5/15/02, 2

A number of distinguished scholars will join the Northwestern law faculty as visiting professors for the 2002-03 academic year.

Daniel R. Fischel, the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former dean at the University of Chicago Law School, will hold a visiting chair at Northwestern for the 2002-03 academic year. His interests include securities, commodities, corporation law, regulation of financial markets, and the application of the economics of corporate finance to problems in these areas. Fischel is also co-president of Lexecon Inc. and founded its securities practice in 1981.

Robert J. Peroni, the Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, joined the Northwestern faculty as the visiting J. Landis Martin Professor of Law and Business for the 2002-03 academic year. Professor Peroni's research and teaching interests are in the areas of federal and international taxation, law and economics, international trade, and professional responsibility and ethics.

David L. Cameron, a professor at Willamette University College of Law, first visited Northwestern in spring of 2002. He joins the Northwestern faculty again for the 2002-03 academic year to teach courses in the new Tax Program. He has written many articles on land use and tax issues. Cameron was voted 1995 Teacher of the Year at Willamette, where he taught courses in taxation, real estate finance and property.

Emerson H. Tiller, Associate Professor of Business, Technology and the Law at the University of Texas Graduate School of Business, will visit Northwestern for the 2002 fall semester. He is the co-director of the Center for Business, Technology and Law at UT, and his research has primarily focused on the role of political forces in regulatory and judicial decision-making. He has published numerous papers in law and economic journals and has won the Olin Foundation Fellowship at Yale Law School and a Bradley Foundation grant for his work.