Stanley Z. Fisher has been teaching criminal law and procedure at Boston University Law School since 1968. His publications include a casebook on Ethiopian Criminal Procedure, and articles on juvenile justice, prosecutorial ethics, suppression of exculpatory evidence in police reports, and disclosure of exculpatory evidence in the United States and England. He has spent several sabbatical years practicing law in Massachusetts, including stints as a juvenile court defense lawyer, an Assistant District Attorney (Norfolk County), and a public defender with the Trial Unit of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. He also teaches in his law school's Criminal Clinic.

Since 1997, Professor Fisher has taught a law school seminar on wrongful convictions. A founding member and active participant in the New England Innocence Project, he is currently doing research on wrongful convictions in Massachusetts. He is especially interested in reform of eyewitness identification procedures.

Last updated April 16, 2002