John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas and, in 2020, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19. In October 2025 Witt published The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America, about the Garland fund, established in 1921 by Charles Garland with an inheritance from his father.