Nicholas Bagley

Nicholas Bagley is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. In 2020 and 2022, he served as special counsel and then chief legal counsel to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. His academic work has been published widely, including in the Harvard Law Review and the Columbia Law Review, and he contributes frequently to popular outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic. 

Before joining Michigan Law, Bagley was an attorney with the appellate staff in the Civil Division at the US Department of Justice, where he argued a dozen cases before the US Courts of Appeals and acted as lead counsel in many more. He clerked for both Justice John Paul Stevens at the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge David S. Tatel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Prior to law school, he taught eighth-grade English at a public school in New York City through Teach for America.