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Richard Michael Fischl

Richard Michael Fischl is Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, he spent four years with the Division of Enforcement Litigation at the National Labor Relations Board and a year with the Litigation Unit of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. During his time with the NLRB, he was principal author of the agency's successful Supreme Court briefs in NLRB v. Hendricks County REMC and NLRB v. Transportation Management Inc., and he received several commendations for outstanding appellate work from the NLRB's General Counsel. In 1983, he joined the law faculty at the University of Miami, where he taught until his appointment at Connecticut in 2006. His teaching and research interests focus on labor and employment law, legal theory, and legal education, and his work has appeared in Columbia Law Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and numerous other law journals. He is co-editor (with Joanne Conaghan and Karl Klare) of Labor Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Oxford 2002); co-author (with Jeremy Paul) of Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (Carolina Academic Press 1999); and co-chair of Intell, an international network of progressive scholars and practitioners in the labor and employment law field. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Golden Apple award for outstanding teaching and service at the University of Miami.

Recent Courses

• Contracts II (Spring 2009)
• Contracts I (Fall 2008)
• Contracts II (Spring 2008)
• Labor Law: Org/Coll Bargain (Spring 2008)
• Contracts I (Fall 2007)
• Labor Law, Work and Family (Spring 2007)