Harry H. Wellington, Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, 1956-92 and Harry H. Wellington Professorial Lecturer, 1993-2011
Harry H. Wellington
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Harry Hillel Wellington (1926-2011) joined the faculty after teaching at Stanford Law School for a year. He was dean of the Law School from 1975-85.
In his early years at Yale, Dean Wellington was a contracts scholar, and published a casebook in the field (with Harold Shepherd), Contracts and Contract Remedies (1957). Wellington soon began focusing his scholarship on the intersection of freedom of contract, organized labor, and collective bargaining, and published two influential books on the subject, Labor and the Legal Process (1968), and The Unions and the Cities (with Ralph K. Winter) (1972).
Wellington’s best-known scholarly works, however, are his writings on legal process, which include an early influential article coauthored with Alexander Bickel, “Legislative Purpose and the Judicial Process: The Lincoln Mills Case,” 71 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1957). Wellington and Bickel shared in common a perspective shaped by the view on judicial restraint of Justice Felix Frankfurter for whom they both clerked.
Dean Wellington retired from Yale in 1992 to become dean of New York Law School.
At the Law School, a professorial lecturership was established in his honor in 1995.