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Richard Michael Fischl is Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, he spent four years with the Division of Enforcement Litigation at the National Labor Relations Board and a year with the Litigation Unit of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. During his time with the NLRB, he was principal author of the agency's successful Supreme Court briefs in NLRB v. Hendricks County REMC and NLRB v. Transportation Management Inc., and he received several commendations for outstanding appellate work from the NLRB's General Counsel. In 1983, he joined the law faculty at the University of Miami, where he taught until his appointment at Connecticut in 2006. His teaching and research interests focus on labor and employment law, legal theory, and legal education, and his work has appeared in Columbia Law Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and numerous other law journals. He is co-editor (with Joanne Conaghan and Karl Klare) of Labor Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative Practices and Possibilities (Oxford 2002); co-author (with Jeremy Paul) of Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (Carolina Academic Press 1999); and co-chair of Intell, an international network of progressive scholars and practitioners in the labor and employment law field. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Golden Apple award for outstanding teaching and service at the University of Miami.

Professor Paul teaches Constitutional Law, Property, and Jurisprudence. A 1978 graduate of Princeton University, he received his law degree from Harvard in 1981. In addition to his long-term career in teaching, Professor Paul has served as a law clerk to Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; as Professor-in-Residence at the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; and as Assistant to the President of TravelersGroup. He has taught at the University of Miami (as both Assistant and Associate Professor) and at Boston College Law School (as a Visiting Professor). Professor Paul's writings have appeared in the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Southern California Law Review, and the Washington Monthly, and they include (with Michael Fischl) the book Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams published by Carolina Academic Press, and a widely used introduction to legal reasoning entitled "A Bedtime Story," 74 Virginia Law Review 915 (1988). Professor Paul is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Law Tribune.

(Quoting from University of Connecticut, School of Law website)

From Publisher

Professors Fischl and Paul explain law school exams in ways no one has before, all with an eye toward improving the reader's performance. The book begins by describing the difference between educational cultures that praise students for "right answers," and the law school culture that rewards nuanced analysis of ambiguous situations in which more than one approach may be correct. Enormous care is devoted to explaining precisely how and why legal analysis frequently produces such perplexing situations.
But the authors don't stop with mere description. Instead, Getting to Maybe teaches how to excel on law school exams by showing the reader how legal analysis can be brought to bear on examination problems. The book contains hints on studying and preparation that go well beyond conventional advice. The authors also illustrate how to argue both sides of a legal issue without appearing wishy-washy or indecisive. Above all, the book explains why exam questions may generate feelings of uncertainty or doubt about correct legal outcomes and how the student can turn these feelings to his or her advantage.

In sum, although the authors believe that no exam guide can substitute for a firm grasp of substantive material, readers who devote the necessary time to learning the law will find this book an invaluable guide to translating learning into better exam performance.