Professor Michael Granne specializes in the various doctrines involved in domestic litigation involving foreign parties and sovereigns. Professor Granne teaches Civil Procedure and International Civil Litigation in U. S. Courts. His Article, “Defining ‘Organ of a Foreign State’ under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976,” is forthcoming in the UCDavis Law Review.

Following graduation from the 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.

He came to Seton Hall in 2007.