Biography

A nationally renowned advocate for reform of the U.S. criminal justice system, Lawrence C. Marshall has been widely recognized for both his activism and teaching. As the director of Stanford's legal clinics, Professor Marshall has committed himself to creating an integrated clinical experience that serves the needs of each and every student at Stanford Law School. Much of his scholarly work has focused on issues surrounding the application of the death penalty. Professor Marshall co-founded the world-renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions, for which he served as legal director and represented many wrongly convicted inmates, including a number of inmates who had at one time been sentenced to death.

Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2005, Professor Marshall was a professor of law and legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law and of counsel at Mayer, Brown & Platt. Early in his career, Professor Marshall clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Key Works

• Lawrence C. Marshall. With James S. Liebman, Less is Better: Justice Stevens and the Narrowed Death Penalty (Symposium: The Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens, Panel I: Criminal Justice), 74 Fordham Law Review 1607 (2006).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, The Innocence Revolution and the Death Penalty, 1 Ohio State Journal Of Criminal Law 573 (2004).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, “Let Congress Do It”: The Case for an Absolute Rule of Statutory Stare Decisis, 88 Michigan Law Review 177 (1989-90).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, Fighting the Words of the Eleventh Amendment, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 1342.

In the News

• Former '60s Radical Is Now Considered Mainstream In Chicago
  The Washington Post, April 18, 2008
• Profs Advise '08 Candidates
  The Stanford Daily, February 05, 2008
• Professors Praise Obama
  The Stanford Daily, January 31, 2008

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Civil Procedure
• Criminal Defense Clinic
• Lawyer’s Ethics

Programs

• Criminal Defense Clinic, Director

Publications & Cases

• Lawrence C. Marshall, Litigating in the Shadow of Innocence, 68 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 191 (2006/2007).
• Lawrence C. Marshall. With James S. Liebman, Less is Better: Justice Stevens and the Narrowed Death Penalty (Symposium: The Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens, Panel I: Criminal Justice), 74 Fordham Law Review 1607 (2006).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, The Innocence Revolution and the Death Penalty, 1 Ohio State Journal Of Criminal Law 573 (2004).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, “Let Congress Do It”: The Case for an Absolute Rule of Statutory Stare Decisis, 88 Michigan Law Review 177 (1989-90).
• Lawrence C. Marshall, Fighting the Words of the Eleventh Amendment, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 1342.

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Board of Death Penalty Focus of California
• Member, Board of Center on Wrongful Convictions

Honors and Awards

• Appointed Reporter (1993-1994), Illinois Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct
• Recipient (1989, 2003), Robert H. Childres Award for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University School of Law
• Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, National-Louis University, 2003
• Recipient (1996), American Bar Association Pro Bono Award
• Recipient (1996), Mexican Legal Defense Fund Community Service Award
• Recipient (1999), Mario Cuomo Act of Courage Award, Death Penalty Focus of California
• Recipient, 2003 Illinoisan of the Year, Illinois Newsbroadcasters' Association