Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is the author of Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory (Yale University Press, 1993); The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America (Yale University Press, 2007); The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship (University of Chicago Press, 1999); Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear (Yale University Press, 2000); Putting Liberalism in its Place (Princeton University Press, 2004); Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil (Princeton University Press, 2006); Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, Sovereignty (University of Michigan Press, 2008); and Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Columbia University Press, 2011).