Harry H. Wellington
Harry Hillel Wellington | |
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Born | |
Died | August 8, 2011 | (aged 84)
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | Former Dean of Yale Law School and New York Law School |
Harry Hillel Wellington (August 13, 1926 – August 8, 2011)[1] was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1975 to 1985 and the dean of New York Law School from 1992 to 2000.
Biography[]
Wellington was born in 1926. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1952. He taught at Stanford Law School for a year.[2] He clerked for the Circuit Court Judge Calvert Magruder. He also clerked for Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1955 to 1956.[3]
He was a member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He served as Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution, and on Board of Governors of Yale University Press. He was a scholar at Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. He was a recipient of Ford and Guggenheim Fellowships. He was on the Board of Directors of the New York Legal Assistance Group.[4] In 1991, Wellington was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
Yale Law School[]
Wellington started teaching at Yale Law School in 1956 as an assistant professor. In his early years at Yale, he was a contracts scholar, focusing his scholarship on freedom of contract, organized labor, and collective bargaining. Wellington's best-known scholarly works are on legal process. He was made an associate professor in 1957, a full professor in 1960, and the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law in 1967.[5] He helped persuade John Simon to teach at Yale Law School in 1962.[6]
He became the Dean of Yale Law School in 1975. He helped rebuild the faculty during his deanship, hiring over 30 professors,[7] including Anthony T. Kronman,[nb 1] Barbara Black, Drew Days, Paul Gewirtz, George Priest, Stephen L. Carter, Lucinda Finley, and Oliver Williamson.[8] He was an excellent fundraiser.[9] Starting with his deanship, Yale Law School became, "the most theoretical and academically oriented law school in America."[10] He became a Sterling Professor in 1983.[5] As Dean, he developed the Yale Law School's loan forgiveness program.[6] In 1985, he was succeeded as Dean by Guido Calabresi.
A professorial lecturership was established in his honor in 1995.[3] He was a Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus and the Harry H. Wellington Professorial Lecturer. He was a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Yale Law School Executive Committee.[11] In 2005, Yale Law School honored him by naming the Harry H. Wellington Dean's Discretionary Fund for Faculty Support after him.[12]
New York Law School Dean[]
In 1992, he retired from the Yale Law School faculty and became the 14th Dean of New York Law School.[5] Under his deanship, the curriculum was revised to put greater emphasis on the practical skills of a professional attorney. Also, the Ernst C. Stiefel Professorship of Comparative Law was created.[13] He was a John Marshall Harlan Visiting Professor at New York Law School.[14] He retired from teaching in 2007.[5]
Selected works[]
- Contracts and Contract Remedies with Harold Shepherd, 1957
- Legislative Purpose and the Judicial Process: The Lincoln Mills Case, with Alexander Bickel, 1957
- The role of law in the prevention and settlement of major labor disputes and in the terms of settlement: A preliminary report, 1965
- Labour and the Legal Process, 1968
- The limits of collective bargaining in public employment, 1969
- The Unions and the Cities (Studies of unionism in government), with Ralph K. Winter, 1972
- The nature of judicial review (The Cardozo lecture), 1981
- Labor Law with Clyde W. Summers and Alan Hyde, 1983
- The Least Dangerous Branch: Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics, with Alexander Bickel, 1986
- Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication, 1990[15][16]
Notes[]
- ^ Anthony T. Kronman became Dean in 1994.
References[]
- ^ "HARRY H. WELLINGTON Obituary: View HARRY WELLINGTON's Obituary by New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ "Yale Law School | Harry H. Wellington". Law.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Yale Law School | The Modern Era, 1955-Present". Law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "New York Law School :: Professors Emeriti". Nyls.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Yale Law School | Yale Law School Mourns the Death of Sterling Professor Emeritus and Former Dean Harry H. Wellington". Law.yale.edu. 2011-08-08. Archived from the original on 2011-10-18. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lalwani, Nikita. "Harry Wellington, former Yale Law dean, dies". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 206
- ^ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 234
- ^ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 209
- ^ http://www.law.yale.edu/ylr/pdfs/v53-2/1960skalman.pdf
- ^ "Officers of the Yale Law School Association" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ "Yale Law School | General Purpose & Research Funds". Law.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "New York Law School :: Mission and History". Nyls.edu. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "New York Law School :: Professorships and Lectureships". Nyls.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "Yale Law School | Publications". Law.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-15. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ Liptak, Adam. "Harry H. Wellington, Yale Law Dean, Dies at 84". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- 1926 births
- Yale Law School faculty
- American legal scholars
- American legal writers
- Law school deans
- Deans of Yale Law School
- Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 2011 deaths
- Harvard Law School alumni
- Yale Sterling Professors
- University of Pennsylvania alumni