About the Author

Joel Richard Paul studied at Amherst College, the London School of Economics, Harvard Law School, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He currently teaches international economic law, foreign relations, and constitutional law at the University of California Hastings Law School, where he is also the Associate Dean.

Previously, he taught at the University of Connecticut, Yale University, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and the American University in Washington. He has also practiced law with an international firm.

Paul writes about international trade, globalization, regulatory competition, private international law, and the president's foreign relations powers. He is currently writing a history of U.S. foreign relations and international law.

Reviews

"Rollicking and surprising, this is history as it really happened - as it was made by all-too-human actors. "Unlikely Allies" is a lively read and an important counterpoint to Founder hagiography."
-Evan Thomas, bestselling author of "John Paul Jones "
"An engaging and entertaining account of three of the most colorful characters involved in the American Revolution. It is hard to believe that their story is true, but it is."
-Gordon S. Wood, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Radicalism of the American Revolution "
""Unlikely Allies" is an amazing story compellingly told. I kept turning the pages in eagerness to find out what would happen next. Conspiracies abounded, and hardly anyone was what he or she seemed. If the eighteenth century in Europe was an era of Enlightenment, it was also an Age of Deception. Yet thanks to Joel Paul's sympathetic portrayal, Silas Deane emerges as an unsung hero of the American Revolution."
-Robert A. Gross, Bancroft

"Rollicking and surprising, this is history as it really happened - as it was made by all-too-human actors. "Unlikely Allies" is a lively read and an important counterpoint to Founder hagiography."
-Evan Thomas, bestselling author of "John Paul Jones "
"An engaging and entertaining account of three of the most colorful characters involved in the American Revolution. It is hard to believe that their story is true, but it is."
-Gordon S. Wood, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Radicalism of the American Revolution "
""Unlikely Allies" is an amazing story compellingly told. I kept turning the pages in eagerness to find out what would happen next. Conspiracies abounded, and hardly anyone was what he or she seemed. If the eighteenth century in Europe was an era of Enlightenment, it was also an Age of Deception. Yet thanks to Joel Paul's sympathetic portrayal, Silas Deane emerges as an unsung hero of the American Revolution."
-Robert A. Gross, Bancroft