William Eskridge

William Eskridge

William "Bill" N. Eskridge Jr., (born October 27, 1951 in Princeton, West Virginia) is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. He is one of the most cited law professors in America, ranking sixth overall for the period 2010-2014. He writes primarily on constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, religion, marriage equality, and LGBT rights. After earning a B.A. in history from Davidson College in 1973, he completed an M.A. in history at Harvard University and then earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1978. At Yale he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, where he worked with future Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. After graduating from Yale he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then joined the D.C. law firm Shea & Gardner. Before joining the Yale Law faculty he was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law (1982-1987) and Georgetown Law (1987-1998). In 1994, Eskridge was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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