William H. Simon
Arthur Levitt Professor of Law, Everett B. Birch Professor in Professional Responsibility
| Office: |
435 West 116th Street
Room 536
New York NY 10027
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| Tel: |
212.854.9215 |
| Fax: |
212.854.7946 |
| Email: |
wsimon@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Web Page
http://www2.law.columbia.edu/wsimon
Areas of Expertise
- Professional responsibility
- Social policy
Education
- A.B., Princeton, 1969
- J.D., Harvard, 1974
Detailed Biography
Private practice in Boston, 1974-77; staff attorney, Legal Services Institute, 1979-81. Member of the Stanford faculty 1981-2003 (Montgomery Professor, 1995-99; William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, 1999-2003). Visiting professor: Harvard, 1987-88 (Academic year), 1997-2001 & 2003 (January terms), 2006 (Fall term); and UC Berkeley, 1997-98. Visiting staff member, National Center for Economic Development and Law, 1990. Guggenheim fellow, 1994. Member, board of directors, East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Member, Massachusetts bar. Interests include professional responsibility, corporations, and foundations of the regulatory state.
Recent Publications
Recent publications include: "The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as An Example," 60 Stanford Law Review 1555 (2008); "Legal Accountability in the Service-Based Welfare State: Lessons from Child Welfare Reform," Law and Social Inquiry (forthcoming 2009) (with Kathleen Noonan and Charles Sabel).
