William Simon

William Simon
- Gertrude and William Saunders Professor of Law, Emeritus
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.

Policy Practicum: Court-Supervised Remediation of Complex Environmental Problems
Working closely with the Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic on an environmental suit against the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, this practicum researches the policy side of a possible remediation regime for polluted surface and ground waters in the Salinas River Valley and Elkhorn Slough.
view practicum