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Professor Richard D. Friedman & Jeffrey L.
Fisher
Richard D. Friedman
Richard D. Friedman is the Ralph
W. Aigler Professor of Law at the university
of Michigan Law School. Among his areas of
concentration is the law of Evidence. He is
the author of The Elements of Evidence
(3d ed. 2004), and General Editor of The
New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence. For
many years he has advocated a “testimonial”
approach to the Confrontation Clause.
Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36
(2004), adopted this theory; Prof. Friedman
appeared as “second chair” for the
petitioner in that case, and he also wrote a
friend-of-Court brief, which was quoted at
the oral argument. He is now representing
the petitioner before the Court in Hammon
v. Indiana, No. 05-5705.
See also Friedman's
University of Michigan Law School Faculty
Biography Page and
Faculty Publications List.
Jeffrey L. Fisher
Jeffrey L. Fisher, a 1997 graduate of
the University of Michigan Law School, is a
partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, in
Seattle, and co-chair of the firm's
appellate practice group. He also is a
visiting lecturer at the University of
Washington School of Law, where he teaches a
class on the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Fisher
successfully represented the petitioners
both in Crawford and in another
landmark criminal procedure case decided the
same year, Blakely v. Washington, 542
U.S. 296 (2004). He is now representing the
petitioner in Davis v. Washington,
No. 05-5224, and has two other cases pending
before the Supreme Court. He was selected as
a 2004 Lawyer of the Year by Lawyer's
Weekly USA and the runner-up for 2004
Lawyer of the Year and one of ten attorneys
of special mention in the "40 Under 40" by
National Law Journal. Prior to
entering practice, Mr. Fisher served as a
law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on
the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen
Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit.
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