Christopher L. Eisgruber

Christopher L. Eisgruber "became the Provost of Princeton University on July 1, 2004. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values. From 2001 through June 2004, he served as Director of Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. He is the co-author, with Lawrence G. Sager, of Religious Freedom and the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2007) and the author of Constitutional Self-Government (Harvard University Press, 2001). He has also published numerous articles on constitutional law, religious freedom, and jurisprudence. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2001, he clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court, and then served for eleven years on the faculty of the New York University School of Law. Eisgruber received an A.B. magna cum laude in Physics from Princeton, an M. Litt. in Politics from Oxford University (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute."

In 2005 he coedited a book called Global Justice and the Bulwarks of Localism: Human Rights in Context which included chapters by the following authors: Lawrence Rosen, András Sajó, Martin Krygier, Willem Doise, Monica Herrera, Rainer Baubock, Benedict Kingsbury, Stephen Macedo, Martin S. Flaherty, Richard A. Schweder, W. Cole Durham, Jr., Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Stephen P. Marks, Daniel A. Bell, Nicole Fritz.