Michael Xu is a J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School. His research interests lie in the dynamics of othering and neoliberalism in the “post-civil rights” era, with a focus on the incomplete nature of democracy in our social order as well as environmental justice. Having received common law and civil law training in three languages, Michael most recently earned his LL.M. from Berkeley Law, where he drafted French observation reports for the OHCHR Special Rapporteur on Torture against state actors and interned as an Equal Justice America fellow at East Bay Community Law Center’s housing unit. In the upcoming spring, he will extern at the protection policy and legal advice section of UNHCR in Geneva. As a law fellow, Michael will devote his summer to addressing racially disparate impact on voter representation in partisan gerrymandering cases, fair housing and the convergence of immigration and incarceration law.
