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born 1972 United States

Samuel Aaron Moyn (born 1972) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017.

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The drama of human rights, then, is that they emerged in the 1970s seemingly from nowhere. If the Soviet Union had generally lost credibility (and America’s Vietnamese adventure invited so much international outrage), human rights were not the immediate beneficiaries.

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)

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