William W. Fisher

WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Faculty Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Research Interests

• American Legal History
• Intellectual Property
• Property

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• American Legal History
• Intellectual Property
• Property

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Copyright Law
• Internet Law
• Legal History
• Property
• Trademark Law

Education

• Amherst College B.A. 1976, American Studies
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1982
• Harvard University Ph.D. 1991, History of American Civilization

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1984
• Director, Legal History Program, 1988
• Professor of Law, 1991
• Faculty Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2002
• Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law, 2003
• Special Advisor for Information Technology, 2005-2006
• WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law, 2007

Representative Publications

• Fisher, William W. "Texts and Contexts: The Application to American Legal History of the Methodologies of Intellectual History," 49 Stanford Law Review 1065 (1997).
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• Fisher, William W. "Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine," 101 Harvard Law Review 1659 (1988).
  

Bibliography

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