Easha Anand
Stanford Law School

Easha Anand is Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. A former Supreme Court and court of appeals clerk, Easha joins Stanford from the MacArthur Justice Center, where she served as Supreme Court & Appellate Counsel and litigated police excessive force, prison conditions, habeas, and other criminal defense and civil rights cases around the country.

Easha is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Paul J. Watford on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mike Mongan (JD ’06)
Solicitor General of California

Mike Mongan is the Solicitor General of California.  In that capacity, he serves as the chief appellate lawyer for the California Department of Justice, supervises the Office of the Solicitor General and the Attorney General’s Opinion Unit, and seeks to maintain excellence in the Department’s appellate practice.  In addition to his leadership responsibilities, Mike maintains an active appellate practice.  For example, he has recently presented successful oral arguments in defense of California’s Proposition 12 (against a dormant Commerce Clause challenge), National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, 143 S. Ct. 1142 (2023); the Affordable Care Act, California v. Texas, 141 S. Ct. 2104 (2021); and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 140 S. Ct. 1891 (2020).  Before joining the California Department of Justice, Mike worked in private practice and in all three branches of the federal government, including as the Deputy Counsel to Vice President Joseph Biden and as a law clerk for Justice David Souter and Judge Merrick Garland.  Mike received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University.  He lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Erin E. Murphy
Clement & Murphy PLLC

Erin Murphy is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading Supreme Court and appellate advocates. She has argued dozens of cases in appellate and trial courts throughout the country, including the Supreme Court and nearly all of the federal courts of appeals. Erin is one of only seven women in the top two bands of Chambers & Partners rankings for Appellate Law–Nationwide, and the National Law Journal has named her one of the nation’s “Outstanding Women Lawyers.” Erin has litigated appeals involving myriad provisions of the Constitution, including several cases involving the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty. She has litigated a wide range of statutory issues as well, including cases involving the Affordable Care Act, the Bankruptcy Code, the False Claims Act, the Federal Arbitration Act, the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and more. The National Law Journal named Erin a “Litigation Trailblazer” for her work representing institutional clients, which includes successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Wisconsin State Legislature. Erin also has an active pro bono practice, through which she has successfully represented many religious organizations and adherents, criminal defendants, asylum applicants, adoptive parents, and more.