Daniel Fischel

Daniel R. Fischel (born 1950) is the emeritus Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former Dean of University of Chicago Law School, and a co-founder of Lexecon. He is a leading scholar of the regulation of financial markets and corporations, and a frequent expert witness on behalf of defendants in securities litigation. He is chairman and president of Compass Lexecon.
Fischel graduated from Cornell University in 1972, and received a M.A. in American history from Brown University in 1974. Fischel received his J.D. cum laude from Chicago Law in 1977, where he was comment editor of the law review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught at Northwestern University Law School from 1980 to 1984, and joined the Chicago Law faculty in 1984.
As an expert witness, Fischel...