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PRESS RELEASE
For more information, please contact: Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
William N. Eskridge Jr. is Chicago-Kent's 2009 Centennial Visitor
Yale law professor speaks on "Administrative Constitutionalism" on March 4, Same-Sex Marriage on March 6
CHICAGO--February 20, 2009--Yale Law School professor William N. Eskridge Jr. has been named Chicago-Kent College of Law's Centennial Visitor for 2009. Professor Eskridge will deliver the 2009 Centennial Lecture, "Administrative Constitutionalism," at 3 pm. on March 4 in the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom at Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago. The lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. A reception will follow the lecture.
Professor William Eskridge Jr. of Yale Law School
On March 6, Professor Eskridge will participate in a forum on same-sex marriage that will begin at 2 p.m. in the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom. The forum is also free and open to the public and reservations are requested.
William Eskridge Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, where he has taught courses in constitutional law; legislation; sexuality, gender and the law; and theories of statutory interpretation. Prior to joining the Yale Law School faculty in 1998, he taught at the Georgetown University Law Center.
A native of Princeton, West Virginia, Professor Eskridge graduated summa cum laude from Davidson College and earned a master's degree in history from Harvard University. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Note & Topics Editor of The Yale Law Journal. Following graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Edward Weinfeld of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Professor Eskridge is the author of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation and a co-author of Legislation and Statutory Interpretation. He is the co-author of two casebooks: Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy and Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century.
From 1990-95, Professor Eskridge represented a gay couple suing for recognition of their same-sex marriage. Since then, he has published a field-establishing casebook, three monographs, and dozens of law review articles articulating a legal and political framework for proper state treatment of sexual and gender minorities. The historical materials in Professor Eskridge's book, Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet, formed the basis for an amicus brief he drafted for the Cato Institute and for much of the U.S. Supreme Court's (and the dissenting opinion's) analysis in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which invalidated consensual sodomy laws. His most recent book is Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse (co-authored with Darren Spedale).
For more information, or to RSVP for the March 4 lecture and/or the March 6 forum, please contact Insa Blanke at (312) 906-5003 or iblanke@kentlaw.edu.
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