Alan C. Michaels

Alan C. Michaels was the nineteenth Dean and Edwin M. Cooperman Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Michaels was a law clerk to Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court in 1987.

Education

Michaels graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 1983. He then received his J.D. degree from the Columbia Law School in 1986, where he was the notes and comments editor for the Columbia Law Review. He remained in this position for 11 years, ably steering Moritz through a period of upheaval in the national legal job market and hence declining admissions to law school. At the time he stepped down as dean, Moritz had risen to a national ranking of #34 by U.S. News & World Report.

Scholarly work

Michaels scholarly work focuses on criminal law and sports law. He is coauthor with Professor Joshua Dressler of Understanding Criminal Procedure (4th edition) and serves as co-managing editor of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. He also was the recipient of the 1998-99 Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools.