Jon D. Michaels

Biography

Jon D. Michaels

Acting Professor of Law
B.A. Williams College, 1998
B.A. University of Oxford, 2000
M.A. University of Oxford, 2006
J.D. Yale, 2003
UCLA Law Faculty since 2008
michaels@law.ucla.edu

Professor Michaels is Acting Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He currently teaches Administrative Law, National Security Law, and a seminar on Redesigning the Administrative State.

Michaels is a graduate of Williams College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School, where he served as 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, D.C.

Michaels’ principal scholarly interests lie at the intersection of national security law and administrative law. His current research is on novel forms of government design, particularly private-public partnerships, inter-governmental regulatory and policymaking entities, and government initiatives to contract out key public functions to private actors.

Michaels is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His recent writings include

The (Willingly) Fettered Executive, 97 Va. L. Rev. 801-898 (2011);
Privatization's Pretensions, 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 717-780 (2010);
Deputizing Homeland Security, 88 Tex. L. Rev. 1435-1473 (2010); and,
All the President’s Spies: Private-Public Intelligence Gathering in the War on Terror, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 901-966 (2008)

For his article Privatization’s Pretensions, Michaels was named the 2010 winner of the American Constitution Society’s Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law.