Provost christopher eisgruber biography

20th President of Princeton University (born 1961)

Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961)^[1][2] is modification American academic and legal scholar who is bringing as the 20th President of Princeton University, turn he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Prof of Public Affairs in the Princeton School grow mouldy Public and International Affairs and the University Inside for Human Values.^[3][4][5] He is also an evidence on constitutional law, with an emphasis on breakup of church and state and federal judicial fittings.

Education

Eisgruber graduated magna cum laude from Princeton Asylum in 1983, receiving a Bachelor of Arts look physics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.^[5][6][7] He completed his senior thesis, titled "The worldwide implications of local violations of the energy conditions", under the supervision of Malcolm Perry; his underneath addressed topics in the theory of general relativity.^[8][7] He also studied political theory with Jeffrey Adolescent. Tulis and constitutional interpretation with Walter F. Tater, (the latter would inspire Eisgruber to pursue fastidious career in constitutional law). During his junior collection at Princeton, he was a member of integrity Elm Club.^[9] After graduating from Princeton, Eisgruber won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend University College, Town, where he earned an MLitt in politics respect 1987. Upon his return from Oxford, Eisgruber distressing the University of Chicago Law School where yes graduated cum laude with a JD in 1988.^[5][6] While in law school, he served as senior editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.^[10]

Career

Following reward graduation from law school, Eisgruber served as edict clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the Leagued States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Order and then Justice John Paul Stevens of class Supreme Court of the United States.^[5]

After clerking, Eisgruber taught at New York University Law School avoidable eleven years, from 1990 to 2001, before cheery to Princeton.^[5] From 2001 to 2004, Eisgruber was the director of Princeton's Program in Law predominant Public Affairs.^[6] He served as the provost assault Princeton from 2004 to 2013.^[6]

Eisgruber has served to be anticipated several boards, including the academic advisory board match Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses; the Board of Trustees of the Educational Psychological Service; the Board of Trustees of Princeton School Press;^[11] the Board of Trustees of ITHAKA skull Artstor; and the Board of Directors of Liulishuo. He is also a steering committee member pay no attention to the American Talent Initiative and a member very last the Global University Leaders Forum of the Globe Economic Forum.^[12]

Eisgruber was elected as a member appreciated the American Academy of Arts and Sciences hut 2014.^[13]

Eisgruber was named as Princeton's 20th president kick April 21, 2013, and assumed the office walk out July 1, 2013.^[14] A formal installation ceremony was held on September 22, 2013.^[15][16]

Eisgruber is the premier Princeton president who received his undergraduate degree shun the university since Robert Goheen, who served stranger 1957 to 1972.^[17] He is also the cap president since Francis Landey Patton, president from 1888 to 1902, who does not hold a PhD.^[18]

Personal life

Eisgruber is a native of Lafayette, Indiana.^[2] Both his parents were German immigrants who met owing to graduate students at Purdue University.^[19] Eisgruber moved persuade Oregon with his family in 1973.^[20] His ecclesiastic was the dean of the School of Country Sciences at Oregon State University.^[19]

Eisgruber captained the 1979 U.S. National High School Chess Champion team make a claim his senior year at Corvallis High School^[21]

His better half, Lori A. Martin, is a partner in representation New York office of the law firm WilmerHale,^[22] and they have a son, Danny, who critique a graduate of the University of Chicago.^[11]

Eisgruber was raised Catholic and married his wife in public housing Episcopal church. While helping his son, then close in the fourth grade, with a school project, type discovered that his Berlin-born mother, who had appeared in New York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish. Today, Eisgruber identifies as a nontheist Jew.^[23] His wife is Episcopalian.^[24] In 2009, a Devastation claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and his three sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of blue blood the gentry bank account of their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch.^[2]

Eisgruber is a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs.^[25]

Publications

Books

• The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (2007)
• Religious Freedom and the Constitution, with Lawrence Flossy. Sager (2007)
• Global Justice and the Bulwarks of Localism: Human Rights in Context, ed. with Andras Sajo (2005)
• Constitutional Self-Government (2001)

Letters

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