Keir M. Weyble

Keir Weyble teaches Evidence, Trial Advocacy, co-teaches the Capital Punishment and Juvenile Justice Clinics, and has taught Post-Conviction Remedies and Capital Punishment Law. Before coming to Cornell, he spent twelve years as a practicing attorney based in South Carolina, where he concentrated on the litigation of capital cases in state and federal courts across the South. He has served as counsel, co-counsel, or as a consultant at the trial, appellate, and collateral review stages in dozens of cases across the country, from state trial court proceedings to merits-stage litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is also a nationally recognized expert on federal habeas corpus law and practice, served for many years as the primary author of the Habeas Assistance and Training Counsel Project’s Federal Habeas Corpus Update, and has been a faculty member and presenter at numerous professional training programs related to capital litigation and post-conviction practice nationwide.