February 27, 2003

Faculty honors

Robert P. Burns, professor of law at the School of Law and Bluhm Legal Clinic, has been appointed the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law.

Burns has published extensively, primarily in the areas of evidence, procedure and the nature of the American trial. He has authored several books including “A Theory of Trial” (Princeton, 1999). Next spring, the interdisciplinary journal, “Law and Social Inquiry,” will publish a symposium devoted to Burns’ work.

Burns, who held the Harry B. Reese Teaching Professorship in 1997-98 and 1998-99, has received the Law School’s Robert Childres Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence in three of the last seven academic years.

Daniel R. Fischel is serving this year as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Law. Fischel is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former dean at the University of Chicago Law School

Fischel’s interests include securities, commodities, corporation law, regulation of financial markets, and the application of the economics of corporate finance to problems in these areas. At Northwestern he is teaching business associations and corporate governance.

Fischel has written extensively in his field and is the author of two books, “Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution” and “The Economic Structure of Corporate Law.” He has served as a consultant or advisor to the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other financial organizations.

He clerked for Thomas E. Fairchild, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Steven Lubet, director of the Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Strategy and professor of law, has been named the Stanford Clinton Sr. Research Professor.

In addition to more than 50 books and articles on legal ethics and litigation, Lubet has published widely in the areas of international criminal law and dispute resolution. He is the author of “Modern Trial Advocacy,” which has been adopted by more than 75 law schools in the United States, Canada and Israel, and co-author of “Judicial Conduct and Ethics,” considered the leading authority on judicial ethics.

In conjunction with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Lubet has organized litigation programs worldwide. He is the recipient of the institute’s Prentice Marshall Award.

He has taught programs on litigation, dispute resolution and ethics for law firms, government agencies, corporate legal departments and legal service organizations.

Tracey E. George, professor of law, has been appointed Benjamin Mazur Research Professor.

Before joining the North-western law faculty in 2001, George was associate professor of law and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Earlier she practiced law in Washington, D.C., with the litigation firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin. She also clerked for Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

At Stanford University, where she earned her JD degree, George was a member of the Stanford Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.