Michelle Adams

Michelle Adams is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on race discrimination, school desegregation, affirmative action, and housing law. Adams is the winner of the 2024 L. Hart Wright Teaching Award. She has published in The Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Texas Law Review, and other scholarly journals. Her work also has appeared in the popular media, including a piece in The New Yorker commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. In addition, she has appeared as an expert commentator on the Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America and the Showtime series *Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court. *Adams is the author of The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, which tells the story of the critical desegregation struggle that ended the Brown v. Board of Education era. Adams served as a board member of the Innocence Project and was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit.