Professor Michael Granne specializes in Private International Law and Domestic Litigation involving foreign parties and sovereigns. Professor Granne teaches Civil Procedure, Administrative Law and International Civil Litigation and Arbitration in U. S. Courts. His Article, “Defining ‘Organ of a Foreign State’ under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976,” recently was published in the UC Davis Law Review.

Following graduation from Columbia Law School, Professor Granne served as law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr in New York City.

Professor Granne received his B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science from Duke University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Michael Sovern and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.

Professor Granne joined Seton Hall Law in 2007 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law.

Defining “Organ of a Foreign State” Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1 (2008)