Fiss, Owen M(itchell)
FISS, Owen M(itchell)
FISS, Owen M(itchell). American, b. 1938. Genres: Law. Career: Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1993- (Professor of Law, 1974-84; Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law). Member, Editorial Board, Foundation Press, and Philosophy and Public Affairs, Law, Economics, and Organization, etc.; Member, Executive Board, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law. Law Clerk to Thurgood Marshall, then Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1964-65; Law Clerk to Justice Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court, 1965-66; Special Assistant to John Doar, Assistant Attorney-General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1966-68; Professor of Law, University of Chicago, 1968-74. Publications: Injunctions, 1972, (with D. Rendleman) 1984; The Civil Rights Injunction, 1978; (with R.M. Cover) The Structure of Procedure, 1979; (with R.M. Cover and J. Resnik) Procedure, 1988; Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910, 1993; Liberalism Divided, 1996; The Irony of Free Speech, 1996; A Community of Equals, 1999. Address: Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.