Visiting Professor
Michael E. Tigar has spent forty years as a legal activist, practitioner, author, scholar, and teacher . He is currently Research Professor of Law at Washington College of Law at American
University in Washington, D.C. From 1987-1998, he also held the Joseph Jamail Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is also a regular visiting professor at the Facult
du droit et des sciences politiques at Aix-en-Provence, France. He has taught and visited at many law schools in the United States, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Mr. Tigar has authored numerous articles and several books, including Fighting Injustice (a memoir, ABA Press, 2002) Persuasion (ABA Press, 1999); Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction & Practice, 3rd Ed. (co-authored by Jane B. Tigar, West Group, 1999), and Examining Witnesses (2d ed., ABA Press, 2003). He was co-founder of the Texas Resource Center, Chair of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, an adviser to the African National Congress.
Mr. Tigar has represented many clients in high-profile cases, serving as court-appointed and pro bono counsel to Lynne Stewart, Terry Lynn Nichols, John Demjanjuk, Kiko Martinez., the Chicago Seven, Angela Davis and H. Rap Brown and as retained counsel to former Texas governor John Connally and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.