Michael Sant'Ambrogio

Professor of Law & Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs

Law College Building
648 N. Shaw Lane Rm 367
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517-432-6805
msantamb@law.msu.edu

Michael Sant’Ambrogio teaches and writes in Administrative and Regulatory Law, Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Constitutional Law. His research explores decision-making by federal agencies in an era of burgeoning responsibilities, declining budgets, and enhanced presidential control. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Boston University Law Review, Columbia Law Review, The Georgetown Law Journal, The George Washington Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. His article, The Agency Class Action, was selected for the Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Sant’Ambrogio has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States on projects studying public engagement with federal agency rulemaking and the use of class actions and other aggregate procedures in agency adjudication. In 2016, the Administrative Conference adopted his recommendations based on the findings described in his Yale Law Journal article, Inside the Agency Class Action. In 2018, the Administrative Conference adopted his recommendations on enhancing public engagement with federal agency agenda setting and rule development.

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 University and an M.A. in American History from New York University. Before coming to MSU, he practiced law in New York City and taught at New York University School of Law.


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J.D. New York University School of Law
M.A. New York University
B.A. Columbia University