Paul Dodyk is Chair of the Advisory Board of The Social Contract Revisited programme. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1959, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a B.Phil with honors from Oxford University in 1961. He was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1964, where he was an editor of the Law Review.
He was a professor at the Columbia Law School from 1965 to 1971, before becoming a partner at Cravath, Sawine & Moore.