Walter E. Dellinger

Professor Walter E. Dellinger is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law at Duke University and head of the appellate practice at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic. He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. He has also appeared as a commentator on This Week, the ABC News Sunday morning program hosted by George Stephanopoulos. He has testified more than twenty-five times before committees of the Congress, including the Senate Budget Committee, the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. In early 2012, with Dellinger representing the defendant in United States v. Antoine Jones, the US Supreme Court overruled the warrantless government use of a GPS device on Jones' Jeep Grand Cherokee.