Jeffrey L. Fisher

Jeffrey L. Fisher
Born	1970 (age 54–55) Leawood, Kansas
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	Professor of Law Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Jeffrey L. Fisher (born 1970) 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 co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Legal Career

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 clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1998-99 term.

He was an associate and then a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, in Seattle, from 1999-2006. He became an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School in 2006. He was awarded the 2008 Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award. He became a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School in 2012.

He has argued before the United States Supreme Court in Oneok v. Learjet (2015), T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell, GA (2015), Heien v. North Carolina (2014), Riley v. California (2014), Fernandez v. California (2014), Salinas v. Texas (2013), Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center (2013), Chaidez v. United States (2013), Lozman v. Riviera Beach (2013), Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority (2012), Greene v. Fisher (2011), Bullcoming v. New Mexico (2011), United States v. Tinklenberg (2011), Magwood v. Patterson (2010), United States v. O'Brien (2010), Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts (2009), Waddington v. Saurusad (2009), Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008), Burgess v. United States (2008), Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (2008), Burton v. Waddington (2007), Global Crossing v. Metrophones (2007), United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez (2006), Davis v. Washington (2006), Blakely v. Washington (2004), Crawford v. Washington (2004).

He is lead counsel for those challenging Oklahoma's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples in Bishop v. Oklahoma.

He is licensed to practice law in Washington.

Writing

• Jeffrey L. Fisher, "A Clinic's Place in the Supreme Court Bar", Stanford Law Review, January 2013

References

Source: The AALS Directory of Law Teachers 2006-2007.

External links

• Biography
• Curriculum Vitae