William W. Fisher

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William Fisher is an expert on property systems. He received a B.A. (in American Studies) from Amherst College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently Professor of Law and Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993). He is the author (with Morton Horwitz and Thomas Reed) of American Legal Realism (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), The Law of the Land (forthcoming from Oxford Univ. Press), and many articles on property law, intellectual-property law, and American legal history.

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