Daniel R. Fischel
Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-834-4167
email: daniel_fischel@law.uchicago.edu

EDUCATION
University of Chicago Law School, J.D. cum laude 1977
Order of the Coif
Comment Editor, Vol. 44, University of Chicago Law Review
Approximately top 1 % of the Class
Awarded Casper Platt Award for best paper written by a student of the University of Chicago Law School
Awarded Jerome N. Frank Prize for excellence in legal writing while a member of the University of Chicago Law Review, 1974 - 1977
Studied law and economics with Richard Posner and other members of the faculty
Brown University, M.A. 1974 in American History
Cornell University, major-American History; minor-Economics; B.A. 1972

EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago Law School
Dean, January 1999-February 2001
Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business, July 1989-present
Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, January 1984-present
Visiting Professor of Law, July 1982 - June 1983
Director, Law and Economics Program, January 1984-June 1991

University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Professor of Law and Business, July 1987-June 1990 

Northwestern University School of Law
Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Fall 2002
Professor of Law, June 1982-January 1984
Associate Professor of Law, June 1981-June 1982
Assistant Professor of Law, June 1980-June 1981

Levy and Erens, Chicago, Illinois
Attorney, July 1979 - June 1980

Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court
Law Clerk, 1978 - 1979

Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Law Clerk, 1977 - 1978 

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Chairman and President, Lexecon Inc.

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nextera Enterprises, Inc. 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, American Economic Association, American Finance Association

Member, Board of Directors, Center for the Economy and the State
Former member, Mid-America Institute Task Force on Stock Market Collapse

Former Chairman, American Association of Law Schools' Section on Law and Economics