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American legal scholar (born 1938)
Owen M. Fiss
Born1938 (age 85–86)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDartmouth College (BA)
University of Oxford (BPhil)
Harvard University (LLB)
Scientific career
FieldsConstitutional law
InstitutionsYale University

Owen M. Fiss (born 1938) is an American legal scholar who is a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale Law School.

Biography

Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Fiss received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1959, B.Phil. from Oxford University in 1961, and LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1964.

After graduation from law school, Fiss was admitted to the bar in New York state in 1965. He clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall from 1964 to 1965, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1965. He then worked as a Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice from 1966 to 1968.

Fiss joined the faculty of University of Chicago in 1968, and became a professor at Yale Law School in 1976.

Courses offered by Fiss include civil procedure, distributive justice, the law of democracy and the First Amendment.

Brian Leiter's law school ratings rank Owen Fiss as one of the top 20 most-cited professors in constitutional law.

Works

  • The Civil Rights Injunction, 1978
  • Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910, 1993
  • Liberalism Divided, 1996
  • The Irony of Free Speech, 1996
  • A Community of Equals, 1999
  • A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism, 2003
  • The Law As It Could Be, 2003
  • A War Like No Other: The Constitution in a Time of Terror, 2015
  • Pillars of Justice, 2017

Awards

See also

References

  1. "Brian Leiter Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007". www.leiterrankings.com. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  2. Menand, Louis (1996-10-08). "Shut Up, He Explained". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  3. ^ Suansing, Razel (2020-12-01). "Law professor awarded prize for lifetime achievement in jurisprudence". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  4. "Pillars of Justie". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 5 March 2024.

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