Prof. William H. Simon

William H. Simon is the Arthur Levitt Professor of Law Emeritus at Columbia Law School and the Gertrude and William Saunders Professor of Law Emeritus at Stanford Law School, where he taught from 1981 to 2003 before joining the Columbia faculty. His teaching and scholarship focus on professional responsibility, constitutional law, and regulatory and social policy, and he is one of the country's most influential scholars of legal ethics. He is the author of The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics and The Community Economic Development Movement. He began his career in poverty law. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.