Robert L. Fischman is the George P. Smith, II Distinguished Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.
He is also an adjunct professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
In 1992 he joined the faculty of the Maurer School of Law.
He helped establish the school's Conservation Law Center, and served on its founding board.
[1] Fischman is best known for his scholarship on the relationship between conservation-in-action and law governing the federal public lands, particularly the national wildlife refuges.