Academy Members

Philip Hamburger

Columbia University

Philip Hamburger is Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is also the founder and CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an independent, nonprofit civil-rights organization based in Washington, D.C., that uses litigation and other pro-bono advocacy to defend constitutional freedoms from the administrative state. One of the preeminent scholars writing today on constitutional law and its history, he teaches and writes on wide-ranging topics, including religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, academic censorship, the regulation of science, judicial duty, administrative power, and the development of liberal thought. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014, he established Columbia Law School’s Center for Law and Liberty, which studies threats to and legal protections for freedom. He has won several prestigious prizes, including the Hayek Book Prize for Is Administrative Law Unlawful? and the Bradley Prize.

October 2024