Robert I. Weisberg is an American lawyer. He is the Edwin E. Huddleson Jr. Professor of Law at

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. Weisberg is an authority on

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and

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, as well as a scholar in the law and literature movement.

Education and career

Weisberg was educated at the

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, and received his B.A. from the

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in 1966. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from

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in 1967 and 1971. After graduation, he taught English at

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from 1970 to 1976. Weisberg left to attend

, where he received a J.D. in 1979 and was the Editor-in-Chief of the '' Stanford Law Review''. He then served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, followed by Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1980 Term. In 1981, he joined the faculty at Stanford Law School, where he has won numerous teaching awards, served as special assistant to the provost for faculty recruitment and retention, and co-directs the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Weisberg's book, ''Literary Criticisms of Law'', was published in 2000, and he is widely quoted in the press on criminal law and criminal procedure. He also co-authors a criminal law casebook.

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Education and career

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Selected publications

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