The EPIIC Colloquium EPIIC 2002-2003 Scholars in Residence Philip Bobbitt & Gwyn Prins

Philip Bobbitt during a public lecture in Eaton Hall

Philip Bobbitt
One of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, Professor Bobbitt's interests include not only constitutional law but also international security and the history of strategy. He has published six books: Constitutional Interpretation (1991), Democracy and Deterrence (1987), U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton, 1989), Constitutional Fate (1982), Tragic Choices (with Calabresi, 1978) and most recently The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002). Bobbitt is a member of the American Law Institute, The Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has served as associate counsel to the President; the counselor on International Law at the U.S. State Department; legal counsel to the Senate Iran- Contra Committee; and director for Intelligence, senior director for Critical Infrastructure, and senior director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council. 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. He was also the Marsh Christian Fellow in War Studies at King's College, London.

Monday, October 7
4:15pm The Shield of Achilles with History and Political Science Departments, East Hall Lounge
6:15pm Reception, Coolidge Room, Second Floor, Ballou Hall
7:30pm Lecture, "American Intervention: The Need for a Doctrine", Barnum 008

Philip Bobbitt (center) addresses Tufts students in East Hall.

Tuesday, October 8
9:00am Program Committee Meeting, EPIIC Office
4:00pm Class -- Scenarios from The Shield of Achilles, Tisch AV 304
7:00pm Lecture, "The Constitution, Terrorism, and Iraq: Thinking about the War Powers Act and Homeland Security", Eaton 206

Wednesday, October 9
12:00pm Lecture, "The Use of Poetry in Non-Fiction", East Hall Lounge

Gwyn Prins

Gwyn Prins addresses a sold out audience during the EPIIC symosium.

Dr. Prins is a research professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the First Alliance Professor appointed jointly at the LSE and the Columbia Earth Institute. He has also taught in the Department of History and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a Senior Fellow in the Office of the Secretary-General of NATO in Brussels and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory of the UK Ministry of Defence, as well as a consultant on security at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorological Office. In 1999-2000, he chaired an MoD Chatham House study group on the roots of asymmetric violence and contemporary terrorism. He is a member of the Pugwash Working Groups on Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century and on the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He is the coeditor of The Future of War and the author of Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations and The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century.

Thursday, March 27
7:00pm Lecture, "The Meaning of the Battle for Baghdad", Crane Room

Friday, March 28
10:30amA discussion on the theories discussed in Prins' book , The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century, 96 Packard Avenue

1:30pm A discussion on putting the theories discussed in his book, The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century, into practice, 96 Packard Avenue

3:30 Individual conferences with EPIIC students, 96 Packard Avenue