Philip Bobbitt
| Philip Bobbitt | |
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| Born |
July 22, 1948 Temple, Texas, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Law, history |
| Institutions |
Columbia Law School The University of Texas School of Law |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Yale Law School Oxford University |
Philip Chase Bobbitt (born July 22, 1948) is an American author, academic, lawyer, and public servant who has lectured in the United Kingdom. He is best known for work on military strategy and constitutional law and theory, and as the author of Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (1982), The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002), and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century (2008).
Philip Bobbitt was born in Temple, Texas. He is the only child of Oscar Price Bobbitt (died 1995) (son of Oscar Price Bobbitt and Maude Wisner) and Rebekah Luruth Johnson Bobbitt (1910–1978) (daughter of Sam Johnson and Rebekah Baines). O.P. Bobbitt was a direct descendant of Henry Wisner, the only delegate from New York to vote for the Declaration of Independence, and was also descended from William Bobbitt, a Virginia planter (died 1673). Rebekah Bobbitt's father and grandfather were members of the Texas Legislature; her great grandfather was president of Baylor University. Bobbitt is the nephew of Lyndon Baines Johnson, president of the United States from 1963 to 1969; his mother, Rebekah Bobbitt, was the eldest sister of the 36th president. Between high school and college, Bobbitt resided for the summer in the White House.
At the age of 15, Bobbitt graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School (Austin, Texas), where he was elected President of the Student Council. He graduated with an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1971 where his thesis advisor was philosopher Richard Rorty (thesis: On Wittgenstein and a Philosophical Topology). While at Princeton, Bobbitt was president of the Ivy Club and Chairman of the Nassau Lit. He left Princeton after three semesters to enter VISTA. He worked in a poverty program in an all-black area of Los Angeles for two years before returning to college. In 1975 he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Article Editor of the Yale Law Journal and taught at Yale College. It was at Yale that he met Charles L. Black (1915–2001), who became a mentor to Bobbitt. After graduating from Yale Law School, Bobbitt clerked for Judge Henry Jacob Friendly (1903–1986) of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He received his M.A and Ph.D. (Modern History) from the University of Oxford in 1983.
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