Margo Schlanger

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Margo Schlanger (@mjschlanger) is the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.  She also heads the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. She is the lead author of the casebook “Incarceration and the Law” and the author of, inter alia, “Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties Gap,” 6 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. 112 (2015) and “Offices of Goodness: Influence Without Authority In Federal Agencies,” 36 Cardozo L. Rev. 53 (2014).

In 2010 and 2011, she was on leave from Michigan, serving as the presidentially appointed Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  In that capacity, she served as the Homeland Security Secretary’s lead advisor on civil rights and civil liberties issues, testified before Congress, chaired the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities, served on the first U.S. Delegation to the UN Universal Periodic Review, and met with community leaders and groups across America to ensure that their perspectives regarding civil rights and homeland security were considered in the Department’s policy process.