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Michael Avery

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Michael Avery
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationBritish Professor
EmployerSuffolk University Law School

Michael Avery is a professor at Suffolk University Law School and a civil rights lawyer.[1] He was the president of the National Lawyers Guild from 2003 to 2006.[2]

He is currently the President of the Board of the National Police Accountability Project.

Avery edited and was a contributing author to the 2008 book We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, which received favorable reviews in Trial[3] and Choice.[4]

He is also the coauthor of:

  • Avery, Michael, David Rudovsky, Karen Blum, and Jennifer Lauin, Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation. New York: Thomson Reuters, updated annually.
  • Brodin, Mark and Avery, Michael, Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, Wolters Kluwer, updated annually.
  • Avery, Michael, and Danielle McLaughlin. The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals+ book. Nashville, Tenn: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013
  • Avery, Michael, Glannon Guide to Evidence, Wolters Kluwer, 2018.

His first novel, The Cooperating Witness, will be published by Literary Wanderlust in the summer of 2020.

References

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  1. ^ Anonymous (July 30, 2009). "Suffolk University; Senator Questions Sotomayor on Suffolk University Law Review Article". Politics & Government Business. NewsRx: 23.
  2. ^ "Faculty Profile Page". Suffolk University Law School. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  3. ^ Barry Dyller (April 2009). "We Dissent". Trial. 45 (4). American Association for Justice: 57.
  4. ^ Ackerman E (July 2009). "We dissent: talking back to the Rehnquist Court: eight cases that subverted civil liberties and civil rights". Choice. 46 (11). American Library Association: 2207.
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