Robert S. Peck is President of the Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C. (CCL), a national law firm dedicated to challenging laws that impede access to justice. CCL’s innovative thinking wins critical victories for clients and levels the litigation playing field.
Mr. Peck argues cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and the supreme courts of numerous states. His win this term in the U.S. Supreme Court case Philip Morris v. Williams let stand a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict awarded by an Oregon jury ten years ago to the widow of Jesse Williams, a man who died of lung cancer.
Mr. Peck also serves as a member of the adjunct law faculties at American University and George Washington University, where he teaches an advanced constitutional law seminar alternating between the two schools. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice, the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation. He is a past president of the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association and a visiting fellow of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
He is also the author of several books and numerous articles, including Libraries, Cyberspace and the First Amendment (ALA Editions 2000), The Bill of Rights and the Politics of Interpretation (West Publishing 1992) and We the People: The Constitution in American Life (Harry Abrams 1987), companion volume to the award-winning public television series for which he served as project director and senior script consultant.