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SCOTUSblog on camera: Eric Schnapper (Part one)

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From Yale to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to legal academe; the value and relation of teaching in class and arguing in court; and a focus on employment law cases.

Just the waythey say,Battle plans never survive contact with the enemy, oral argument plans never survive contact with the Court.”

In this six-part interview, Eric Schnapper — Supreme Court advocate and holder of the Betts, Patterson & Mines Professorship in Trial Advocacy at the University of Washington School of Law — discusses his background, from Yale Law School to a twenty-five-year career at the NAACAP Legal Defense Fund to legal academe; how Supreme Court advocacy differs from other legal advocacy; the importance of legal briefs and their relation to oral argument; what one can and cannot prepare for in oral argument; and stories and what one learns from a long career as a Supreme Court advocate.

Recommended Citation: Fabrizio di Piazza, SCOTUSblog on camera: Eric Schnapper (Part one), SCOTUSblog (Nov. 19, 2014, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/scotusblog-on-camera-eric-schnapper-part-one/