Professor Lawrence Marshall has been widely recognized for his lawyering, activism and teaching. Much of his scholarly and legal work has focused on issues surrounding legal ethics, appellate practice, criminal law, wrongful convictions and application of the death penalty. Professor Marshall is a recognized expert in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, a field in which he has researched and taught for more than two decades. He has frequently served as an expert consultant and witness on an array of matters pertaining to lawyers’ responsibilities.

From 2005-2013, Professor Marshall served as Associate Dean of Clinical Education and as the David and Stephanie Mills Director of the Mills Legal Clinic. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2005, he was a professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and of counsel at Mayer, Brown & Platt. At Northwestern, he was the co-founder and legal director of the world-renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions, where he represented many wrongly convicted inmates, including many inmates who at one time had been sentenced to death. Since 2013, Professor Marshall has served as part-time Of Counsel to Kirkland & Ellis.

Professor Marshall has an active pro bono practice through which he represents individuals in criminal appeals and post-conviction proceedings.  He is a recipient of the American Bar Association’s prestigious Pro Bono Publico Award, as well as awards from many other organizations.

Early in his career, Professor Marshall clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.