R.B. Price and Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of Law
AB (1957), Harvard University
LLB (1960), University of Illinois
MCL (1962), University of Chicago
Dr Jur (1972), University of Freiburg, Germany
Professor Fisch has been a member of the law faculty since 1970. Before then, he practiced law in Chicago with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis and served on the law faculty of the University of North Dakota.
In 1968-69 he was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Germany. During 1980-81 he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law at the University of Hamburg in Germany, studying German civil procedure reforms.
In 1989-90 he was a Fulbright and Humboldt Scholar and in the summer of 1992 a Max Planck Society fellow in Hamburg, conducting a comparative study of the law governing professional-client contracts. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law.
Professor Fisch has published widely in the areas of comparative law and procedure. He teaches Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, International Protection of Human Rights Seminar, International Moot Court, Professional Responsibility and European Union Law.
Recent Publications
Academic Journals
Constitutional Referendum in the United States of America, 54 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW SUPPLEMENT 485 (2006).
