Michael Selmi

Professor Michael Selmi joined the Law School faculty in 1996, after having taught at the University of North Carolina for two years. Prior to entering academia, he litigated employment discrimination cases at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He also served as a law clerk to Judge James R. Browning, then Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Selmi teaches courses on employment law, employment discrimination, contracts, and civil rights legislation, and has also taught constitutional law.

He has written extensively in the areas of employment discrimination, employment law, and constitutional law, and his work often includes empirical analyses of litigation. His articles have appeared in many law journals including the Stanford Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, and he has co-authored casebooks involving employment law and civil rights.

Professor Selmi has worked on a number of Supreme Court cases, including the affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan, recently served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and has been a commentator for, among others, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and MSNBC.