Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the Secretary of State. A 2017 recipient of the Bradley Prize, he serves as director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship and is a contributor at RealClearPolitics. He is the author of Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation (Hoover, 2013); Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War (Hoover, 2012); Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton, 1999); and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard, 1995). From 1999 to 2006, he taught at George Mason University School of Law, and from 1990 to 1999 in Harvard’s department of government. He holds a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University; an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College.
