John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by ''U ...

. He is the author of ''Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History'',Witt, John Fabian (2012). ''Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History'', New York: Free Press.
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/ref> which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas and, in 2020, ''American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19''.

Biography

Witt received his B.A., his J.D., and his Ph.D, all from Yale. In 2001, he was awarded the

John Addison Porter Prize The John Addison Porter Prize is a literary award given annually by Yale University to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the ...

for "The Accidental Republic: Amputee Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law, 1866-1922." Before returning to teach at Yale, he was the George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. In 2007, he criticized the historical basis of

John Yoo John Choon Yoo (; born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Yoo became known for his legal opinions ...

's theories. In April 2017, Witt was named the head of Davenport College, one of Yale's 14 residential colleges.

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External links

Yale Law School: John Fabian Witt
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