Harry Hillel Wellington | |
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| Born | (1926-08-13)August 13, 1926 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 2011(2011-08-08) (aged 84) New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
| Occupation | Professor |
Harry Hillel Wellington (August 13, 1926 – August 8, 2011)[1] was an American legal scholar who served as theDean of Yale Law School from 1975 to 1985 and the dean ofNew York Law School from 1992 to 2000.
Wellington was born in 1926. He received a B.A. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1947, and an LL.B. fromHarvard Law School in 1952. He taught atStanford Law School for a year.[2] He clerked for theCircuit Court JudgeCalvert Magruder. He also clerked forAssociate JusticeFelix Frankfurter from 1955 to 1956.[3]
He was a member ofAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences. He served as Senior Fellow ofBrookings Institution, and on Board of Governors of Yale University Press. He was a scholar atRockefeller Foundation inBellagio, Italy. He was a recipient ofFord andGuggenheim Fellowships. He was on the board of directors of theNew York Legal Assistance Group.[4] In 1991, Wellington was elected to theCommon Cause National Governing Board.
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] includingAnthony T. Kronman,[nb 1]Barbara Black,Drew Days,Paul Gewirtz,George Priest,Stephen L. Carter,Lucinda Finley, andOliver 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]
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, theErnst 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]
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