Michael Tigar
| Michael Tigar | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 18, 1941 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.A., J.D) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Michael Edward Tigar (born January 18, 1941 in Glendale, California) is an American criminal defense attorney known for representing controversial clients. He is also an emeritus (retired) member of the Duke Law School and American University, Washington College of Law faculties.
Tigar earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and his J.D. from the Berkeley Law in 1966. As an undergraduate, he was elected to the ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California) Senate as a SLATE candidate. He also ran unsuccessfully for Student Body President. He interviewed Bertrand Russell during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis for Pacifica Radio. In law school he was a member of Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the California Law Review.
In 1966, he was hired as a law clerk by Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court. Brennan, however, fired him the week he began his job, following complaints made by conservative columnists and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, because of Tigar's activist background. In 1968, he became the first editor of the Selective Service Law Reporter (Public Law Education Institute, 1968–1973). Tigar was a partner in the firm of Williams & Connolly of Washington, DC (1976–'78), where he worked closely with legendary trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams. He then formed his own firm with partner Samuel J. Buffone. Tigar was a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law from 1983 to 1998, holding the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law from '87-'98. He helped found the UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic, where he served as the Clinic's first Executive Director and Supervising Attorney. He was then a professor at American University's Washington College of Law starting in 1998, and later also at Duke Law School.
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