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David A. Fischer

Visiting Professor of Law
Education
B.A., University of Missouri
J.D., University of Missouri School of Law

Biography

Professor Fischer returns to Brooklyn Law School, where he was previously a Visiting Professor. He taught at the University of Missouri School of Law for over 35 years in the area of Torts, Products Liability, and Evidence. He is a co-author of a nationally-used products liability casebook, and has published articles dealing with a full range of issues in Tort and Products Liability law, including the meaning of defect, comparative fault, market share liability, proportional liability, and causation.

Professor Fischer is a member of the American Law Institute. He served as Chair of the Tort Liability Study Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the ABA, Vice-Chair of the Products, General Liability & Consumer Law Committee of TIPS, and Chair of the Academic Advisory Subcommittee of the Products, General Liability & Consumer Law Committee of TIPS.

He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia and he was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall in Cambridge, England, where he was elected a Life Member. In addition to Brooklyn Law School, he has also taught as a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Oklahoma, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Professor Fischer received his B.A. from the University of Missouri and his J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law. While in law school, he was the lead article editor of the Missouri Law Review, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He served as a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army from 1968-72, where he handled general court-martial cases on both the trial and appellate levels.