Yale Names Three Faculty Members to Endowed Professorships

Yale University has announced the appointment of the following three faculty members to endowed professorships: law professors Jules L. Coleman and William. N. Eskridge Jr., and School of Management professor Dick R. Wittink.

Coleman, a specialist in both law and philosophy, has been named the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence by vote of the Yale Corporation.

A member of the Yale Law School faculty since 1986, Coleman has focused his research and teaching in the areas of torts, jurisprudence, evidence, law and economics, rational choice and law, political/legal theory, ethics, social philosophy, political economy, public choice and rational choice. He has authored or coauthored three books – “Risks and Wrongs,” “Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence” and “Markets, Morals and the Law”– and has edited or coedited six others, including five volumes of “Outstanding Essays in Philosophy of Law,” two volumes of “Economic Analysis of the Law” and “Philosophy and Law.” He is also series editor of “Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law” and editor of the Law School publication “Legal Theory.”

Coleman earned his B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University and his M.S.L. from the Yale Law School in 1976. Before joining the Yale faculty, he taught for five years at the University of Arizona and for eight years at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has also taught at both the Santa Barbara and Berkeley campuses of the University of California and at Brooklyn College.

Coleman was a visiting professor at Yale in the year before he joined the faculty as professor of law and philosophy of the social sciences and lecturer in political science. In 1990, he was appointed the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence.

His numerous honors include a Distinguished Alumni Award from Brooklyn College and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been president of the Council for Philosophical Studies since 1984, and he has been invited to give named or endowed lectureships at universities throughout the United States and in England.

William N. Eskridge

William N. Eskridge Jr., an alumnus of Yale Law School and former Georgetown University law professor, has been named the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Eskridge had been a member of the law faculty at Georgetown since 1988. He specializes in statutory issues; legislation; sexuality, gender and the law; civil procedure; and constitutional law. He has authored two books, “Dynamic Statutory Interpretation” and “The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment,” and is coauthor of “Sexuality, Gender and the Law,” “Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy” and “Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution’s Third Century.” In addition, he is coeditor of “The Legal Process” and “Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies,” published this year.

A graduate of Davidson College, Eskridge earned an M.A. degree from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale in 1978. While a law student, he served as the notes and topics editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward Weinfeld and later served as an associate in the firm of Shea & Gardner. He was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia 1982-87, when he went to Georgetown as a visiting associate professor. He was named an associate professor there in 1988 and was promoted to a full professorship in 1990. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford and Yale universities.

Eskridge has also been a faculty member at the Institute for Judicial Administration in New York City for a decade. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and dozens of lectureships at law schools and universities across the country and in Canada, including the universities of Toronto, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, the University of California at Berkeley, Hofstra University and the College of William and Mary, among others.

Dick R. Wittink

Dick R. Wittink, an authority on marketing strategy, research and management, new-product planning and applied econometrics, has joined the faculty of the School of Management as the General George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing by vote of the Yale Corporation.

Wittink has taught since 1981 at Cornell University, where he was the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and professor of marketing and quantitative methods. He also served as director of the doctoral program at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. A native of The Netherlands, Wittink has been professor of marketing and marketing research (unsalaried) in the department of economics at the University of Groningen there since 1993.

One of the most cited of Dutch-born economists, Wittink is the author of the book “The Application of Regression Analysis” and of nearly 100 papers and articles. He coedited “Marketing Measurement and Analysis” and coauthored the forthcoming revised edition of “Building Implementable Marketing Models.” He is currently an area editor for Marketing Science, an associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research.

Wittink earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, he taught for six years at Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor at the Columbia Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. He has consulted for a variety of firms, including AC Nielsen, AT&T, Bain and Co., Bausch & Lomb, Johnson Wax, Miller Brewing Company and Xerox.

Wittink has been listed in “Who’s Who in Advertising” and Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders in America.” His honors include a 1992 Mobil Scholar Award and an award in 1996 for the best paper in the International Journal of Research in Marketing.