IN MEMORIAM: ROGER FISHER

Storytelling was one of Professor Roger Fisher's many fine talents. His sense of timing, the inflection of his voice, and his radiant smile seemed to be calibrated perfectly to his audiences, whether they were law students, diplomats, soldiers, or community mediators. But teaching about "all of life" was his real gift and his ongoing legacy for generations of students, political leaders, CEOs, and others whom he touched, directly or indirectly, through his work. Fisher also used his academic vantage point to tackle real-world problems. His direct interventions and advice advanced negotiations that facilitated the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979, eased the way for a peaceful transition of power in post-apartheid South Africa in the early 1990s, and promoted the resolution of a border dispute and the signing of a permanent peace treaty between Ecuador and Peru in 1998. Fisher's contributions -- his scholarship, his stories, his example, and his never-ceasing "choose to help" attitude -- are as inspiring, fresh, and urgent as ever.