Daniel R. Fischel

• Corporations
• Corporate finance
• Financial markets

Lee and Brena Freeman Professor Emeritus of Law and Business, and Senior Lecturer

The University of Chicago Law School

2006 - Current

Dean, January 1999-February 2001; Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business, July 1989-2006; Professor of Law, January 1984-July 1989 Visiting Professor of Law, July 1982-June 1983 Director, Law and Economics Program, January 1984-June 1991

Professor of Law and Business

The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

1987 - 1990

Professor of Law

Northwestern University School of Law

1982 - 1984

Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Fall 2002; Associate Professor of Law, June 1981-June 1982; Assistant Professor of Law, June 1980-June 1981.

Attorney

Levy and Erens Chicago, Illinois

1979 - 1980

Law Clerk to Associate Justice Potter Stewart

United States Supreme Court

1978 - 1979

Law Clerk to Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, Chief Judge

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Chicago, IL

1977 - 1978

The University of Chicago Law School

J.D. (1977)

Approximately top 1 % of the Class

Honors: cum laude; Order of the Coif; Awarded Jerome N. Frank Prize for excellence in legal writing while a member of the University of Chicago Law Review, 1974-1977.

Activities: Comment Editor, Vol. 44, University of Chicago Law Review; Studied law and economics with Richard Posner and other members of the faculty

Brown University

B.A. (1972) | American history; Minor in economics