Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber

Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber (born September 24, 1961) is an American academic and legal scholar and the 20th president of Princeton University, where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.

He is also an expert on constitutional law, with an emphasis on separation of church and state and federal judicial appointments.

Books in order of publication:

Constitutional Self-Government (2001)

Global Justice and the Bulwarks of Localism: Human Rights in Context, ed. with Andras Sajo (2005)

The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (2007)

Religious Freedom and the Constitution, with Lawrence G. Sager (2007)

Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right (2025)