Robert Weisberg is a frequent commentator and expert on white-collar crime and criminal law and procedure, and serves as director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. Using his experience as a former English professor, he is one of the nation's leading scholars on the intersection of law and literature, and coauthor of the highly praised book Literary Criticisms of Law. He has served as a consulting attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the California Appellate Project, working on death penalty litigation in the state and federal courts. In addition to his work at the law school, Professor Weisberg serves as special assistant to the provost for faculty recruitment and retention. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1981, he was a tenured English professor at Skidmore College. He also served as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.