Eric Fisher

Areas of Expertise

• Academic Support
• Business Organizations Law
• Client Counseling
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Law
• Interviewing and Client Counseling
• Legal Research
• Legal Writing
• Rhetoric

Biography

Eric Fisher joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2025 and serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law teaching first-year writing. Prior to attending law school, Fisher worked for fourteen years in K-12 and higher education settings, and his research interests include legal writing and pedagogy. Fisher attended Carolina Law where he was the Editor in Chief of the North Carolina Law Review and graduated with high honors. He was elected to the Order of the Coif and was selected as the 2020 recipient of the Winston Crisp Leadership Award given by the law school’s Student Bar Association. Prior to joining the Carolina Law faculty, Fisher interned for the Honorable James Wynn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and clerked for the Honorable Loretta Biggs in the Middle District of North Carolina. In addition, he worked as a corporate associate at Smith Anderson where he focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions representing private equity and financial institutions. He holds an M.Ed. from Clemson University and a B.A. from Furman University.