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Elected Member

Martin
Michaelson

Location
Washington, DC, USA
Affiliation
Hogan Lovells US LLP (Retired)
Education
The University of Chicago
Boston College Law School

Martin Michaelson is senior counsel emeritus at  Hogan Lovells. Nationally recognized in the higher education bar, Martin has represented national higher education organizations and more than one hundred leading U.S. and overseas universities in regulatory, litigation, transactional, and governance matters. Martin returned to the firm in 1989 after six years as an in-house lawyer at Harvard.

A fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, he has written and spoken extensively on governance of university boards, faculty, administrators, and students. He is a consulting editor of Trusteeship, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges magazine, and taught the course Higher Education and the Law at Harvard. His views have been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of College and University Law, and elsewhere. He is a member of the District of Columbia, New York, and Massachusetts bars, and the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal courts.