Eisgruber, Christopher L(udwig) 1961-

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EISGRUBER, Christopher L(udwig) 1961-

PERSONAL:

Born September 24, 1961; U.S. citizen; married Lori A. Martin, June 14, 1987; children: Daniel C. Education: Princeton University, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1983; Oxford University, M.Litt., 1987; University of Chicago, J.D. (cum laude), 1988.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Program in Law and Public Affairs, 367 Wallace Hall, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013; fax: 609-258-0922. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Law clerk to Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham, Dallas, TX, 1988-89, and to Justice John Paul Stevens, Washington, DC, 1989-90; New York University, New York, NY, assistant professor, 1990-93, associate professor, 1993-95, professor of law, 1995-2001; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, faculty research fellow, 2000-01, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and director of Program in Law and Public Affairs, 2001—. Member of Pennsylvania State Bar; testified before committees and subcommittees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

MEMBER:

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, American Political Science Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Coif.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Rhodes scholar in England, 1987.

WRITINGS:

Constitutional Self-Government, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology, edited by Stephen Feldman, New York University Press (New York, NY), 2000; Nomos: Moral and Political Education, edited by Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir, New York University Press (New York, NY), 2001; and Constitutional Politics: Essays in Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change, edited by Sotirios Barber and Robert George, Princeton University Pres (Princeton, NJ), 2001. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Fordham Law Review, Legal Theory, University of San Francisco Law Review, William and Mary Bill of Rights Law Journal, International Journal of Penology, Constitutional Commentary, Liberty, New York Times, Washington Post, and Journal of Law and Religion. Editor in chief, University of Chicago Law Review, 1987-88.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Research on constitutional theory and on religious liberty.

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