Michael A. Schwartz
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Disability Rights Clinic
College of Law
Syracuse University
Biography:
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., Northwestern University
J.D., New York University Law School
LL.M., Columbia University Law School
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Once an actor with the National Theater of the Deaf, Professor Schwartz began his legal career as a law clerk to a Southern District of New York judge. He then served, in chronological order, as Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington; solo practitioner in the New York City metro region; and Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Department of Law.
A member of the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut bars, Professor Schwartz directs the Disability Rights Clinic, where he supervises students in disability litigation and teaches disability law. He received his Ph.D. in Education and Disability Studies from Syracuse University.