| Jeffrey L. Fisher | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 41–42) Leawood, Kansas |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1997) Duke University (A.B., 1992) |
| Employer | Davis Wright Tremaine Stanford Law School |
| Known for | Supreme Court Litigation |
| Title | Associate Professor of Law |
Jeffrey L. Fisher (born 1970)[1] is an American law professor and U.S. Supreme Court litigator. He has argued several and worked on dozens of other cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is currently co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Mr. Fisher received a B.A. from Duke University in 1992 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997, where he was a Notes Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He was a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit during the 1997-98 Term. He also clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1998-99 Term. He was an associate, then a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, in Seattle, from 1999-2006.[2] He became an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School in 2006. He was awarded the 2008 Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award.[3]
He has previously argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Louisiana, Burton v. Waddington, United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, Davis v. Washington, Blakely v. Washington, and Crawford v. Washington, and is the lawyer of record in Herring v. United States.
He is licensed to practice law in Washington.[4]
Source: The AALS Directory of Law Teachers 2006-2007.