn won fame by publishing Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory (1995), The Cultural Study of Law (1999), Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear (2000) and Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil (2007). Next year his Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty will appear. He previously contributed to Nexus 29 and for Nexus 50 writes about ‘Evil and European Humanism’.