Samuel Bagenstos

Who is Samuel Bagenstos?

Samuel Bagenstos is a professor of law at the University of Michigan., a job he has returned to after serving for two years as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division,.

Bagenstos's work is in civil rights law, especially disability rights. He is the author of Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement, and a Foundation Press casebook on Disability Law, along with numerous articles.

He has argued two Supreme Court cases, representing the plaintiff: United States v. Georgia, 546 U.S. 151, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as applied in the case of a prisoner who used a wheelchair, and Chevron v. Echazabal, 536 U.S. 73, in which the Supreme Court rejected the plaintiffs argument that he should be the one to decide if chemicals in the workplace posed too much risk to his health, given that he had hepatitis.

Bagenstos graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1990, and then received his J.D. in 1993 from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude.