TITLE: The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History
SPEAKER: Phillip Bobbitt, Sir Michael Howard
EVENT DATE: 03/19/2003
RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Phillip Bobbitt and Sir Michael Howard discuss Bobbitt's book.
Speaker Biography: Phillip Bobbitt teaches constitutional law at the University of Texas, where he holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair. He was formerly the Anderson Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Modern History faculty. Sir Michael Howard, who wrote the foreword to the work, holds the John W. Kluge Chair of Countries and Cultures of the North at the Library. Considered to be the United Kingdom's foremost military historian, he is a distinguished speaker and the author of a number of books and essays, most recently, "The Invention of Peace."
Speaker Biography: Phillip Bobbitt teaches constitutional law at the University of Texas, where he holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair. He was formerly the Anderson Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Modern History faculty. Sir Michael Howard, who wrote the foreword to the work, holds the John W. Kluge Chair of Countries and Cultures of the North at the Library. Considered to be the United Kingdom's foremost military historian, he is a distinguished speaker and the author of a number of books and essays, most recently, "The Invention of Peace."
