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Jon Michaels is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Advisor to the Dean on Civic Engagement. His scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, administrative law, national security law, the separation of powers, presidential power, regulation, bureaucracy, privatization, political extremism, and political violence.

Michaels (view CV) is a graduate of Williams College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal. Michaels clerked first for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Immediately prior to his appointment at UCLA, Michaels worked as an associate in Arnold & Porter’s National Security Law and Public Policy Group in Washington, DC.

A two-time winner of the American Constitution Society’s Cudahy Award for scholarly excellence in administrative law and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Michaels has written essays for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, the Forward, Foreign Affairs, Time Magazine, American Prospect, and the Guardian. He is a frequent legal affairs commentator for national and local media outlets.

His 2017 book, Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic, was published by Harvard University Press. Michaels’s second book, titled Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy was published in 2024, by Simon & Schuster/Atria.

Michaels’s scholarly writings have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law Review, and the University of Virginia Law Review, among others.

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