Triple Threat Scholar, Professor, Author Announced as Robert T. Miller Guest Lecturer

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WACO, Texas (Oct. 3, 2014) – Louis Fisher, Ph.D., scholar-in-residence at the Constitution Project and visiting professor at the College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, will be the guest speaker for the 2014 Robert T. Miller Lecture Series, sponsored by Baylor University’s department of political science. The lecture - which is free and open to the public - will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in Bennett Auditorium in the Draper Academic Building.
“He is a vigorous speaker. He has strong ideas and is willing to defend them. His lecture will be of benefit to anyone in the university community,” said W. David Clinton, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of political science. “Anyone who is an American citizen will find something of interest in this lecture.”
Known as one of the foremost authorities on the separate branches of the political government, Fisher worked 40 years at the Library of Congress as senior specialist in Separation of Powers and Specialist in Constitutional Law. In 1987, while working with the Congressional Research Service, he served as the research director of the House Iran-Contra committee and wrote major sections of the final report.
Recently, Fisher authored the books "On the Supreme Court: Without Illusion and Idolatry” (2013) and “The Law of the Executive Branch: Presidential Power” (2014). He has written more than 20 books, 500 articles and hundreds of reports.
For more information, please contact Jerold Waltman, Ph.D., professor of political science, at Jerold_Waltman@baylor.edu
by Sarah Czerwinski, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805

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