Michael D. Sant'Ambrogio
Assistant Professor of Law
Law College Building
648 N. Shaw Lane Rm 327
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517-432-6805
msantamb@law.msu.edu
Degrees
J.D. 2001, cum laude, New York University School of Law; M.A. 1998, cum laude, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; B.A. 1992, cum laude, Columbia College at Columbia University
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Bar Admissions
California, Hawaii, New York
Courses
Administrative Law, Regulatory State
Biography
Michael Sant’Ambrogio teaches and writes in the areas of Administrative Law and the Regulatory State, Civil Procedure, and Law and Social Change. His scholarship explores decision-making by federal agencies in an era of burgeoning responsibilities, declining budgets, and enhanced presidential control. His most recent article, The Agency Class Action, was selected for the 2012 Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum and will be published in Columbia Law Review.
Professor Sant’Ambrogio is a 2001 graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar. He received his B.A. in History from Columbia College and an M.A. in American History from New York University. After graduating from law school, Professor Sant’Ambrogio clerked for Associate Justice Steven H. Levinson of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. He then practiced with the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP in New York, where he litigated a wide range of complex commercial disputes in federal court, represented immigrants in asylum and removal proceedings, and served as outside counsel to state and federal political campaigns. Professor Sant’Ambrogio later joined the Special Litigation Section of the New York Legal Assistance Group, where he represented plaintiffs in federal class actions seeking systemic reform of immigration and public benefits programs.