Christopher L. Eisgruber

Became Princeton's 20th president on July 1, 2013.  In the course of nine years as Princeton's provost, managed Princeton through very difficult economic conditions following the 2008-09 financial crisis. Served as Director of Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs (2001-04). Author of The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (2007), Constitutional Self-Government (2001), and coauthor (with Sager) of Religious Freedom and the Constitution (2007). Published numerous articles on constitutional law, religious freedom and jurisprudence in newspapers, including The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, and testified before Congress and the New Jersey legislature regarding religious liberty. 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 served for 11 years on the faculty of the New York University School of Law before joining the Princeton faculty in 2001.