Rate My Professor Samuel Bagenstos

Samuel R. Bagenstos is the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He earned a B.A. with highest honors and highest distinction in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1993, receiving the Fay Diploma as first in his graduating class and serving as articles office co-chair of the Harvard Law Review. His academic career includes positions as Assistant Professor of Law and Research Fellow at Harvard Law School (1999-2004), Visiting Professor and then Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law (2004-2009, including Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, 2007-2008), and Professor and then Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School since 2009. Bagenstos has held prominent government roles, including law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court (1997-1998) and to Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit (1993-1994), attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1994-1997), Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice (2009-2011), Chair of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (2019-2021), General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (2021-2022), and General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (2022-2024).