Professor Jeffrey L. Fisher - one of the most experienced and successful appellate advocates in the country - discusses his practice before the United States Supreme Court. Fisher leads Stanford's Supreme Court clinic. In an interview with Professor Lisa Kern Griffin, he addresses the cert. process and the Supreme Court's case selection, the role of oral argument, and some of his recent cases concerning marriage equality, digital privacy, and other criminal procedure issues.

Sponsored by the Program in Public Law.

A leading authority on Supreme Court practice and nationally recognized expert on criminal procedure, Professor Fisher will talk about marshaling originalism and related interpretive methodologies in order to persuade conservative judges to protect the rights of criminal defendants. More generally, he will also discuss how the United States Supreme Court might change now with its two new justices. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law. Introduction by Michael Dreeben.

Recorded on October 19, 2010.

February 23, 2009 - Professor Jeffrey Fisher will talk about his work on Exxon v. Baker, a case that grew out of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history, and the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion for punitive damages law. Fisher will discuss some of the challenges of litigating a case concerning an event that occurred almost 20 years ago and 4,000 miles away against the world's most profitable corporation. Before the Ninth Circuit and U.S.