Richard Freer (born 1953) is a leading American academic in civil procedure and the dean and Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.
Currently, his book on civil procedure is the preferred text on the subject at many law schools throughout the country.
Freer graduated in 1975 from the University of California, San Diego with highest honors and four intercollegiate athletic letters in both baseball and tennis.
[3] Upon graduation, he clerked first for Chief Judge Edward Schwartz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California from 1978 to 1979, and then Judge Clement Haynsworth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979 to 1980.
After clerking, Freer joined the litigation group of the Los Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.