Peter Berkowitz
Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow
Chair, National Security and Law Task Force
Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force

Expertise: Classical and contemporary liberalism, American constitutionalism, and the Middle-East

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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

His scholarship focuses on the interplay of law, ethics, and politics in modern society. His current research is concerned with the material and moral preconditions of liberal democracy in America and abroad.

He is cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

He is the author of Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995). He is the editor of the companion volumes Varieties of Conservatism in American (Hoover Institution Press, 2004) and Varieties of Progressivism in America (Hoover Institution Press, 2004), as well as of The Future of American Intelligence (Hoover Institution Press, 2005), Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases (Hoover Institution Press, 2005), and Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (Hoover Institution Press, 2003).

With coeditor Tod Lindberg, he has launched the Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society, the first volume of which is Richard Posner's Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

He has written on a variety of subjects for a variety of publications, including the American Political Science Review, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary, Critical Review, First Things, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, London Review of Books, National Review, The New Republic, New York Post, New York Sun, Policy Review, Public Interest, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Wilson Quarterly, and Yale Law Journal. He is also at work on two books, The Liberal Spirit in America, which describes our liberalism and shows what is necessary to conserve it, and Rediscovering Liberalism, a collection of his essays.

He holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University; an M.A. in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College.