Nicholas Bagley

Nicholas Bagley is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is an expert in administrative law and health law.

In 2020 and 2022, Bagley served as special counsel and then chief legal counsel to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. His academic work has been widely published, including in the Harvard Law Review and the Columbia Law Review, and he contributes frequently to popular outlets such as The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Before joining Michigan Law, Bagley was an attorney with the appellate staff in the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued a dozen cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals and acted as lead counsel in many more. He clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens at the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David S. Tatel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Before law school, Bagley joined Teach For America and taught eighth-grade English at a public school in New York City. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A. in English from Yale University.