Michael H. Schill
| Michael H. Schill | |
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| Born | Schenectady, New York, USA |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Real property |
| Institutions |
University of Pennsylvania Law School New York University School of Law UCLA School of Law University of Chicago Law School University of Oregon |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University (1980) Yale Law School (1984) |
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Michael H. Schill (born September 30, 1958) is the President of the University of Oregon and a law professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He is the former Dean and the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. He was appointed President on April 14, 2015 by the University of Oregon Board of Trustees. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 2015 and was formally invested on June 1, 2016. Schill is the author of three books and more than 40 articles, and focuses his scholarship in the areas of real estate and housing policy, deregulation, finance, and discrimination. His casebook, Property, co-authored with James Krier and Greg Alexander is the best-selling casebook used in American law schools.
Schill was born in Schenectady, New York, to Simon Schill and the former Ruth Coplon. He attended Linton High School and Princeton University, receiving his AB summa cum laude in 1980 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 1984 where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Immediately following his graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Marvin Katz of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for the 1984 term. He practiced law at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson from 1985 to 1987.
In 1987, Schill joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School. He served as Assistant Professor of Law from 1987 to 1992, and became Professor of Law in 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he was Professor of Law and Real Estate. In 1995 he moved to the New York University School of Law and Wagner School of Public Service, becoming Professor of Law and Urban Planning. Simultaneously, he became the founding Director of the Furman Center on Real Estate and Urban Policy. He held both positions until 2004, and in 2003 he additionally became the Wilf Family Professor in Property Law.
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