Michael Hluchaniuk

Adjunct Professor
Law College Building
648 N. Shaw Lane Rm 368
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
mjhluch@gmail.com

  • Biography

    Michael J. Hluchaniuk served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan from December 2007 to January 2016. Previously, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and a private practice lawyer in East Lansing. Hluchaniuk has been lead counsel in over 150 criminal jury trials, and in 2006 he received the Leonard R. Gilman Award, which is given annually to an “outstanding practitioner of criminal law.” He also received a Special Commendation from the U.S. Department of Justice in 1983.

    Hluchaniuk holds a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School and a B.S.I.E. from the University of Michigan.

  • Courses

    E-Discovery
    This course will cover the rules and procedures for conducting discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). This course will examine the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with their relatively recent amendments. This course will focus on the rules and caselaw, and is an experiential course built around exercises using discovery software.