Nathaniel Berman

Nathaniel Berman is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University's Religious Studies Department. For much of his career, Berman's scholarship focused on the construction of modern internationalism through its relationships to nationalism, colonialism, and religion. In particular, it has examined early 20th century internationalism as one of the sites of the invention of cultural modernism. Berman's work on these issues has been broadly interdisciplinary, drawing on literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial theory, and religious studies.[1] More recently, Berman's work has focused more directly on the relationship between religion and legal and political theory. He has also embarked on several major projects in the area of Judaic Studies. For several years, he co-directed Brown's Religion and Internationalism Project, a joint venture between the Cogut Institute and Brown's Religious Studies Department.

A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, Berman received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his PhD in Jewish Studies from University College London.[2] Before coming to Brown, Berman was a professor of law at Brooklyn Law School and Northeastern University School of Law. He began his teaching career as the Mellon Lecturer in Law and the Social Order at Amherst College. He has also held visiting appointments at institutions including Columbia Law School, Stanford University, the University of Paris-I, and Sciences Po.[3]

Select Publications
  • Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: the "Other Side" of Kabbalah. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-38619-8
  • Passion and Ambivalence: Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law. Leiden: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978 90 04 21024 0
  • Passions et ambivalences. Le colonialisme, le nationalisme et le droit international. Paris: Pedone 2008, ISBN 9782233005342
  • ‘The Devil’s Party: The Discourse of Demonisation in a Fracturing World’, in London Review of International Law 6:1 (2018)
  • ‘"In a Place Parallel to God": The Draft, the Demonic, and the Conscientious Cubist’, in Journal of Law and Religion, 32:2 (2017)
  • ‘Demonic Writing: Textuality, Otherness, and Zoharic Proliferation’, in Jewish Studies Quarterly, 24:4 (2017)
  • ‘ "The Sacred Conspiracy": Religion, Nationalism, and the Crisis of Internationalism’ , in Leiden Journal of International Law 25:9 (2012), reprinted in Silvio Ferrari & Rinaldo Cristofori (eds.), Current Issues in Law and Religion (London: Ashgate 2013)
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gollark: It could be *interesting*, but that depends on exactly how many people had the same idea.
gollark: The most likely outcome is probably just annoying significant quantities of people, I think.

References
  1. "Nathaniel Berman". brown.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  2. "Faculty and Faculty Fellows | Cogut Institute for the Humanities". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  3. "Professor Nathaniel Berman | Staff | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-10.


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