Eric Fish

Eric Fish joined the faculty at UC Davis School of Law in 2021. His research focuses on the criminal justice system, in particular on the criminalization of immigration, lawyers’ ethical duties, and the preeminence of the efficiency imperative. He also writes about topics in constitutional law. At King Hall, he teaches Criminal Law and Professional Ethics. Fish’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Texas Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, George Washington Law Review and Emory Law Journal.

Before entering law teaching Fish spent four years as a public defender, working at the Federal Defenders of San Diego and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. in Law from Yale, where he served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal, and received the Joseph A. Chubb Prize for the best legal draftsmanship by a student, the Judge William E. Miller Prize for the best paper on the Bill of Rights, and the Mary A. McCarthy Fellowship for public interest work. After law school he clerked for Judges Pierre Leval and Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.