Doctoral Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (ABD)
Michael is a doctoral candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, entitled "State, University, and Corporation," is a legal history of scholars and their universities (corporations), and of Americans and their states (corporations), told, with reference to a millennium of university experience, through a group of American universities established in the second half of the nineteenth century as constitutional corporations: the Universities of California, Idaho, Michigan, and Minnesota.
A 2019 graduate of Harvard Law School, Michael served as law clerk to Vermont Chief Justice Paul L. Reiber (2022-2023) and as administrative law clerk to Hawai'i Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald (2023-2024). During the spring 2025 semester, Michael will be a visiting international research student at the University of British Columbia.
Michael welcomes inquiries from prospective students.
M.A., Berkeley Law, 2022; J.D., Harvard Law School, 2019; B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 2016
Teaching Interests:
Primary: Constitutional Law; Property Law; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Family Law
Secondary: Local Government Law; Corporations; American Legal History; State Constitutional Law; Professional Responsibility