Owen M. Fiss
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Owen M. Fiss is a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School.
Biography
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 graudation 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.
Works
- Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 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
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