Stanley Fish is a literary critic, legal scholar, and public intellectual. Renowned for his role in developing reader-response theory in literary studies, Fish has written on a wide range of topics including the poetry of John Milton, the distinction between free speech and academic freedom, and the doctrine of liberalism. His most recent book, Law at the Movies, provides an introduction to legal theory through the lens of cinema, exploring the role of the law in such distinguished films as 12 Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, and Judgement at Nuremberg.