Background
Wellington, Harry Hillel was born on August 13, 1926 in New Haven. Son of Alex M. and Jean (Ripps) Wellington.
(An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role o...)
An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role of the US Supreme Court in interpreting the constitution. The author tackles questions about the role and function of public values in the elaboration of constitutional provisions, especially the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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(An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role o...)
An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role of the US Supreme Court in interpreting the constitution. The author tackles questions about the role and function of public values in the elaboration of constitutional provisions, especially the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Wellington, Harry Hillel was born on August 13, 1926 in New Haven. Son of Alex M. and Jean (Ripps) Wellington.
Bachelor of Arts Pennsylvania, 1947. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1952. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1960.
Doctor of Laws, New York Law School.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947, and an Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1952. He taught at Stanford Law School for a year. He clerked for the Circuit Court Judge Calvert Magruder.
He also clerked for Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1955 to 1956.
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.
Wellington started teaching at 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.
He helped persuade John Simon to teach at in 1962.
He became the Dean of in 1975. He helped rebuild the faculty during his deanship, hiring over 30 professors, including Anthony T. Kronman, Barbara Black, Drew Days, Paul Gewirtz, George Priest, Stephen L. Carter, Lucinda Finley, and Oliver Williamson.
He was an excellent fundraiser. Starting with his deanship, became, “the most theoretical and academically oriented law school in America.” He became a Sterling Professor in 1983.
As Dean, he developed the "s loan forgiveness program
In 1985, he was succeeded as Dean by Guido Calabresi. A professorial lecturership was established in his honor in 1995. He was a Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus and the Harry H. Wellington Professorial Lecturer.
In 2005, honored him by naming the Harry H. Wellington Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Faculty Support after him.
In 1992, he retired from the faculty and became the 14th Dean of New York Law School. 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. He was a John Marshall Harlan Visiting Professor at New York Law School.
He retired from teaching in 2007.
(An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role o...)
(An analysis of the process of adjudication and the role o...)
(Labor Studies, Law, Legal Studies)
(Book by Wellington, Harry H., Winter, Ralph K.)
Member American Bar Association, Bar Association Connecticut, American Law Institute, American Arbitration Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Common Cause (national governing board).
Married Sheila Wacks, June 22, 1952. Children: John, Thomas.