Stanley Katz is Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs and  Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University. Professor Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.  His recent research focuses on recent developments in American philanthropy, the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Center for Jewish History, and serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor Emeritus of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Katz received his undergraduate degree and PhD from Harvard University. https://scholar.princeton.edu/snkatz/home