William B. Fisch's Home Page

Professor William B. Fisch's Home Page

Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia. Member of the faculty since 1970, em. 2003.
326 Hulston Hall
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
tel. 573-882-7810; fax 573-882-4984; e-mail fischw@missouri.edu

Education
Harvard College (AB 1957, philosophy)
University of Illinois (LL.B. 1960)
University of Chicago (M.Comp.L. 1962)(Foreign Law Program, under Prof. Max Rheinstein)
University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (1961-62, in Chicago's Foreign Law Program; J.U.D. 1972, under Prof. Ernst von Caemmerer)

Practice
Associate in Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago, from 1962 to 1965, working primarily on business litigation (antitrust, unfair competition, trademarks).
Admitted in Illinois (1961) and Missouri (1982)

Teaching and Reseach
Civil procedure, comparative and international law, professional responsibility and constitutional law.
Dissertation published as Die Vorteilsausgleichung im amerikanischen und deutschen Recht (1974), comparative study of the "collateral source rule" and related problems of the law of damages
Co-author, problem-oriented casebook on Professional Responsibility (3d ed. West 2004, with Devine and Easton)
Comparative study of the law governing contracts for professional services (primarily lawyer-client, but also doctor-patient contracts) in the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (vol. VIII ch. 9, 1999)
Member, Board of Directors, American Journal of Comparative Law
A more complete list of publications is attached.

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany, 1968-69
Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, 1980-81
Humboldt and Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, MPI Hamburg, 1989-90
Max Planck Society Fellow, MPI Hamburg, Summer 1992

Teaching the following courses in 2007-2008: International Moot Court (Fall and Winter), European Union Law (Fall), and Professional Responsibility (Winter). Click on a course for links to further information about it.